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ChatGPT. Work related: stops working after a dozen of messages. Isekai harem building slave training RPG:Be my guest all day! WTF?

Checkhov's Gun is caring only about 2 on my list. And I always disliked it and considered it a total bullshit idea. Story is more than its plot. Rifle on a wall can subtly inform us that some character X is a hunter. Or that rifle can be damn pretty to look at. It is not useless.

Anything that writer includes in a story must have a purpose. 1) Show or tell the reader something about the world, characters, character growth. Something they don't already know or understand. 2) Progress the plot 3) Invoke the reader's emotion (arousing erotic scene, exciting combat scene...

I hate this approach... "AI is a better writer than me..." saddens me. Some people I know abandoned writing because of it. No, it is fucking not. It may be better in certain secondary aspects. Speed (definitely), Grammar, Vocabulary (sometimes). And it makes it a good assistant. But it is worse...

I want a generic discussion, not fixing some flaws of mine (also, my serious, hard-effort writing is not in English, linear, and not here.). And it comes more from me being on the reader side than on the writer side. I made this thread after encountering the same exposition thrown at me a few...

General worldbuilding exposition is not that much of a problem. You can have a good story with very little. You can have something explained in detail in one branch and completely omit any information in another. Both will work in a somewhat different style of storytelling. The problem begins...

The very nature of a branching story creates a huge problem. Writer has to inform his readers about important stuff. Considering that a reader may follow only one branch, it seems like a good idea to include the same\simmilar bits of exposition in every branch or they will end up confused. But...

Most of these are "how to make people click once" kind of hints. I am not saying that it is unimportant but you should not expect loyal readers by merely doing this. 5 is the best method. (It also means that shorter chapters are your friend) Also, you must use the very short period of being...

I think... it depends. I am actually tired of modern media overdoing it. You seldom find a group of people who feel like actual friends who work together. Sure, conflict is necessary for any story but character vs character is not the only source of it. Also, if you have a harmonious group...

You keep repeating the same reworded thing without addressing responses in any way. I get your initial argument, I don't think it is actually dangerous, I am trying to explain why I don't think so. I'll try one more time. Then I'll stop responding to the same statement - The categories you...

Your own link says what is illegal for websites - to not delete deepfakes in 48 hours after a request. Before that, there is nothing illegal in hosting deepfakes. Users are the ones who are responsible. And again, while this law technically applies to celebrities, it is not about them. You...

This law isn't created to hunt those who make bad deepfakes of Emma Watson even if it makes it even more illegal than before.

I am sure that Friedman would do that without any legislation. But chances are that there will be around zero such requests, so there is nothing to worry about or discuss.

' "Wal-mart parking lot." site:chyoa.com ' google search failed to find it pointing to a single different story with the same phrase. Most likely, it means that the chapter was deleted together with the story

I am doing some writing after a rather lengthy pause and discovered that I feel... bored when writing sex. The mechanical part - poses, A going into B, orgasm descriptions, tempo and angles. It does not feel like a creative, exciting activity but like a monotonous task. It feels like I am adding...

If you feel that the chapter is so bad that it deserves to be deleted, then yes, write over it and don't look back. If you merely want to improve your old work, why not make a copy in another branch\story? You offer more to the readers this way.

As someone who wrote 1000+ chapters here, starting from cringe barely English and getting to mediocre English now, I recommend you do your best and enjoy the process of writing. Yes, form is important for some people, and they won't read you (or even express their valuable opinion on your bad...

2nd person is either A) for readers who want to experience self-insert or B) for readers who want to roleplay a character. For the A category, writing "you feel X" is always a deal breaker. They want to imagine what they would feel in a certain situation not be told what they feel. The B...

I think anything that an individual won't do in real life can be called a personal taboo. Like, if someone believes that saying a swear word during sex is unacceptable but they are aroused by a fantasy of doing it - It is their taboo. What society thinks is secondary.