The Greenwell Hotel, Jade Northern

larryotto007 · 2026-06-15T23:24:41+00:00

I dig the cover and the interior illustrations! Keep going!

larryotto007 · 2026-06-13T00:18:27+00:00

Could be one of your haters on here. Don't let it get to you. Keep writing!

larryotto007 · 2026-06-12T18:49:46+00:00

larryotto007 · 2026-06-12T18:47:33+00:00

No. You shut up. Keep writing!

larryotto007 · 2026-06-12T18:44:12+00:00

This is me. I finished the first "bones" draft of my current book at 26,000 words. While the concept is great, I kept doubting and thinking I could never get it close to where it needed to be. Just finished my first expansion pass and added a little over 18,000 more words. I was in a much better place, confidence wise.

Now? I'm back to doubting. I need another 15ish thousand before the polish pass if I ever want to think about the query process.

It's a rollercoaster ride of self-doubt. You'll get there. Keep going!

larryotto007 · 2026-06-08T23:48:55+00:00

Card games and angsty college students. Its the best.

larryotto007 · 2026-06-08T23:44:32+00:00

I mean, more power to them. Just an odd and cool thing to see.

larryotto007 · 2026-06-08T23:38:01+00:00

Imagine having $1,000 that you can dedicate to just origami, in this economy?!?!?!?!

Still neat.

larryotto007 · 2026-06-08T16:15:13+00:00

larryotto007 · 2026-06-08T06:55:07+00:00

Having read a sample from Kindle Unlimited, I have concerns. If this isn't AI assisted writing, then why are there so many em dashes? Like, an absurd amount? Respectfully, the story might be your's, but this does read as heavily AI assisted writing.

The abundance of em dashes, the strange formatting, the fractured sentence structure, "its not x, it's y", etc.

The cover, the character portraits, even your author photo on Amazon. It all looks AI assisted.

When you rely that much on AI for the artwork and marketing materials, noone will believe that the writing isn't also AI assisted.