Recent content by Zilver

It does in mine. My MC starts out as pizza delivery guy.

Why does it need to have merit in the greater DND lore? It's a cool story, just take it wherever you wanna take it.

Yes. I like what pmmg says about giving the story what it needs. Saying it then only needs characters and no worldbuilding, is maybe a blunt way of putting it. In another perspective, it could just mean that you need to let go of the worldbuilding a little bit, and just start writing. If you...

Is it? Again, I have no clue what people mean when they say 'better' in this context. Cause of what Mad Swede just typed out. Second all of that. A beta reader tells me what impression the story made on them. AI could never do that, cause it experiences no impressions.

Sounds incredibly claustrophobic, having my parents formulate opinions in any way shape or form about what I express in art... My parents don't read what I write. And if they ever do & they don't like what they read, sucks to be them I guess. My characters swear - a lot - cause they're...

Well I've got a whole lot better at drawing in those two years, too ^.^

Literally my current manuscript that I hit 110k wordcount on last week. The idea from the outset was: depressed teenager meets a witch girl who tells him he's the last spell of the most powerful sorceress that ever lived, reincarnated - and they have to save the world together. The reason I...

Mood means I feel ya ^.^

Mood. Also, ... expressing the human condition through a form of art? [Seriously doubtful emoji goes here]

Mwa like... Ai "prompts" are quite different from story prompts. Anything you type into Ai as an assignment, is called a prompt. "Tell me if my parents love me" and "can guinea pigs wear top hats" can be AI prompts. So "write a story about a boy living in the wilds with guinea pigs", can also be...

If you like the idea, don't let it stop you. Maybe you can let it encourage you to find an angle or twist that sets it apart from what's already been done. Or you just ignore the other work completely. By the time you finish the project, it'll have turned into something of your own, anyway.

All this only reinforces me to stick to my prefered method anyway: beta-read exchange - a service for a service with no money changing hands.

Yup, was there last Summer. You should see them in smokey stormy wisps of cloud swirling around... ^.^

That's a universal international thing, drawn up by a UNESCO convention in Geneva, Swisterland, so yey for everyone else too ^.^

What a bizar reaction. As a first post on the forum, no less... Are you well?