Recent content by Prince of Spires

This very much depends on the type of edit and the quality of the editor. Some editors focus solely on the big picture and the broad strokes of the manuscripts. Others focus on the specific way you say something. And others still focus only on the typos and grammar. And then everything in...

If it's just an idea you're having that it could be cool to have teh guy's POV included, then ignore that idea and just keep writing. In my experience when you're writing, there are always ideas that seem like they're better than the current one you're having. It's simply because writing is hard...

In my experience everyone has a unique approach to writing. Everyone's different, which is why all we can do to help someone is suggest things they may try. In the end, you need to find your own unique approach. And what works for Mad Swede of PMMG doesn't work for me. And if I force myself to...

It lied or was mistaken about its own methods. An LLM isn't trained to reason in the same way a human is. It's taught to give the most pleasing answer to its user in a useable, human sounding form. This is especially true of the large, generic models like Gemini. They get given data to ingest...

I probably didn't explain what I meant clearly enough. My point was that asking an LLM about how it "thinks" doesn't actually get you an answer about how it thinks. It can't simply because it doesn't actually think. It's not a thinking machine. It's a combination of an autocomplete and a...

Thoughif you are on Wikipedia and you are looking for rabbit holes, you could always verify the Wikipedia philosophy phenomenon. Where if you keep clicking on the first non-italisized link in the main text of Wikipedia articles, you always eventually end up on the entry about Philosophy (where...

I fear you were misled by the AI. The answer you got was not about how the AI stays up to date. It the most common answer people give in how they stay up to date on a given field. It's an auto-complete, not a thinking machine. As a concept, there is no difference for an LLM between history or...

If you're advertising on Amazon, then you're not paying for views. You pay for clicks. So if you have zero clicks you pay zero $. $5 a day is a good enough amount to start with. You need to begin with an idea of where you get views and when those views translate to clicks and those clicks to...

I came across this it of AI research (though I haven't read the original paper...) The TLDR is that if you look a layer deeper at AI answers, then you're always getting average answers. So stories written by AI tend to use the same structure and plot points etc. Which, if you think about it...

I personally feel that the middle books of the Discworld series are the best in terms of comedy. From about nr 10 (Moving Pictures) to about 26 (Thief of Time). They've got wonderful stories coupled with amazing haha-funny moments. The later books are great, but the pure comedy gets less (while...

If you want to write in Google Docs or any other online writing tool for that matter, you have to split your manuscript in chapters. So each chapter gets a single file. And only when your done you start combining them into a single file. In my experience with multiple different online writing...

I thought Ascii was just the basic numerical representation of characters (like 65 = A and 90 = Z). Not something you code in as such.

I hadn't heard of her or the book, but that is just a brilliant title that grabs my instant attention.

I think this is really at the heart of the problem. You published on Wattpad as an afterthought. No trad-publisher wants the book so I'll just do that - kind of idea. Now there is nothing wrong with that. However, you must know that you are competing for people's attention with other authors...

It sounds like a fun premise.