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Mad Swede replied to the thread prowritingaid.The sort of AI-detection tools used by the main publishers and many agents will detect that you have used ProWritingAid, and they will... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Too Many files!.I write using Word, for various reasons. There's no real problem keeping track of versions, I just save the file with a new version...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread On using LLMs in writing.LLMs are sometimes presented as a threat to writers and other artists. But the truth is that they're no better than the texts (or...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Editing gone wrong.It's very common misconception that editing a story will make it shorter, that somehow all you're doing is paring it down. And it isn't...
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Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Has anyone tried writing a modern epic? with
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You, sir, are a rabble rouser. You rouse rabble. ;) And yes, you are very right. And your girlfriend - really beautiful name - was also... -
Mad Swede replied to the thread Has anyone tried writing a modern epic?.And now I'm going to be really awkward ;) and point out that Layamon was English and not Welsh. Brut is a Middle English poem if I...
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This is a really great speech, where Sanderson is able to articulate something that I've been circling for months. It's heavy craft...
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Mad Swede reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread Your Fantasy City Needs This Stuff (edited by tired Lowan) with Like.
I adore this channel. She is smart and funny and talks a lot about the details of our world buildings that can help flesh out our...
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I tried to communicate an Arabic phrase here, and the best way I thought of was "almost-corpse." It sounds a bit weird because it's more...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.OK skip.knox I'll try to illustrate what I mean by the difference between translation and interpretation as a reply to you and MSadiq in...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.Kennings aren't much used in modern Swedish, but do occur in older prose, especially poetry and folk tales. You'd use kennings to keep a...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.But I'm asking you. And no you don't have to answer, but that in itself would also be an answer...
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They can also be very stupendous. Just copy-paste كرسي جابر into Google Images.
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.Yes, I got that when I read it. That's what I'm trying to say, if you haven't seen the combinations of jewelry and clothing you get in...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Prose Style Concern.I recognise that. I'd interpret haybah as vördnad if I was translating into Swedish, and I'd be using the word vördnad in it's fullest...