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I don’t need a stupid machine to help me write.
I’ve got my writing-demon for that.
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No AI-Generated Art, Media, Adaptations, or Derivative Works. This is infringement of my copyright and will be pursued legally by my lawyers, not even “for fun” or “non-commercial use”. It’s still theft.
For people who don’t respect defamation and harassment laws, click here
Don’t use your presumptions or limited respect and tolerance to harass me or my readers
Fictional languages that sound grammatically wrong, because that’s how creole languages develop naturally
Fictional last names to not mirror real families in Italian, French, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Brazilian Portuguese
Fictional mafia families, approved by a real ex-mafia leader to not glorify organized crime
Leave my readers alone to enjoy their own reading experience, at their own pace and preference
No Defamatory, Misleading, Political, Hateful, or Unlawful Use
For future disrespectful AI-accusations if someone is dumb enough to believe that, this is for you
I have dated manuscript copies, handwritten notes on character and world development dating back years, writing process data proving I wrote all of these insane romance stories word-for-word for my readers to enjoy and proof of my copyright dating back to all previous version of my work since 2009.
As well as a 600-page, a 300-page and a 400-page World Building Bible for Emperors of Winston, Villains of Winston and my Accords of Scars and Flowers Trilogy respectively with writing process data showing that I developed all of these insanely detailed worlds, characters, maps, languages, family trees and even original song lyrics and original recipes by hundreds of hours of research and creative development over several years.
I started building fictional worlds and cities when I was 4 years old. They made documentaries about me as the creative wonder-child.
I started doing professional public speaking at 19 and publishing poetry the same year read by over 70.000 people. I wrote a 250 page books in a week while having pneumonia in 2015. Before AI existed.
I spent 39 years writing, attaining three degrees, building businesses, experiences, skills and traveling the world to write my specific stories and literary worlds.
And years developing Republic of Winston, Emperors of Winston and all prequels and sequels.
I don’t need a stupid machine to help me write.
I’ve got my writing-demon for that.
I write like I was taken over by a gossip hungry writing-demon for days on end who is not satisfied until it has made me write at least 30.000 words. During that time I hardly sleep, eat or know where I am.
I don’t need a computer based on stolen people’s work to come up with mediocre generic ideas to fill the paper for me.
My writing demon, (which I have concerningly little control over btw) comes up with stories based on scenes I see in my head.
I already have a natural author voice built on years of publishing poetry and writing stories in journals since before I could spell and then acting them out in front of the kitchen table to entertain my family during dinner. Sometimes my author voice is colorful, poetic, sometimes it’s heartfelt, and some times it’s kind of stupid.
But my sister really liked the stupid parts so I kept that side.
I have written so aggressively I have broken these keyboards on my MacBook Pro. Apparently I get extra emotional while using H, E, R, O, N when writing my romance books. I didn’t know you could break a MacBook keyboard before this. Lol.
AI can’t break my keyboard by writing like a possessed demon.
AI can’t break my keyboard.
AI can’t come up with the weirdly specific symbolism, characters, worlds or my imperfect writing that are based on my own family, my personal multicultural experience, my obsessive hobbies and the wishes of my belated sister, who was a passionate romance reader and Jane Austen fan.
So how about you go enjoy a cup of real tea and calm down?
For the thieves who aren’t passionate enough to write their own books, this is for you
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Don’t use your presumptions or limited respect and tolerance to harass me or my readers
You don’t know me. You do not know which diagnosis I may or may not have or what education I have in specialized topics. You do not know my cultural background, experiences or my family, friends and their life experiences. So don’t use your presumptions or limited respect and tolerance to harass me or my readers.
My books are works of fiction. But my inspiration comes from authentic experiences and I heavily research the cultures and experiences represented in my books. Just because you haven’t had the same type of experience as my characters, doesn’t mean theirs is unacceptable because it doesn’t fit your mold.
If you do not like or respect the cultures, ethnicities, experiences or personality traits or other normal things about my characters, go read another book.
Growing up and living in multi-cultural settings is my normal.
I am not American so please don’t assume my books are American, my characters are American, their history, experiences or culture is American unless explicitly said so or that any of my work is based on American expectations. They are not.
I write about cultures I have experiences in, otherwise I make up fictional ones. I don’t write stories where I have too little experience to be able to deeply portray their personal flaws, joys and passions.
If you want books written about other characters with other experiences, go write those.
I don’t always agree with characters choices or behaviors and that’s the point, to explore behaviors and consequences in a fictional world. (You’ll especially understand this in Book 3 of Villains of Winston. I can’t believe I gave that man a love story. I didn’t think it was possible. But I made both myself and my mom cry when I read the first excerpts so apparently the most despised man in Winston gets a love-story too.)
I have empathy for all my characters, even when they are non-conforming or unacceptable to other characters.
I write about culture, art, architecture, food I love and wish more people discovered.
I write about experiences and representations for friends and family who rarely get to see themselves in love stories.
Fictional languages that sound grammatically wrong, because that’s how creole languages develop naturally
In my fictional worlds, both contemporary and fantasy, I have created several original creole languages.
Creole languages is the term for languages that mix two or three languages into a local variety. Examples of creole languages are: Singlish, (Singapore English), Haitian Creole, Swinglish (Swedish-English), Portuñol (Portuguese-Spanish), English words pronounced in Japanese, written in katakana with new or altered local meaning or local Nigerian varieties of English with different Nigerian languages mixed in like Yoruba or Igbo. I provide translation guides for my fictional languages in italic in my books.
Creole languages are not always grammatically correct in one of the other languages but have taken on new adapted meaning locally to infer cultural references, emotions, short-hand or context.
My languages are made up completely by me, but they are developed by me to create the immersive feeling like it’s a creole language that has been naturally emerging in my fictional worlds for between 2000-250 years depending on universe.
So if you want to be a language nerd and claim I didn’t do my research, apparently I was nerdier.
And if you are a creole language speaker yourself, please share phrases and slang in your languages with me on social media. I love to hear about it.
Fictional last names to not mirror real families in Italian, French, Swedish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Brazilian Portuguese
You might notice if you are a native speaker of any of the 8 languages that appears in my books that some names sound… odd?
So you might wonder if I have misspelled a last name. I have not. It is intentional.
I have specifically made fictional last names but with accurate language meaning to not mirror any real families from any of the heritage cultures in the Republic of Winston, especially for the mafia families.
So for native speakers they “sound” like a real names and have a real meaning in that language tied to that specific family history as none of my characters, not even side characters, are named without specific meaning attached to their character, but they are not actually real last names.
I also sometimes used older, often 1800s historical words to infer that a name is 250 years old, as my fictional world is set to be created in 1803.
Fictional mafia families, approved by a real ex-mafia leader to not glorify organized crime
As I have known real ex-mafia members with extensive experience living and surviving organized crime, I have also created completely made up mafia terms, hierarchies and customs to not endorse any real criminal activity and have gotten it approved by real ex-mafia leaders that it is not considered to be disrespectful or misrepresenting their lived experiences.
My books contain equal opportunity for all types of people to be both the hero and the villain. You will therefore encounter characters who take cultural experiences and make them beautiful, and villains who use them for their own corrupt morals. It does not imply they represent how normal people from that culture behaves. They are fictional families, their morals are made up and so are their entire ethical system and 250 year old history.
So take your rage-baiting elsewhere.
Or take a nap.
Leave my readers alone to enjoy their own reading experience, at their own pace and preference
My readers can read whatever they damn like, okay?
They can read at any pace, slow or fast, in any order or preference. They may have never read a book before or read thousands, they all have equal value to me.
They can feel whatever they want about my books and any book they’ve ever read. They can read books I don’t like or genres I don’t read. As long as people read, then I’m happy. Harassing them for reading my books or other authors books will not be tolerated.
Leave the romance readers alone. You have better things to do with your life.
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