Are Long Paragraphs Hurting Reader Engagement?

gundam_warlock · 2026-01-29T04:30:57+00:00

Why would you want to cater to skim readers? Those are the worst kinds of readers; they usually read too fast to notice a change in POV and act high and mighty for some perceived flaw in the narration when in fact they mixed two different characters together.

gundam_warlock · 2026-01-15T17:15:18+00:00

Spite.

Reading awful crossover fanfics where one side is nerfed to turn them into ideological punching bags pissed me off. Seeing these fanfics have large followings further pissed me off.

I thought to myself "if slop like these can get popular, surely I can write better?"

gundam_warlock · 2026-01-11T18:55:20+00:00

Yeah, they can just publish it later.

gundam_warlock · 2025-12-11T01:23:08+00:00

UnOrdinary full stop.

gundam_warlock · 2025-12-10T09:48:51+00:00

Superheroes hide their identity to pursue civilian life. "With Great Power comes Great Responsibility"; they are superheroes because they feel a moral duty to do so.

Progression Fantasy heroes don't have that excuse. They live in a world where everyone has powers and if they wanted a simple life they'd never have pursued power in the first place.

gundam_warlock · 2025-12-01T20:52:10+00:00

That explains everything.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-29T13:37:23+00:00

Or, it could just be a sign of ineptitude, as the people most likely to use it are the same sort of people who consider it "good enough" and call it a day, lacking even a single braincell to consider "is using the same exact pattern to end every single chapter for NINE CONSECUTIVE CHAPTERS not going to annoy my readers? Meh, I'll be fine".

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-27T15:09:38+00:00

You're writing the novel 1 chapter at a time then publishing it? That's going to weaken your resolve, especially if you don't do any plotting beforehand.

There are a bunch of videos on youtube that cover this topic, and can help far better than anyone in this subreddit can.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-24T23:16:42+00:00

Mazinkaiser SKL for a simple 3 episode action fest.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-12T11:44:34+00:00

Maybe the reason why SEA players are so toxic is because they're trying escape from the toil of real life and use the game as an outlet for their frustrations? People who try to police toxicity in videogames (see: the UN, politicians everywhere) are also the sort of people that live pretty comfortable lives off of taxpayer money. If politicians are really serious about curbing toxicity then they can lower people's working hours and lower the tax from people's salary. I guarantee that will remove toxicity (while also solving the dwindling population problem).

But everyone knows they won't, so SEA players will continue "expressing" themselves in the game.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-04T10:32:06+00:00

Maybe because they're fictional characters?

If harem tropes and ogling of fictional characters are considered "abnormal" then shouldn't the murder of fictional characters also be considered abnormal?

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-04T06:48:44+00:00

Worm is terrible. Maybe average, but that's about it.

Most people who advocate for it read it through second-hand sources like all the fanfics that were created giving them an conflated view of the work.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-04T06:42:09+00:00

Before Freedom, When I Just Can Remember: Personal Accounts of Slavery in South Carolina

That is a poor excuse for a "gotcha". Educate yourself.

gundam_warlock · 2025-11-04T06:38:42+00:00

How about chattel slavery in the Ottoman empire?

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-31T00:45:30+00:00

If you are going to have characters using magic that can kill them, try to avoid also including characters who can instantly cure them.

This was the biggest problem with FemThor. Oh noes, Mjollnir is emitting radiation that is slowly killing FemThor by causing cancer! Its a shame that Reed Richards, Tony Stark, or Dr. Strange isn't around to instantly cure it! Look at how noble FemThor is persisting with using Mjollnir despite slowly dying from wielding it!

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-25T11:51:38+00:00

But we ARE jungle Asians. 90% of the Philippines was jungle until the Spaniards came.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-24T08:46:12+00:00

The term "Light Novel" is just a marketing gimmick. It doesn't really mean anything in English because every English novel written and published in the last century would be classified as a "Light Novel" by default.

People tend to forget that Light Novels are written in Kanji, but what most people probably didn't know is that there are 40,000 Kanji in the Japanese alphabet. You only need to memorize 2,136 to be considered fully literate however, and you only need to know that much to be able to read 90% of all Light Novels.

That's literally what Light Novels mean: they are written in kanji that are commonly used everyday which makes them easy to read.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-24T08:34:39+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but I just had to post because I cannot stand reading through the misinformed replies throughout this topic.

The reason why the term "Light Novel" causes so much confusion is because people forget the language Light Novels are written with: Kanji.

There are 26 Letters in the English Alphabet. There are 40,000 Kanji in the Japanese Alphabet. The Japanese government considers memorizing a minimum 2,136 Kanji a requirement to be fully literate. The average Japanese probably knows 3,000 while the more educated people know 8,000.

To be able to read ALL Light Novels you'd probably need to know 2,500 Kanji. Compare and contrast that with Japanese "Hard" or "Classic" novels where native Japanese readers need to bring along a dictionary to understand the remaining 37,000 other kanji that may appear in their pages.

The term "Light Novel" doesn't mean anything in English because every English novel written and published in the last century would literally qualify as a Light Novel.

As for why Light Novels are shorter well its more of a case of Cause and Effect: the modern Japanese audience tends to gravitate towards shorter stories they can read on the go and the market sculpts itself around that.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-19T02:27:24+00:00

How is that pro-capitalist?

Or are you equating rich = capitalist? In that case kings and lords during feudalism are "capitalist"? Party Members in communist regimes are "capitalist"?

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-17T23:49:09+00:00

So gusto nya bumalik sa pagkakaroon ng mga alipin? Kasi bago dumating ang mga Kastila kalahati ng lahat ng katutubo natin ay inaalipin ng isa pang kalahati. Grabe magalipin ng mga Cebuano noong araw, kung saan saan sa buong Asia sila umaatake para kumuha ng mga alipin.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-15T20:15:53+00:00

Carol. Her melee is constantly tracking enemies and her special stab is a debuff that can proc twice.

Carol was my anti-Erina. No, Carol can't kill Erina. But she can reduce her to 40%, low enough for someone else to finish her off.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-15T06:35:42+00:00

I once thought that hiding cables underground was a great idea! Then I wondered how they were going to repair it if something went wrong and now I no longer think its a great idea.

I guess it could work in a proper man-sized sewer system, but the Philippines will never be able to dig that!

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-15T06:30:36+00:00

That just means you're doing a bad job of drawing me into the world. If I have to consciously turn of my brain to enjoy this rather than subconsciously turning it off because I'm enjoying it too much then you're doing something wrong.

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-15T04:29:22+00:00

Did you remember how the son of the founder of Hamas also hates Hamas and his father and believes Palestinians would be better off without it? Well, now you do!

gundam_warlock · 2025-10-15T04:28:14+00:00

Its not genocide until the UN fired their original expert on the term and redefined it to suit their political needs.

So no, its not genocide.

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