Recent content by MSadiq

Plenty of people argue that all things are equally valueless and what value they have is ascribed to it be everyone of us, but that perspective is false, and I do think they concur it's false internally. Even from a biological point of view, there are things that are inherently more valuable to...

I think what many are trying to communicate when they say these mediums are for kids is that the ratio of time to value you get out of them as an adult is too little or is better spent on things that provide you more value, and preferring to do things that have less value but are more...

On your point about competence, AI is terrible at understanding context, so it might suggest you edits, which is what I'd like to assume people are using it for, that are absolutely unfit for your story, but you'd not know better because you don't have the competence to know. I've used it for...

I've never edited a novel, but I've edited translations, mostly technical texts, and your goal should be refining, not in the manner of sanding and carving wood, but in the manner of making pottery. You might sand the surface, removing some material, or you'd add more clay to make a more...

While I have reasons I'm willing to disclose, there are many that I am not for many of the things I do, not just my writing, so I understand you. There are things in my world that are based on my experienced with the disabled, close family, stories of famine relatives lived, and things about...

It really depends on the translator. In formal education, at least my education, there's an emphasis on domestication, avoiding almost any hint of the original text, and that's why I got many points deducted, as my instinct is to preserve as much of the source language as possible. This is why I...

I'm pretty much the same. It'd not stop me from finishing a book for just that, if it's interesting enough, but I'd just be ranting to myself about it. I get what you mean on a syntactic level. Like using thing of the thing, which comes more naturally to me because, in Arabic, it'd be possessed...

I wouldn't want to, but my concern was how much can I lean into it without becoming too much to comprehend on a cultural level, like with the necklace line, and how much sentence structure would distract the reader from what's actually being said. E.g., this line from a book's blurb: "Spurred...

As for my magic system, I'll just post what I've posted already because it's p much a done magic system. he power system is a quasi-elemental magic system that relies on the senses of words—their denotations and connotations. These elements are fire, earth, wind, ice, lightning, sand, diurnal...

I have to question this, as swords aren't all the same length or weight, especially if you're dealing with multiple periods, if your world is period-agnostic, or multiple cultures that have different swords, unless you're saying that all manifested swords are the exact same length, weight, and...

Yes, there are a lot of details that I've already made, like clothing, architecture, political structure, etc., but these are just details that are not that fun to share and discuss when you have no background on them. Written anything as in a novel? No, but planned an arc for a character? Yes...

Yes, and that's why I've made it the most dangerous place on Tilmun, not just because of the creatures within, but also the fact that after crossing certain points, locations in the Burrow switch place at regular intervals. People who go in and the space shifts before they come back are presumed...

No, it's the Ma, the power, the flooded out that turned them to crystals then they shattered. Not portals. Humans just pop out onto the surface of Tilmun at seemingly random places. Also, influx implies there's a large number of them, but there's not. Otherwise, the humans would have not been...

I want to give background information first. The story takes place in 3 different worlds. They're Tilmun, Erd, and Apertum, which is compact and quite nascent, so not discussing it much. To describe them briefly, Tilmun is historical, Erd mythical and religious, and Apertum abstract. Tilmun is...

I kept meaning to reply, but never did. One of the things I intend, insha'Allah, to make relevant in my story is scribes, so I'll definitely look into the different monks, who I'm familiar with some of their names and general history. Also, it's really cool that there are actual historians here.