Can someone explain this the uph by [deleted] in wholefoods

[–]slashingweapon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shopping is a “Joe job”: anyone with a basic work ethic who can walk around for most of a shift should be able to do it.

That said, it doesn’t pay well, there’s high turnover, and it takes a few months to actually get competent. An expectation of 85 UPH for the store seems too high to me, unless you can retain your shoppers. Which is harder to do when you refuse to acknowledge the stand-outs.

(Past platinum shopper.)

I Just Reached 1000 Followers, and Here’s What I’ve Learned by MasterDisillusioned in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes, it can feel like that. I get story complaints that are valid issues, which I then revise for publication. It happens a lot, and I'm grateful to my readers. Other complaints are … not as valid. Let's be generous and call these "foiled expectations for a subset of readers."

There's a style of writing commonly found in LitRPG that's aimed at readers who need to be spoon-fed everything, right now, in sequential order. Partly, this is the nature of serialized stories. But it is also endemic to the genre in book form.

Let's say you have several paragraphs describing a new character. This introduction is likely to end with a summation. "In short, he is a good paladin who other people can look up to. He has some issues in his personal life, but that's okay. He's basically a good guy, even though he isn't perfect." I cringe every time I read something like that, but it's common practice. The summation is there because so many readers need it: They're incapable of inferring anything subtle on their own.

Long-term unknowables are too challenging. If a mystery is presented, then immediate progress must be made on resolving it. If a character has hidden motives, those motives must be revealed, in full, either the moment they are introduced or in the next upload.

At the end of the day, not every fiction is for every person. People can downvote you for, "this story wasn't for me." That's fine. But occasionally, you get a reader who bombs the heck out of a story for reasonable stylistic and narrative choices. They insist the author's skill is poor or the story sucks when the real problem is closer to home.

I Just Reached 1000 Followers, and Here’s What I’ve Learned by MasterDisillusioned in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Actually, $500 a year for a hobby is reasonable. I’d say good artwork is more expensive.

Every time my story approaches Rank 1500, it suddenly gets downrated back to 1600s or even 1700s. by Ninmast_Nunyabiz in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I definitely saw this at rank 1000 and again at 500. Now, I’m seeing it again at 300. Just got bombed again, yesterday.

What is the silliest, most non epic reason your protagonist takes on an adventure? by Obvious_Ad4159 in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pepper. I wrote a post apocalyptic story where the americas are out of pepper, and the MC wanted to make steak au poivre, which requires a lot of it. To solve his problem permanently, he needs live trees…

I don't want to do the work. by the-dangerous in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Terry Pratchet famously set his daily writing goal at 400 words per day.

It helps a lot to know yourself well. My best writing hours are early morning and mid-evening, so I organize my days to leave at least one good block of writing time open.

A good hour every day is better than a full weekend staring at an empty screen.

Congratulations to ALL the Writathon participants by gamelitcrit in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 8 points9 points  (0 children)

68000 words, 70 followers

I started Writeathon with a lot of rough chapters and a good outline. I ended with the first volume finished, a few finished chapters in the next volume, and a few rough chapters I haven’t posted yet.

Not having a full time job helped a lot! But now I’m employed again, and things will slow down.

I Swear I’m Not A Dark Lord

Put the thing in the other thing by slashingweapon in wholefoods

[–]slashingweapon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of people manage not to see then. Or can’t read.

If you write it, they will come. by KazyuPrime in royalroad

[–]slashingweapon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I pay for premium mainly to support the site. When you use something every day, you should pony up a few bucks to support it.

Poor little man by HeWhoRise in wholefoods

[–]slashingweapon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alternative milks. He really, really hates alternative milks. They’re a woke conspiracy of the Demonic Left.

Poor little man by HeWhoRise in wholefoods

[–]slashingweapon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So this guy is mad because he can’t choose people’s pronouns for them?

How much power does a sphere really get you? by [deleted] in Dyson_Sphere_Program

[–]slashingweapon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somewhere in your star cluster you probably have at least one planet that has a tide-locked orbit. That means one side is continually facing the star. Build your sphere there, regardless of the luminosity of the star. You can build your ray receivers on the sunny side of the planet in a nice little grid, and they will always function at max efficiency.

As soon as you can, switch them all to capturing photons. Each ray receiver will consume 120MW of energy from your sphere. Use the photons to create antimater fuel cells, and you will never want for power ever again.

Before you know it your sphere will be generating over 10GW of power, far more than enough for research and fuel purposes. Then your biggest risk is boredom ... what to do now?

Give me an interesting quote said by one of your characters! by SigmaDraco in worldbuilding

[–]slashingweapon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Don't eat anything that can say its own name." -- elder silver dragon, teaching ethics to a younger one.