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@mindofmals Thank you. I got curious because a reader confessed that they had used AI to know the ending :D

@SeraDrake Can’t they see that they all start to sound the same? Whatever happened to the beauty of a unique voice? They’re so afraid of making mistakes and learning from them that they’re missing the chance to truly grow and improve

@YouCanCallMeCorn your paragraph is way better than the AI one, the AI one sounds so robotic

@YouCanCallMeCorn I put a note in my files to reread it when I get back around to your story

@Olivia_Benedetti Glad I'm not the only one then

@katiegoesmew Took me long but I've finally revised it. But I know it still could be better. I just don't know how. I did what I could

@YouCanCallMeCorn yeah I can’t write either on here like the charters I write on it cuts off 

@Olivia_Benedetti  Wattpad keeps doing st*pid things. It centralises the last paragraph every time I edit a chapter. Sometimes it italicises sentences that don't need to be italicised. With all the money it makes, I  was expecting a high quality app but ao3 is still much better

That’s weird glitch < 3 

@Olivia_Benedetti Honestly, I'd rather have less than 500 words of a review written by a human than a "review" written by a bot.

@SeraDrake  You make a good point. It’s especially noticeable when the shop owner isn’t fluent in English, yet their reviews are free of grammar mistakes. Another red flag is when they can’t even mention the title of the book or the characters. It all comes off as so generic.

I agree. My reviews take me 1-2 days to  do it depends how  many chapters and how long the chapters are + how many words and how much I need to talk about ahah 

@YouCanCallMeCorn - Now everybody's reading Colleen Hoover. She's much more smartphone-brain-friendly than GRRM ever was.
            
            GRRM wrote ASOIAF long before TikTok became a thing, though. Hell, he wrote most of ASOIAF before people started using smartphones. A Game of Thrones: 1996. a Clash of Kings: 1998. A Storm of Swords: 2000. A Feast for Crows: 2004. A Dance with Dragons: 2011.
            
            Smartphones and TikTok have ruined everything.

@SeraDrakeI really need George R.R. Martin to publish the final books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. When Game of Thrones premiered, it seemed like everyone and their mother was diving into the books, which are known for their dense prose. Sure, we could debate that some people were only reading to be part of the hype, but at least they were reading!

@YouCanCallMeCorn - Smartphone brain. Some people who spend all their time scrolling through messages and then scroll some more to an app to read books online - on the smartphone - can't concentrate on challenging prose, especially not when it's couched in long paragraphs full of complex sentences that require close attention. 
            
            The long paragraphs hurt eyes that are already strained by staring at a small glowing screen for too long. The complexity is hard to focus on. 
            
            It's easier to just look at snappy dialogue, stuff that is written in an easy-to-comprehend, colloquial style and only uses one or two sentences at a time. 
            
            For the prose descriptions, if they must be there at all, it's preferred to have them contain easy-to-recognize tropes and situations, things that don't have to be focused on too closely, things the reader understands as memes and concepts without having to really read. 
            
            Literature is easier when predigested that way.
            
            I can't say I'm happy about this development.

@katiegoesmew  that's a good combination 

@YouCanCallMeCorn See, I'm the odd combination of pantser and perfectionist. I'm learning the story as much as the reader is, because I'm making it up as I go. But the further I get into it, the more I plan, and I'm a person who hates plot holes and inconsistencies, so I have all the loose threads in mind, and I'm looking for ways to tie them up. When I got back around for editing, that's when I have a plan, and I smooth everything out there.

@katiegoesmew I can't do the "Just write and see where it goes" approach. Now, if only I wasn't a perfectionist...

@katiegoesmew  Thank you. I was wondering too, but then again, the MC's love for his brother is much stronger than any romantic feelings he has for anyone. He can and he will kill them for his brother if he has to. So it cannot be called romantasy 

@YouCanCallMeCorn I would agree with you. For it to be a romantasy, I would say both fantasy and romance elements would have to be so strong, it would be hard to choose one genre as primary over the other. But your book is definitely weighted much more toward fantasy than romance.

@YouCanCallMeCorn :S

@YouCanCallMeCorn Unfortunately, all true. All those times I got bored when I was a kid because I didn't have constant access to a computer, or phone, or tablet, or whatever? Those were the times I had to get creative and make things to do. Like tell stories when playing with dolls, or go to the library and read, or start writing some of those stories down. People need more boredom in their lives so they can figure out how to use their brains again.

@katiegoesmew  I can’t bring myself to forgive her. At least, not yet. She was shocked that the new chapter was nothing like the AI's version, and I couldn’t help but think, What did you expect?
            
            People hate hearing it, but media literacy really is dying. Just look around: students relying on ChatGPT to write their essays, or Netflix recently decided to spoon-feed audiences by making characters narrate their thoughts and feelings so the story is easier to digest.
            
            It’s all about quick consumption now. Originality is fading, and everyone’s starting to sound the same. What’s worse is that most people don’t even care as long as it sounds “smart.”
            

@YouCanCallMeCorn That's...I didn't even know that was a thing. How can an AI bot predict a story's ending? I really, really hate AI.
            
            I had someone message me on another platform saying they liked my story, but they didn't have time to read it, so they wanted me to tell them the details of it. I was like, um, I wrote it for a reason, so you just have to read it. And then they were asking if I had it up on social media in an audio form so they could listen to it...I ended up blocking them, because even though they didn't have time to read my story, they apparently had time to keep harassing me about alternate ways for them to get the content? Idk. It was weird.
            
            Yes, it's very selfish, and it's very lazy. And what you're feeling is valid.  It's easy to say "don't let it get you down," but not so easy to put into practice. You're putting your heart and soul into writing, and there are people who don't value that, but it is valuable, and so are you. So, do what you need to do to take care of yourself, and just know that the people who settle for AI are settling for cheap imitations of a truly beautiful work of art. And that's their problem, not yours. *hugs*