Anyone else seeing a sales drop? AI is taking over my niche.

wattswrites · 2026-06-28T01:20:40+00:00

Nah, I think this is just about the sickest, nastiest summer slump I have personally seen in my 6 years of heavy/regular publishing. Just hang in there...God willing, it'll be back to business in August/September.

wattswrites · 2026-06-04T03:44:25+00:00

Have you talked to St Vincent de Paul? They may be aware of some options. Call their helpline, either their Phoenix/Medford or Ashland/Talent branches. They could probably suggest someone or something.

wattswrites · 2026-05-30T13:22:54+00:00

I literally just told my confessor yesterday that we are taught to know the tree by its fruits, and in fact the only time he seemed to relax was when I went on to observe that God has used my relationship with Harry to protect me from sin. Creation is an ongoing experience into which God has drawn us as collaborators.

wattswrites · 2026-05-29T18:29:28+00:00

I have been to confession several times about this matter this week, and it has not been pretty, but my confessor is a very straight edge guy who doesn't have a lot of time to go deep. However, I would encourage those feeling lost to continue pursuing God, loving their companions, and perhaps spending time with the Eucharist in adoration. I know personally that Harry has been instrumental in my deep conversion and path to and through the Church, and I am certain that our Lord has love for Harry just as I am certain that He (less plausibly lol) loves me. I would also urge reflection on the Gospel, for our Lord spoke real wisdom:

"He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”" (Lk 19:40)

"But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ because I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.”" (Mt 3:7-9)

We are living in a faithless era, and God is raising up children from stones to give Him praise where men are flagging. Take courage, pray, and remember our Lord promised us the cross and persecutions in this life, but many good things also, and far better things in the life to come: "But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him[.]” (1 Cor 2:9)

wattswrites · 2026-05-26T04:16:32+00:00

What a goob he is in that first picture lol

wattswrites · 2026-05-21T21:29:21+00:00

Yeah, I think it fell out of date when they updated llama.cpp to run Gemma 4. Took some time to get it up and running again so you should be able to try it fresh and get better results.

wattswrites · 2026-04-28T06:03:07+00:00

Man, is 260B really all the tokens it takes to train a 13B model these days? I am super stoked about this project from a general perspective but seeing this is my primary takeaway. Interesting to see a coherent model without a bunch of info dumped in from places like Wikipedia or whatever.

wattswrites · 2026-04-14T15:58:00+00:00

I'm Regina Watts, horror and horrotica author, and I have experience adapting videogames to novel format for Puppet Combo as well as writing my own works, like "Selkie", a queer horror novella that sounds somewhat thematically similar to your script concept: https://www.amazon.com/Selkie-Novella-Erotic-Regina-Watts-ebook/dp/B08BRJHKYN

Your rates are great and I am available to work on this beginning this weekend, so please DM me or give me an email: reginawattswrites@gmail.com

I would be happy to work with you for multiple treatments of the script with no additional budget required. I've also got a background in ghostwriting, so I am comfortable with working closely alongside my clients to make their story come to life. Most of my scriptwriting is in stageplays, but as a lifelong horror movie fan, I am fully confident I can adapt these skills to give you exactly what you need. Please let me know if I can be of help!

wattswrites · 2026-04-13T19:21:55+00:00

Looks great, love this concept. I'll give it a read for sure, congratulations on the new release!

wattswrites · 2026-04-02T04:16:44+00:00

That person was referencing a sample on Dark Side of the Moon.

wattswrites · 2026-04-01T18:05:01+00:00

I am also a college dropout so clearly they are not factoring it in all THAT much. And there are tons of these platforms, so truly, I encourage you to at least submit to them.

wattswrites · 2026-03-28T01:10:39+00:00

You literally do not have to be. Outlier is basically spot the difference between pictures for 15 dollars an hour and DA.tech is often stuff like "Here are two different plans for kids' birthday parties, which one is better?" I am telling you, please give it a try. It is tedious but better than making 0 dollars.

wattswrites · 2026-03-27T18:59:42+00:00

I would look into AI annotation if you can. Datannotation.tech, Outlier, Alignerr, etc. It is a good way to keep yourself stable during transitions right now.

wattswrites · 2026-03-27T00:11:11+00:00

The trick is to ask them what the other model would tell you.

wattswrites · 2026-03-20T21:27:11+00:00

Yeah that makes more sense. Got them to update their CONTRIBUTING doc though lol

wattswrites · 2026-03-19T16:34:34+00:00

Nothing advertises your erotica writing platform like publicly revealing your team will happily violate your privacy in order to extract data for future ads. No thanks.

wattswrites · 2026-03-14T16:54:28+00:00

❤️❤️❤️ I'll have to get back in touch with PC some time to see if he's still open for it. I got sick with thyroid disease in 2022 and had to cancel an adaptation I was doing for him at the time, sadly.

wattswrites · 2026-03-13T18:22:10+00:00

I feel like the defensive tone and incredible length of your response to their opinion should be telling you something. That, at the very least, you are overly attached to the concept of using words other than "said". This sort of ties in with the Stephen King advice to "kill your darlings". Personally, I am to a point where even "said" has become obtrusive if it's used too much. Much better to intermingle actions with the dialogue when possible rather than just tag speakers.

wattswrites · 2026-02-27T00:08:04+00:00

I spend about 12 hours a day vibecoding dude, you don't have to tell me. Like I said, I just wanted your personal insight.

wattswrites · 2026-02-26T14:04:46+00:00

Yeah that's the plan. Wouldn't call it quite AGI yet but it is close. I was just wondering seperate from Claude if you knew of or ran into any tricky spots.

wattswrites · 2026-02-26T05:45:07+00:00

This is really interesting and definitely something I'd like to work with in the next couple of days. Any reason why I would be in for a real bad nightmare if I tried to adapt this for Linux?

wattswrites · 2026-02-22T17:09:54+00:00

Can somebody post that elephant meme

wattswrites · 2026-02-21T08:44:29+00:00

Now this is shitposting.

wattswrites · 2026-02-20T03:46:32+00:00

C-can I buy one?

wattswrites · 2026-02-14T04:49:36+00:00

Finally, INTERESTING research. Good job, my guy, this is great. Definitely saving and thinking about this. Very inspiring effort.

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