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Zagaroth reacted to AliceMoonvale's post in the thread Do you use AI to help you? Asking humbly to anyone out there. I'm seeking an answer. with
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I agree. For example, it's very not hard for me to instruct chatgpt to never use em dashes when speaking in my presence, and to only use... -
Zagaroth reacted to Th3Breadnought's post in the thread Do you use AI to help you? Asking humbly to anyone out there. I'm seeking an answer. with Like.
My story includes political elements, and has supplemental content including fictional legislation that I thought of and made, but used...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Do you use AI to help you? Asking humbly to anyone out there. I'm seeking an answer..I use it in 1 limited way: I have free grammarly, which I use to catch the things that the spellchecker in libre office does not catch...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Do you use em dash?.Yes, I use the occasionally. Funnily enough, I didn't start using them until everyone started complaining about AI using them. That's...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Do you ever go back and re-write old chapters?.Absolutely. I rarely do so 'from scratch', most of them could be looked at as extremely heavy editing, but there are a couple where I...
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Premise. The core concept that I want to explore. Then I make characters that will do that, then I figure out what the plot will be...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread What comes first: Character or Plot.I am not sure I could write in that order. By having characters, I have actions, motivations, and goals. This also gives me questions...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread What comes first: Character or Plot.Character, because the plot develops off of who the character is and what they are doing. I find my antagonist in my characters' back...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread When readers misinterpret your intent..Yeah, I've tweaked sections for clarity more than a few times. Especially if my wife's initial edit pass shows that she misunderstood...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread If Given A Choice, Would You?.Just me? Absolutely not. Now, if I could go with my wife and preferably our cats, sure. If just my wife, then we need to make sure the...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Recommendations Post your books so I can read.Alright, mine is a bit of a hybrid between Dungeon Core, Progression Fantasy, and Fantasy-Romance (there's a romance central to the...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Recommendations Pacifist dungeon core that's still a dungeon.Hmm, based on OPs description, I am not sure even No Epic Loot qualifies. Everything loops back to her dungeon, but her existence is...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Recommendations Pacifist dungeon core that's still a dungeon.I think you are going to find this one difficult to fulfill. Without the other elements that deviate away from a 'pure' dungeon story...
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Zagaroth replied to the thread Class/profession debate.Assumption: I can choose *any* deity I know of as my divine patron. Given that assumption, priest/cleric.
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Zagaroth replied to the thread What are your thoughts on creators advertising their Patreon.But that's MoonQuill, not Royal Road. They now have an arrangement to make it easier for authors to submit to MoonQuill, but that's not...