Yeah, basically. But the problem with frontend development is everyone is different, with different preferences. Also, muscle memory does change over time, so what might work for you might not for someone else.
That could happen, though the GitHub profile I use has my real name on it, linked to my IRL LinkedIn and Medium account, with my real face plastered over it, alongside my real phone number and real email. So it would have to be a professional connect.
But then again, I should probably be networking more on LinkedIn. So let me know if you’d be okay with a full professional connection.
Yeah, it’s really a trade-off. If you want the best services, you have to cough up some cash for an API key. But there are free APIs out there, and as AI improves, more and more powerful models will become open-source, but it’ll never be as good as it can be.
I also had ideas about using n8n or Langdock or create automation workflows that checks your work, but even for those you need licenses and API keys.
Maybe someone could create a website for it, buy an API key, and then sell the service to thousand of young writers, then make some money by ad revenues and stuff, so Wattpad but with more AI.
Ah. Do you use Google Docs? I keep it around in case I need to share any documents or back my files up, but I don’t actively use it for writing.
I thought about this after I had offered and realized the same thing, like wait, all my real life stuff is there. So yeah, same. I don’t mind if it’s a professional connect, but totally understand if you’re uncomfortable. I’m usually very careful with who I share my personal info with and tend to keep my “fangirl” hobbies separate from my professional side. I was thinking of making a separate Github actually if I do tinker with writing stuff.
I do use Google Docs sometimes to organize notes and to save backups of my writing, but I don’t write in it unless it’s work related. So we’re in the same boat there.
Yeah, that might be a good idea. I do have separate GitHub account but the second one is just empty, because I don’t know what to use it for. Maybe uploading my book but I already have the books uploaded on Google Drive, and I have a pretty meticulous manual edit system in place (use MS Word’s track changes feature to keep a track of what changes are being made, and then add the changelog to a separate txt file), so a software is so far unnecessary.
With GitHub style repos, you can look through previous versions of your draft, and what exactly the change was. But then you’d have to be careful and write meaningful commit messages. I know a lot of people who push their code with the message ‘changes’ and it just screws things up.
Thinking about how you would get readers with little effort.
As a reader of books myself, for online reading, I like bite-size chapters because my eyes get tired. Others might like it because attention spans are shorter and shorter these days.
So maybe some way for authors to automatically get their chapters into chunks would be nice. Having to separate the chapters yourself so readers could read it easily is mentally draining because I tried it on Wattpad. It’s such a pain in the neck.
But if the site or app did it automatically for me, that would make it a lot easier to do it, and readers with increasingly short attention spans can read the chunks of maybe half a chapter or a third of a chapter, whichever they prefer.
Of course, readers should be able to bookmark. And oh, maybe authors can choose how frequent their chapters will be shown as chunks to readers.
Maybe authors can choose the frequency of chunks (daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, etc.) and readers can choose the length, and they “follow“ or “subscribe“ to the book to get updates of new chunks.
Just a thought. Idk how it could happen or if it’s even possible.
This post is really interesting, especially the points about feedback and Scribophile’s karma system. I think the imbalance is a real problem, and it points to something deeper; a lot of platforms treat reviewers as a free resource for writers, rather than as people who deserve something in return for their time, care and insight.
I’ve been building something that tries to help with exactly this. It’s called WriteBubble.
It’s a private platform where writers can share chapters with trusted reviewers and receive structured, specific feedback. But the part I’m most excited about is the reviewer side. Reviewers can build a public profile, earn ratings based on the quality of their feedback, and develop a reputation over time.
The idea is simple: if reviewers have a real reason to invest in giving thoughtful feedback, writers should receive much better feedback as a result.
It also has version history built in, so no more losing work or juggling ten drafts of the same chapter across different docs.
We’re in early access at the moment, and everything is free, no karma points, no subscriptions, and no paywalls on basic functionality.
I’d genuinely love for some of you to try it and tell me honestly what’s missing on Write Bubble.
The chunks sound like a good idea, but depends on the size of the “chunk.” I’m on the side of the fence where I’m like, screw accommodating people with 30 second attention spans, that’s ridiculous. If you can’t focus on something at all for 30 seconds, you’re cooked. And that’s coming from someone who has ADHD so I’m not writing for the people who can’t write 5 complete sentences without ChatGPT. But for authors who tend to write really long chapters, it can help to shorten them, just not like - paragraph length.
I’d say that as someone who writes poetry. Most people don’t have the attention span for that simply because it’s harder to decode. If I watered down my poetry for the people who don’t have the attention span to understand it, it would stop being good poetry
I haven’t tinkered with the site too much, but my first question is, how do I find books to review if I want to review instead of write? I didn’t find an archive/page of authors looking for reviewers. Or is this meant to be a private “social network” app where a writer and reviewer who know each other join and interact on?
Just noting here that I settled on two problems to resolve, one is a goal I can achieve with my current skills and the other is a more long term/complex project that I don’t know if I have all the skills for yet. But the goal is to resolve two problems. 1. WordPress themes are ugly and sterile. Wiki themes are especially expensive - also ugly. I want to build something for the writers, gamers, creatives who like to manage their characters, settings, world lore etc. 2. How to give writers the ability to version control like git (or with Git) but without them actually needing to know git, with a system/editor that is tailored to writers, not developers.
I’ve started on goal 1. When I have a “beta” version, if anyone wants to be the first to try it and give feedback, mainly you lovely writers that use WordPress and/or write up their fictional world stuff, hit me up here. I’ll keep you in a list for when I get to that point.
A scale of how many lemurs a draft can accommodate. Usually, even one lemur automatically improves the enjoyment of a story.
Most things that suck don’t have lemurs in them, so the addition could improve even the worst books ever so slightly.
So yeah, same. I don’t mind if it’s a professional connect, but totally understand if you’re uncomfortable. I’m usually very careful with who I share my personal info with and tend to keep my “fangirl” hobbies separate from my professional side. I was thinking of making a separate Github actually if I do tinker with writing stuff. 
So we’re in the same boat there.
But for authors who tend to write really long chapters, it can help to shorten them, just not like - paragraph length.
