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Every author should learn to use AI. Authorial Instinct is surprisingly useful.

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The difference between ‘I am creatively inspired’ and ‘I have created a new project to avoid the current project’ is often only visible to God.

The hottest fictional sentence category is ‘practical information delivered with catastrophic subtext.’ #bookthreads

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Unpopular opinion: jealousy is only fun when the jealous character is embarrassed by their own behavior. I need dignity actively losing a knife fight. #cdramthreads

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She forgets her own name before she forgets him. He has to be the one who tells her who she is. #BookSky #Romantasy

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AI does most of my plotting. ...... By AI I mean Accumulated Insanity.

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Canva knows exactly when I am in a hurry and chooses that moment to make the element I need spiritually unselectable.

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I love a strong heroine. I also love when ‘strong’ means she is scared, exhausted, maybe crying, and still makes the decision anyway. #bookthreads

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Unpopular opinion: jealousy is only fun when the jealous character is embarrassed by their own behavior. I need dignity actively losing a knife fight. #cdramthreads

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She started a revenge seduction. He responded with, “Are you asking what I have done, or what I would do to you?” This is why evil plans need contingency sections. #BookSky #Romantasy

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I couldn’t write without AI. Aggressive Imagination has carried this entire operation. Successfully? You decide....

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There is a special kind of creative arrogance in opening yesterday’s chapter thinking ‘I’ll just polish this’ and resurfacing four hours later with a new scene, two corpses, and no breakfast.

Unpopular romance opinion: I don’t need enemies to lovers to be enemies. I need them to be deeply inconvenienced by attraction while holding incompatible objectives and ideally knives. #bookthreads

I don’t need a male lead to smile. I need him to look vaguely inconvenienced by love for 28 episodes and then commit one breathtaking act of emotional stupidity. #cdramthreads

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Soldiers fear him. Servants fear him. Entire rooms rearrange themselves around him. His blind wife feels his qi, considers the evidence, and basically says: nah. #BookSky #Romantasy

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I use AI for every book I write. Actual Intelligence..... Occasionally......🙃

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AE McRoberts @aemcroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Writing is 10% divine inspiration and 90% realizing the perfect sentence has the word ‘looked’ in it six times.

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Everyone in the empire fears him His blind wife does not Turns out the cold general routine loses some effectiveness when your wife cannot see the face you are making 🐯The General's Blind Bride AE McRoberts tinyurl.com/GeneralsBride

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An author can write a nuanced 100k exploration of grief and still be defeated by the phrase ‘describe your book in one sentence.’ #authorthreads

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C-drama law: if a man says ‘it’s nothing’ while actively leaking blood through three layers of silk, I am now emotionally responsible for him. #cdramthreads

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A man saying ‘I’m sorry’ is fine. A man quietly changing the behavior that hurt her is literature. #bookthreads

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Song Mo vs Ling Buyi at the same banquet after someone insults their wife. Nobody is allowed to draw a weapon. Who is still scarier? #cdramthreads

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He lifts her wedding veil Sees the burn scars His hand does not change Sometimes that is the whole romance 🐯The General's Blind Bride AE McRoberts tinyurl.com/GeneralsBride

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Creative process: make thing, hate thing, fix thing, over-fix thing, restore earlier version, call it intentional, eat snack. #authorthreads

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Which C-drama man would be the WORST ex because he would absolutely respect the breakup while continuing to solve your logistical problems from the shadows? #cdramthreads

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My favorite love confession is usually the one the character never labels as love. ‘I packed your medicine.’ ‘I fixed the gate.’ ‘I came back.’ #bookthreads

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My C-drama power ranking has four categories: can command an army, can terrify a court, can bandage a wound without making it weird, can apologize correctly. That last category is where empires fall. #cdramthreads

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Writers will spend six hours researching a detail that appears in nine words because apparently dignity was never part of the profession. #writerthreads

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An immortal translating filthy Greek jokes into her ear and getting quieter every time she leans closer. Then she accuses him of making her crawl into his lap for subtitles. Tess & Ruin. Linguistics has taken a troubling turn. books2read.com/u/b5Aagl #bookthreads

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C-drama fight style I care about: the man who threatens the whole room vs the man who gets quieter. I am choosing the quieter man and evacuating immediately. #cdramthreads

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If your fantasy map is beautiful but nobody has ever been emotionally destroyed on a bridge, what are we doing???? #bookthreads

My heroine’s seduction plan includes ice cream, his shirt, and a truly unreasonable amount of confidence. The man she’s trying to ruin has a few questions about that confidence. Tess & Ruin. Yes, there is a spoon scene. Yes, it deserves its own complaint form. books2read.com/u/b5Aagl

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Historical C-drama male-lead battle royale, except nobody may fight. They can only win by communicating clearly. Who is eliminated first? #cdramthreads

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He has ended lives for three hundred thousand years Then he falls for the one woman he cannot bear to end Tess & Ruin 🖤

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Indie author workflow: create entire civilization, establish magic economy, invent dynastic politics, spend afternoon Googling why the paperback margin moved two millimeters. #authorthreads

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Take the swords, qi, titles, armies, and money away. Put four C-drama male leads in IKEA with one missing screw. Who still has aura by hour three? #cdramthreads

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I don’t care how powerful the magic system is. Tell me what it costs when the character uses it while angry. #bookthreads

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Mr Darcy vs Sang Yan in an argument where the woman says, ‘I know exactly what you’re doing.’ Who recovers first? I suspect neither man enjoys the next ten minutes. #cdramthreads

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She planned to seduce him He planned to keep his hands off her Neither plan survives contact with the other person Tess & Ruin Dark Gothic Romantasy books2read.com/u/b5Aagl

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My favorite C-drama genre is ‘everybody at court is plotting treason while two idiots are trying not to touch hands.’ #cdramthreads

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I need more heroines whose coping mechanism makes everyone else’s life harder. Give me the woman who jokes at the wrong moment, thinks she can manage everyone’s grief, and eventually has to sit there while somebody tells her she hurt them. Tess & Ruin books2read.com/u/b5Aagl #bookthreads

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Mr Darcy vs Sang Yan in an argument where the woman says, ‘I know exactly what you’re doing.’ Who recovers first? I suspect neither man enjoys the next ten minutes. #cdramthreads

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Romance books need more people being bad at flirting in character-specific ways. Not everyone has banter. Some men have logistics. #bookthreads

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