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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Got told AI did a better job than me..It is possible that AI has come up with better story ideas than the original poster but it's not who - or what - comes up with a better... -
AI remixing ideas is not the same as creating meaning. Your ideas came from you.
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Got told AI did a better job than me..To me AI is a tool, nothing more. Like any tool it can be used for good or bad. A hammer can be used to hammer nails or pull them out...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Months and Calendar.I had a calendar that had 13 months made up of 28 days, divided into four weeks of 7 days and a stand alone day for New Year's Day...
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Miles Lacey reacted to xena's post in the thread What's the best writing advice you ever received? with
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“Write the scene like only you can.” It remind me to stop chasing perfection and just tell the story my way. This is the best writing... -
Miles Lacey replied to the thread What's the best writing advice you ever received?.Keep it simple. Only add detail if something deviates from what would be expected, it's vital to the story that we have those details...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.Zen Cho is based in Birmingham in the United Kingdom but the book was published in the United States. It was written in English except...
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Miles Lacey reacted to Mad Swede's post in the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published with Like.
And it doesn't occur to you that there may be a reason for a Malaysian to live in the UK and write a book with a lesbian character like...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.It may seem as if the author of Black Water Sister has made the main character lesbian so she can sell a few extra books but that isn't...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Does anyone know where I can get stats for city populations in years past?.Just one thing to keep in mind when looking up population figures for a city in 1900. The boundaries of the city in 1900 may not be the...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread marginalized characters that were added just to help get a book published.I have non-white characters because my WIP is set on a tropical island and I happen to find creating cultures based on those of...
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Miles Lacey replied to the thread Three and a half years of writing ... and I still have no clue what I'm doing!.Here are some of the road blocks I've faced over the years: 1. Past experience of publishing stuff that was trashed by others. 2...
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Miles Lacey reacted to Gurkhal's post in the thread How much should we explain existing mythology in our stories? with Like.
I shall offer another suggestion. If you feel that the reader needs to know some extensive mythology but you don't want to do an info...