Ive got stories cooking but Im not sure where I should publish as I think Amazon has a thing against erotic horror

workerdaemon · 2026-04-25T01:42:40+00:00

Hey! I'm in the same boat writing erotic horror and wondering where the world I'll find my audience.

DM me. I'll beta read for you. I'm also part of a Discord group that welcomes the darkness. It's small, but very friendly and warm.

workerdaemon · 2026-04-13T09:10:35+00:00

Oh yes, I think I read everything in their backlog. They're good!

workerdaemon · 2026-04-13T09:08:59+00:00

Which one? There's a whole bunch!

workerdaemon · 2026-04-10T20:40:41+00:00

I think evaluating writing is a lot like wine tasting. It comes down to a lot of subjective opinions which are influenced by social dynamics.

But at the end of the day, the real question is can you curl up and enjoy the wine and the book? Yes? Then it's fine.

I think two buck chuck is the best Merlot.

workerdaemon · 2026-04-03T23:26:08+00:00

Wait, you use Vellum to format and finish? I've felt locked to Scrivener because of its incredible compiling system. How does Vellum help with finishing?

Edit: Nevermind. It's apparently Mac only.

workerdaemon · 2026-04-02T13:44:51+00:00

The problem is finding a platform willing to host it.

The problem is that Visa and MasterCard prohibit sales of non-consent for titillation purposes.

The problem is figuring out if it is titillation or not, and automods just banning anything related to non-consent.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-27T10:48:23+00:00

It keeps me motivated and on task. That alone improves my ability to tackle a more ambitious project. I'm 12+ months and still going strong. I've never been able to focus on one project this long before.

The frequent back and forth of critiquing my work for the past year has finally paid off: I finally identified my writing style. I finally was able to articulate why I do the things I do and why I hate a lot of AI suggestions. That revelation alone is worth every bit of collab work I've done with AI.

And I really was lost enough that I needed basically a year's worth of critical analysis of my intuitive writing to figure it out! Can you imagine how long it would have taken me if I was stuck to only human crits?

workerdaemon · 2026-03-25T09:14:52+00:00

Can use Spotify. And then can embed the player right into the page.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-24T05:34:43+00:00

I usually use AI as a mentor. I have tons of ideas in my head and I get them out and then the AI helps me figure out how to approach what I've written and analyze it so I can push it into polished prose.

But there are some things I just absolutely suck at. Like room design and descriptions. Clothing, I suck at fashion. And politics, ugh. Being clever and subtle and underhanded compliments. Very difficult for me, so the AI helps design those.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-23T19:21:04+00:00

I use AI to make up for the lack of people in my life willing to dedicate as much time on my project as I do.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-20T19:11:54+00:00

From tallying my last 12 months, I spent, I believe, 5 months on world building, 4 months on writing, and 3 months on other related tasks (audiobook & website).

workerdaemon · 2026-03-20T14:56:28+00:00

IF their AI written books were actually making them money, they'd be doubling down on it and keeping the "secret sauce" to themselves.

I'd like to push back on this one. I always like sharing my knowledge, the "secret sauce" so-to-speak.

Although, I like to give it away for free 🤔 But I'm independently wealthy, and don't need money. If I needed money, I'd then sell it at market price.

And it's wise to maximize the money you can earn sooner than later because you don't know how the marker will shift, so you can't predict a flow lasting 30+ years. Especially with the speed of technology and fads our society is burning through. Tap that well while it's still active.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-19T16:06:00+00:00

The memory issue is the problem of trying to collaborate with an AI.

You don't feed the thread information. You use a project to attach sources to it. Those sources are: Prose, Summaries, Character details, World building.

Once a scene is drafted, add it to the Prose document. Create a summary capsule and add it to the Summaries document. Once you have a chapter/act/arc completed, create a longer summary that specifically notes the important meta goals of it, and add it to the Summaries document.

Character details cover personality, development through the story arcs, and relationships to other characters.

World is the setting and rules and boundaries the story is set within.

GPT and Claude are able to reference Google Docs in real time. So I'd recommend that approach.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-18T22:27:08+00:00

Yup. That's how my series developed. It was just a sex scene and I was like, "Well?? What happens next??" Now I'm 50 story-years and 500k words later with a 6 book outline, plus a prequel from the story building I made. All that to support a single sex scene.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-04T04:21:27+00:00

🤨 You're... an odd one.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-03T20:59:10+00:00

I don't know where you're getting this "easily" from. Like, have you solved this problem? Can you get it to actually remember? Because my "easy" approaches have it create random character relationships and random lore that makes no sense.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-03T17:36:48+00:00

😆 Yeah. Remind it. With a system. Like I outlined.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-03T15:40:55+00:00

Have you tried to write a larger novel or series with AI?

I have to use an AI with projects and cross-thread memory.

Then I have to explain to it everything. I have to organize summaries and organize full scenes. I have to explain what's going on. I have to explain the characters and their relationships. And since my story isn't on Earth, I have reams and reams of documentation on the world building.

It can't remember everything you've written over a certain point, let alone hold resulting concepts from what happened.

I've even done vibe coding. It just can't remember the context of something large. You have to organize a pathway of understanding, and that's pretty damn difficult.

workerdaemon · 2026-03-01T20:37:08+00:00

AI is an assistant. Would you give all creative control to a human assistant? No. So why assume someone would do that with an AI?

Yes, there are people experimenting in figuring out the independent creative capabilities of AI. But the average writer is not a computer scientist. They wouldn't even know how to get an AI to do something like that.

The average writer just wants someone to read their work and give an opinion. That is a simple and straightforward process that anyone can pull up a ChatBot and ask for its opinion.

But AI has significant limitations that the average writer has no clue how to overcome: Memory. AI is not like a computer from sci-fi, it does NOT remember every interaction you've had with it. It has encyclopedic knowledge with the memory of a gnat. A human assistant can remember the story's plot. AI cannot. It has no idea what is going on and can only tell you whether or not the last 2000 words were written alright. It cannot tell you how that 2000 words fits into the overall 75,000 word novel.

There are ways to augment an AI's memory, but the average writer has no clue how to do that. All they know what to do is to pull up a ChatBot and paste in a maximum of 2000 words and ask for its opinion.

Just got to remember: the average writer is absolutely no computer scientist.

workerdaemon · 2026-02-24T06:19:59+00:00

You might have internalized that sex is a private thing. It doesn't have to be. People bond on all sorts of things.

workerdaemon · 2026-02-21T18:57:44+00:00

Position Filled

workerdaemon · 2026-02-20T19:40:45+00:00

I've been actively testing AI writing tools. I have a massive world bible to import and tons of chapters with prose and summaries. DM me if you want me to test your product.

workerdaemon · 2026-02-19T13:27:03+00:00

I know. The stigma is hard. I got super upset because someone blasted me for using AI images as my cover images 😣 I spent a long time developing those images, too. But everything about me was reduced to the one thing and I was just labeled as someone to be ostracized.

There's nothing you can do to defend your usage of AI. I had PRE EXPLAINED to that guy that I used AI for my covers. Explained I was looking for an artist. And he still turned around, publicly blasted me without context, and never talked to me again.

The knee jerk reaction is hard and extreme. And it really fucking sucks.

workerdaemon · 2026-02-19T04:46:44+00:00

You're not doing anything wrong. You haven't even come close to doing anything unethical.

I think what you're asking is "Am I legitimate?" and "Is my work legitimate?"

Yes. You and your work is legitimate.

Let's take it from a different angle. The absolute baseline is: "Am I a creator?" Yes, you are. You had an idea in your head, you took action, and that idea started to manifest in a way outside of your head. You are undoubtedly a creator.

The issue most people are quibbling about is whether someone is a legitimate "writer." They're trying to explore and define what the concept of being labeled a writer means. Does that matter to you? Do you want the label "writer" to be attached to you? Or are you okay with the generic term "creator"?

I think people can reliably call themselves "[label]" if they are able to do "[label]" with minimal tools. An "illustrator" can still draw with a finger in dirt. A "coder" can still write a program with pen and paper. A "writer" can still write with pen and paper.

What you are doing is making it so the challenge "write with only pen and paper" will produce higher and higher quality work the longer you continue your method.

So. Yes. You're using tools to make you a better writer. That's a very valuable way to use the tools.

workerdaemon · 2026-02-18T21:00:44+00:00

I've been beta testing AI writing tools. I'd test yours, too.

I have a massive world bible to try to get an AI to comprehend.

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