Hello!
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How are things going?
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Pretty alright. How about for you?
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When is Darius Rucker gonna make a cover of Fade Into You by Mazzy Star? I kinda need him to for my story soundtrack 
I need something more country than the original.
This will do until then 
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Iâm glad! Iâm good, just chilling for a bit before I go to bed
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Oh no! We canât have that. He was probably Spanish tho so he probably likes them. Weâre going to Ibiza!! 
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This reminds me of the time that I met a Spanish dude running a churro cafe in Dublin, and you BET I went in there and ate some like the cannibal I am. With coffee, yum. And the Brazilian dude that started to talk to me about gay bars when I was drunk in the bar.
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Random research tells me the Fremen in Dune are (partly) space Bedouin.
Interesting as the daggers I imagined my legacy characters Zorik (Jewish-Israeli) and Yasmine (Bedouin-Israeli) had as signature weapons, hand-made anniversary gifts from Yasmineâs tribe for her unusual relationship with Zorik, looked similar to the Fremenâs dueling blades in the recent Dune film. Except my charactersâ blades were shorterâŚable to fit / hide inside Zorikâs shin-high combat bootâŚ
^A future 3D printing project perhaps. No, Officer, itâs just an enthusiastic letter opener.
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I had a similar society, but they werenât exactly warriors. But they had a near preternatural ability to find water in the desert.
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A very useful skill.
In Europe, an army marches on its food supply. In the desert, an army marches on its water supply. ~ Unknown quote.
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Something tells me there is yet another savings-demolishing computer upgrade in my future.
Apparently a 24GB Graphics Card is recommended for the full Mistral (Mixtral?) model.
Iâm now plotting / researching if there is a way to install a local uncensored equivalent of GPT-4 / GPT-4.5 on my (post-lotto win) system, setup several agents (AI Bots) each with the personalities and backgrounds of my characters, introduce a conversation or activity scenario, and let them run.* Could be quite useful for drafting ideas and brainstorming.**
*Make something up, both of you ~ Jon English, Pirates of Penzance.
**A writer can work with anything except a blank page ~ Hemingway.
Well, overcoming blank-page-itis is one of the more difficult / tedious parts of writing for me.
Oh, vaguely related, I can no longer make new posts on the AI Art thread, lest I be accused of Chat Spamming. Any way to fix that?
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I just added existentialism as a story theme for my romance lol.
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My mission to get a boyfriend for Valentineâs Day⌠is not going well. I planned a date today but heâs ghosting me??? Like come on
My friends are having a reunion around Feb 14 and I want to bring a boyfriend with me. My pride depends on it I donât want to be the only single one there
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If all else fails, get one of these and call it Theodoore.
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lmao, Iâm with the skepticism.
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Yeah, why would an alien even visit a mall? Hardly any humans visit them anymore!
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I need to take a bookstagram photo and post my review of Star Daughter on IG.
Star Daughter had good world and meh plot. Too bad.
I also need to make an Achievements and Goals post graphic for IG.
Also need to pick my next book to read.
Also need to make my book rant video which can thankfully include one more book: Star Daughter!
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Try now. Maybe it doesnât like too many posts by the same person in a row?
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As to whatâs on my mind: genres, marketing, target audience, branding myself type of stuff. This is my publishing year so Iâm dividing deep into it.
Iâm writing a new book which is a companion novel to another. And I thought, wait, is this womenâs fiction? So I started researching what exactly makes a womenâs fiction, and found that yes, my WIP is 100% womenâs fiction by all definitions, but also, it seems that this style of writing is in everything I write. I could brand myself as a womenâs fiction author (yay for clear branding). BUTâŚ
Considering that majority of my books are written from a male point of view, this puts me in a tricky spot. Some people argue that womenâs fiction has to be written by a woman, about a woman, and for a woman.
There isnât a consensus as others insist that no, itâs called womenâs fiction because that style is found in books of which majority of readers are women.
I agree with the second definition but it doesnât really matter because if half of the people use the earlier definition, then they will all say my books are mislabeled.
Thankfully, so far from what Iâve written, the male pov books have a genre I can use for marketing (paranormal, science-fantasy, etc) so I donât have to publicly call them womenâs fiction. Iâll just leave that knowledge to myself and use it to target marketing toward women.
The only thing Iâm missing out here is calling myself womenâs fiction author. I guess I can add it to a list of things I write but itâs not as snappy.
I write speculative fiction and womenâs fiction andâŚ
So thatâs where Iâm at.
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