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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!

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.

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).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

So wait, maybe a more accurate thread title would be "Why I Had AI Rewrite My Novel For Me"?

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...

We just got a new puppy. No such thing as free time for a few months

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

"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...