Recent content by The Dark One

I had a day last week which for me is as good as it gets. I probably wrote about 8000 words which took my WIP from "needing a lot of thought to tie up the various threads" ... to just about finished. It is now finished and I'm well into the editing phase. It's a bit different from what I...

Hence my little joke...

Well everyone's different and I'm sure your brain is very different from mine, but it does sound as though our generative experiences (in the zone) are similar. With the exception that your generative sessions can be far longer than mine.

When I'm in the zone (in the draft generation phase) I am completely oblivious of the process. The words just pour out of me without trying and the first time I take real notice of them is the following day when reviewing the previous day's progress. That is the most pleasurable part for me...

But you must especially hate the fact that the villains always win...

You must really hate real life...

Good god! My record is about 20k words in a day - in an existing draft - and I was totally drained by the end of it.

We Australians are incredibly hairy.

15% of my blood sweat and tears? 15% of the gross royalties.

Mine takes 15% which is standard in my country (Australia). Not sure of the conventions elsewhere.

You're muddying the water Skip. We're not debating whether AI has positive applications or whether it's all-pervading and here to stay. We (some of us) are simply saying it has no place in literature.

All of which is to trot out the old argument that there's nothing wrong with guns, it's the maniacs that misuse them which is the problem. AI is just a tool and of course it's how it is used which is potentially the problem, but in a way it's worse than guns because guns don't appropriate the...

And let's not forget that using AI is actually stealing from real authors whose works are being scraped for machine inspiration.

I used to have this fantasy (before I'd ever finished a ms) that I could just snap my fingers and a hard copy of my book would suddenly appear on the shelves. Then years later, once I'd actually finished a draft novel for the first time, I was exhilarated ... absolutely joyous that I had...

Yes that's exactly what I do.