Recent content by Tacit

Oh boy, throwback time? All you wanted by Michelle Branch One moment in time by Whitney Houston (Technically 1988) End of the road by Boys2Men Kiss from a rose by Seal Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls After going through a couple of these I totally forgot how music videos used to just start...

As an avid consumer, the premise and synopsis of your story is a lot more important than the amount of existing chapters. I'll add a story to my reading list with 3 chapters if the premise seems interesting enough but an amazing epic with 800 chapters won't even make it to my list if the...

Probably just the sheer volume of research in small details that probably aren't all that important for the story but matter a lot to me for the sake of accuracy. Things like "What were the typical street foods in the medieval era?" or "What medieval diseases were death sentences but entirely...

Paste your writing into ChatGPT, Grok, or Gemini and tell it your intentions for the story and ask it to teach you how to become better based on your current writing abilities. People like to harp on AI but it's an incredible educational tool if you're serious about improving at something from 0.

Not quite frozen but the refrigerated raw pizzas near the pre-made foods in the back of Costco are the best to me.

It depends on the setting of the story for me. Male leads are more interesting for kingdom building or power scale stories to me while female leads are more interesting to me for exploring contrasting views or interpersonal dynamics, especially in a fantasy novel setting.

I don't think traditional publishing is obsolete so much as the game has changed completely. You're not getting massive advances for books the way you used to unless you're a big name that the publisher is trying to get to increase their name brand. Having worked for a print & binding company...

Nothing wrong with AI, it's just a blackbox that does what you ask it to do. The thing everyone hates is lazy, copy paste slop. If you use AI to improve your own abilities, it's just a great tool to have. But how many people you hear talk about using AI actually use it to learn new skills and...