Recent content by Zilver

Well I've got a whole lot better at drawing in those two years, too ^.^

Literally my current manuscript that I hit 110k wordcount on last week. The idea from the outset was: depressed teenager meets a witch girl who tells him he's the last spell of the most powerful sorceress that ever lived, reincarnated - and they have to save the world together. The reason I...

Mood means I feel ya ^.^

Mood. Also, ... expressing the human condition through a form of art? [Seriously doubtful emoji goes here]

Mwa like... Ai "prompts" are quite different from story prompts. Anything you type into Ai as an assignment, is called a prompt. "Tell me if my parents love me" and "can guinea pigs wear top hats" can be AI prompts. So "write a story about a boy living in the wilds with guinea pigs", can also be...

If you like the idea, don't let it stop you. Maybe you can let it encourage you to find an angle or twist that sets it apart from what's already been done. Or you just ignore the other work completely. By the time you finish the project, it'll have turned into something of your own, anyway.

All this only reinforces me to stick to my prefered method anyway: beta-read exchange - a service for a service with no money changing hands.

Yup, was there last Summer. You should see them in smokey stormy wisps of cloud swirling around... ^.^

That's a universal international thing, drawn up by a UNESCO convention in Geneva, Swisterland, so yey for everyone else too ^.^

What a bizar reaction. As a first post on the forum, no less... Are you well?

Oh, that sucks! I'm sorry this happened to you, and thank you for sharing!

I'm going to give this one a bump up. I'm glad you say it a lot, cause it can never be said enough 👏

Maybe a pointless question, but whats there to be gained from this type of scam? Is it like... collecting training text for AI? Feeling kinda stupid for not seeing what anyone could be after here...

My number one advice would always be: don't go overboard. Short and catchy trumps long and obtuse. The important bit is who they are, not what they're called. As a reader, if I could chose between a story about Jill Fint or one about Averzaphyris Mortaryon, I'm going with Jill ten out of ten...

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 and a testiment to your joy, heart and tenacity in writing. You've had one reader say that your choice of perspective, or maybe the style, wasn't quite to her...