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I WRITE genre blends, frequently with superheroes, and all over the spectrum. The only "Must Have" is a sense of optimism and humor, no matter how dark or grim the overall story is. As a reader or a writer.

I look at the stories requesting feed back or that I see discussed by others here, and ... read about one out of ten.

Some individual chapters may get up to 7 or 8, but overall, probably 5 or 6.

About once every two months this idea comes up. About half the time, the person who talks about it tries it - and gives up after a few weeks. The other half the time it doesn't get that far. This site is not a great one for the level of interaction required. Heck, I've seen sites built...

Honestly, I've only seen Grok used that way myself and have never intentionally tried it.

Grok gives the appearance of being more accurate by admitting when it doesn't know the answer (and suggesting something else or asking if you want to change the prompt).

My stuff probably isn't as dark as you prefer (at least what I've posted here), and I don't have much time for reading right now - if that changes, I'll find this thread again.

Yeah, pretty much this. Kind of abandoned writing a story when I realized reverse harem was the likely outcome once.

What record companies used to do (supposedly illegal now but probably still happens) to get songs or artists played in heavy rotation - pay the station (or, in this case, "fans") to make sure that not only was the song or artist played frequently, it was praised as well as a brilliant new hit...

My view? 1. Generative AI is a misnomer. It's more "Regurgitative Cold Reading" 2. If used as a tool, an aid, it is usually a good thing - if used to replace human involvement, it is stupid at best, evil at worst. 3. Any author who uses AI for more than just grammar and spell-checking should...

I could do a rough sketch of a floor or ceiling fan. Would that work?

Payola, luck or (correctly) using proper Tags.

Possibly Night by Eli Weisel (sp.?)?

Have had this more often happen in games (twice the players came up with a solution to the story that worked better than the one I had intended ... one of those times, they were right, the other time I merged their idea and mine)...

Interesting - your subject complains about gamers as WRITERS but your post seems more focused on (dumb) portrayals of (stereotype) gamers as CHARACTERS...

I have never written long fiction with any intentional moral lesson, unless "Here, be entertained for a bit" counts. Anything else is what the reader brought into it.

From what I gather (second and third hand accounts only - never had a usenet sub myself) most of them moved to other platforms and are now either moving back there, stagnating on Facebook, moving to Substack, or became Redits.

Yes.

You mean novels? Short stories? Collections? Webnovels? Can't recommend any of the latter offhand - the few I've seen that were good either stalled early on, or wound up behind paywalls. For novels, always liked The Count of Eleven (kind of psychological horror as the MC devolves into a...

Yes and no. I do keep writing some of them, just slow down a lot on the ones with little interaction.