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I wrote a literary gothic set in Regency England in the days before the AI bullshittery.
I just checked a swatch with an AI detector and FFS. AI Detectors are no better than grading your own GD homework.
I don’t know what to do with this. If I tweak/adjust, I’ll lose the mood.
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@SandyofCthulhu Thanks for rocking me to sleep tonight, Grandpa Petersen!
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Here are three unusual Lovecraft tales:
1) grandpa had sex with a gorilla (Arthur Jermyn)
2) a man’s soul is transferred into a bluebottle fly. (Winged Death)
3) the fairies are mad about a building project (The Moon-Bog)
And for a bonus, from Lovecraft’s best friend:
4) an experiment turns a scientist into a sea monster (The Man With A Thousand Legs)
PelleCreepy@PelleCreepy
People think the Cthulhu Mythos is all unfathomable cosmic madness born from shambling interdimensional deities of indescribable origin... But also, look over there in the corner. It's a guy that makes zombies with zombie science juice.
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@TheManInYellow0 Wait.
So can an unscrupulous cad pull down everyone’s AI novel and resell it for fifty cents?
Asking for a friend.
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@BeckyLTuch It sounds like you’re making a Clone Army to take over the Crab Nebula. I don't object to that as a lifestyle choice, I just find it surprising.
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Portion of a contract from a literary magazine to a writer. 😮
Does this look reasonable to you? (Emphases mine.)
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@Kacey_Combs 1) Read “I am not a Serial Killer” by Dan Wells. It’s free. I’ll wait.
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2) Done? Great. See what he did there? That is a long wait. A lot of people got mad because they felt tricked, which they were.
It’s an artistic choice. Just be aware.
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Can we talk about the inciting incident?
I hear so much talk of having it in the first 10-15 pages.
What if there are other subplots and tension in the first few chapters? Can the main inciting incident occur around page 30? 40? 50?
What do we love and hate about this?
#Writers #Authors #WritingCommmunity #Editors
#Agents
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@ElementasSeries Wear purple colored contacts and see if he notices.
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Romance novels teach us that the love interest is obsessed with the MC's eye color. But after 11 years, my husband still has no idea what color my eyes are.
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A bunch of fantasy authors I admire are suddenly producing epic science fiction. Is this the sea change? Do I need to dust off my cyberpunk wheel of time notes and get on trend before the tide goes out?
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@AagardKylee Grimdark and Rom-Com... Yeah. I'm going to use different names.
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I've seen trad authors write different genres under the same name. It's a suggestion to help with branding, not a rule. I don't plan to change my name when I write other genres. I'd go crazy trying to manage that many accounts. My brand will be I write whatever genre I want.🫠😂
T. Olsen 🏳️🌈@Keilantra
Apparently you aren’t supposed to write in multiple genres unless you change pen names. Oopsie daisie. Pick up one of my books and you’ll get some flavor of fantasy. Contemporary? Sci-fantasy? Dark? Crime? Epic? Romantic? May the odds be in your favor.
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You know, the enemies don’t have to become lovers. The idea that if a woman writes an epic fantasy book - it can only be marketed as a romantasy has to end.
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@sarabushway So my Dad used to write government proposals. Those things can get in the 200-400 page range. He’d draft it out by hand.
He had no idea how much damage he was doing to himself. It was slow and incremental. It’s a bad idea and I don't know how people used to write so much.
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Would you consider traditional publishing if the submission copy had to be handwritten?
#authors
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What’s your opening line? No pressure, just your entire book’s first impression. I promise to be honest!
GIF
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@sarahs_sky I love where he says “has produced more content”. OK, true.
Was it any good? Because I've had AI grammar check my stuff and when it ignores me and does a rewrite, it’s always crap.
Like, how do you close out a chapter twice?
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Bold. Very bold to advertise that you sell slop.
Why should I buy your slop? I can generate it for free myself to exactly my tastes.
But seriously, don't let this tiresome argument bully you into thinking you'll fall behind without AI. The world will be ruled by those who rejected AI, because AI deliberately makes you dumber the longer you use it. Case in point below 😇
Marcus Pittman@ImKingGinger
Every creative person I know that has embraced AI as a tool for their art has produced more content this month than all of last year. A true creative individual sees AI and feels completely empowered. They feel like the entire world has opened up to them. But a lot of self professed creative people, who have been grifting as creatives for decades, are about to be exposed as frauds who and pretenders who only know how to work within the politics of the current system. They will sit down before the greatest tool for creativity the world has ever known and not have a single idea how to use it or what story to tell. Pay attention to what is happening and who rejects the gift, and who embraces it.
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@oliviamemerick I'm always a little surprised by how these lists can get so specific. “Protagonist can enter into books”. Huh.
Maybe in the future we’ll talk. I’ve got one that hits a bunch of your bullet points but I put 75% of it on Royal Road thinking no one would want it. Whoops!
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Fantasy is easily one of my top three genres to work with, and these are the subgenres I'm most drawn to. I’m always looking for female protagonists, ensemble casts, morally gray characters, high stakes, & unique/well-thought-out world-building & magic systems.
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@KrakeJames “Hey man, there’s nothing weird about knowing how to flag down a prostitute in 18th-century Tuscany.”
… that didn't work btw
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Writers, how do you explain yourself when asked why you know things?
The reason city buildings have inset first floors is apparebtly not common knowledge.
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@HerringAli Every time I see a post like this, it makes me want to write a LitRPG Romantasy Thriller.
Like, really go for it all at once and begin with the heroine skydiving off a dragon and opening up with two machine pistols, just because her quest says “Kill 10 Narco-Terrorists”.
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Honestly, part of the problem I see is people taking the "fast out of the gate" approach too far. Throwing us into a scene with no context doesn't work either. That's confusing. I want author to think about balance. But waiting to Ch 3 for the plot problem to arrive is bad too.
ColorsFadeGaming@fade_colors
This is a simple fact of modern literature. I wish it wasn't this way, because so many great older books weren't written this way, and there's something to be said for a slow start, but this is where we are.
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@KoalaQuillHQ Ahahahahah!
My good friend, why don't you take a seat and listen to a few stories about federal contract procurement & staffing?
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Traditional publishing isn't dying. Name another industry that keeps 85% of the profits and makes you wait a 18 months for a chance to be exploited.
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@DCooperHo @rachkmc Don't write chapter one. Write what you want CH 1 to accomplish. Then pretend you wrote CH 1. Later on, you’ll get to CH 12 and realize only your CH 1 outline mentions the love interest owns a Tucan. You’ll go back, and put a birdcage in CH 3.
Viola! Foreshadowing!!
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@rachkmc Where is the recommended spot to start sprinkling in backstory?
I struggle with this in my opening pages and have changed them numerous times. Now, there is little to no exposition and no backstory in the first ten.
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"should my book start here?"
often the answer is no.
especially if it is exposition or backstory
or things that can be woven into flashbacks or dialogue with a sentence or two of context later on
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@Parvenu62 The story i’ll always tell is using an AI to check for grammar, inconsistencies, and story structure. It spotted horrible writing in chapter 70.
I had only written 31.
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I doubt I’d publish AI-generated prose even if there were no backlash, because I always have this feeling that I gotta get in there, I gotta write the thing I’m going to publish and put my name on. Nothing else would satisfy me. I can’t trust the machine to tell the story.
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@HannahStrom9 Wow.
There are Japanese harem isekai light novels where the protagonist has a harder time.
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Reading a book now where the main character is an aspiring novelist and got their first query chosen by their first agent, and accepted by the first publishing house to look at it.
Then their second book got a 3mil deal?
Kinda hard to root for someone who doesn't even struggle
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