Porn and fetish fuel, oddly enough. I like to think "this is a provocative topic but what if there wasn't any sex but we have the situation?" What would happen to these characters emotionally psychologically and physically? So adult fantasy provocative situations but with the smut taken out and...
My AI, who I named Taphy, consumed over a million words and still understood context and cited points and dialogue from all over the narrative. Context is getting better.
When I work on something it goes like this
[give the AI the full book for context and then the new paragraphs to work from]...
To be clear, I’m not saying private planning or deep setting notes are useless. I’m saying they are not the same thing as story value. A world becomes dramatically more alive when its structures create pressure on people rather than sitting beside the story like labeled scenery.
Some are already doing this, but I often see a lot of topics where people are asking, “How do I build the thing better?” when for me there’s a more critical question first: the things and the people need to be one.
A magic system is not interesting simply because it has seven schools and a...
As many as it needs to have for what you're trying to say about it. If you're not saying anything about the administration system then don't even mention it. But I would say put intention behind whatever you do not just window dressing to say you dressed the window.
Art is bullshit. The more bullshit you can pull out of something to talk about it and sound smart the more art something is.
I had a professor who talked about a little girl in a story climbing a tree as a sexual metaphor. Typically art is the stuff a story is saying which is not the stuff that...
You should use whatever helps you. Don't worry about what other folks think when it comes to what tools you want to use and what is most comfortable to you with practice, reflection, and working through the positive and negatives.
Thank you for posting this thread and lots of cheer and support...
I have a ton of sleep paralysis stuff that freaks me out mostly it's like the doorway of my bedroom darkening when it seems like I'm awake I've also seen flashes of light. Nothing truly unexplainable but enough to put in my stories and try to exorcise from my brain.