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The only feedback I had was "cautious praise" for what it was trying to do, in a post on another site. I had the site open for about a month, reading bits and pieces of their rules, then accidentally closed it and have not been back. Sounded like a good idea if you have an established...

Heh - I have a single, 3-star review between my two works... and it basically says: "You did what you claimed you set out to do. That's not my cup of tea" in about 10x that many words.

I would suggest, if you have the patience and an available "victim," you write two versions, one with pop culture references, and one without, and see which they prefer. However, if it is just internal monologue for the character, as long as you keep the personality consistent, it should be...

The souls of the innocent. The tears of the wicked. Chocolate.

Right - I was looking there. Really hate it when people leave perfect (5) or "horrible" (one) star ratings with no comments.

All the reviews look very positive - better than the ones here even. Was the negative rating given without explanation?

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1. Establish or accept a deadline (i.e. NaNoWriMo has the 50k words in November; other challenges have either dates or target counts). 2. Fall in love with your characters and just HAVE to tell their story. 3. Get positive feedback from your efforts. I currently have at least three stories in...

Typo?

Draft one was garbage, and draft two I haven't bothered to scan (it is ... halfway between this one and, well, garbage). This isn't the best but it's the closest I've gotten to how Sparrow looks in costume (after her first wig was trashed).

One potentially serious flaw of AI - or at least the two I've tried to work with and a few I've seen examples from - is that it has no idea how to handle reflections and mirrors. None whatsoever. Not even sure a well-crafted prompt can overcome that ... at least for a year or two before the...

Well... it worked for Dragonball Z... :D (Though the story allegedly goes: the writer wanted to take a month off just as the agreement for the anime was inked. He was told "Give us two months' worth of scripts for the manga,, and take a pass over the script for the first season of the show...

What you had sounds more like a sales pitch than a synopsis. Since LitRPG and Horror are tags and you did not include them, I would suggest either omitting the last line altogether or making it part of an Author's Note on chapter one or a prologue. As for the rest, maybe more like: Windrake...

No, what I'm saying is, without knowing your story (i.e. without having read every word of it or probed deep into your brain), I would need to know what Tags you have on it to tell you what about this synopsis is good, or what is not needed, or what needs more "meat".

Emeril John Lagasse III started with a cooking show, became famous for a chili recipe and saying "Bam!" after adding seasonings to any recipe, wound up with a line of spices, a line of kitchen gadgets (he still does infomercials for his air fryer), and two restaurant "chains" (a high end one...

What are your tags? That might determine what you should cut or what you should emphasize.

My system is probably not the best - send the first chapter for approval. When/if it gets approved, then push out chapters two and three a few hours apart. Then two a week after that. It worked for one of my stories and is not working well for the rest...

Whenever it fits the story without derailing it completely.

That's the only other thing I've seen him do recently (ads for an air fryer). We actually had some of his "Bam!" brand spice blends. Expired faster than most other spices so got tossed after using about half the package.

True - but he's at least as big now as Emeril was, about ten years back or so. And before that, you had that Hawaiian/Japanese fusion guy who did Wok With Yan, and before that the legendary Julia Childs (who is probably a third or fourth cousin to my wife's dad). Yeah, there were a few other...