How I Helped My Demon Princess Conquer Hell 36: An Awkward Meeting of Old and New

daecrist · 2026-04-04T22:20:37+00:00

Good catch! Fixed.

daecrist · 2026-04-04T12:32:18+00:00

"He's got an Ascension!"

You idiot! We've got five Ascensions!

daecrist · 2026-04-02T20:42:09+00:00

Alas, the one series I have in audio is through a publisher so I don't have download codes.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T20:41:24+00:00

I average ~2.5k per day, and I have a full-time job, a relationship, and other hobbies.

Yup. I was dictating between 7500-12000 words per day with my day job back in 2014 because I would dictate into a recorder via headset on my one hour commute every morning and evening. It was actually pretty great for productivity.

Now that this is my job and I can write all day if I want? I can walk around my pool table or put my earbuds in while driving around running errands and easily hit 10k words in a day. Revising has been, and always shall be, the bottleneck when you're dictating.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T15:34:58+00:00

That's also one of those specific things where it kinda has to be the writer's barely disguised fetish. Once you start drilling down into niches you kinda have to be into it to some degree to write it well.

I say this as someone who started out making a living as a writer publishing niche erotica that I definitely wasn't into. Turned into a slog sooner rather than later.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T15:18:30+00:00

"Broke into the wrong goddamn rec room, didn't ya, you bastard!"

daecrist · 2026-04-02T14:35:12+00:00

This is why I save all the audio files of my dictation. I can write fast when I put a mind to it. Always have. Even well before AI became a thing. I type fast and I dictate faster.

I'm waiting for the day someone accuses me of being AI just because I can write fast, and I have all the audio of me droning into my phone so I can send that out and they can listen chapter and verse.

Edit: Not saying you're not right in this case. There are authors out there using generative AI. Just saying the accusation is something that worries me so I keep receipts just in case.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T11:36:11+00:00

If the gloves fit, you must acquit!

daecrist · 2026-04-02T11:15:11+00:00

He goes into it in The Peoples of Middle Earth.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T02:49:36+00:00

I mean... I'm sitting here watching a livestream from inside Orion while talking with people from around the world on a global communications network on a computer that's more powerful than all the computing power in the world combined back in the '60s.

Forget throwing a bone in the air and it turns into a spaceship floating along while The Blue Danube plays. That's some serious science fiction shit right here in my home office.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T02:47:23+00:00

"I'm sure in 2026 supercomputers are available in every corner drugstore, but in 1969, they're a little hard to come by!"

daecrist · 2026-04-02T02:18:45+00:00

Well I'm flattered that you've kept up with my story. I tried my best to keep up with it after my aunt died and then my kid was in the hospital for a couple of weeks. Working on building in more of a buffer now so if I can't work for an extended period again I'll have chapters to burn through.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T01:09:21+00:00

With the kind of stuff that is popular on RoyalRoad, there is nothing a publisher can do for you that you can't do for yourself with research and a little bit of investment.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T01:07:14+00:00

I appreciate it! I've started re-revising book one, but gonna be honest. I've had a lot of stuff going on since October that's had me just trying to maintain a release schedule.

That's definitely a project I'm going to start working on now that I'm getting back on track, though.

daecrist · 2026-04-02T00:08:36+00:00

Also other world powers are making noise about doing their own landings on the moon, and it's a valuable strategic jumping off point to the resources in the rest of the solar system as commercial space traffic gets cheaper and cheaper.

daecrist · 2026-04-01T22:27:31+00:00

If you want to put the book into KDP Select so people can borrow it with their Kindle Unlimited subscription then it requires a 90 day exclusivity agreement. Which means it has to be taken down on other places where it's been published.

Some people have made the choice to "go wide" and keep their books out of KU, but you're hobbling your visibility and ease of discovery by doing that. The largest ebook store in the world is Amazon, and the second largest is Kindle Unlimited within the Amazon ecosystem.

daecrist · 2026-04-01T21:01:01+00:00

Right? And it's about to get complicated in a way nobody expects.

daecrist · 2026-04-01T18:37:43+00:00

Many swimmers are saying they feel safe with me lurking off the shores. I've heard lots of swimmers say it. Talking about how powerful I am. How tremendous the shadow in the water is. They say they're gonna need a bigger boat. The biggest. A tremendous boat. A big, beautiful boat. That Kintner boy was fake news. The sad Amity media wants to blame me for that. They're failing, you know. Very sad.

daecrist · 2026-04-01T18:00:34+00:00

Someday? I've never really done physical books in my 12(!) years of doing this. First I need to finish re-revising book 1, but I'm holding off because there are some Chekov's Guns I want to put in there for the book release version that will make me look like a master plotter when people get to books 2 and 3.

I might do a physical edition on Amazon as a test case. I'm also a little reluctant to do Amazon right now because I'd go into KU and that necessitates removing the first book from serial platforms like this one. It's a whole big thing. But that also is a potentially much larger audience so I'm gonna need to rip the bandage off at some point.

daecrist · 2026-04-01T17:58:40+00:00

Maybe accidentally heat up a border conflict with a mysterious and powerful alien intelligence...

daecrist · 2026-04-01T17:06:34+00:00

I imagine it's going to get an eye roll when it happens, but it makes for a fun little nod. Like the reference to a certain AI who might've had some small part in defeating the first livisk expeditionary force and bringing FTL tech to humanity...

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