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AI Is Flooding Web Fiction — But It Still Can’t Write the Human Heart
AI Writing Share at 74.5%: The Ecological Split Behind a Number “Tomato’s AI writing share is 74.5%; Qidian’s is only 10%.”
By Jin19 days ago in Critique
No Redemption for Andy Dufresne
The Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that sits comfortably in the upper echelons of the movie talkie colour picture. It's become shorthand for the greatest film ever made—or GOAT, as the kids insist on calling it.
By Paul Stewart2 months ago in Critique
Keep Criticism Constructive
Introduction Vocal has four new Communities, and although they are not for me, I feel I need to have at least one post in each Vocal Community and I can always find a reason to write about almost any subject.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 2 months ago in Critique
Here's A Tip
Introduction I haet writing these things, and I feel I share more useful information about Vocal than Vocal does, both good and bad. This is a bad, I am afraid
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 months ago in Critique
Hidden in Plain Sight
The headaches had been getting worse. Over the last few weeks they came one after another. These last three days had been a change; the headache just never went away.
By Alicia Anspaugh3 months ago in Critique
The Words I've Refused To Say. Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
A couple of years ago, I went through an extremely complicated friend break up that spiraled me into a different type of depression that I had never felt before. I will not be getting into the specifics, but while I was recovering, I wrote lots of poems and even had plans to format them into a book.
By Annie3 months ago in Critique
The Birth, Dissection & Evolution of a Story Never Written
For as long as I’ve had the desire to entertain readers with creative fiction writing, I’ve had a mermaid tale in my mind, just dying to come to life. It started out as a simple story idea, but has gradually evolved into something much greater.
By Justiss Goode3 months ago in Critique
Imposter Syndrome. Runner-Up in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Indecisive. That’s what I am. What should we have for dinner? What film should we watch? Don’t ask me. It’s not that I don’t have an opinion, especially when it comes to writing a story – In fact, I have so many ideas it's the equivalent of spinning countless metaphorical plates. But choosing one? Well, I might as well be Greek.
By Sian N. Clutton3 months ago in Critique
The Novel That Bit Me. Honorable Mention in Not Quite There Yet Challenge.
Fir the Next Great (American) Novel challenge (which, despite the title, didnae actually huv tae be American), Ah hud two ideas an' two entries. Baith included Glasgow as almost a central character. One wis heavily inspired by Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh an' a real-life experience that happened many years afore Ah started writing.
By Paul Stewart3 months ago in Critique
Detective Kali
I began the story after meeting a who stated that I look like a character that they thought they had made up. Eventually, I was approached with the idea for writing it, and I was so excited because I wanted to make sure that I approached my writing with a very diverse that reflected the world that I grew up in my personal experiences or things that I just simply witnessed.
By Cadma3 months ago in Critique
Unfinished
I started dreaming of stories from a very young age. For truth I can not tell you what the first story was that started to come together. I do know that i have story notebooks that look like some lost ancient Tomes now. And a memory of a detective that waits to be finished. A lot of the stories I go back to and rework even now. I find that these are the ones people seem to be drawn to. These are also the ones that have marinated and been worked on and reworked on. Out of all of them the one that has been done and redone and relooked at over and over is Heroes? A story where heroes start to appear in a modern world and what happens because of it.
By WrittenWritRalf4 months ago in Critique
The Story That Waited
I think, as writers, we all have unfinished and abandoned stories that we never saw through to completion for a variety of reasons.
By Paul Stewart4 months ago in Critique