Recent content by Adaddinsane

Any so-called AI is too much. Using it for grammar turns your text into homogeneous mush - it will destroy your writer's voice because it enforces the "average" (and that average is influenced by all the poor writing used to train it).

"Said" is invisible which means it's ideal for indicating who's speaking. The trick with dialog tags is to use them only when it's becoming unclear who's talking. (Something that's come up with the narrators of some of my audiobooks - they use the wrong voice because it wasn't obvious.) And...

Head hopping usually implies changing viewpoints abruptly and frequently within a single scene. Generally considered bad because it's confusing for readers. If you're not doing it frequently, clearly labelling when you do, and not doing it often then you're fine. Personally I reserve POV...

That was not the controversy. (But just to be clear - I won't be doing it, they're dead to me.) NNWM did not say AI entries are acceptable. Let's face it, it's no skin off their nose if some idiot wants to do that. (You could generate 50K of lorem ipsum easily enough without AI - they don't...

I have exactly one novella with a male lead (and he's an idiot). I have 20+ novels with female leads, and primarily female other characters. As implied, there's more than one but in my current second-world fantasy series, she's an acrobat forced by circumstance and duty to escort someone...