For the last two days I haven't been able to get Crap out of Gemini.. or rather all I've been getting is crap. 1800-2000+/- words is all I can get at a time, none of it very good and it just QUITS. and happily scampers on. I was getting great results out of Gemini 2.5 flash last week, this week nada. Testing other cheap models but they all seem really slow and off this week. Are we in the midst of a robot revolution and missed it??

For those of you who listened to the songs I wrote and created with Suno... they are now on 25 stations. Thank you for listening and the encouragement you handed me. I also wanted to share that last Friday, the 26th, was my hubby and my 50th wedding anniversary. He showered me with poems and sweet words he printed and scattered around the house for me to find. I took the bit between the teeth and wrote him a song. I thought you might want to hear it.

Welcome all new folks to the Professional Writing System, Help with Writing whether you use AI or not and the support Channel for WordCrafter.Pro, very shortly adding BookWeaver, and PlotCrafter (squashing bugs) If you are reading this and not here for WordCRafter.Pro that's cool too. We are a community of writers who use AI to help write stories that are meaningful and real (or so we hope). My goal for everyone here is to be productive, successful, and prolific in your writing. No matter how you want to write. We are here to help! So a big welcome for: And apologies for the delay..... @J P @Ebone Holmes @James Ford @Jacob Perry @Abdullah Muhammad @Laguna Oasis @Liora Vale @Kimmy Miller @Haider Chattha Welcome to the Room!!

Doing somethign a little different today with characters instead of plots 5 Character Archetypes With the Wounds Already Built In Five character starters. Take them, rename them, twist them. Each comes with a wound that drives behavior and a voice note so they don't all sound the same. 1. The Fixer Who Can't Fix Themselves Background: Former crisis negotiator, voluntarily resigned after a hostage situation that ended badly despite a textbook-perfect performance on her part. Spent three years convincing everyone she's fine. Wound: Doing everything right and still failing taught her that competence is a lie she tells herself. She micromanages everything now because if she controls every variable, she can't be blindsided again. Goal in story: She wants to solve the problem in front of her. What she needs is to learn that some things can't be negotiated. Voice note: Precise. Reads the room before speaking. Says less than she means. Never asks for help out loud. 2. The Optimist With a Body Count Background: Small-town mayor, beloved, genuinely good at the job. Three terms in, two major local crises averted, one that wasn't — a factory closure he supported that gutted the town's working class. He still thinks it was the right call. Wound: His optimism isn't naive. It's a survival mechanism. If he stops believing things can be better he has to sit with what his decisions have already cost. Goal in story: He wants to save the town from whatever's threatening it now. The complication is that he might be part of the problem. Voice note: Warm, persuasive, slightly too practiced. Says the right thing slightly too quickly. 3. The Youngest Who Never Got to Be Young Background: Youngest of six siblings in a family where resources were always thin. Became competent early, responsible early, invisible early. Now in her thirties and still defaulting to taking care of everyone around her while having almost no idea what she actually wants. Wound: She learned that her needs were less important than other people's needs and she's never fully unlearned it. She reads as capable and low-maintenance. She is exhausted.

What has everyone been up to this week? Post a response below: ***** This is unfortunately yet another one of my long wordy posts If you've kept up with some of the postings of late I've been spending a lot of time with genre's and and the new BookWeaver app. Below is a sample of a Chapter from a BookWeaver book I'm about to publish. This is the first one I have brought in to WordCrafter.Pro to run through the editorial room and finish. It is unfortunately not a favorite story, but the writing is very good. This was a test of multiple things. This was a budget model, Gemini 2.5 Flash, which doesn't write bad prose, but does need a good outline and beats to stay consistent. Enter the story threading engine for this, that does some interesting tings under the hood that I need to add in to the editorial team or a light chapter by chapter pass in the Writer's room. Because the apps are FUNDAMENTALLY different in operation there are a couple jumps to make. There is NO N8N in use here at all. I do not like its outputs and how slow it is. 22K Words in half an hour from a basic premise. I read through the Story Bible and Outline created and did some light edits here and let it roll. I ran the consistency checker on it and dis some more editing a couple regenerations. Any guess's as to the cost to create this? 25K Words, 9 Covers, Editing, and export to epub. Answer is at the bottom of this post. Okay, so I did cheat on this one. Remember I said I took this to WCP for final editing? I do not yet have an accounting of how much I spent there in the editorial room, so that function has been added as well. I spent several hours last night in the editorial room in WCP with this one and cleaned it up a bit more and followed their suggestions for most of the fixes. And also learned something new and interesting I will document in a video later today. In the Editorial skillroom I let Oracle do her cold read and let the editorial team do their first pass analysis. I answered their questions and asked them to "show me their fixes" and reciedved a very long chapter by chapter set of repairs to copy/replace or do by hand. This is supposed to be a mostly automated book right? My response to them after this was this "make the changes above to the actual chapter context chapter by chapter, stop at the end of each chapter so I can save them" And it did just this for the 4 chapters that need major fixes. I saved them to the binder, renamed them properly, moved the old versions to a folder named "old" and read through it.