Recent content by Prince of Spires

To start, just to make it clear, I don't use LLM's to write, and I'm not planning to. I'm not saying never, since I can't predict the future and never is a long time. But at the moment I don't see the point. Couple of thoughts. First is that learning how to use a tool isn't the same as...

Hi Jono. Congrats on getting your first novel out there. It's a great milestone. And good luck with the next one.

The video game industry is the largest entertainment industry out there. It's not only kids spending money on games. Not even close. Also, I'm 43 years old and I'm still waiting on that becoming an adult thing. I personally think it's a big conspiracy and everyone claiming to be an adult is...

3 files for me: - Work in Progress file: I write in Word, and I write in 1 file. The whole story goes in there. As for being huge. I just checked, and my 100k word novel comes in at less than 1MB in file size. Text files are tiny. So that's no worry at all. - OneNote file: All plotting...

From a personal perspective I'd say that the only rule is that writers write. All else is guidelines at best. Does Prowritingaid count as AI? For some maybe. For most I think probably not unless you use it to write (or rewrite) large parts of your novel. Does it matter? Probably not. Most...

There are two sides to this. Firstly, while editing the plot, it's common to find that either you missed some important scene which needs to be added. Or alternatively, that you included a bunch of scenes that didn't go anywhere and thus need to be cut. Both happen. The other side is that...

Welcome Omnicrow. The fear is real. Many feel the same way when it comes to putting their writing out there. I certainly do. In the end, I always tell myself that the worst thing that can happen when I put my writing out there is a hurt ego. And my mind always makes it worse than it is.

The main thing I know about Zelda is that when I was playing the Gameboy Zelda game, I was wondering the whole time why the game was called Zelda while the main character is called Link. Still haven't figured it out...

Does it have an impact on the story? Are both sets of names used in the story? If it's a nice to know piece of worldbuilding, then including it in an apendix or similar is fine. If it somehow plays a role in the story, then you need to explain it in the text somewhere. Most readers aren't going...

I'd also come across it, and I agree with his points. I think he's spot on when it comes to my main concerns about AI.

It's not even just art. I work with websites for my day job, and once you do that, you realize how many bad websites are out there, and you start getting annoyed at all the small things people tend to not notice. The reverse is also true. I can appreciate a well done website (or book for that...

There are two things worth mentioning here. The first is that conciously working on craft is the best way to improve. Think about what you're doing and why. A bit of research here helps before you set out. Different viewpoints achieve and enable different things. If you know what they are, you...

It's all a mater of style, what you're trying to achieve, and personal preference. The thing is that most readers wouldn't know a POV if it hit them in the face. The wouldn't notice if you cheat in one chapter a bit and tell us something a POV character can't know. I once got questions about...

Tolkien has. If you're looking for examples. Several of the stories set down in the Silmarillion originally started as Epics in the style of Beowulf. The story of Beren and Luthien for instance exists in Epic form (with both rhym and rythm). You can find them in the History of Middle Earth...

A good thing about place names (and similar) to keep in mind is that most real world place names are very unimaginative and often just reference something. It's how we end up with names like the River Avon, where Avon is just river in ancient English (or Welsh) and thus it's the River River or...