Recent content by JBCrowson

Welcome. I'm curious - how much alcohol did it take to make the shoe drunk?

I like that one too. I have a few scars to attest to the fact that getting said cat into the bag in the first place is hard enough. Fatal wounds await any foolish enough to trying to re-capture it once it has tasted freedom.

Look at how the Deck of Dragons works in Steven Erikson's Malazan books. The cards can be just a deck of cards to play a game (whose rules are never explained) but those with divination ability can use a deck to form predictions though they are mostly imprecise. One army unit plays the card game...

Thanks, I think yours is a valid perspective too. As the father of a son with an intellectual disability, I have real struggles with the potential for my son to be more able and independent through AI, and these ethical issues that are currently inseparable from it.

I had something of an epiphany with my wip thanks to 3 beta readers on scribophile and a comment on here somewhere about writing tricky scenes from the POV of each person in it to see how it alters the scene's impact. It means a major reconstruction with a shift in balance of plot / world...

For me, until the question of property theft is addressed, the value, quality or ethics of creating with it are hypothetical, as I ain't gonna touch it.

Welcome Rosch / Roach, look forward to hearing about your dark fantasy.

I think there's an argument to be made that which movie an individual feels changed the world for them depends in significant part on what ground breaking movies were around as that individual passed through formative stages of their life, and how connected to movies they were at that point...

An issue I have with AI that hasn't been mentioned as far as I can see, is that the systems have all been trained using millions of copyrighted works without compensation or attribution to or of their creators. By using them (in any context, not just creative writing) we are complicit in that...

Dickens and Shakespeare were both fond of inventing new words, to the extent I wonder if the colloquialism "what the Dickens..." reflects how often he threw new words at his readers.

Yup, reckon we crossed the demilitarised zone about 10 posts earlier.

I really wanted to pick up on the phrase in parentheses here. First, involuntary suicide is murder. Second, Canada is one of those countries that doesn't have a death penalty, so Canada is not killing any people intentionally, for profit or otherwise. Third, while of course there are individuals...

The recipe is very explicit, we can't substitute marshmallows for the spider eggs.

I think I would echo a little what others have said: read or watch what you find funny and try to analyse why you find it funny. I would also watch and analyse material which is considered funny by a wide audience - if you want wider appeal, you need to know your market. Combine the results of...

I used omniscient 3rd for my book. I like the freedom/ability it gives me to do stuff like this... One of the characters is a god posing as a mortal. There are only 2 scenes from the god's point of view. The first begins with a short description of dawn breaking, going from the sun rising, to...