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Why not? It's what all the cool(er than me) kids are doing...

Microsoft doesn't rely on AI - yet (heck they're behind the curve on this... talked to a guy they fired because his team was beaten to market by ChatGPT last year - he's now using AI, with a small team of people, to make movies...

If you can do the same with any program, why bother with Canva? I have some covers made from "found" art - royalty free graphics found online and assembled into montages. Seem to work well enough. Then again, the stuff on Pocket FM has covers generated by their AI (and it took a lot of...

Umm... last I heard (though there was supposedly a way to disable it), Canva actually uses AI to make even text-based images... And it does take effort to get GOOD writing (or anything decent) out of AI - but most people stop at "well, I have SOMETHING at least so good," instead of going in and...

If the backstory is important to the MC or the main plot, it will eventually come out. Otherwise, it either stays in my head or becomes a note to maybe use somewhere else.

As in real life, the trick is to be just smutty enough.

Heh, like the line in Tom Lehrer's song Smut: "Who needs a hobby Like Tennis or Philately. I've got a hobby - Re-reading Lady Chatterly"

I keep wanting to track these down but have not yet - when he died, James M. Ward (who, among other things, wrote the original Deities and Demigods book for AD&D) was about halfway through a planned five or seven volume LitRPG series with a co-author, using a newer game system he helped design...

If you're doing a supernatural mystery, some print sources to consider: H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu - while far from his best work, it uses the medium length mystery novel format to great effect (though perhaps HIS inspirations there, primarily Edgar Allen Poe I suspect, might be even...

It is a niche within a niche. Two of the three (print) examples I've seen were pretty good so might be interested in seeing one... And have some steampunk elements in one of my stories on Pocket FM...

No, the Power of Love is a curious thing Make a one man weep, make another man sing Change a hawk to a little white dove More than a feeling, that's the power of love Tougher than diamonds, rich like cream Stronger and harder than a bad girl's dream Make a bad one good (mm), make a wrong one...

Unless done by the original author with the pre-approval of the site (i.e. Tony).

Maybe we should take this thread as akin to the challenge editor Joseph Campbell issued three of his writers - blanking on the third, but believe the first two were Isaac Asimov and Randall Garret. The challenge? Write a short story where the title was a single word and a punctuation mark (the...

Well, it was just easier to give professional examples than to try and explain the times I was involved with amateur ones (two of which were supposed to be published but one fell through for external reasons, and the other we each kept expecting the other to get started so neither one of us did...

In my limited experience, collaborations generally only work in three cases: 1) The authors meet up regularly to discuss events and plan out arcs together before writing. 2) One person involved is an editor/wrangler who either does not do any writing or only writes when one of the true...

Friends who've been together for a long time will tease each other, make playful comments about past events, and just have relaxed chatter. Those past events do not need to be explained UNLESS they impact the story (or are told in another story, then there should be a footnote about it). Just...

If they've only done this with one person, it just suggests they don't like that person (or that person's writing). If they do it to multiple people, that shows a problem that can (probably must) be addressed. Keep an eye on the account and see if it does more ratings, good or bad.

Nah, just weird everywhere. I know someone who has a half-sister/cousin from her stepsister seducing her dad...

And tread the same ground a few times. A good reference for comedy is anything Mel Brooks was involved with (my introduction to him was Get Smart!, but then I found the novelization of Young Frankenstein and started watching anything I could with his name attached - still have a few more...

Can always use flashbacks to show the other characters in the memories of the MCs (if you're really ambitious, you can even show how the MC views the "NPC" AND how that view may not be 100% accurate)