There's this shrubby tree on the edge of the woods shaped like a Wizard's hat, so clearly there's a way into Faerie behind my house. I'll check back in 4 minutes or 400 years with what I find 🫡
*finds a yellow belly water snake in the yard*
My 4 year old: "so how close can I get to it without getting bit? Like this close (holds hands maybe a foot apart) or...?"
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@pippawestauthor I wrote 8 novels and queried 5 of them before I got my first agent. The rest were shelved. It takes as long as it takes, unfortunately, but you'll get there. Every new story, every kind beta comment, every round of revision is an achievement. Keep going
"You can't prove your book wasn't written by AI"
*Sends all 97 versions of the same doc from my Google backup stored over a span of nine months and they're all rife with TKs and misspellings, dropped characters and plot holes* 😎
@brecht_dp My husband codes so I've definitely seen that firsthand. But I'd liken that process to using AI as a sounding board to work out plot problems, etc, not to actually write the words for you. Which is what I imagine most people have a problem with.
@brecht_dp I don't honestly see people believing that. The only way to improve your writing is to practice writing. Prompting it sentence by sentence wouldn't improve it so much as homogenize it or worse, make it nonsensical.
@brecht_dp One sentence at a time seems incredibly monotonous. Leaves me wondering why a person would even use AI in that instance. It seems more likely people would use AI to hurry the writing process and thus get bursts of text at a time.
@Soph__Pl@dmesg That is actually super neat. I wish more writers would include little tidbits of their process in their books. Like some authors have their amateurish art in early pages and I absolutely love it
@dmesg If you're successful enough, you could even release full early drafts with all the problems still baked in (post publication, of course). Brandon Sanderson has done this as a teaching tool.
Just finished Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. Easily a 5 ⭐ read for me. I feel like this is what I wanted Nettle & Bone to be(which I did enjoy but didn't love). DotF was a perfect fairytale.