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AI (Grok, ChatGPT, all the rest of "The Butlers" out there) works like a "cold reader" fortune-teller. It takes whatever you feed it, filters in any environmental cues it can find, blends it together, puts a positive spin on it, and feeds it back to you, telling you your future is beautiful and...

The most effective use of second person is, IMO, the Choose Your Own Adventure novels, or the old text-based computer adventure games (mostly from InfoCom). Though some Ramsey Campbell short stories make amazing use of it.

Which is better? Depends on the story you want to tell, and how large a cast you have. Some styles of story are traditionally first person (like noirs), while others, like standard high fantasy (with adventuring parties, like Lord of the Rings) are traditionally third person. The larger the...

Our male cat does this with my wife. With everyone else, he just looks away instead. The girls don't play this game - though one of them loves EVERYONE. Whether they want her to or not.

Not being able to decide on this is why my Patreon never got off the ground (and now what would have been bonus chapters are all on PocketFM so it's moot-ish)

Interesting question. I don't think so - think that goes back to "Portal Fantasy" at that point. But not sure, really.

Not enough arrows on that first chart. Every box should connect to at least three others (including "end of story" and ESPECIALLY "apologize").

In Strange Awakening I play indirectly with parallels, whenever Kelly refers to the life he remembers compared to the life she is now living. About half the characters have parallels in that context.

In first person narratives I'll sometimes do this - occasionally Kelly/Sparrow addresses the reader in Strange Awakening, and Jack Diamond knows he has an audience, even if he doesn't always "include them" - and in True Blue, The "between stories" narrator is having a conversation with the...

Much like the scenes of people fighting while leaping from leaf to leaf in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon this is definitely both cool AND stupid... :s_tongue:

Depends - Books of Blood (which included "The Hellbound Heart" - the story the Hellraiser film franchise grew out of, among other brutal short stories) is pretty darned gory, but some of his other stuff, like Weaveworld or The Great and Secret Show not at all. And "Cabal" (the story Nightbreed...

I hope not. Used to belong to an Amateur Press Alliance (kind of like this forum but a smaller group and we paid for copying and snail mail distribution) where one member made these stories that would have been absolutely wonderful, except his spelling was atrocious and his grammar looked like...

Love the tooltips on that table - more useful than the table itself IMO.

That is not strictly a wendigo - or at least not one of the common folklore/mythology forms. There are four slightly different mythological wendigo: 1) A cannibal giant - once human, now turned into a monster. Sometimes they can revert to a human appearance, sometimes not. There is crossover...

According to one of my college classes, in this situation those "symbols" are more accurately "automata" - the root of all written languages and mathematics (the only class that brought together my major fields of study and one of my two "almost minors" - would have been a double major/double...

Are you allergic to numbering chapters?

So maybe it's just the Ghost of Scammer Past, Ghost of Scammer Present, and Ghost of Scammers Yet To Come hanging out there?

Some repetition of words that don't need to be (pain, painful appear a lot together - maybe just replace some with "burning sensation" or "agony" or some such synonym), and you do pull a "cheat" that I frequently use - glossing over some parts of the battle to focus on others - which can be...

Ugh... Truer words may never have been typed... And does he mean a ... racy sex game (Ero-game) or a European-style game (Eurogame)? I suspect people trying to figure that out are most of the initial clicks...

Are you on a mobile device? You have to have it in landscape mode AND scroll to the side to see signatures there, or so I've heard.