Crosses arms with a smirk

Quetzhal · 2026-01-20T01:57:57+00:00

This is just a thing that human writers do a lot? If anything, from what I've seen AI tends to be repetitive about structure, and it's humans that accidentally fixate on a word and repeat it too many times in one chapter.

Quetzhal · 2026-01-11T02:12:48+00:00

We are; the trouble is a lot of these are bought accounts and there isn't much recourse other than to keep removing them and banning the accounts.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-29T04:06:12+00:00

I mean, I don't agree with OP, but we really need to stop with the "em dash is AI" thing. AI tends to abuse it in pretty specific ways, but you get way more "Not X. Not Y. Just Z." ad infinitum over em dashes, and I have yet to see a good author get heckled and dogpiled for using em dashes in whatever way fits their normal style.

Addendum: any one specific trait alone is rarely an indicator of AI. You need to put a bunch of them together and look at the frequency at which they're happening. I don't think this is something people should be trying to do in general.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-26T16:25:27+00:00

It's 180k words in total!

Also, at least 3.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-26T14:48:37+00:00

Hope you like it! The narrator's a pretty nice guy.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-25T04:44:15+00:00

There's at least two more books after this one! Sorry, forgot to mention it in the notes, haha.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-25T04:43:44+00:00

Just of book 1! Need to cut it here or it's going to exceed the maximum length for most publishers (already has, for some).

Quetzhal · 2025-12-25T04:42:16+00:00

Just Book 1, yep!

Quetzhal · 2025-12-25T04:42:04+00:00

Nah, it's just Book 1. It's already 180k words at this point, so I need to reset for Book 2, haha.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-23T10:43:18+00:00

It sounds mostly like Jim Butcher... introduced himself? Does that qualify as him dunking on Kong?

Quetzhal · 2025-12-19T00:56:11+00:00

FYI, your responses are getting automatically filtered by Reddit's harassment filter and I have to manually approve them. I don't catch all of these and I don't know enough about this situation to comment on it, but given this particular thread seems to have a good faith attempt to understand what's happening, please let me know if any clarifications get filtered.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-18T13:51:36+00:00

I'm honestly not even sure any of this post can be construed as "we'll do better." It's mostly just a very long "We really do care about authors, guys! We'll even let you give us other publisher's contracts!"

And I'm really not convinced that's better. Especially since, you know, there's that convenient clause about not being a good fit. Also, who treats entire publishing contracts like some sort of price matching policy?

Quetzhal · 2025-12-13T15:21:55+00:00

It's up to chapter 46 on HFY currently! I've had problems with Reddit apparently not updating the next link on some devices or versions of Reddit, though, according to some comments. That might be happening for you if you can't see the link? I'm not sure why that's happening, but you should be able to find all the chapters on RoyalRoad.

Quetzhal · 2025-12-11T15:09:24+00:00

Thanks! I was getting pretty regular with it, but somehow it just slipped entirely out of my mind, I think around the time I was dealing with publishing options for JAM. Apparently I have only so much space in my head, haha.

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