Recent content by RightThereInTheTitle

I once wrote some deliberately bad pieces of fanfiction and fed them into various AI models to see whether any of them would call out that the fiction was bad. With the right prompt, you can get the AI to say that something is bad (it's more likely to admit something is bad if you tell it that...

My superhero harem mystery has nothing completely original, but combines existing genres and ideas in a unique way, which is how much good art is created. In general, "combine two or more generic things to make something interesting" is a pretty good formula for any genre.

One way to look at this question of "write for yourself" vs "care about your readers" is that reader reactions can tell you how well your ideas are translating onto the page. When a reader doesn't like the fundamental basis of my story, that's fine. I'm not writing for them. When a reader is...

Consistent updates are key, and for most of us, having a backlog is the only way to accomplish that. I try to have 1 month worth of updates (i.e. I post 1 chapter per week, so I maintain at least 4 unpublished chapters at all times). And then treat "oh no, I'm about to slip under my backlog...

Haunter is one of my all-time favorite movies. I like to call it a "reverse ghost story", in which a girl stuck in a time loop that only she recognizes as such quickly realizes that she's a ghost, and that her strange "visions" are glimpes of the present-day people living in the house she's...

Here's what I consider the idea balance for romance fantasy: The author should have an intended direction from the beginning. At the point that you begin writing the story (as opposed to "let me write some unconnected scenes in case I decide to eventually find a story to put them in", if...

JK Simmons is easily one of our best JKs, ahead of Rowling and behind LOL.

I'd argue it's why one must never delete their original post, since otherwise people's made-up quotes might be taken as valid. In unrelated news: Shocking words from the OP. Really terrible stuff, IMO.

My "hidden gem" recommendation for a spooky October movie is "Haunter" - a reverse ghost story about a someone stuck in a time loop who has worked out that she's probably a ghost and tries to figure out what's happening. It's free with ads on Tubi, for anyone interested:

You're not the boss of me! :s_tongue:

This is my standard response to anyone who thinks "I can't do that, someone else did it already":

I used to keep a dream journal, and I once dreamed an entire Slylock Fox noir detective movie, complete with misdirection and twists and a surprising amount of coherency. Admittedly, one trouble with writing down your dreams immediately after waking up is that even when trying not to, your...

An author after my own heart! I've done the same thing for my tabletop RPGs for decades, and more recently have brought the same sensibility to my writing. My recent effort for my superhero fiction has involved questions like: Assuming that there are roughly as many superheroes in the United...