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The central assumed conceit is that the story is being told by my MC after the fact, so everything is in past tense. Segments from his POV are in first person, but everyone else’s pov chapters are in third person limited and heavily flavored by their ways of thinking so it’s functionally the...

It was actually a shit day for completely unrelated reasons (my daughter shoved a bead in her ear and we needed to go to the emergency room. She’s fine but it was a whole thing) but my AI generated fake update went over well with readers because I kept demanding more attempts from Grok and...

What I want to know is what will be the next popular over saturated market! If I find out now I can clout chase by preemptively writing an actual book based on that premise and then releasing it while it’s still rising in popularity, thus becoming one of the classics of the subgenre through...

Emrys is a broken shadow of a man and becoming the vessel for an isekai protagonist was probably the best thing that ever happened to him. Curtis, the isekai in question, is holding up pretty well. Of course, he doesn’t actually remember some of the most traumatic things that happened to him...

Short answer is yes it can work. I’d suggest keeping the list of viable materials relatively short and clearly defined (Brandon Sanderson made allomancy work with only about 18 metals that each do exactly two things and mostly only uses about ten of them in his first three books) or extremely...

Solo leveling’s entire schtick is that only the MC has a game style system, which he proceeds to use to over dramatically flex on everyone and everything while only occasionally having even modest challenges thrown his way past the first chunk when he’s still weak (it’s when I realized this that...

Sir that’s illegal here. This is like… the worst place to ask this question. If you asked this on a baking forum you’d at least be operating in a space where the thing you are asking about isn’t banned.

Claude is the main general use default AI by Anthropic, as in the website is Claude.ai. It’s the best of any of the free ais I’ve tried when it comes to acting as a writing assistant instead of just trying to write for me. At the very least it crushes ChatGPT so utterly as to be comedic, and is...

3000 words of shopping and wrangling unruly goblin children and it’s ALL like this. Claude also used the format of “x had the particular expression of (extremely specific description of that person’s specific situation) about 8 times. Like I said. Delightful. Not good. But delightful.

- The wine merchant had deeply kind eyes that spoke of a life lived at the intersection of commerce and genuine passion, a man for whom each bottle was not merely a product but a small act of faith in the enduring capacity of human civilization to produce beauty even in difficult times. He also...

I am planning on releasing a fake bonus chapter for my story. Now, if I were releasing a real bonus chapter that would set my schedule back. Instead, I will be asking the AI I use to beta read and sanity check my chapters before I give them to my real editor to do something I otherwise forbid it...

He’d end up getting killed in order to establish the villain’s credibility, since he’s currently an OP magical pirate and pre-isekai he was a good natured but jacked frat bro accountant. He’d try to fight in either case. Slasher movie villains can’t be beaten in the first scene, so whether...

Protip: if more than 40% of potential readers need a google image search to know wtf you are saying you should rework your description.

I don’t know where my last stop is (probably dead before I find somewhere decent) but a rural post office is a good first stop. They have pretty durable vehicles designed to haul a relatively large amount of cargo that are gassed up and have the keys on site, and tend to be sturdy buildings in...

I’m a deranged maniac who can’t help but smile when I read my old work despite its objectively lower quality just because I’m still proud that I actually wrote something at least vaguely competent on my first try. My biggest disappointment is the same disappointment I always feel as a pantser...

Like a lot of rules of thumb it breaks down on contact with reality despite being broadly true. Like charlesebrown said, skill issue. Telling tends to be quicker and clearer if done properly. Showing tends to be more evocative and draw the reader in more if done properly. So, assuming you...

Insert someone into someone’s life. Online date works. Then swap that person out routinely with a different paid actor that looks similar to them and acts similarly. How quickly or slowly can you transform someone’s mental image of someone with gaslighting? How subtle do you really need to be?

(Slap) Get back to XNPC. But yeah I fully understand wanting to tell a new story. I’ve fully developed, storyboarded, and outlined like 4 stories I will probably never write in the last year because I have an ongoing weekly serial that eats up 80% of my writing time and I don’t want to leave...

Monica definitely qualifies. As do… basically all of the characters in that game when under her influence.

Yeah that’s the basic idea. The Yan is a shortened version of a Japanese term for “to be mentally ill” and dere is a shortened version of “lovey dovey”. So in love + insane, and generally that means specifically dangerous insanity. It’s easy to romanticize but if you take the concept remotely...