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    What's your opinion on giving constructive feedback for folks who do generate AI slop?

    One of the key problems with AI is you have to be a decent or at least experienced writer before you start using it. Because its ideas tend to be garbage. You need to be able to call bullshit on it. It will rise or sink to the level you seek of it. It is a mirror. If you are inexperienced it...
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    Most Hype Moment ever in a novel?

    My main character bursts through the wall of a fae UFO to rescue the others, who are seconds from being killed by a mannequin-like army, while riding a giant, winged, one-eyed monster with oversized genitalia.
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    Where do you get inspiration for your writing?

    I'll be minding my own business and suddenly my Muse who I have since visualized so I can give a face to my tormentor will just run in and slap me in the face with a fish of ideas and run off giggling "have fun with that, loser!" So I don't get inspiration, inspiration gets me when I least...
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    How long do you take to write your novel?

    I wrote four novels between 2 to 3 months and then two of them took almost 6 months. And then the most recent has been about two years because of some gaps.
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    What's your editing process? What do you focus on?

    My method has evolved over time and I know it will continue to evolve. I used to do more typing on an actual keyboard now I typically just use speech to text on a phone because it's much faster than the alternative however with names and particular designations the system is not very good at...
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    How Does Your MC Wipe Their Ass?

    I feel like this thread has left me with more trauma than any scary scene I've ever written in my books.
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    Does writing your story make you feel better or worse?

    It depends. Writing is always a sense of positivity but the emotions after a chapter or during a very heavy chapter can carry residual feelings that move me one way or another.
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    What makes you love your fiction?

    When it makes me cry or I chance upon something that's just like oh my gosh that's such a cool connection between elements in the story!
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    The laziest thing you do as an author?

    That's so much as a writer but compared to writing with DND I name characters Elara Telara Belara So I get a bit lazy with my own characters and a D&D campaign compared to writing normally
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    Confused about book cover criteria.

    They're kind of on the edge around the boob part I guess with the flesh tones but I've seen saucier on here I don't know what could be tripping it up
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    Is My Story Isekai?

    Sure. Depends on whether you want it to be
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    What makes a fight scene good?

    If it has a purpose. Fight scenes are like any scene they have back-and-forth up and down it's characters with a certain point and objective in conflict with one another so the way they faced that conflict in battle should be translated through their actions in that fight. You can have cool...
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    How do you get over writer's block?

    I take showers. My mind wanders during them and I always find myself entertaining myself with random scenes inside my head that play out with the white noise of the shower.
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    Do you kill off an important character?

    I'm killing multiples. Well, killing is kind of a broad term. Depends on whether you consider a human form converted into energy killing. But it's important to the story as a foundational event kind of like in Berserk where the entire army crew suffers a really bad fate.
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    Dear Fellow Authors... What is the most outrageous Nemesis you've given your protagonist in a story?

    The Moon. My character Gina Ferris wants to blow it up.
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    What app/program do you use for outlining your plots?

    I just shove a bunch of words about what I wanna do later in the story at the end of whatever I'm writing and then copy it over later if there's still stuff that's important.
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    How much do y'all re-read your chapters before publishing em?

    This is the thing AI is pretty good at as a second set of "eyes"
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    Derp?

    I made my entire writing career about delving into the psychological implications of characters slowly transformed like that with nuance and maturity without making it heavily sexualized or smutty. Feel free to check out my stylings. I love having characters question their existence through...
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    As a writer, I am going to give my reading search routine to other writers

    Ya'll have time to read?! Frickin' when...?
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    What would you do if you regressed?

    Okay. 1995...are we assuming a multiverse timeline where we can alter the past? How do we get over entropy from information changing the past? Will our essence or mental template carry over?
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