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I recommend adding the following line to your manuscripts on a random author's notes chapter: NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s [and publisher’s] exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies...

The problem is, if you write they way people really talk you just sound like an idiot. and if you read it back to yourself you realize it makes you sound like an idiot. and then you realize a hard and painful truth. Most people talk like absolute idiots 99% of the time

Illustrations are for cartoons and comic books. TEXT is for engaging the reader's own imagination.

adverbs are one of those things that shouldn't be avoided, they need to be EXPERIENCED... sometimes an adverb tells the story you want told. Get better, hard and fast rules only work for hard and fast creation.

Too right! It is up to the READERS to call the 'social commentary writer' a pretentious, arrogant butthair, how dare the AI steal that??? :p -direbadger, a pretentious, arrogant butthair, and proud of it.

You know how a copy of a copy of a copy is just not as... sharp as the original? One, meet four. We call him 'Grammarly' and keep the cork on the fork because he's cute, and we don't want him putting his eye out.

"Sunlight is my DESTROYER!" I mean, I loved Legend, but this line was so stupid. if they had left it out or only used it once, it still would have been pretty obvious at the end when the mirrors blew him out into space.

Simple- Bad or misused English. The problem with most translated novels, even AI translations, is that it is utterly obvious because it SUCKS. AI can screen and rewrite small sections just fine, but overall, translating? writing from scratch or even rewriting crap? AI doesn't THINK. It doesn't...

I did start off the story 'as a spirit wolf'. Flashbacks when the first humans he'd seen in two thousand years arrived. and he almost immediately 'became human' (spirit animal evolution caused by (plot element involving wuxia magic)) to discover WHY the humans came to his mountain and viciously...

just...make sure when you have your protagonist or antagonist throw insults, that they are not 'direct translations'. Have another writer come up with a better, more western way of building social tension, because translated xianxia idiom is uniformly terrible when directly translated. 井底之蛙...

don't try to logic fantasy. Vampires in a lot of fiction are just dead. no brainwaves, nothing. A spirit inhabiting unchanging flesh. Logic checked out at the door.

I killed my MC, but that's because I was literally trying to break the trope. He lived a long life, several wives, a lot of kids, grandkids, and great grandkids, and then he was 'reborn' and lived a couple of thousand years as a 'spirit wolf'. I wasn't exactly mocking the genre, but I was...

No, they have full-time jobs and families. It costs me very little to try and meet their needs, rather than looking down on them. So it might be twenty chapters between combat scenes? as long as they enjoy the book, even if the most exciting thing is baking a cake.

Naww. It's not really worth it, I mostly just use it to check capitalization and cut my chapters into pieces for posting here, because I am lazy. I wouldn't let it touch my real work, because it has a 'political correctness filter' it tries to apply even if all you do is tell it to check for...

guilty :)

so far deepseek has pitched a fit, but according to both it and grok it is 'in process' although deepseek threw it up today. I am confused. for weeks I have been sending you original chapters of my work for revision, critical feedback, and spell-checking. And today, you tell me you are not...

The recent legal changes have hit deepseek, chatgpt, and other 'ai frameworks' very hard, as of today deepseek cannot couch copyrighted content. At all. What this means (negatively) You cannot feed it a chapter, not even as a beta reader. It cannot catch plot holes you may have missed, act like...

I am not sure how creating something permanent, getting your creativity and identity out into the world, and reveling in something you are truly good at could ever make you feel 'worse'. Even the depressing chapters are artistic masterworks you can (hopefully) take pride in. If writing makes...

Get Laid. That usually helps me focus. That and picking pubes out of my teeth.

I shook my head. “No, just visiting. I have been on the wall before, but my power has...expanded, since last time, so I am not sure what my role is now. ‘Designated disaster’ is usually a safe bet.”