Recent content by Karlin

I never learned the official writing rules. I read. I write.

My publisher has had similar experience with AI translation. Really helpful, but need to go over it. we've already fed the entire novel into chatGPT, we'll see soon (hopefully) what it managed to do with it.

There is no question that much that is labelled " AI" is simply computer programs with a new label. But that isn't what is happening here. It's not just word by word. It doesn't take several days for a computer program to look up 70,000 words in a dictionary. That would take a few minutes...

I published a novel in English, a novel that has potential audiences among Hebrew and Chinese readers. I am an AI skeptic, a Luddite. If I could type on this forum with a quill and homemade ink I would. My son, despite his positive qualities, is, heaven help us, an AI USER, and he said "hey...

Have you written short stories? They are different than actual novels, but will give you experience, and self confidence, and have the same basic structure .

Good luck! write write write

Maybe the goddess Freya

Now, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Burckhardt. And Giorgio Vasari, Lives of...

Only 100? how do they manage everything?

I'm thinking that most of non-fantasy novels deal with normal people, doing normal things. Good ones have interesting plots and character development. There may be Important Events, but the story centers on people living through the events, not on those saving the world

Interruptions are huge problem for me. I write slowly (read fast, by the way), and I find it hard to get quiet time to write. about proof reading: it's a different skill than creative writing. You can ask a friend or relative to proof read, or , if you can afford it, pay someone to do it...

It has gotten very difficult to find time to write. I find myself thinking about my writing at odd times, but I've got too much going on in my regular life now to actually sit and pound away at my Olivetti.

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In my mind, the best example of writing in different voices is Mark Twain. Read Huckleberry Finn. I'll make a general statement about writing that will totally turn me off. If I notice the writing too much, something is wrong. What I mean by this is that the writing feels forced, and I end up...

Dr. Strangelove?