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current gen (and next Gen) AI writing stories is like buying an electric razor and expecting it to build your house for you.

Nonsense. Humans derive from what came before just as much as any AI. Every one of us is being trained from birth. The only difference is our training materials and a basic ability to use them. The reason AI will fail on literature is because it's stupid. like TOR authors and the winners of the...

=22240&hash=c7731e9edaaefdce0fe3cd29b43b9616']Attach files Thank you. I have always felt strongly that good writers and good artists are craftsmen first. I get irritated by people who talk about how 'talented' a writer I am creating my 'art', like I haven't devoted hundreds of thousands of...

Writing is a CRAFT. 'Art' writing comes out just as disgustingly cloying as 'art' flicks, and 'sciency' writing never communicates anything scientific other than the writer's biases and power fantasies.

I spent years roleplaying on tapestries, a heavily smut-inspired furry telnet-based text multi-user interspace. Heck, I actually met my wife of thirty years there. I left because the furries from the 2000s became entirely different from the ones in the 1990s—they got entirely too twisted for...

Hellforked. Still, I have a book with the word "Bastard" in the title that won't get approved on RR, but in this case, he is a literal bastard, and that's an important part of the storyline, so I don't know if I should even bother trying here.

Yes and no? The problem is that the medium has completely changed the concept. to be fair, television writing was the real replacement for pulp fiction. We are far above that standard, even the worst of us. But as far as the slot? We are more akin to the wandering storytellers and minstrels of...

The problem is, it would be my sixth 'misunderstood bad guy' book in a row. They call me the Alchemyst, memoirs of a mid-level mook, ex-supervillain, sentenced to Paradise, Dead guys finish last... I am starting to sense a theme. Then again, being known for writing a particular theme might not...

You know, I love the 'professional bad guy' genre. Heck, the ex-supervillain starts that way (although he quickly veers off course) You know, the stunt actor who plays a supervillain and gets paid to do it so that the new generations of heroes look amazing for 'foiling their evil scheme', or the...

Nope. Fanfiction is mostly defined by the fact that it is only protectedd by 'fair use' laws. Historical fiction using known celebrity characters is better defined as alternate history or 'dramatic license'. Writing a religious figure as a superhero might get your head cut off, but it won't be...

I try to be like this, but my villains are almost always masters of rationalization. They are the heroes of their own stories. It helps that I spent time in an environment IRL where I got to spend every day dealing with true bad guys, and their most notable flaws are a desire for respect...

I think the best rule is to look at all the rules other writers offer, and then carefully decide when and how to break them to avoid the tropes that those rules are designed to dodge. The biggest rule is to know your tropes, at least enough that when you inadvertently use one too recognizably...

Very true. Most people you will ask to criticize your story, in my experience, are much more interested in criticizing the writer, the politics, whatever axe they have to grind, your posting schedule, and whatever points they can score trying to make you look foolish and themselves look like...

Re-read your own work if you have spent some downtime (days, weeks) between chapters to re-charge your creativity, so you can still see where your story is going. If you can't re-read and enjoy your own work, it might be time to change work. Come back when you can enjoy it again.

Actually I thought it was hilarious. You know, I was watching 'The Incredibles' last night. Remember that part where Fro-zone was talking about how "the villain had me on the ropes, but then he started monologuing." I had no idea about 90% of his claims, but man, this guy is definitely going...

*Yawn* that's a hell of a wall of text. I guess 'Your joke wasn't funny' wasn't enough words for you.

I am just glad to see 'dank' hit the bricks. Dank means dark, wet, cold, and nasty. Like a Florida swamp in the winter, or a dripping basement. But for a short time it seemed to be an alternative to both 'cool' and 'awesome'. Fortunately, by the time I noticed it, it's popularity was almost...

Is litRPG and multiple-genre stories an automatic disqualification? I mean, the genre is superheroes, which kinda opens the door to pretty much any genre, but I have a story I am thinking of putting up called 'The Human Meatball' that is as much an absolute criticism of post-modernism, which you...

If my characters don't start taking over their stories a few chapters in, and help me write the book, I get bored and switch to a new story. Then again, I have been a gamemaster for the same group of friends for thirty years.... we like to joke that they can screw over their characters more in...

I would sort of like to understand this point of view. I mean, you sort of have to keep track of that sort of thing anyway in action, adventure, or fantasy literature... I actually LIKE litRPG because keeping that information in a ready-to-use form helps prevent some major plot holes, WTF...