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Tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches that I just made.
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Happy Tet as well! I just need the money and the health; the ladies...I just want one, and she's not priority right now.
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melchi reacted to Worthy39's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with
Wow.
I'm literally in the middle of rewriting the first 100 chapters... it's gonna take a few months. I'm slow when I'm not inspired. -
melchi reacted to L1aei's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
Yeah, I had done that before, but I did it at a really bad time when I was dealing with major, life altering health issues. I regret...
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melchi reacted to Rachel_Leia_Cole's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
Definitely. My voice has changed as I delve deeper into the world, I’ve learned the nuances of the characters. So I did a rewrite of my...
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melchi reacted to Deleted member 34529's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
That 70% of the thyme Writing is rewriting.
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melchi reacted to JayMark's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
YES
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melchi reacted to SouthernMaiden's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
I've started getting into the habit of editing on my older chapters whenever I post a new chapter. Just because my older chapters aren't...
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melchi reacted to pangmida's post in the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters? with Like.
All the time…
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melchi reacted to Envylope's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Like.
For entertainment purposes and proving a point? They already have a huge library of human text, so my thousand word chapter is not...
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melchi reacted to Envylope's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Haha.
The funniest part is plugging my handwritten text into one of these AIs, and it says, "let us humanize this text." The absurdity of this...
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melchi reacted to Envylope's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Haha.
I am reclaiming em-dashes. Even without them, I got 92% AI generated on one chapter, and the next was 73%. Using another checker gave me...
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melchi reacted to JordanIda's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Like.
The second essential problem with emdashes, as someone above correctly relates, is that GPT uses them in mimicry of text it trains on...
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melchi reacted to Paul__Michaels's post in the thread Are 'em dashes' a put off simply because AI uses it a lot? with Haha.
No! Tolkien used AI!? :sweating_profusely: he WAS ahead of his time...