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That is one form of "passive voice" and generally needs to be minimized or avoided in writing.

First, learn to spell "imitate." Then learn that imitating an imposter (which is essentially what ChatGPT and all the other AI platforms is - it PRETENDS to be able to do things by polling a pool of language models, using your prompts, and tossing together what it thinks YOU want to see) is not...

This is the wrong area regardless - if you're looking for specific advice, you should go to the Tips and Advice area (second one under Authors). If you just want general feedback, post to the Story Feedback area (third in the Authors section)

Well, unless that sentence is: "And then they had an epic fight..." :D But if it's just "For three pages, he stretched out the words 'Kamehameha,' scrunched up his face, and moved through martial arts poses" then yeah, wasted space... :D

EXCEPT ... a well-written Superman story can beat the pants off of an average Batman one - sometimes because Supes holds back his strength, sometimes because his powers aren't ultimately what saves the day, sometimes because the humanity of the rest of the cast shines through. Some of the best...

The constant clicking of their carapaces, the tapping of their claws on the stone, the scuttling noises... You haven't read much horror involving bugs have you? Also, if they're giant insects, they might recoil in pain, make squealing sounds when hit, etc. - they don't have to follow the rules...

As incidental things or in short fiction I can really enjoy that stuff (and tend to write most of it), but as a focus for a longer work, it just begins to grate after a while, especially prolonged misunderstandings.

It CAN be the problem. Or writers who don't understand this can be the problem. You really need some kind of core conflict or struggle - even if it's as mundane as deciding which flavor of tea to drink or as world shattering as "Which of my Omega Blastem Powers dare I use to stop Doctor Nihilus...

The trick is to find your strongest classmates and prove to them your knowledge is invaluable and that you are more useful as an ally and advisor than as a quick XP boost.

My memory seems to be... uh... what were we talking about?

I know the feeling. I found a loophole allowing me to keep a few chapters here as teasers, under the title "My Stubs" but it hurt.

Nothing planned. A lot of my characters share traits with myself, but none ARE me. Perhaps the closest was a character I killed off three chapters after introducing him, which is probably the fate of most of my self-inserts as, like that guy, they'd know too much about the backstory and make...

Hijacked? Not sure what you mean. I heard that, originally, they planned to do the whole series of five novels as three films, but then budget concerns led them to just smoosh the endpoints together. I think it was Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh that got hijacked and became The Secret of...

A good book is one that is either well-written, or has such engaging characters that writing flaws are easy to overlook. A GREAT book is one that somehow resonates with the reader - and some books may be great at one point in your life, and not at another. For example, most people I know who've...

Depends on why and how frequently. Digital Cowboy (sadly no longer here) has had three covers (two AI generated - with the title Digital Cowboy Dane - by Pocket FM, the other cobbled together in Paint Shop Pro using "copyright free stock images" and Windows fonts; also had a decent one someone...

I used to be in the "not a fan of AI but not worried about it either" camp - and still pretty much am, really - but talked to a guy who'd been on the Microsoft team that tried to bring AI to market. Microsoft dissolved the team and folded about one quarter of the people into other divisions...

Nah, I think AI will always need a living collaborator to produce something more than entertaining slop, no matter how advanced it gets. Just the YouTube "stories" my wife listens to shows this, with the odd pronunciations, reading "Dr.", "Dr" and "Doctor" differently, etc. The role of writer...

Yes. All of the above. Well-written. any of them can work. Poorly written, and all of them can be painfully tedious.

Sounds like something one of my friends in high school would have suggested, we'd all get excited, and either I'd be drafted to run or someone else would volunteer... then the day of the game would come and either only one player showed, or someone had a new game they'd just bought that they...

Completely forgot it but was told MOST of this many years ago - the person who suggested it did not say to copy the chapter (or the part about the rest of the book being irrelevant, even if great or awful). But all the rest, yeah. Never tried it myself (or I'd have remembered getting it...