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I think you've gone too far in your reasoning. I won't try to dissuade you. Imagine Skyrim. When you press the jump key, you jump and fall. If it's a small hill, it's fine. But when you fall off a mountain, I can't help but feel like I'm about to be hit with a heavy stick.

Okay, Earthman, I think I get it. I'll tell them that watching Charlie Chaplin's cut-out fall usually doesn't make your hair stand on end. Damn, what about those two-second shorts? I know one theory. Before people started walking on two legs, they created tribes of no more than 150 people. This...

I mean, no goosebumps. You just think you know everything, right? I was still thinking about the feeling. Everyone has their own hero. Neither Neo falling through the asphalt nor the bandits from "Home Alone" are characters for you? And if you think about the feelings? Didn't you have a hero...

It's strange. When you write a post and people respond to it and discuss it, everything is fine. It seems like you can relax a bit after something serious. But no one has any reaction. What's wrong with this text? Is this the case everywhere, or did I just make a mistake with the planet?

I would rather think about what led the writer to such a dilemma. Perhaps the problem is not in this text, but in what came before it. The "show or tell" dilemma almost never occurs within a single sentence on its own. It is a symptom of a deeper problem in the narrative structure. If there was...

Without a character's perspective or even a hint of their perception, it's just a "dead" description. If there's no better option, I would combine these. "Show" doesn't mean dismissing the character's immediate feelings. "The morning was too bright to leave unattended. But Hoshino stood by the...

I have a suspicion that all this is going to come down to a discussion of "how to write an interesting story". Well, who knows? On the other hand, the main thing is to convey everything that already seems interesting in the right way. That is, to be on the same page with the reader, sharing...

Understanding a character and empathizing with them are not the same thing. For me, it's more about the circumstances the character finds themselves in. Is it possible to understand a crowd in a catastrophe? The rest sounds strange - empathizing, associating it with yourself, because he also has...

As usual, the idea of writing something comes up at the beginning. But the question of "how to make it better?" remains unresolved, and various options arise. Most importantly, it turns out that there are rules for doing this in a way that allows the novel to be read by more than just the...

I think it's better to use background music for an audiobook. Otherwise, it will only work as a source of inspiration. I sometimes enjoy listening to suno to hear a themed poem performed by him.

I think prologues can be quite different. The main thing is to show a part of some epic so that the reader knows what to expect. But it doesn't have to be in the future. If the story is global enough, it can be a significant stage from the past that leads to a climax in the future. But it is...

If a picture with characters or action is used as a background, then a plain place is usually allocated for the inscriptions. The classic is a white font with a small shadow. Preferably, without a outline. Then you can experiment according to the situation. It is better to generate the font...

It's terrible. Especially the stack of covers that covers the entire screen.

You won't believe it, but this is a local base Stable Diffusion 1.5. And a lot of correction in Photoshop. Part of the details is cut from photos and individual generations, after stitching through AI. Here's an example.

No, it's a cover, it's colored.

Will it clearly look like AI usage? Yes, it's all AI.

Thinking about good and bad, what is right and what is wrong, is evil.

I always have a question when I hear something like this. So I opened Photoshop, made a collage of two photos or textures, and applied an effect. Then I ran it through AI (local) multiple times and edited it in Photoshop. I added a frame and assembled the text from pieces of generated font. I...

We need to define the concept of a scene. Of course, we can put a character in a room alone and make them think a lot, or we can create an epic battle. However, even these scenes can be divided into meaningful segments that shift the focus to something else. These segments may still be large...

Covers themselves are not for everyone. You can fill everything with one color and write the title. Personally, I'm trying to convey an idea. If it's a social theme, there should be characters. Lots of characters. A mysterious story should have a mystery on the cover. A kind of figurative...