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Have you tried maybe not doubling down on the smut at the earliest opportunity, ever? Because every Quest I've seen has been real heavy on lewds and not much else.
I mean I can see why you'd come to that impression as an issue, but it's not an overfocus on lewds as a problem. I'm definitely focused on them, but my track record at quest running is roughly the same whether I go light on lewds, super heavy, or straight up no lewds at all.
If anything, non-lewd quests are where I flounder most, which is part of why I've even run so many on QQ at all.
To the extent I *can* concretely identify my most common problems, I'd divide them up into;
1: Letting the quest go in a direction I'm not comfortable writing. Mostly, that's something I messed up on early days since it's relatively obvious, but there's been the occasional slip up since.
2: Letting things get too esoteric. I've had multiple quests where I can concretely say 'this quest was chugging along fine, I was enjoying it, it was popular, and then I did a dream sequence or something and it died'.
3: Losing momentum. Part of why I have trouble with figuring out what I most need to work on is that a goodly chunk of my quests died pretty clearly because of meatspace derailing me for awhile, and then in the interim period of not being able to update, I was knocked out of my groove and just... fail to get back into the swing and write.
There's other reasons quests die on me, a decent number were really not fleshed out and never really intended to last and predictably kinda didn't. But some of the quests I started heavily on impulse absolutely lasted for a long time before some other issue hit.
And of course if I knew exactly all the problems, I'd not have quests constantly die, so I'm always looking at what else I can try. Experiments sometimes lead to novel problems.
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