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One reason AI writing has proliferated--despite the public largely being ambivalent about it at best--is that it always sounds like a linkedin post. Which impresses the c-suite weirdos and ad guys who steer the corporate ships.

I like using AI when I'm GMing tabletop games in order to quickly give sparks of inspiration and offload the cognitive effort of improvisation. Creative writing, being much more of a sit-down-and-puzzle-it-out thing, isn't a place where I use it. A big part of the fun in this hobby, for me, is...

does that mean if you write smut you are the Prince & the Revolution of novel writing

You’re not going to know until you get the writing down on paper and in front of people. Your metaphor of the ship isn’t accurate. It’s not like you’re sinking—your supply of the written word is inexhaustible. Getting words out there is only going to strengthen you.

Writing chapters and posting them WILL do good. Best way you can improve is by doing.

I'd say Tetsuya Yamagami is one of the most successful political assassins of the 21st century. Killed Shinzo Abe and now the LDP is in disarray and the Unification Church has experienced massive backlash to the point of having their status as a religious corporation revoked. He basically did...

A book doesn't need to stop being funny, but just funny isn't really enough to carry a whole novel. That's why unmitigated humor in writing is traditionally the realm of short stories and essayists. For longer stuff, you'll need a certain amount of emotional engagement to keep the reader...

Two questions for ya: 1. Is it romance first and foremost, or is it more like a story happening with a strong romantic subplot? 2. How many words is each book?

One thing people can mistake about when they write smut is assuming that because it's horny it doesn't need to function in any other way. But there's a lot of well-written smut out there, and—making things even more tricky—there's this thing called porn that kinda has the written word beat for...

Read your dialogue aloud to yourself to make sure it doesn't sound clunky (sotto voce if it's horny obviously)

Nope. Don't have anything blocked. It was just the after-update shuffle, I guess (though I do wonder how it went from #7 to entirely off the list, lol) Aww, thank you!!!! :love:

Shub's formatting options compared to, like, 75% of the web publishing platforms out there are actually goated. And discoverability actually exists. What a concept!

soooo true Iloveshovels. In fact I got this as a response from an admin I'd messaged, for anyone reading this and wondering. Sounds like the list takes a bit once the day shifts over, to really settle into its final alignment. The more you know!

That's what was so odd to me--it'd started trending after the 7pm EST refresh in this case, and wasn't on the list before then. Anyway, if this is a known phenomenon, I'm fine to let it lie. The ways of the list are not for us mortals, I get that.

Ah well! Easy come, easy go. I'll just keep writing alien smut. Thanks for the reply ?

Hi there. I saw my story, Princess of the Void, hit #7 on Trending. Then it disappeared about a half hour later. I've gathered that the trending algorithm is pretty opaque. I'm wondering--has this happened to others on here? I'll live and I'm grateful for my audience and the site, and if...