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both ways are valid, me personally i like having the world instruct the characters.

that is very fair and i respect you for it. for me personaly it is a more nessasery crutch as it helps keep me organised and focused, i dont need to worry about the details getting missed.

Yeah, this is something I can agree with. The environmental cost of AI data centres, along with scraping content with little or no attribution or compensation, is one of the sides of AI I’m much less comfortable with. That said, I see those as problems with how the technology is currently being...

Nice, man! Keep at it! Sounds like you’ve got some good momentum going. Just keep an eye on burnout while you’re pushing for that end-of-year goal. Sometimes taking a week off and missing a self-imposed deadline is much better than forcing yourself through it and killing your enthusiasm for the...

Welcome, Pat! I’m fairly new here myself and mostly working in fantasy/speculative fiction, with an unhealthy amount of worldbuilding attached to it. Sounds like you’ve already been through quite a bit of the writing ecosystem if you’re teaching workshops, doing conventions and now wrestling...

thank you ! :)

I'm actually in a very similar position with my own book. I've spent a lot of time developing the setting, magic, history, cultures and underlying rules, and I completely understand the desire to have someone come in from the outside and deliberately try to break it. When you've been working on...

Interesting studies, thanks for linking them. I think they’re useful, although I’d be a little more cautious about some of the conclusions being drawn from them. The biggest distinction for me is between AI-generated writing and AI being used as a tool during writing. Those can involve...

hey Roach, I'm also new! what sort of dark fantasy are you looking to make?

Hi everyone, I'm Diremoon. I'm currently writing a fantasy/progression series set in a world called Vaer’Thyra, which has gradually turned into a fairly substantial worldbuilding project alongside the actual novel. I tend to enjoy the machinery underneath fantasy settings almost as much as the...