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I've used all, though am least likely to work in the extremes (heck, as a kid I HATED the Fairy Tales in the "approved" collections because they had all these horrible things happen to innocent or mostly innocent people and yet, somehow, they all live happily ever after with no scars or...

Ah yes, the Doctor Zachary Smith method... :D Actually Lost in Space and the original Star Trek series are good places to go for creative alternatives to swear words, come to think of it. Or Farscape used "Frell" or the Known Universe novels of Larry Niven used TANJ (an acronym for "There...

I usually use the "tricks" I've seen in interviews or comic books - either type the first and last letter of the word and a number of "-"s or "*"s to fill the regular length of said word in between, or just use a string of gibberish characters #$%@$! About the only episode of "The White Shadow"...

It gets tricky, especially for larger communities where only a small percentage is relevant to the story. So far I have rarely needed to. On my fantasy world, the largest city is the Throne City for the Treaty States of Sadrahanal (the city ruler has absolute power within the city confines...

I would not pay for either, until I start making money with my writing first. I would be willing to exchange editing services with other writers, or maybe set up a percentage of profits deal for if/when the project becomes profitable but until then, I would pay nothing. I have done some...

Start with at least a hint of/set-up for action, even if you feel you must "back pedal" to get into the characters, either via "flashbacks" or them stopping to discuss how they got where they are and why as soon as the first action scene is resolved.

Yeah, if I could get my graphics program installed I would very likely have kept two of the five images it generated (one was utter rubbish and two just not as good) to use as reference images, but without that installed, what it came up with was, for now, useless to me. Still closer than I had...

One of mine went two days before it passed the ten viewer mark - and, a few weeks later, spend most of a day in Trending before falling off and staying "healthy." The other one seems to pick up 2 or 3 a week, after a decent first 48 hours, though so far only one reader has gone through the whole...

You confused it - you told it to do what AI art generators usually do anyway and it just did not understand the request.

Do not know if Meetup.org is still around but they had a section for gamers looking for games back in the first ten years of this century (have not been back there since - managed to connect for one Savage Worlds game and then was unable to get there until it was almost over, and organized a...

Interesting. Not completely sure where it is heading from this snippet, and one sentence seems unclear to me but otherwise, definitely shows promise.

Came very close to what I had in mind on the fifth try, then crashed every time I tried to refine it after that (first try was hilariously off due to leaving too much detail).

I was always aware that Santa is more a concept than a being. The spirit of giving, and of family, with the power of Tradition at his back. Not sure if this was something I just "knew" or if it was something I was told. Did not even matter if it was "really" my parents, it always was and was...

Ohio? That's almost as bad as ... erm... Belgium...

VERY nice work. A bit too anime/manga inspired for my tastes in general, but still very nice.

It took me two weeks to figure it out on my first story. Second one I've had no problems with though. Maybe it does need to be a bit more intuitive or just have an explanation that is easy to find rather than having to search through threads here?

Hmm... misread another thread title and that got me wondering ... has there ever been a "Reincarnated as a Boy/K-Pop/J-Pop Band" story? I know there have been stories with characters reincarnated as a single artist but how about as the entire band (possibly including the...

You're slipping. That is at least a 2* answer... at least...

5K? OK give me half an hour at a local game store and I'll have to add another $50 or so to cover the tax... (thanks to inflation probably couldn't get half the things listed... make it $50K and then ... I'd get about 1/3 of the listed items... and spend 5K at the game store).

Well, it did make me feel a little green, so you get points there...