Recent content by skip.knox

From the OP >Does using this count as AI? Only the publisher's opinion matters, and those opinions are currently in flux. This makes it tough on the writer-in-progress because you want to know ahead of time whether using this or that tool would be a Huge Mistake. I can only think that you might...

The subject line says too many files, but in the OP you speak of one big file. One big file would be a nightmare. I do hoard versions. I almost never go back to the earlier ones, but not having them feels too much like walking a tightrope without the rope.

I recently read a pretty good article in Ars Technica that relates one person's use of AI to write a bit of code. Those interested can read the whole article (link below), but I found his observations relevant to what we do around here. I'll quote the key paragraph, then add a few comments...

I like the foundations; plenty to work with. It's all general worldbuilding (which is why it's in this forum!), but I'm usually more interested in characters. Do you have any specific characters yet? I ask in particular because you have some general parameters for a redemption arc--multiple...

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. To clarify my own comments, it wasn't that I thought you were portraying eyes becoming mouths in any literal sense, but rather than we begin with a metaphor having to do with eyes, and then in the next word, the metaphor switches to "parched" which implies thirst...

Not about hiring at editor, Finchbearer -- I was interested your own thoughts on this: >Reading an article on why limiting POV to one character, say, per chapter, lacks the reader space and freedom. >I cannot now read a book that’s shoddily written anymore. Yeah, this applies to most any art. I...

I'll give it my best try. Understand I'm reading as a Westerner. The man’s almost-corpse dropped with the heaviness of a boulder onto the torrid, scarlet, desert sand, back laced with arrows; from afar, his visage seemed of a giant urchin. Enemies, five hundred strong surrounding him, like a...

Do what's right for your story. Great advice except for when you aren't at all sure of what is right for the story. But it's advice that can lead to good practice. You have to figure it out for yourself, so how might you go about doing that? I can think of a couple of approaches, and at least...

>You have to keep turning up if you're serious about being a professional novelist. Or even if you are serious about being an amateur novelist. Being an amateur means doing it for the love of it (the original meaning of the word), and one does not give up on what one loves. Keep at it, and stop...

There is a magic system for Altearth, but until modern times no one knew what it was. Instead, different people in different times and places had different theories--they had their own systems. This could be as simple as each wielder of magic has their own powers that are unique and not...

That information is over in the Promotion section. Have you looked there?

I don't think one finds good beta readers, in the sense of a sort of pool where one can cast one's line and draw out a fine fish. Rather, finding a good beta reader is a bit like finding a good friend. One has to put in the time. This means finding communities (like this one), putting in the...

In what sense do you mean? As in, you've given up on traditional publishing, given up on any sort of publishing, or given up on writing altogether?

Let there be an end of direct personal attacks and direct responses to those attacks. It's all ad hominem. Ironic, isn't it, that these direct attacks (and replies) are to be found on a thread about collaboration. Let's all labor together rather that squabble together.

I think I understand. I sell almost nothing and am content. I believe I caught a whiff of what you describe when I get (at a book fair) someone wanting to know if this (they point to one of my books) is part of a series. No, it's a standalone. Don't ask me to feed you a series. Because it is...