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The Gon books.

Exactly the point Young Adult stuff is aimed at, right. Though I started at about age 9 myself, with the Scholastic Book Club through school, first with my parents' money, and then with money from the first of the three times I had paper routes.

Is the company behind Fortnite South African? Read a novel back in college by a South African native where they delineated the nine levels of society based on skin color (with those who could trace their ancestry to India being "below the bottom" tier, and the white Boers at the top)

Jockeying for a stalemate here...

I like fights that fit the genre. If it's a martial arts slugfest, then you need detailed maneuvers, blocks, parries, multiple opponents waiting for openings, etc. If it's a superhero story, then you need about half the details of a martial arts story but they should include goofy powers and...

The drive-by poster exclaimed: "This is not always so!" "Oh, but it quite often is," another voice, perhaps in DBP's head, replied. "You're both a bunch of pretentions wankers," another voice interjected, "quit yer yappin and let me get back to my blasted nap!"

One thing I noticed when we had local bookstores to hang around in (last one closed just before COVID), was that most of the people shopping in the Young Adult section were older adults, who were generally buying stuff to read before passing it on to a kid, to see if it was "appropriate" (I...

Technically, unless the definition has shifted since I read about them in the 90s, a blurb is a comment made by an alleged authority used IN the sales pitch - both on marketing materials and the book jacket or back cover, and some books also have pages of them before the credits page. Some of...

Vampirella of Drakulon might object to the use of her nickname Vampy, though...

This has often been a stumbling block for me and the people I gamed with in the past. In superhero games we had Aegis (something the GM tossed out idly as an option for our government-funded group, and we all glommed onto) and Last Rights (a group where over half the PCs had their own deaths...

Depends on your definition of "evil" Is it an AI that hopes to escape into the real world (and will sacrifice anything to do so)? A woman so wronged in life that in a VR world she now enslaves others? A guy who profits from temptation and misery? A god of the undead? A god bound absolutely by...

As another poster had (fairly aggressively) pointed out to them, there is a specific area of the forums for Story Feedback ((1) Story Feedback | Scribble Hub Forum), where you are more likely to get actual feedback rather than, if you're lucky, some pedantic fool pointing out that you posted in...

I'm more like: David drank his coffee after greeting everyone.... :D or While drinking his coffee, David said: "Hello, everyone." I think that falls under "passive tense" usage, which I try to avoid. Would, Should and Could are usually conditionals, unless there's another clause to the...

Unless THAT platform has an exclusivity rule, yes. I have two stories both here and on Royal Road, and two on PocketFM.

The thing is that it does not - but corporate execs really want it to and are more interested with the bottom line than with reality.

On Substack, a writer asked ChatGPT to write a review of a movie that didn't exist (but he'd detailed for a project) in his style. The only way to tell the review AI came up with from his was that AI sugarcoated everything - made the positive points more positive, and put positive spins on the...

According to Tom Lehrer: "As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense/To be smut it must be ut-/terly without redeeming social importance/Or/The dirty pictures I adore/Indecent magazines galore/I love them more/If they're hardcore..."

Just saw an article on Substack about an actual article that appeared in several national Newspapers over the past weekend, listing a bunch of books for summer reading. The problem? First, the article itself was written ENTIRELY by AI, and second, though some of the titles and authors are real...

I made it to eight. In the first two books, I found myself wishing I had his ability to describe settings and events in so much detail you felt like you were there. By book three, I wished he had MY ability to just describe key points and be done with it... By book six, I felt the story and...

About 60% of the names in the five of the first six Star Wars movies (from '77 to '88) were created by the kids of George Lucas, ages 3 to 7 at the time. The first movie were all names he came up with on his own (got married and had first child while filming IIRC), going back to his teen years...