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  • For some reason, I keep making the exact same mistakes while writing. And Grammarly simply doesn't detect these mistakes.

    Young Master = Young Mas/ter

    I sometimes use she instead of he when narrating from a male character. The opposite doesn't happen, for some reason, though.

    My Lady = My lady

    Even If I consciously try not to make these mistakes, I still find them while editing.
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    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    It's become a mystery to me at this point.
    Eldoria
    Eldoria
    Grammarly is overrated. I've now switched to manual editing... although the errors persist. :blob_melt:
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Oh, I've never relied on Grammarly; it's just convenient to spot mistakes quickly.

    It often doesn't detect some mistakes and sometimes flags things that aren't even mistakes.

    But overall, I'd say it saves time while editing.
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    I am going to buy a few new Light Novels, but I don't know what's good these days.

    Any recommendations?

    I don't have any preferences; I will read anything as long as the story is good.

    No BL, Yuri, Smut, etc please
    I got my first follower on RR after posting 17 chapters. I don't know whether I'm doing well or not.

    I have never made any attempt to promote my story or asked for review swap, shoutout swap or whatever else.
    Some random person DM'd me on RR and is asking if I'm interested in a shout swap.

    What is this shout swap?
    I feel like I'm very bad at writing a synopsis.

    My current synopsis feels too generic for my story. But I can't think of anything else. Besides, I don't think my story's plot can be summarized in a synopsis.
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    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
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    If I try to write a synopsis that doesn't seem generic, what I write either makes me cringe or seems worse than the current one.
    Conqueror_Quack
    Conqueror_Quack
    I remember @Tempokai making a thread about synopsis making maybe you can refer that?
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    I think I've read that thread a while ago.

    It's just that my story is a bit different from most stories, so normal advice doesn't properly work for me.
    What's with scammers these days... A scam comment on one of my chapters included this:
    Avarice_OfTheSeven Hello, I truly admire the effort and creativity that went into writing your book completing a story is a huge achievement.
    What the hell do you even mean by 'completing a story'? I've only posted 11 chapters until now.

    Do scammers not have brains? How the hell is that supposed to scam anyone?
    I was planning on building a large stockpile before recreating my novel, but I feel like I'm the kind of person who can only work under pressure. Since there was no deadline, I procrastinated and only made 6 chapters in the time I could've made 11 or more. So I'm gonna just go ahead and create my novel to give myself pressure.
    AI Witch hunts are getting out of hand. I sometimes begin questioning myself whether my own writing feels like AI or not.

    Hell, I don't use EM Dash even where I could benifit from it.
    It's not that these which hunts are right or wrong, they are just stressful to new authors.
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Well, you aren't alone in that.
    JayMark
    JayMark
    Especially on a site for originals where mostly AI stories are not allowed. (The loophole here is mostly, it's very hard to make rules for AI when it keeps improving.)
    There are plenty of sites for the AI bros to post their 'works' machine generations, so they shouldn't be posting where human writers are trying to compete.
    Makimaam
    Makimaam
    It is rewarding to read and be surprised by the cadence of human writing. It’s not something an llm can predictably replicate because of how it works. I’m getting really annoyed by all the so-called novels "written" by gpt showing up on my fb feed with everyone praising them. Seriously, go read a real book.
    Sometimes I wish I had a sibling or a friend that had anything to do with novels or stories. Its so frustrating when you want to discuss something about your story to get outsider opinion and you have no one to talk to. I'm so envious of those people whose siblings are writers as well.
    I remember seeing some people mention that if you post more than a certain number of chapters at once while creating your book on SH, then it would be flagged as spam and wouldn't appear in the new section.

    I forgot the exact number. What was it?
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    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    Prince_Azmiran_Myrian
    This thread
    Tsuru
    Tsuru
    I would take what he say with a grain of salt.

    Meanwhile in the thread, the shadow ban reason was :
    Tsuru
    Tsuru
    If you sort the chapters within 24 hours then that could happen as it's to prevent authors from trying to cheat the latest updates page. Deleting a chapter might trigger the anti-cheat system too but I'm only like 80% sure about the deleting part.
    I guess I did make deleting a chapter trigger the anti-cheat system
    Why the hell are cultivation/Murim novels so obsessed with the word Heaven?

    I mean, they are also obsessed with words like Immortal or Demon, but Heaven is just used too much, too often. It has become a verbal tic at this point.

    Literally everything has the word Heaven in its name. It's used a bit too much in conversations as well. Aren't the authors worried about repetition within the chapter?
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Also offtopic story but related.
    There is this chinese guy that got to hospital because he wanted to try put 2 toe into a ring (and remove it but fail)
    So he cringely was sent there.
    5min later he is back. He tried the other foot.
    I didn't understand. Ring as in the ring you wear or the arena type of ring. Also, sent where? I think you've lost me.🙄
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    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
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    ps : I hate words limit on profile posts. Because all punctuations and spaces, and even coding in the emojis count to the limit.
    I hate it as well. It's so annoying to restructure and compress what you wrote because you've hit the character limit.
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    I didn't understand. Ring----
    A ring, hand rings.

    But yeah, maybe not a ring, but basically a metal thingy. So the dude seeing the ROUND FORM thought : hey what if i put 1 finger+toe in it ?
    Result he couldnt remove them afterwards.
    So he was in weird position stuck. So he called and go to hospital. Removed.
    But day didnt end, he thought : this time i can succeed !
    And failed again > Hospital again.
    POV: Chunnibyou God surfing the internet.

    Wise man: "Don't judge a book by it's cover."

    Random person: "If your cover is AI, then your story is probably written by AI too."

    Chunnibyou God *tilts his head slightly*: "The Fuck?"
    Tsuru
    Tsuru
    Glad i didnt annoy you. ☺️

    Because sometimes, some people dislike getting a bunch of replies/notifs.
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Avarice_Of_The_Seven
    Oh, you don't need to worry about that, I find others talking more interesting than annoying.

    Still, why would that annoy anyone? And if it does then why would they even post?
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    Tsuru
    Tsuru
    True indeed.


    But I guess its due mostly to the "spam". Nowadays people want this catchy short replies. Like messaging on phones.
    And not wall of texts. (which i often do)
    :unsure:
    And/or getting 10+ notifs. Which i kinda agree to, as all humans has different lvl of OCD about that.
    (i sometimes scroll down profile of someone, which weirdly, isnt popular in SHF)
    I was reading the content guidelines of a web novel platform, and in their prohibited action section, I found this;

    • · Artificially manipulating a work's volume (word count) or chapter count
    I'm kinda confused by this. Like, how do you even do that?
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    Macha
    Macha
    The rules are there for contests.

    200 IQ authors use the Decaded solution to meet the minimum entry length. Authors with less IQ padded their word counts by using unnecessary descriptions and repetitions.
    Macha
    Macha
    He did not stand. He remained seated.
    He shivered. Not from the cold, but from anticipation.
    This is why AI write like this. The not X but Y structure is the bread of butter for authors trying to pad their word counts and AI picked it up from them.
    SRB
    SRB
    Man, why can't people do what Lovecraft did and try to fruitlessly describe Eldritch horrors?
    Fun Fact: I have written 17 different drafts of my first chapter so far, each one including a different incident or hook, yet I still can't decide which one to use as my first chapter. Each draft has its own strengths and weaknesses, there is no draft that is downright better than the others.

    So I just can't decide on one.
    I tried Audiobooks of Light Novels for the first time.

    And... They suck (to me, at least).

    I think reading is far more comfortable than listening to audiobooks.
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    Iamnotabot
    Iamnotabot
    Argee
    Tsuru
    Tsuru
    Never tried.

    Though i heard once a very interesting opinion : "For me, its more a matter of convenience. I have free hands this way and can do my own things."
    I was 'wow. That makes sense.':oops:

    :ROFLMAO:
    I discovered an interesting little life hack.

    I have pretty decent drawing and sketching skills physically, but I suck at digitally drawing. I hate complicated stuff so I didn't bother to learn.

    But I recently discovered a filter in my phone called 'Sketch'.
    Clicked a picture of my sketch, applied the Sketch filter, then lo and behold, you have successfully converted physical art into digital art.
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