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    What's your least liked or most hated part of writing?

    The bit after you're done writing the sex scene you have to go back and tweak all the overused words. A note to the guys in charge of English: you need to invent more words for "jiggle."
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    How Far Ahead Do You Usually Map Your Story Before writing.

    Chapter-by-chapter outline. Just a few bullets for what happens in each. Pantsing overrated!!
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    'Good Guys Win in the end' Vs Nets and Flakes?

    The oldest recorded story in history, the Epic of Gilgamesh, has a tragic and dark ending. The ancient greeks believed in the purgative power of pathos and many of our grandest tragedies come from them. This is the furthest possible thing from a new trend. Don't get me wrong--I much prefer a...
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    There are NO bad jokes

    thought u said none of them are
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    There are NO bad jokes

    whats the difference between a hippo and a zippo one's very heavy and the other is a little lighter
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    Thoughts on someone leaving harsh reviews on your novel?

    A lot of negative reviews I've seen go too far into a spiteful fun or an over-emotional reaction. Like ones that celebrate themselves or try to be funny. I'm guilty of this too, and it's fun to write and read. But it's probably not kind in the long run. Not to get all Ratatouille about it.
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    How to Hate AI Correctly.

    My take is that LLMs are a lot of fun but humans are great at anthropomorphizing it and imagining it as a mind, so everyone is arguing about a fun toy as if it's got some kind of qualia, and that makes it very hard to have objective conversations about its uses and abuses. It's like if the media...
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    Nowadays, people become authors just because...

    People have cranked slop out for profit for centuries. Long before LLMs came onto the scene there were entire forests chopped down to provide the paper for all the bare-chested bodice rippers, airport stand thrillers, formulaic self-help books, and ghostwritten c-lister memoirs. There have...
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    What are your favorite personality or character traits you would like to see in a Main character.

    Drive. A goal they care a lot about so that I care a lot about them. There's this weird trend imported from Isekai maybe where the MC just wants to hang out and be left alone instead of having a clearly defined goal they're struggling toward. It started as a clever subversion, I guess, but now...
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    Is it normal that ChatGPT glazes me this much

    That doesn't mean your writing's BAD or anything! It just means you ought to get yourself some beta readers if you really want useful feedback.
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    Is it normal that ChatGPT glazes me this much

    It doesn't think you want to hear it, because it's not thinking; it's a fancy autocomplete. People will use a product more if they have a positive experience with it, so the engineers who made the algorithm weighted positive inputs more conspicuously in its dataset. They're the ones who made the...
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    Is it normal that ChatGPT glazes me this much

    AI uses large language models to guess what the most appropriate response is to a given text prompt. It's not capable of giving you authentic feedback on your writing because it doesn't possess an understanding of your writing. It's not actually reading it, analyzing it, or forming thoughts...
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    The Sigma Webnovelist Grindset: A Manifesto

    now where do the bottles of saratoga springs come into it
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    Does anyone use the glossary feature?

    I use a glossary in my romance Princess of the Void to keep track of a pretty large cast of noblewomen. Not sure how much it's used but people tend to page over to it according to the analytics so I guess it's being looked at here and there...
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    Good writing site I recommend

    I'm a big fan of writinghabit.app but it's gotten more and more monetized lately so I've been thinking about switching to gdocs like the homie Keene up there. But it tracks your writing streak and I'm on 207 days.... can't lose the streak....
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    Writing in Third-Person Omniscient POV

    This one time I wrote in first-person omniscient.
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    What is your favorite chapter that you have written?

    ch 26 because i like writing smut :alien:
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