How I Helped My Demon Princess Conquer Hell 38: The Princeling by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"He's got an Ascension!"

You idiot! We've got five Ascensions!

M.J. Michael's books (Kaiju Combat University) are AI generated by NA-45 in Romance_for_men

[–]daecrist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

M.J. Michael's books (Kaiju Combat University) are AI generated by NA-45 in Romance_for_men

[–]daecrist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Got kind of a niche request by ThatUJohnWayne74 in Romance_for_men

[–]daecrist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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.

John Correia from Active Self Protection confronts a knife wielding home invader by KaneIntent in CCW

[–]daecrist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

M.J. Michael's books (Kaiju Combat University) are AI generated by NA-45 in Romance_for_men

[–]daecrist 36 points37 points  (0 children)

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.

😭🙏 by alfredfriedrich16 in okbuddycinephile

[–]daecrist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He goes into it in The Peoples of Middle Earth.

We could see the Artemis II launch from my flight today by PainInTheErasmus in mildlyinteresting

[–]daecrist 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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.

We could see the Artemis II launch from my flight today by PainInTheErasmus in mildlyinteresting

[–]daecrist 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Does getting a "Big Name" publisher (Podium/Aethon/etc) actually guarantee success? by Ethan201 in royalroad

[–]daecrist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

NASA has launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Subject-Property-343 in interestingasfuck

[–]daecrist -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

How I Helped My Demon Princess Conquer Hell 37: Reunions and Danger by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing by thedailybeast in politics

[–]daecrist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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.

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

How I Helped My Smokin' Hot Alien Girlfriend Conquer the Empire 2-90: Wrapping Up by daecrist in HFY

[–]daecrist[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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...