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  • Mad Swede
    Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing in tense situations.
    I've written about this before here on Mythic Scribes, but I started writing whilst serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon. My unit tried to...
  • Mad Swede
    Mad Swede replied to the thread Mixing first and third person?.
    I'd advise against that, because it risks becoming telling and not showing. If you want to write in the first person then the character...
  • Naruzeldamaster
    I mean a 'protagonist' doesn't have to be a 'good' person. They just have to be 'less evil' than the actual evil in the story. Like I...
  • pmmg
    The thing is, I am sure a lot of AI I would not really balk at, but the tools that do this stuff are trying to use their AI features as...
  • Fyri
    To note: I was once lectured that AI and grammar/spelling checkers are not the same things. Granted, that may have changed since that...
  • Demesnedenoir
    If it works as a traditional grammar/spelling checker, which most of these really are, then no issue to me. I allow nothing beyond hard...
  • Prince of Spires
    This differs from person to person, so there is no one answer to it all. Only you can determine how much you want to use AI in your...
  • CupofJoe
    CupofJoe replied to the thread Writing in tense situations.
    Never on the scale of what is happening in the Middle East but I have had neighbours that stopped me writing. For me the answer was to...
  • Adam Scribentis
    I also keep every proof copy. The uncorrected ones would indeed be worth a fortune if the books were sufficiently well known!
  • Karlin
    Karlin replied to the thread Mixing first and third person?.
    I generally don't think consciously about persons and so on. But I can understand the difficulty. Once i wrote a short story in first...
  • Karlin
    In normal circumstances, I manage to sit down and write for an hour , sometimes more, 4 or 5 days a week. Now, things are somewhat...
  • Prince of Spires
    This. The only way to know is to give it to a bunch of readers of your preferred genre (preferably not family) and ask their opinion...
  • Queshire
    Queshire replied to the thread Elf and Asia Culture.
    Oh boy, I can answer this! Artistically anime & manga has always had a connection to the west. It's not always easy to see now, but if...
  • P
    Penpilot replied to the thread Mixing first and third person?.
    I don't think it's necessarily a deal breaker. If I remember right, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss does this. If you do a...
  • Ban
    Ban replied to the thread Reading Tracker Recommendation.
    I believe you can export and import your goodreads data when you create a new account, though I didn't try that. Once the account is set...
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