▲ 6 r/ACX
Kevin Costner is apparently my point of contact here
Wow! Who knew you could make it big on ACX like this?! As a side note, I haven't posted an audition for MONTHS.
u/axiomskylark — 5 days ago
▲ 300 r/writingcirclejerk
The AI Ads are my favorite thing about the writingcirclejerk forum
Every day I come to this reddit and am welcomed by some variation of five different AI companies that promise they'll make me write like Hemingway, yes. HEMINGWAY. Absolutely brilliant.
I bet they never considered that I'm perfectly happy to be a mediocre to shit human writer, but it's very considerate of them to offer.
u/axiomskylark — 16 days ago
▲ 147 r/writingcirclejerk
Writing with AI is NOT "easy"
Tried using AI to write a novel. Turns out... it's NOT that easy.
I think a lot of us have had this dream: use AI, put in MINIMAL effort, and somehow get a decent novel out of it.
Yeah... turns out making money (or good stories) is still hard LOL. 😵
I tried using AI to generate parts of a novel, and honestly, the result was pretty bad. 🤔 The plot just didn't hold together. Characters acted randomly, the logic was all over the place, and the story felt like something written by someone who had read a bunch of novels but never really understood why they worked.
Maybe it's partly because I don't know how to use AI properly 🤫 I'm sure there are people who spend weeks designing complex workflows and prompts to get better results. But once you go deep into that rabbit hole, it becomes almost another skill to learn.
That said, I did find one use case where AI is actually really helpful: editing.
Using DeepSeek API, I can throw in a messy draft and have it fix typos, clean up sentences, improve formatting, and point out obvious issues. The cost is basically nothing (a few cents for an entire article), and the result is surprisingly useful.
My current workflow is pretty simple: I use voice input to dump my ideas and scenes quickly. The raw text is usually messy because speech-to-text makes mistakes, but the story IDEAS are MINE 😇 Then I let AI clean it up instead of asking AI to create the whole thing.
It doesn't magically turn me into a successful author 🤯 but it definitely makes writing faster.
Anyway, I'm still a nobody "writer" 😝 so take this as just one person's experience, not some expert advice 😝
u/axiomskylark — 18 days ago
▲ 129 r/fantasywriters
Look, I'm using my dog as my author photo on my books now:
I recently saw a reel the other day about the old popular fantasy authors (and non fantasy guys, let's be real) having a penchant for posting just a giant photo of themselves on the backs of their books. I made a joke that I would instead be posting black and white photos of my dog as my 'author photo' from now on, and since I'm self-publishing, designing my own covers, etc. I kind of thought, why the hell not?
This is truly the beauty of not being talented enough to be picked up by a traditional agent/publishing house, guys: artistic FREEDOM. The freedom to create covers where the dog gets all the authorial glory. Anyway, my book isn't out yet, but thought I'd share lmao. LMK your experiences with cover design etc. I personally use Canva when I don't want to deal with Amazon's restrictions.
u/axiomskylark — 19 days ago
A question about AI and Experience Centric Writing
Will experience centric writings win in the inevitable Age of all powerful AI?
What do I mean by "Experience centric" writing that I am certain no one has ever coined before?
I mean something completely new and only utilized by the world's most insightful writers, only noticed by its sharpest readers: writing that is formed out of a person's personal perspective, convictions, experiences, observations, opinions and ideas. Totally different from how anyone has thought about writing before.
Could this be the case!? 🤯 lol
u/axiomskylark — 24 days ago
▲ 8 r/fantasywriters
Sneak Peak: Fantasy Map
Am I just procrastinating from finishing book one of my duology? Yeah, probably. But I was always going to need a map anyway. Fun fact: not very many fantasy authors draw their own maps? Or if they do, they usually do a rough idea and hand it off to a cartographer. Some of us are too poor for that (me, I have no money) and are too picky about this stuff anyway.
What are some of y'all's favorite fantasy maps? I really love Tolkien's maps, but I also know his son Christopher did a lot of the drawing on those. Although, technically that's still a Tolkien at least haha.
Anyway, this map will go into the front pages of my book, so I won't be posting the full thing until I publish. But thought it'd be fun to post. Also, I did develop my own language, I've seen other people use runes etc, but I'm multilingual and love playing with languages.
u/axiomskylark — 28 days ago
▲ 5 r/fantasywriters
Do you ever just... have to draw your MC?
I'm kind of an artist anyway, so I've been drawing longer than I've been writing. But at some point in my stories, I just start to draw. This is my most recent sketch
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Like, it's one thing to describe your characters in book, but for me eventually I feel the need to kind of see it come to life in some way shape or form. I have plans to digitize this (scan it into my computer, use the bamboo tablet blah blah blah), I probably won't add any color, and add it to my character lineups for when I publish, along with the map etc. I know that fantasy writing doesn't absolutely REQUIRE illustration because that's what the prose should be doing. But, just curious if any other writers out there also do their own art and what their process is like.
u/axiomskylark — 30 days ago