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  1. LostLibrarian

    PWA Fantasy Week

    ProWritingAid (still my go-to editing tool) hosts a fantasy week at the end of February with topics ranging from planning, worldbuilding and marketing/target audience to criticism, fight scenes and some author panels. It's free and if you register, you can also see the recordings later on. Due...
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    AI Covers

    Had to do some weird ML/AI stuff for work and we arrived at the idea of generated covers. And luckily the internet has already done it: https://neuralblender.com/ Be amazed of my new cover (The Lone Macaw): So time to go over the trending list (they are clearly doing something wrong...
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    For those authors with a fear of failure

    There often are (especially newer) authors who have problems writing and publishing because they fear possible failures and the readers' reaction. So for those, just look at this: This is Amazon, a multi-billion company buying advertisements from the other multi-billion company youtube/google...
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    Featured reviews

    We had it as part of other rating system discussion and the like, but now here as its own thread to not go under in all the usual quarrels. Instead of trying to force out all the "negativity" (which will never work anyway), I would argue, that it's better to encourage positive behavior. Hence...
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    How to: use story theory to plan arcs

    So I started writing the part below for another thread as an example on how planning stories with act-structure and story theory can help with pascing and character development and motivations. This is a really basic example with a story, that took probably 15 minutes thinking up while writing...
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    How to cheat yourself into trending - Part 2

    I know we already had that topic multiple times and I tried to be silent during the smut-discussion. But seeing today's trending really made me realize one thing. It is an abomination that same tags are seen this often. They even dominate the entire trending list today. 9 out of the Top 9...
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    Writing How to: Survive awful readers

    Okay, right from the start: the title is a lie, clickbait, and awful in itself. Because I won't talk about awful readers. But it also targets towards newer or less confident authors, who often struggle to deal with negative reactions. And after reading a lot of threads about "the first bad...
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    Resolved Activity list erroneous

    Just browsed the different statistics for fun. And found stories appearing multiple time on the same list. Interestingly it isn't just a full page or repeated, but just singular stories...
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    Unpopular opinion

    on people using "Unpopular opinion" to start a topic most people would agree with or at least see the point of. It feels like people trying to beg for popularity, waiting for others to tell them how right they are. Like those girls taking 100 pictures of themselves, picking the best, adding...
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    Resolved Gained readers

    Or "possible bug". Can't say it 100% for certain, because of the different "starts of the day". But with my story in hiatus due to work, it seems to me like "a reader unfollowing a story" counts towards gained readers. Went down by 1, but I have 1 reader gained in the graph. Could also be a...
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