Myr

I'm happy to see the interaction on the Words of the Day.

I have been using Microsoft Copilot paid version for a bit, which is based on Chat GPT4. It's turning out to be a good brainstorming partner and a handy tool for things like 'genre tropes'. Since so many genres rely on common tropes to make them fit the genre, having a tool like this can help make sure you hit those tropes to better fit the genre. (I'm challenging myself by writing in new genres) I have also been using X's Grok. That has a bit of a sense of humor. I can see myself using the tools more going forward as assistants for marketing, trend analysis, and in the creative space as a way to outline or keep track of sub-plots and such.

odd. Not sure why not

Click on your profile on top. It tells you points to next rank. I suspect most just consider me a stubborn ass

Holds are set manaully by the author or automatically when authors stop posting on a story and aren't active on site. Holds come off manually when an author sets status on a story. If they don't adjust the status, it stays on whatever the system set it. If they change it back to "In Process" and don't post, the system will switch it back as soon as the author isn't on site for a day. You must be posting actively for "In Process" to stay that way. Generally speaking, yes. Staff may manually adjust sub-genres if there are obvious errors. We did adjust the software in the back to block authors from the obviously incorrect things like Poetry in Fiction category or "World Building" genres outside the World Building category.

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Yes. Just make sure to write the description to make it clear that the story is a collection of short stories.

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