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That and barely a thousand words per 'chapter'. at 6 chapters? the book has barely started, and high-flying chapter numbers doesn't actually improve things. 6 chapters at 3-5k words for chapter? I could see being irritated by a lack of interest, but at less than a thousand words per chapter...

sometimes Englits is hard.

Heh, I was in the Navy, and in good shape. In Australia, I was boning a VERY hot girl 42 minutes after I met her. Of course, she was probably wanting something, but I am pretty sure what she wanted didn't involve me except as a willing participant. It went pretty well (3 days of liberty, room...

If this is true, then you are a rare flower. Pat yourself on the back (and avoid the thorns!). Most commenters' criticism is very personal or results from misunderstandings that they alone are privy to.

Hehe, yeah, webnovels sort of broke me of the habit of reading the blurb for a novel. Now I look at tags, and if they match, I start reading. If I am 'surprise raped' by the writer with something massive that is not in the tags, I give it a crappy rating. But seriously, hunt through the actual...

exactly right. How many people are still re-writing lord of the rings? Hell, the quintessential Xianxia novels were written much like wild west novels, as either religious propaganda (Buddhism was famous for this) or marketing for certain specialty 'medicines'. But, like the wild west novel...

Honestly, just don't think about it. If you are looking at an idea for a novel and thinking 'this is going to take me forever to write' it's a lot like looking at a TV show and thinking "7 seasons? watching this is going to be miserable.". why put yourself through the pain?

Here's an example. I loved Robert Heinlein growing up. And yet, by today's standards, his writing, even his later writing, is shallow and almost childlike. Why? Because today, we have the internet to research, we can, with just 10 bucks a month, access tens of thousands of professionally-written...

*sigh* I thought 'prompters are not writers' is a pretty solid definition of where you stand. Very serious question, though. Where do we draw the line? It's obviously not at the prompt. It probably isn't even the word count, because I have seen writers that create an interesting 6000 word...

Except he literally stated "devious authors who use the AI response as a sort of template and mix in their own work" which means, anyone that uses AI to create story seeds, which is, in fact, a template. so if I say, for example, "Here is chapter 9. what would be some good, devious ways to get...

I had a nightmare that I had a stroke, and that the hospital was filled with vampires. Unfortunately, I realised it was real, but the vampires sink their fangs into your wallet.

I see. He has no interest in talking about writers; he is looking for a reason to rant against spellcheckers. Or maybe he's just angry that someone who uses AI for ideas, and then rewrites them to actually be good stories, is more popular, and he frames it as self-respect in order to make it...

The answer is simple: 'sometimes'. If you have a situation where the entire premise of the book changes from the intro, and where that premise is almost a completely separate sub-story, then yes... for instance, I had a character from another world, whose world got destroyed. Her biology, world...

There is a fine line between legitimate art and sick exploitation. I prefer not to tread close to the line, because there's no real need to.

Exactly!

Yeah, third person demands more descriptiveness, but I write mostly in the first person. When a detail is called for, I will dole it out, but I like for my readers to be able to self-insert as much as possible, and in general, they seem to see the appeal. In fact, sometimes some of the 'details'...

alternate history. World War II is a lot more interesting when it involves Japanese dragonriders versus Polish reality-manipulators.

That's what happens when 'forum police' decide that a post has drifted off-topic, despite how relevant it might be; they complicate things by twisting their panties around it in hopes of choking off conversations they don't like. It's a relatively simple question and an even simpler answer. In...

Most 'litrpg' and 'gaming system' books are functionally similar to xianxia and wuxia books... the idea of advancing within a gaming-style or measurable framework is not even remotely Asian; it has existed in all cultures that have written fictional fantasy. The details have been made more...

Most of us call it 'cockblock sheepdogs' That ugly, moody girl who hangs out with her hot 'best friend' and trashes every guy that comes near. The one high-test liquor exists to help clear the way, so she stops playing bulldog, although it won't help the bulldog look. Then again, that's what a...