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skip.knox replied to the thread We learn what we do.At which point, I just poke it in the eye. -
skip.knox replied to the thread I need help with writing.Quality varies there. My main objection there is the lack of vetting. You might be interested in daily life in 9th century France and...
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skip.knox reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread Be on the Lookout for AI Bots in Our Forums and Our DM's with
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I do feel a bit ignored by all the bots. Only one of them tried to get money or a manuscript from me. (And that one was slayed before I... -
I'm seeing more and more people saying that they use AI in one form or another in their writing. Sometimes the rhetoric is unapologetic...
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skip.knox replied to the thread I need help with writing.The best help I can offer is to recommend you build yourself a bibliography. It needn't be too large, but should include a book on the...
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skip.knox reacted to ThinkerX's post in the thread Be on the Lookout for AI Bots in Our Forums and Our DM's with Like.
Lessee... Ankari ran the 'Iron Pen' challenge, which taught a lot of folks here how to actually write. I took it over as 'Top Scribe'...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Identifying and sharpening your writing voice.Given how long publishing takes, aiming for the current trend is one step beyond tilting at windmills, it's tilting at the foundations...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Be on the Lookout for AI Bots in Our Forums and Our DM's.I for one would be astonished if pirates could sell my books. I certainly can't! But I do take the point that if I give a WIP and the...
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skip.knox replied to the thread How do y'all make up "fantasy names?".Knowing how someone else makes up fantasy names is akin to asking them how they write. It's fine to ask, but in the end nothing will...
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skip.knox reacted to pmmg's post in the thread Identifying and sharpening your writing voice with Like.
Well, the good news is...nothing you write today cannot be fixed tomorrow. All POV's can find their home, and have. But generally...
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skip.knox reacted to Zilver's post in the thread Identifying and sharpening your writing voice with Like.
You've got 80k words on paper and if I understand you correctly, that manuscript's first version is done. That's an absolute milestone...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Months and Calendar.It's fine to invent names of months or whatever else. What's not fine is to invent reasons to use them. To put it another way, I use...
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skip.knox replied to the thread Hello, a day later!.Welcome to the Scribes, and congrats on completing the first draft of your novel. That's major in itself.
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skip.knox replied to the thread My writing style, right for me, or too 'distracted' ?.>As of now, no finished stories, OK, so what I said above applies; that is, don't sweat the methodology too much at this point...
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skip.knox replied to the thread My writing style, right for me, or too 'distracted' ?.Have you finished any story? That is, all the way to either self-publishing or submitting the story to an agent or magazine? If the...