SciFi Author James Krake
@KrakeJames
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I'm here to entertain you with books. 6/100 have been published.
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Because I think it's silly to only advertise my latest book, I'm going to start cycling my pinned post
No life could be more absurd than the life of an NPC in a AAAA mmoRPG, and the tutorial merchant has just found an exploit in the game's market....
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Writers, I challenge you to subvert a trope, but only slightly.
The elf uses a crossbow.
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Well, someone read my book and didn't like it, according to the latest rating on goodreads. 😢
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@POTUS
I paid $5.19 a gallon for gas last week. If America recovers it will be DESPITE your policies.
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Alright men, you're getting tossed in a pit with a hungry, male black bear. 1v1.
You get to bring one melee weapon to help even the odds.
What are you choosing?
Me, I've got an 8 pound maul.
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Fantasy writers help me out.
Do I use the correct nautical terms for parts of a ship?
Or do I describe them the way an average reader would understand them?
Don't say both.
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Authors, please I'm begging you. Your series does not need to be misery porn where everyone gets killed off and nothing good ever happens.
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@LordVesconte
You could say the same of anything Hollywood produces. We are in an era where art imitates art rather than life.
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@Timcast
So, the people who make these calls, they get charged with attempted murder, right?
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You know, there isn't enough supernatural sci-fi out there. I want demons hacking AI systems.
Do I have to go read the Horus Heresy or something?
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An "unrealized capital gains tax" can and will be used to seize IP from creators by corporations.
Imagine if Amazon offered to buy Lord of the Rings from the Tolkien estate for $100M. If they say no, they would owe the government $25M. The only way to pay would be to sell it off
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Is it good or bad if a fantasy author reuses his weird monsters between worlds?
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Had someone tell me I should be using AI to make my stories.
I asked how I was supposed to get better at writing if I wasn't actually the one doing the writing.
"You need to re-evaluate what it means to get 'better'"
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@MutantDespiser
It's a powerful way to discuss the issue of recognizing, then breaking out of dogma. 9/10 times though, it's been stripped down to mere tropes though.
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@BrianRoemmele
You're just hiding the complexity. Electric motors are unserviceable because of their complexity.
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Dear sci-fi authors, I think it's time we came together and agreed that people are lazy with language.
When space colonists are on another planet, they are still going to call it a solar system even though it's not sol.
They will still call dirt 'earth'.
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@The_Lord_Otter
Poor communication skills among characters. Often for no other reason than forcing conflict.
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@elonmusk
Does The Boring Company have the ability to make roads in Michigan that aren't filled with potholes?
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@SimplyShae13
Isn't a wendigo just the native american (insert correct tribal clump here) version of a ghoul? Seemed like a pretty clear cut case of "for the love of God do not eat human meat" mythology
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Men, stop thinking about the Roman Empire for a moment.
How often do you think about what you would do if you suddenly got in a fight?
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To remind readers, literally every author is desperate for reviews and engagement, they just don't want to annoy readers about it.
For most indie authors, a good review will make their day.
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@OrwellNGoode
"The president just signed an executive order to do [thing]"
"Did you check multiple sources on that?"
"I read the executive order."
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If I get one more person posting a lightsaber, I am muting this shit.
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@riseupcomus
Some gamers bring 100% ism with them like smelly baggage.
Was playing co-op BG3 and constantly had to sit around and wait while the others dug through every burlap sack in a room just so they could collect scrolls they forgot to use.
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New book, new pin!
In a city where an AI can see everything, the only place to hide is in the arms of the undercity gangs.
Can Detective Blackstone bring the perp to justice before he escapes the walled city?
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For reasons unknown, YOU'VE just been chosen to create a new Disney Princess character and franchise.
No adaptations. No reboot. No taking the money and escaping to Rio.
Can you do it?
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Comic artists (webcomics too), could you share a sample? There's one of you I'm looking for...
Please and thank you.
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Sometimes I feel like the only author on this site with multiple stories. I've got two major series being released, and one-offs.
Does everybody else just have the one??
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@ADrinkWithCraz1
@hop_scotch_
No joke, most men fantasize about winning their beloved's heart by beating the shit out of a bad guy and or monster.
It's hard wired in.
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Beta reader just warned me my torture scene may have been too visceral (bending fingers back until they break)
Would you criticize a book for including that rather than implying it?
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@mattshumer_
How long are you thinking you've got before Amazon makes your business model against TOS, considering AI generated noise is not copyright protected?
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I'm wondering if there would be a desire (on both creator and consumer side) for youtube videos that are just a good reading of an indie book's first chapter?
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"In this book, the setting itself is one of the characters"
If you heard that in a review, would that actually help sell the book?
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@ReviewsPossum
That was a couple years ago.
I've been trying to convince my parents that there's over a 60% chance that, for any headline they see, the exact opposite is true.
My mother still hasn't accepted the replication crisis as real.
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I decided to mix things up and wrote a comedy. I meshed together an adventure and a heist, set it inside a video game, and kind of just gushed about gamer humor things, and the $ GME shortsqueeze
And as of today, my third novel, Infinite Money Glitch is for sale!
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Friends and followers, I am requesting your help. I started a youtube channel reviewing and discussing books, I'm trying to make some good content...
But twitter's suppression algorithm is killing my visibility.
So if you see this, please retweet
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Indies, help me out. I need your covers for a livestream. Not a roast this time.
In related news, I'll be doing a guessing game with guests soon.
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@RAZ0RFIST
I've contributed to (great site, check it out) so I think I can say I'm an
#IronAge
writer. I've got three novels on Amazon, a wide variety of science fiction, but my latest is a comedic heist novel I wrote based on the GME fiasco
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Anyone else feel like they got shadowbanned on here a couple weeks ago? Can anyone even see this?
How am I supposed to tell people about my new book if nobody sees my posts?
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My latest book is officially available for pre-order. So, new pin!
Had some fun here. It's got one foot in romantasy, one in comedy, both in adventure.
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@LordVesconte
Damn, cat girls are real in Ukraine? I think the Russians might be onto something...
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You know, I thought about reading this. Then I read the comments.
For anyone that doesn't know, Brandon Sanderson, even if you don't like his books, has THE MOST HELPFUL material on the internet about how to write. For free.
Meet Brandon Sanderson. Brandon published two books in the time it took our writer to finish this story. Brandon's fantasy writing made him $55 million last year. Brandon doesn't think he's a very good writer.
📷: Michael Friberg |
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Have you ever been drunk with your boss?
Not necessarily your current boss. I've been told it was rather common in the 90's.
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@Smolassus
@JShorty240DR
I recall quite clearly that he has full mobility, he just doesn't wear the prosthetics while working so that every recruit is confronted with the danger they are signing up for.
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If it never matters that the main character is isekai'd, why is the story an isekai?
Writers, please stop doing this. Just write a normal fantasy story.
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Help me feel better if you would. On average, how much time do you think you spend between getting out of bed and actually doing something productive?
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They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I don't listen to advice well. So next friday I'm going to bring on some guests to my livestream to do just that!
#indie
#writers
and
#indiecomics
if you dare (volunteers only) drop a link and your cover below.
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Okay hear me out. Our roads and train tracks are the width they are because of decisions made thousands of years ago.
Therefor, thousands of years in the future, shipping containers will still be the same size because they always had to be interchangeable.
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The stupidest thing an indie can do is try to sell a product to a market that doesn't exist.
So anyway, Men: I'm going to try to sell you romance novels
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Proposal : Can we stop calling things like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT "AI"?
I say we starting calling them Machine Imitation or MI
Artificial intelligence implies they know what they're doing in some way, rather than just transforming data from one type to another.
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It's release day for my latest book! Ever feel like time has stopped? That there's no way out? At least in this
#paranormal
#suspense
the monsters responsible can be found. My new book is Five to Four!
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#writersoftwitter
How long, in your current manuscript, do you take to state your main character's name?
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I was at bar trivia and asked "what is the boiling point of water?" We wrote down 100C.
The lady running it took our answer, said "This is America" and rejected it for not being 212F
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@POTUS
Red flag laws will prevent people from seeking mental health help because their rights will be stripped from them.
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Man, I'm trying to write a wholesome YA hero story but I don't know how I can avoid using swear words when I've got a character with a dislocated shoulder getting it put back in in the field without anesthetics.
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Writers, post the last line you wrote in your WIP. No cheating, no added context.
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Do you prefer stand-alone books? Or series? I think there's a natural draw people have to series because there's a sense of building something up.
However, as a creator, it's far more freeing to jump from one stand alone to the next.
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Do you read multiple genres? Or are you the kind of reader who has their favorite and sticks to it?
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I think tomorrow I might release a video on "top 5 red flags in an indie author"
That won't earn me any enemies, right?
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Going to do a video today about whether or not novelists should spend time writing short stories.
Be sure to check it out if you've ever thought about the question.
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Readers, do you actually notice if words get repeated in a story?
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Supporting Indies? Good.
Supporting Indies you know are good? Better.
Actually giving indies a try so that you can support indies who are actually good? Best.
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Authors, if your story got picked up for a live-action film adaptation, would you want a role in it?
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To anyone seeing the indie author war going on tonight,
Can we just face reality? There are a lot of independently published authors who are frustrated that their ability to sell books is directly harmed by being in the same bin as genuinely garbage writers. "Self-pubbed"
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@hop_scotch_
Which is weird, because when I started telling people I was writing romance for men, the standard response was "will there still be fights and stuff? If so I'm in."
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Apparently my fantasy adventure WIP is going to wrap up at 60k words. That's fine, right?
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@SlyPerformer
Are you not caught up?
You gain mana by expending your mana pool like a muscle. He was doing that since he was like 1 year old.
As of the magic academy, he is stated to be ridiculously strong.
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Does your fantasy world happen to have 365 days in a year?
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About a year ago, I was asked to beta read somebody's debut.
I didnt like it very much. I thought it had structure flaws as an opening chapter. I explained myself.
The author didn't agree with me, whatever.
But today I learn that apparently the opening was completely rewritten
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Look at me everyone. I'm an indie author that tries to post engaging (drama-free) content and then forget to actually include my book links when one of the tweets catches on.
I'm a genius!
(my far future mil SF)
Dear sci-fi authors, I think it's time we came together and agreed that people are lazy with language.
When space colonists are on another planet, they are still going to call it a solar system even though it's not sol.
They will still call dirt 'earth'.
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@Sargon_of_Akkad
@ChampionZeldas
In America, nobody knows the difference between a college and a university.
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@WayDropsBangers
Am I getting old? Are the things I cherish fading into obscurity by the onset of the next generation? There's more people than ever watching anime, and the quality is higher than ever, and people just sort of march on from the past.
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@planefag
Sir, I would like to congratulate you on making a twitter thread that took longer to load than it takes to watch my video review of this book.
Genuinely, bravo.
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@Bolverk15
I don't understand why anyone would seek to reject beauty like it's a virtue to brag about.
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@brclothwrites
I have literally never in my life heard someone pronounce environment without the nn sound.
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Finally hit 20 reviews on my debut novel, nice.
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I reached 400 youtube subscribers today, hell yeah
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@datepsych
Wow, it's almost like women pay attention to the content and not just the person talking?
That they might look at a manosphere guy and say "well he might be hot, but this content is actively worthless to me"
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I guess this needs to be said again, for the sci-fi authors out there.
Asteroid fields are not dense. They are like hundreds to thousands of km away from each other. We shoot satelites through our asteroid belts without consideration because the chances of collision are so low.
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Any author should be able to tell you how and why their book is flawed. This is why I reviewed my own books on my channel.
Acting like your product is the best ever just gaslights people.
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@artemasyeah
@Aristos_Revenge
Properly vetted space engineers (be they cosmonauts or astronauts) are very high on cooperation and low on neurosis.
They're not average people.
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Everyone, I don't mean to sound an alarm, but I am ONE chapter away from finishing my WIP.
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@Carmunist
The author focused too much on the premise and not on the character. I'm not reading a book to see puppets dance around no matter how cool the setting is.
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Time for another fantasy hot take.
If your worldbuilding breaks in half the moment you try to tell a different story in it, then you have a shit world.
Even an epic fantasy chosen hero who saves the world should be passing by other people having their own stories.
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@ConRuane
It's controversial because it's a compelling argument against universal suffrage.
Great book.
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