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    Questions from an aspiring writer

    Anywhere from not at all to entirely. The complexity of a writing can often dictate how long it takes. I tend to shoot for about 200 to 300 words an hour if not 500 if I'm rushing but it can spike closer to 1000 if it's very simple. I've actually found dictation is really good for speed but...
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    Who is the most sane SH member?

    Depends on whether you count posting in excess of 12,000 words a week sane or insane
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    How does your IRL reflect in your writing?

    My stresses and pains often get translated to characters.
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    Do you listen to music when you write?

    I just replay tunes in my head whether I want to or not. And then I typically go find the song I’m remembering later and play it at my leisure. I can’t effectively coordinate creativity and listening to music simultaneously. It’s because when I’m doing something I prefer to have my whole...
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    How do you objectively analyze your story

    It’s typically just screaming and running around realizing how many plot threads I have and how the heck I’m ever going to resolve them. I figure, if I don’t call attention to something, then if no one remembers it maybe it doesn’t really matter. I started out as a dumb little English major so...
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    Thinking of a Cover? Put a Woman with an Ample Bosom on It! Mosquito Bites Also Have Our Love!

    Boobs in the thumbnail, has worked for YouTube for eons. ((Solemn nod))
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    [For Scifi Spaceship fans] What are some of the ship types in your space navy?

    I had a story along time ago where I created light year long ships and I just called them the “FU Gravity Haulers”
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    How would you describe this haircut? I'm stumped

    “I just got up too early in the morning and I spent two hours doing my hair but I want to make it look like I just woke up and did nothing to my hair.”
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    Making your characters more marketable to a readers audience

    I don’t know about marketability but I tend to just write characters that I wouldn’t mind being around except for the villainous f-ed up ones.
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    Stockpile Chapters?

    I make a week then I post to week. It doesn’t feel sustainable but I’m still doing it after a year.
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    How do you write?

    Weekday five chapter drops with a side of insanity at that pace.
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    What should I make for breakfast?

    Why are eggs not on here? :(
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    Do you share your writing with your family?

    I actually used to. Unfortunately I would write the kind of stuff they weren’t terribly interested in except every so often I wrote something kind of sweet and emotional and that they enjoyed.
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    AI, what is it good for?

    AI is fantastic at creating rough prototypes and ideas. It sucks at execution. Part of the problem is most AI right now cannot really be trained and that’s a big part of growth. I’ve AI so much of my writing and there’s one benefit I do find is that the sentences it comes up with have a lot more...
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    Eat a 10 pound burrito in 10 hours or work in the deep mines for 10 years

    Can I get an extra 10 pound burrito when I’m done and I’m still hungry?
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    How do you take notes for chapters.

    I take them down as separate chapters there’s about 13,000 words of notes from my most recent and about 80,000 overall.
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    Eldritch in story writing

    Humanity doesn’t stand a chance, will go mad even looking at these creatures, and are basically ants. What intrigues me though sometimes if you were to write Eldritch fiction but it’s from the perspective of aliens that can’t conceptualize humanity and we are the abominations because of a...
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    Sound effect help.

    Heeeeeeyy heeeeyyy heeeeyyyy. kree probably works better
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    How do u write again?

    I lose my mind when I take a break for the weekend from writing. Here’s what I advise. Go back and read your stuff and take notes as you go for stuff that’s important to you. That’s about it. Treat rather like you did with your school stuff.
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    My Story Isn't Showing Up In My Profile Or In Search

    It showing up now. I would definitely advise against just dropping a whole bunch of chapters at the start since it needs to be approved before it’s initially released.
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