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  1. AnEmberOfSundown

    Add a "Neurodivergent Characters" tag

    Shot down in less than an hour. Response given: "a". Cool beans.
  2. AnEmberOfSundown

    Add a "Neurodivergent Characters" tag

    Bumping from the grave to ask for this tag. There is an "autism" tag but many of the settings in stories here don't fit with modern classification of autism/ADHD/depression/cPTSD yet feature characters who would be recognizable to anyone familiar with the symptoms.
  3. AnEmberOfSundown

    Opinion on ai?

    Most of the time a trying to scam you into forking over money for their “art” which is just AI slop that anyone can generate without paying real-art prices.
  4. AnEmberOfSundown

    Can we put the knowledge into our novel?

    I mean, I like putting random knowledge drops in the dialogue. Why not?
  5. AnEmberOfSundown

    Opinion on ai?

    Unfortunately, yes. Once you've seen enough of them or played with the chatbots enough yourself, you can pick out their very specific phrases and syntax pretty easily. I actually recommend people play with some of them for that reason. You'll get scammers who use AI to craft their messages...
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    To Those Who Write Fight Scenes...

    Think about what you're trying to say with the fight scene. Action sequences can be a great way to show character, background, growth, or regression without a single line of exposition. Does the meek one suddenly go feral? Why? Just how deadly is your heavy hitter? Are they happy about it...
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    Recommendations Post your books so I can read

    Both in the sig. Enjoy and please let me know what you think!
  8. AnEmberOfSundown

    Without spoiling anything, post one joke thats in your story today

    It's not actually in the story yet, but I realized it sounded too much like an Isekai title to not post it: "My wife is a thirteen-billion-year-old sun with a congenital chill deficiency and an incurable case of the zoomies."
  9. AnEmberOfSundown

    what's your favorite aspect when you are writing?

    Dialogue, hands down. Specifically my deuteragonist, she's my id and gets to say all the things I want to say.
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    Recommendations Recommend me some SH books to read! (Round 2)

    I'm pretty late to the thread but I thought I'd throw my hat in. I think the books in my sig align well with what you mentioned in the OP: soft, cute romance - this is mostly subtextual, but what's there is pretty cute comedy with deadpan humor - I learned my sense of humor from Pratchett...
  11. AnEmberOfSundown

    Glossary examples

    You hadn't, but thank you! I was definitely going for a certain look, I'm glad you like them.
  12. AnEmberOfSundown

    Glossary examples

    I did, but they're fairly straightforward. Both books in the sig below.
  13. AnEmberOfSundown

    Adult vs Mature vs Smut. What's the difference?

    It's all in how you use the feather: Mature - She danced for her lover with feather fans Adult - She straddled her lover on a feather bed Smut - She teased her lover's body with a feather BANNED - That chicken has seen some shit
  14. AnEmberOfSundown

    Something that made you happy today

    My 6-year-old declared it the "best Christmas ever". Also I woke up to 22 random new views, which is a pretty notable day for me.
  15. AnEmberOfSundown

    125k Words and Not a Single Review

    Over 200k words here, same boat.
  16. AnEmberOfSundown

    Author, should we interact with the comments?

    If it wasn't for the bots I wouldn't have any conversations. #Clankers Need Love Too #Why thank you Skynet
  17. AnEmberOfSundown

    Well someone's about to be disappointed...

    "Sex gauntlet". I'm picturing either two rows of people beating someone with dildos or a glove with some interesting finger attachments.
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    Well someone's about to be disappointed...

    I use a D&D battle map + minis to help me write fight scenes so I can keep track of who is where and doing what. I feel like I'd need something similar to keep track of who is on what and doing whom in this scenario. The real problem is the canon orientations. I have two constipated disaster...
  19. AnEmberOfSundown

    Well someone's about to be disappointed...

    Ohhh...sucks to be them I guess. "Algorithm" is an ancient arabic word for "wild-ass guess". True story. That's so sweet that you think anybody listens to me. Love that for us.
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