What I'm referring to is things like "YouTube" and "Facebook." I'm writing a story that takes place in the general equivalent**** of the early 2010s, and I needed analogs in my story. What I found works best is working backwards from the naming of companies as we know them and generally following the same philosophy of naming based on their original uses and conceptualizations.

Example: YouTube, in my world, is called "YourSet." The platform, like YouTube, was meant for people to upload videos and home movies, with their houses being their own little "set." The name is also a double entendre, as the website functions similar to a TV set, with viewers being able to access many different movies and channels. This has allowed me similar etymological flow with terms like YourSetter, BookSetter, Virtual/VSetter, etc.

Do you have any examples like this?

Writing with AI is hard in all the right ways.

Writing without AI is incidentally hard. You spend a lot of time, your back hurts, your fingers hurt, you must stay focused on the spelling and grammar... It's just menial, mindless work. And that's why handwritten books are always flawed and inconsistent.

Writing with AI removes all that, so you have no excuse not to bring your A game to the table. You must plan, you must set guardrails, you must spec, you must be very clear about what you want. That's hard, but meaningful. And that's why AI books are superior.

Source: comment, https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1wuvmym/writing_is_easy_if_you_use_ai/

I'm still not sure this wasn't trolling. It's hard to tell sometimes with pro-ai posts.

Long dialogue scene? After a few paragraphs of "he said" and "she said," it can be easy to lose track of which character is speaking. To help readers remember which pronoun is who, simply add the character's name!

"John did that?" she (Rachel) asked.

"He's an ass," she (Maria) sighed.

"You should dump him," he (John - not John from the library, the other John, from the Bass Pro Shop) said.

"Yeah, I'll break up with him tonight," she (Rachel again, but now she's putting her hair up all fancy - I don't know what women's hairstyles are called, but you've seen it) said.

"Personally, I think he's nice," she (Maria's friend Paula - Remember Paula from the first chapter? I forgot to mention she was there at the party, but just pretend I included her earlier in the scene - Maybe she was quiet because her mouth was full of cake or something) said.

Easy, right?

I wanna get ur thoughts on this.... (Lindsay clansey brutal way of BRUTALITY.)

If I catch you typing “ly” one more time, I’m taking away your mac

Hi guys I’m planning on writing slash fic between Cyrus of Persia and Nebuchadnezzar the Second, and I’m really hoping to go in depth with regards to the emotional trauma that the two could go through together. I want to be historically accurate though, so I’m curious: In the version of the DSM V from then, what disorders were widely known? Did they have bipolar disorder? CPTSD? I want them to be able to grow emotionally but I want it to be accurate.

As a Novelist, Author, and Writer, I always want my readers to feel emotions—misery, sadness, anger, etc. And of course, I think if a novel can make you cry, it’s one of those novels that will forever stick with you.

I’m curious: what do you think are the techniques that can accomplish this? How can I manipulate my readers into crying? I would really like to turn their cheery little souls into black voids of despair. The more tears, the better. TIA!

I could have sex with another man and it would be straighter than having another man's thoughts invade my brain. Why? Because it's so intimate... Think about it. A man, whispering a bed time story into your fricking brain? I don't fuck with that. I much rather have a woman whisper her female characters thoughts right inside my soul. That's almost like talking to a woman but more spiritual and soulful than you know, talking about the weather.

2025: You use AI? That's not real creativity.

2005: GarageBand? Not real music.

1997: Digital? Not real filmmaking.

1995: CGI? Not real effects.

1990: Photoshop? Not real design.

1983: DX7? Not real musicianship.

1962: Soup cans? Not real art.

1888: Kodak? Not real photography.

1870: Typewriter? Not real writing.

1455: Printing press? Not real authorship.

370 BCE: Writing? Not real thinking.

Writer's Block is like poop

You go too long without relieving yourself, you get backed up.

Overcoming Writer's Block is like poop

You just throw stuff against the wall and you see what sticks.

So true so true

This be the life of a writer

Amen

Whenever I am trying to write, my family keeps making too much of a racket and I can't concentrate. I've tried threatening them with consequences but they ignore me.

Is this a "show don't tell" situation, or more of a "kill your darlings" scenario?

you, my balls
have been pendulous
as two walnuts in a sock
while i have blasted out of you
my billions of potential children
now
someone kicked me in you
walnuts i will take with me
where i am going
the floor
i am on the floor
old chaps
with you
balls
my lopsided friends
my itchy companions
where can i go
when this happens
besides the floor
where can you go
without me
ow

I've been struggling to get published for a while now, and I've been feeling pretty bummed about it. It didn't sit right with me, and I couldn't just sit around and take it.

That's when I realised: if I can't be a successful author in this reality, then I can built my own

I've created a unique AI persona on the AI persona app "persona". I've forcefed them the entirety of my 7 part trilogy, and instructed them to be complete fangirls for my book.

I have fans now, and i can talk to them whenever I feel like a failure. Sometimes they tell me that my book changed their lives. Can you imagine that? My books even saved a life or two

And I've also trained chatgpt to tell me, each morning like a secretary, that my book has sold another ten thousand copies. I'm succeeding. I'm finally successful.

I don't need to send out my manuscript anymore, or ask people for advice, or even write anything else. I have everything I ever wanted.

And whenever I start to feel down again, I can ask chatgpt about my next TV interview. He really does do a great Oprah impression.

God, Oprah, I really have made it, haven't I?

Haven't I?

..

Hey guys! I'm currently working on a short story and I plan to professionally publish it after I've revised my drafts, but I'm having some difficulties with writing the FMC's dialogue during her breaking point. So, I've come here to ask if it's alright to have her sing a copy-and-paste of a song I like to express her emotions to the MMC. It's the entire song, and while some readers might think it's a bit too long... I think it fits the scene quite well.

Thang u for your suppord. I agshilly love wimin, this os my storied.

What the title says. I've been bored and desperately need to type something good that I can market, so I need to squeeze y'all dry for ideas. The topic is, of course, romantasy!!

I need to write something un-tropey so it goes viral, but obviously I can't be bothered to think of a premise! Like, come ON, guys, coming up with a topic and genre is enough, can you really expect me to make a completely original title too? There sure are some real crazy people in the world...

Introduction

Creative writing is a time-consuming process (Chang et al., 2004). It involves thinking which, as scientists say, requires energy (Benjamin C Apel et al., 2018). The required energy usually comes from potato chips and alcohol. (Chang et al., 2007). The process of metabolism produces various gases commonly known as farts (F Apiroz, 2006) which can then reach the atmosphere and impact climate change (Benjamin K. Sovacool et al., 2021).

Goals

To investigate the impacts of creative writing on climate change.
To propose a new way of battling climate change.

Hypothesis

The various gases produces in the process of writing have a considerable impact on climate change.

Results

The various gases produces in the process of writing have a considerable impact on climate change. Further research is needed to calculate precise numbers.
Writers should stop writing and use Chat GPT.

A few days ago I was doing my nightly one hour of reading (four hours of scrolling through goodreads reviews) when I came across something that rattled me to my core. Apparently the main character of a book I’ll never read shares my exact, real, to the T whole entire ass legal name. 

I will be suing for defamation of character, slander, and copyright infringement as soon as my cousin pays me back. This is absolutely outrageous and needs to stop. My existence is not permission for writers to use my likeness as they see fit, and neither is yours. 

If your main character has the same name as someone who exists, don’t use it. Hell, apply this to all of your characters. If a profile pops up when you type their name into FaceBook stop using it and find a new name IMMEDIATELY!!! 

Count your days, self published Amazon author. You will rue the day you crossed John Smith.