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If you're advertising on Amazon, then you're not paying for views. You pay for clicks. So if you have zero clicks you pay zero $. $5 a day is a good enough amount to start with. You need to begin with an idea of where you get views and when those views translate to clicks and those clicks to...

I came across this it of AI research (though I haven't read the original paper...) The TLDR is that if you look a layer deeper at AI answers, then you're always getting average answers. So stories written by AI tend to use the same structure and plot points etc. Which, if you think about it...

I personally feel that the middle books of the Discworld series are the best in terms of comedy. From about nr 10 (Moving Pictures) to about 26 (Thief of Time). They've got wonderful stories coupled with amazing haha-funny moments. The later books are great, but the pure comedy gets less (while...

If you want to write in Google Docs or any other online writing tool for that matter, you have to split your manuscript in chapters. So each chapter gets a single file. And only when your done you start combining them into a single file. In my experience with multiple different online writing...

I thought Ascii was just the basic numerical representation of characters (like 65 = A and 90 = Z). Not something you code in as such.

I hadn't heard of her or the book, but that is just a brilliant title that grabs my instant attention.

I think this is really at the heart of the problem. You published on Wattpad as an afterthought. No trad-publisher wants the book so I'll just do that - kind of idea. Now there is nothing wrong with that. However, you must know that you are competing for people's attention with other authors...

It sounds like a fun premise.

I took a very quick look, and I spotted a bunch of problems. The biggest by far is that the cover, the blurb, and the prologue don't match. The cover doesn't fit a fantasy story for me, not an urban fantasy story (which the blurb suggests), nor an epic fantasy story (which seems to match the...

Pegasi aren't on the supernatural collective noun cheat sheet I came across somewhere unfortunately, otherwise I'd have an answer for you (and I can't upload attachements in this thread, making it hard to show...). Closest I get are griffons (which would be a senate of griffons) or unicorns...

Welcome LNLWLN! What's your work about?

Discoverability is always hard, for any author on any platform. Some people get lucky and land on a new platform early and are found organically. But most people have to work hard at it. Simply putting a story out there and hoping for the best isn't good enough on any platform unfortunately...

Or pegasoi. Greek word, greek plural. Both are acceptable. Unless you're a purist and accept there's only 1.

What's the question? They aren't even contradicting in my view. Rather they say the same thing. The saying you shouldn't judge a book by its cover implies that most people actually do judge a book by its cover (otherwise, you wouldn't have to explain it). And the reason people do is because a...

Since I like arguing with people, I'm going to (slightly) disagree with you here. Not on 536 AD by the way. Wonderful time to be alive really... But I am going to disagree about Ages and being gradual. Some are sudden. Something happens. Some guy in a boat discoveres a new continent or someone...