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    What are your favorite powers or abilities you came up with?

    Ouch! Could probably have David (Between Worlds) pull something like that with the "Law of Similarity" (which he used to turn "the wool of an ewe" into "the wood of a yew")... but still... ouch. Oh that sounds like fun!
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    Favorite kinds of scenes to write? Vs. the ones you hate?

    Ah yeah, sex scenes... a love-hate thing. Had a girlfriend force me to learn how to write them (for her), but always find the actual act ... well, repetitive. The lead up and after part? That can be a lot of fun, but the actual act? Not so much.
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    Some art for my story of the villain and his sorcerers as described in my series

    Looks kind of like I'd pictured Kull facing off against the Serpent People in one of Robert E. Howard's novellas (though with a lot more purple; I'd pictured mostly tan, gray and red in the scene).
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    Writing Question - How do you keep track?

    Yeah - been using Google Tabs to track SOME stuff (place names, item names, character names and briefs), and it's useful but a pain. Heh - that's what led to me realizing that one character in Between Worlds had grown far beyond what I'd originally intended (and went from support...
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    What are your favorite powers or abilities you came up with?

    Half of the Trickster powerset from "Between Worlds" - the half I often jokingly claimed I had as a teenager - the ability to have "either the best of all bad outcomes or worst of all beneficial ones" in any situation with multiple outcomes - and the added bonus, the ability to "sweet talk the...
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    Writing Question - How do you keep track?

    The first time Chris Claremont left the X-Men, some fans got together and found 117 teased plots, hooks that were later made irrelevant or impossible by later events, or dead end leads in his roughly 200 related books (early New Mutants, X-Men annuals and some of the X-Men crossovers into other...
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    What publically contoverial/publically hated(whether justified or not) stories have you read and what were your thoughts on it?

    All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others... 50 Shades of Garbage was originally a fan-fic OF Twilight; she started with "What if, instead of high school kids they were adults when they met? And, instead of feeding on blood, he feeds on pain via BDSM?" and went...
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    Favorite kinds of scenes to write? Vs. the ones you hate?

    I really like scenes that either turn out to be comedy or turn out to be straight-up horror but don't START that way. Just where some little twist turns it into either something silly or something frightening. I don't like writing long combat scenes - too many fiddly bits to worry about...
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    ? Author Post: Why I Rewrote The Pervert’s Ascension

    So wait, maybe a more accurate thread title would be "Why I Had AI Rewrite My Novel For Me"?
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    So, what do you do in your free time.

    A rescue dog who is at least part Jack Russell Terrier, but we have no clue what the other parts are (just that, at almost four months, she's already bigger than all but the largest male JRTs). We lost our second Pit Bull/Bull Mastiff a week and a half ago, but my wife claims this one is to...
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    So, what do you do in your free time.

    We just got a new puppy. No such thing as free time for a few months
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    WHY NOT BELIEVE AI DETECTOR TOOLS WITH ALL YOUR HEART

    AI tends to focus on positives or overdo negatives (if ordered to), at least from what I've seen (as an experiment, a guy on Substack made AI review a movie that didn't exist, based on an AI generated poster, in the style of the movie reviews he wrote during his five or so years as a...
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    Gabrielle's Creative Corner Cafe!

    If you used AI to translate, odds are that is what the detector is seeing, not NECESSARLY your writing.
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    Is your protagonist your favorite character?

    It varies. In the Jack Diamond stories, Jack (title character) IS absolutely my favorite, though some villains and side characters take the spotlight occasionally. Especially Jessica. In Strange Awakening ... I think Olean, despite only having a few scenes, may be my favorite, and Kelly's...
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    I remade my cover

    While I believe the third is technically better, I find the second a little more aesthetically pleasing.
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    Sections before chapters?

    Not that I've seen. You could include the section in your chapter titles, but will have to warn potential readers that "Next Chapter" might take them to the wrong subsection and do a lot of "change sort order" requests. Most stories that do this have a "teaser page" between the sections (I've...
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    How to self-promote and get the most out of your writing session

    I haven't been able to keep up with it since I started working in November. Before that I had about 10 chapters or more ahead in everything. Generally, I write the first draft on my phone, give it a quick edit on my laptop, and then, unless it's for PocketFM, edit it again when I post here or...
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    Writing fan fiction of another author's work.

    Well, I have some "throwaway" characters that I would not mind people using to tell stories, either as an MC or support character - from Strange Awakening, for example, Marauder (guy has close to four hundred years of history behind him, after all!), pre-chapter five Equinox (after that he's...
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    Does everyone post their stories in ‘Latest Chapter Discussion’?

    There seem to be about five people who post when they put up a new chapter and a handful who use it to announce new stories then disappear and that's it.
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    Gabrielle's Creative Corner Cafe!

    "Ain't" is rarely used correctly - it is a rare three-word contraction (I Am Not). Wonder how your professor would have felt about the challenge three authors were given (I only read Randall Garret's story in the sequence) - two write a short story with the title "Blank" and a single punctuation...
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