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    writer's block

    First rule of Writer's Block - we don't call it by its name lest we summon it! ? Sounds like you need to get over the hurdle of actually completing a story. Here are some practical suggestions garnered from professional organisations and personal experience: 1. Plan and structure your work. 2...
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    The laziest thing you do as an author?

    Getting snacks when I should be writing. :blob_cookie: Cutting and pasting unused paragraphs/sentences/scenes into a document so I can recycle it later in another story*. *Then realising it doesn't fit the new story and discarding it. :blob_teary: My smutty bl cultivation novels: My Master is...
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    What makes you love your fiction?

    I really wanted to say something funny here, but the need to be philosophical won out...I love that moment an idea springs into my creative (brain) space, and along with it, a rush of excitement and this inexplicable desire to tell the story that manifests around it. I love to escape to a...
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    Is my cover holding me back?

    I did a quick search of dystopian covers for scifi and pulled from my own collection of dystopian fiction. Covers vary from symbolism to drawings and everything in between. I think the trouble is that however apropos you think your cover is, it might need more colour to make it stand out. Here...
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    Unsolicited Offers - Author-Nim How do you deal with it?

    This is really good advice, thank you! :blob_aww: This. Is. Awesomeeee! :ROFLMAO: (though I nearly spat my coffee out).
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    Unsolicited Offers - Author-Nim How do you deal with it?

    I'm constantly receiving unsolicited offers and I'm polite but firm in my rejections. I have initially responded because I can't be sure it's not a genuine reader (without spending time investigating their profile). As I was politely rejecting one today, the tone of their previous message made...
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    Welcome back, me!

    @CrimsonQueen Arghghg! *screams in vegemite* Another Aussie?!
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    I'm a new writer and I need advice Plz

    I cut and paste mine into the editor. Sometimes my spacing is double, so I go through and redo the spacing paragraph by paragraph. I'm not sure why it would be pasting it as a wall of text (I've never had this happen in this kind of editor, which I used multiple times). Even if it misses spaces...
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    I need a non-swear swear word

    Pustulant boil (on the face of humanity). Festering lump. Pestilence! One my sister used when the kidlets were small - Fuhcryingoutloud And a favourite when I'm super cranky... Gobshite (gob as in job and shite as in height). I learned it from my Dad (who was English). Very satisfying...
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    Complete Book 1 - Multicultural Fantasy Novella (35k Words)

    I'd like to add 'The Ghost' to this list. They express excitement and interest when they find out you have a story and immediately offer to beta read and are verbose and super excited, ready to give you helpful feedback. Story is sent and... it's like they were a fever dream you created. No...
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    The grave matter that is related to people with left-handedness

    Too late! I'm coming for you... *waggles eyebrows in a seductively left-handed way* Mwahahahaha! This sinistral shall never tell! ? (that was a left handed laugh btw).
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    Does the usage of AI for cover bad? why do many say it is?

    I have wondered that too. Having just lost a parent to cancer, it'd be great if we started throwing AI into curing disease and also levelling the disparity between rich and poor. I have been listening to Jetta's 'I'd Love to Change the World', so maybe I'm just in the mindset of questioning why...
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    Does the usage of AI for cover bad? why do many say it is?

    Just for :poop:'s and giggles my husband put one of my PNR novels (written circa 2009) through AI writing detection software. It came back as 90% AI generated, despite the fact it was written by me before the concept of AI being used (it doesn't write books by itself) to write books was even a...
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    Looking for Authors!

    Publishing independently shouldn't be that expensive. Not compared to a publishing house who will take pretty much any profit and your firstborn too. I'm curious as to how/where you got this idea? Unless you're going for print, which yes, is expensive. Lightning Source (from what I recall) is...
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    Complete Book 1 - Multicultural Fantasy Novella (35k Words)

    Freelance editor here. ?You're both right @CharlesEBrown and @Racosharko, I'd never approach people with unsolicited offers. Often people don't have the money, can do it themselves using an online tool or don't think editing is that important...or for other reasons. I'm also now hotly aware of...
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    Does the usage of AI for cover bad? why do many say it is?

    I am a graphic artist and come from a family of artists. I use AI as a tool to create art using detailed prompts I have carefully refined from my own creative instincts. I then refine the image using more prompts, created by me. I then take the image into Adobe Photoshop and work on it there...
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    I don't know how to start practicing narration.

    I'm honestly confused by the terms you are using and your examples. :blob_blank: I'm going with the idea you want advice on dialogue. :blobthumbsup: Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person...
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    writing a story for the first time please check it out "the forgotten nation"https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1962558/the-forgotten-nation/

    Ohmygosh, I offered this to someone who'd sent me a super nice DM. Then I realised I sounded like a scammer... :blob_shock: Quickly edited to add it was for free. ? @friesXD having a cover will help with making your work more appealing and visible to readers, but @Racosharko is right, be wary...
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    Will my Fanfic get readers?

    I think Fanfics are definitely a niche area. I read ones only of works I'm familiar with because either I wasn't satisfied with an element of the original work, I want more - an extension of the world/characters, or someone's writing really catches my eye. As @Xcalibur_Xc pointed out, if you're...
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    Question for the ladies

    @DismaiNaim I agree with the above. I think it would be nice to see a matriarchal society that challenges the patriarchy without a simple reversal of roles - for a man coming from patriarchy, this reversal alone would be shocking enough. IMHO, this would be super interesting. Also, as a woman...
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