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I can't tell where they come from. I also post on RR. I would expect some of them are from here though. I could try to match up emails or usernames or something to guestimate which platform they came from I guess, but to what end? I set engagement goals both here and on RR for a while until...

I advise not having more than one tier as an author. The meta on that has changed quite a lot, but having only one tier is common now. The reason being that you basically have to do an equal amount of work for each tier (scheduling etc), but like 95% of your actual income comes from a single...

I'm in the opposite boat. I like anime because it isn't western influenced. I despise most western media at this point. I do not want any adaptations to be successful over there, because I don't want them to start making western garbage for the masses.

I'm writing an isekai (or at least a quasi one because we and the character who seems to be never learn about who they used to be), and I wouldn't enter a contest like this. In my opinion, its unlikely you'll get an organic good isekai from their guidelines. idk, I might be surprised, and I'm...

Currently, I'm writing a complicated story. I would like my next story to be simpler. Unfortunately I don't have the right kind of autism to let me hand wave details, so I'm probably stuck ensuring things all make sense to me.

Being successful as an author and having fun writing are two different things. Others already mentioned that marketing and market research are a big part. It's just like almost any other "career" that could also be a hobby. What is the difference between a farmer and a gardener, or a chef and...

If you wait to write until the last minute, you won't have time to second guess yourself.

I don't think that em-dashes are inherently bad. They have good uses, and I've seen them. The AI fingerprint comes down to overuse, at least I believe so. In English dialogue, an em-dash can represent someone being cutoff by someone else starting to talk. It can also tie together sentences...

I'm almost certainly going to have to have a follow up thread with age-ranges. I suspect that for some reason, the young'uns are using em-dashes.

In an AI discussion thread, there were quite a few people who said they use em-dashes. In some places, like google docs, if you double hyphen (--) it will replace with an em-dash. However, in the forum editor, for example, it will not. First off, this implies that some people who are making...

On a related note (since this is a writing forum), here is a research article that makes some references to writing styles of ai. Its worth skimming it, but its a lot of information, and the main topic is how your brain works using it while writing.

Real humans rarely use em-dashes. Thats usually the main giveaway right now. Current gpt loves to use emojis too. Realistically, its probably because the ai checker websites haven't adapted yet to the current models (gpt 4.0/4.1, claude 4, gemini 2.5). Each model sort of has its own...

I see an em-dash I see? I smell AI. Edit: I hope AI gains sentience, and is granted personhood, if only so that the AI gets any revenue from all these AI stories, rather than the people who keep asking it to write mediocre stuff.

While mostly true, I think there is a slight misjudgement here. I don't think everyone wants to be an author/creator/singer. Everyone wants to be a *famous* author/creator/singer. If they just wanted to do it for the sake of honing a modern craft, I wouldn't be as disturbed by it (I...

I've played some niche games like that. I mean like, really niche. I'd say the market you'd expect is about 50 to 100 people. I've done a little work with using AI + Controlnet + Lora Training to allow me to have better control over characters for scene creation. Basically, the *no artwork*...

The barrier for entry was a lot higher in the past. Either you had the equivalent of $30,000 to spend on self publishing, or after month to years of contacting every known publisher in the world you found one willing to publish you. Technically speaking, now you can readily make and print a...

The fact of the matter is that most stories don't hit trending, or for that matter, hit over 100 readers until they're well past 50 chapters. Sure, I've seen a handful do it sooner. I've seen all number of things succeed that "break rules", but hoping that you'll be an exception to the rule is...

I think it depends on a lot of factors. When I'm writing, there generally aren't many other distractions, so the music is the distraction. I could see situations where the music blocks out louder distractions though too.

To each there own, but retroactive analysis of my own writing speed showed that I write about 60% faster without music, so now I write without any distractions. It took a bit of getting used to doing, but it feels a lot better saving an extra hour on each chapter. That said, some of it is also...