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Liquid's excellent answer gives the right advice, but I wanted to add the fact that there's a good general rule that covers all such questions:
The more current something is, the quicker it goes stale (and the more dated it will seem in the future). This goes across all genres and even across art forms. If a story is ripped from the headlines, if a song ...
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What I actually wanted to ask is if I can adapt the writing style and not the story content from the forum. That I can say: "I know how to narrate my characters in this forum so I can do so in books I want to write."
I used to be a massive forum roleplayer some years ago, and now I mostly write novel and short stories. I've got a few good friends who used ...
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Satire is best served hot.
In my opinion, you should try to publish it as soon as it's ready.
If you find an agent or a publishing company interested in the novel they'll give you their (probably very valid) inputs on how to market it and when it would be best to publish it. Chances are that they will have good insights on this, since it's their line of ...
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A metaphor: at the top of the mountain is a well-reasoned exposition of the events of the story along with the reactions of those entities occupying the story; by well reasoned, I mean that the events eventually make sense to the reader by the end of the story. No effects before the causes, no effects without causes, and no causes without effects. The story ...
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I am an old-school writer without fancy software (I have tried it and don't like it).
So if I realize a previous event could have been explained better, I will back up and do it. However, I have a special notation in my writing; "NOTE:", and I will usually record one at the point I am NOW and what is going on, before I jump.
If I have an idea for the ...
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