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What some (many?) call AI is in fact what is known as a Large Language Model (LLM). LLMs basically work by using conditional probability analyses and statistical inference to go through a data set and produce a result, based on whatever prompt was given. The quality of the result is entirely...

Writing this as someone who peer reviews academic papers I can tell you that we will scrutinise in detail any paper where we know or suspect that AI has been used. This is because we must be certain that the authors understand and can justify what they have written and the conclusions they have...

OK JLiana, now that Malik has gone into the POV details better than I can I'm going to give you a suggestion. Rewrite your story in Third Person Limited. This is very close to the First Person POV you've already started using, but lets you follow several different characters and gives you the...

I wonder if you understand. The LLM can identify data which in some way differs from other data in the data set. But this is ONLY done using the data set available to the LLM. So if you feed the LLM a data set which contains known falsehoods in sufficient volumes then the LLM may give incorrect...

I didn't read Elf Quest, but I did follow SnarfQuest...

It's that shrug which is so dangerous. People assume something without knowing how the answers are produced or what the answers are based on - see below for a more detailed explanation. Gemini as an LLM has tried to produce a readable reply. I've written this before, but what LLMs do is...

OK, you mean your writing method not your writing style. That may seem pedantic, but it matters. Writing style is how you express yourself in your prose. Writing method is how you set about writing your story. I think most of us start with an idea, but how we get that idea and how we then...

And I have this commanding officer's voice which keeps asking if we have enough information to make a decision, send out the orders and then report to higher command. If not, what is missing and when will we have this available?

Effective research? skip.knox has already mentioned it, you need to be fairly specific in what you are researching. That means you need to have some idea of what it is you need to know more about and how (in the context of this discussion) it fits into what you are writing. These two factors set...

That's not the point. The point is that you need self-discipline to finish anything you do, espcecially if you're not being forced to do whatever it is that needs finishing.

Yes, I am. And if you get a publishing contract, or if you self-publish and promise a book to your readers by a certain date, then you need discipline in your writing. There's no other way to meet a deadline. I'm tempted to be a lot harder than that too. To me, this is also about how serious...

No, I don't go diving down rabbit holes like that. For me, research is like anything else we do connected to our writing. It needs self-discipline, you have to stay focused so that you get the information you need. That's especially true when you're on contract with a publisher (as I am)...

The expression is said to be Australian in origin, the first recorded useage is in the late 1890s (1898 I think). From there it spread to the US and later the UK. It's connected to puberty and the first strong alcoholic drink a young man has.

And now I'm going to add a few thoughts of my own, having been lurking in this thread for a few days. Note that my comments are based on real-life cases I came across during my career. One thing you may want to think about is how your MC ended up in an abusive relationship in the first place...

For me Tim Curry will always be Trymon in the film/TV version of The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic, but for my daughter he'll always be Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys.