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    AI, assistance, how much is too much

    Those programs will pull up every piece of dialogue from a single character in a 250k word novel? AI isn't perfect at it, but it's quite good. Scrivener CAN do it, but yikes, what a pain in the ass. It isn't so much whether there are no AI tools (and how long before AI is involved?) that work...
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    Hello, a newbie here!

    Welcome aboard.
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    AI, assistance, how much is too much

    Your interpretation of grammar is off. You can correct grammar with AI without changing your voice, unless your voice uses incorrect grammar, which, as a whole, would be bad unless you're working, maybe, on something like A Clockwork Orange... and then, with AI, you can have it stop checking...
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    What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?

    Third Om can be so many styles. Tolkien is fairly casual, Herbert is in your face. Dickens is one of the all-time greats for 3rd Om IMO.
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    Hello fellow writers

    It certainly became a sticky saying after one tragic event.
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    Into the Lucid World

    I don't have a method; I've been lucid dreaming since I was about 5, best I can recall. The trick is not taking control all the time, as it's exhausting.
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    Hello fellow writers

    Welcome aboard! Drink the Kool-Aid, but boil it first.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    Agreed. Either go full on Omniscient or stick to Limited.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    I don't do google links. Just post a snippet or email it to me for a brief review. My gut tells me: If you are in classical 3rd Om narrative mode, you're better off than if trying to write in a more modern Limited 3rd and trying to stretch the POV.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    It's a pejorative for a reason, as it isn't simply switching POV. It's an error in switching POV.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    It's one of those things, it's hard to tell if it's working without seeing it.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    It's hard as hell to catch sometimes, most risky for me when writing one POV with another POV character in the scene, LMAO. That feels natural.
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    Dense Prose or Rich Prose?

    I'm not even sure what you mean... you can pack years into a sentence or pages into a few moments. The example sentence seems fairly normal to me without context or comparison.
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    Dense Prose or Rich Prose?

    That would be why I don't watch videos unless it's for a repair on something, LMAO. It stymies my brain how much time people waste on the damned things.
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    Is "Head Hopping" Good or Bad?

    IMO, it's a bit misunderstood, like Show Don't Tell™. Here's my take: real HeadHopping™ isn't 3rd Omniscient like Dune, it is accidental and/or Omniscience being injected on purpose in such a sporadic way that it jars the reader. If you write in Third Intimate, say, GRRM in ASoIaF and you are...
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