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AI Writers/Users Make More?!? Here's a survey of writers using AI. Turns out those who use it tend to make more money than those who don't. The video says those who shun AI tend to be those who don't use it (per the survey). Though I know in S🤦♂️'s case, he's very anti-AI but has openly said he's tested AI a year or so ago, which is fair. You shouldn't say you hate a tool you've never used. But AI has improved a TON in the last year! Plus, if you aren't good at writing AI prompts, your results won't be as great. I've seen some AI prompts and they can be quite extensive -- often several hundred words. The difference is they can be recycled because they are instructing the AI to write based on what happened last so results using the same prompt for an argument following spilled coffee would look different than an argument following a broken dagger, though they used the same prompt. And the scene that caused the dagger to break or the coffee to be spilled is a whole different prompt from the prompt to write the following argument. Prompt engineering is a whole thing in itself. I'm not good at it, but if you are a skilled writer, you don't need to be as good at writing great AI prompts. You could just use it to write the bones that you construct around to speed up the process. If you want to use AI to write the scene 80% of the way, as he mentions, so you only have to pretty it up and AI it down, you need to be REALLY good at prompt engineering. Most folks I know who use AI to write are still doing over 50% of the writing, themselves. One mentioned she writes about 67% after AI has written the 1st draft. But that means every time a non-AI user has written 3 books, she's written 4. Plus, she works on her novels daily and runs her business full time, so she cranks out a LOT and makes several thousand a month because she takes her writing and business seriously. ..unlike certain Schnujos I know. Lol FYI, for those who can't watch the video, the top few uses for AI in writing aren't doing the actual writing and the least common use (and use the video doesn't recommend) is letting the AI do the writing without you touching it or touching it much. Don't do that. |
UPDATE: CONTEST CHANGE
As some of you may (or may not) have noticed, "Bite Size Poetry Contest"  hasn't been updated. The owner hasn't been around, so I've replaced the contest with "Wintry Writing Wonderland" . Technically, "Wintry Writing Wonderland" doesn't have a word/line count min/max, so you can stick to the 500/15 or you can go long, if you choose. On the good side, "Wintry Writing Wonderland" accepts both poetry on stories, so isn't that exciting?!? I don't think anyone has already entered "Bite Size Poetry Contest" , but if you already have, I'll count it. If not, please enter "Wintry Writing Wonderland" instead.  I apologize for the late change! I try to give the owners time in case they forgot. Plus, I had a paper, statistics, and have a presentation I'm supposed to be working on right now, plus my dissertation I'm having to give fake weekly updates on, several doctor appointments (the last one took an hour and a half just to get there), blah, blah, excuses, excuses. It's me, okay? Just accept it. Hahaha! Anyway, this is a great contest addition, so I hope you all have fun with it!
 New Contest Addition!
Remember: Post all 10 contest entries in 1 forum post with {post:#######} showing me all your entries in the 10 contest forums and list which contest entry goes to which contest. I'll give the 1st 5 people to finish 10k GPs! Not sure how to post to get the 50k? Check out how Soldier_Mike  and 🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace  are posting. They are doing it 2 different ways, but each is fine. I just need to know which contest and have a link to your entry. You decide how you want to do it. |
In case you missed it, Annette  is offering 15k GPs to anyone who sends Cranberremy Sauce  a merit badge!  "Note: [Embed 1AgZjtTsOFw7I8l9BO] Free Gift Points!..." Naturally, the MB must count for CRs. This means if you see the red warning when you are about to send it saying that you sent one to him recently, it won't count for community recognition and Annette won't pay you. But she probably will be patient if you contact her and tell her when you can send him the MB. |
Sorry, Winnie the Pooh  . I was hoping that the next paragraph explained it well enough, but I guess not. CR means community recognition. That's the numbers by our names. Winnie the Pooh  . Yours is currently 48. So while there are other ways to get CRs, the most common and easiest way is through MBs (merit badges). We now get MBs just for logging on every day, posting on the newsfeed every day, doing a review every day, posting in a forum every day, and posting in a blog (even if we are just commenting on someone else's) every day. Do that for 7 days in a row and you get a MB from WdC. You can also get them from friends if they send one to you at least 1 week and 1 minute from the last time they sent one to you. But if it wasn't sent at least 1 week and 1 minute from the last time they sent you one, they will see a red warning by your name as they are about to do the final confirmation. If they confirm the MB, you won't get a CR for that MB> You can send MBs to as many people as you want and they will all count, so long as it's not the same person within 7 days and 1 minute. Multiple people can send to the same person and they will all count. You can send 1 MB free to anyone you want every 30 days. The rules for CRs still count. If it's not your free MB, it costs 10k. I hope this helps! FYI, since I'm betting you don't send a lot of MBs and you probably aren't close friends with Cranberremy Sauce, your MB, if you send one, will count. It will probably also be free, unless you've sent a MB to someone in the last 30 days, so you get to keep all 15k, not just 5k. Yipee! If you participate, after you send the MB, you can forward the MB confirmation email to Annette. Her username for the email is just annette so it's easy to remember. |
🦃 intuey Grateful & Blessed  is looking renew her membership through a MB sale!CRs guaranteed, so you can order them all!!! She's got some rocking deals! You won't find any crazy 150k or 200k exclusive MBs in this sale! |
Schnujo  - No problem at all! Ugh! I have to get super busy catching up in the Contest challenge 🤞🥴🐜🙄🤗 |
Exciting Event in
We are hosting 10 contests and we want 5 entries for each contest. Thus, the 1st 5 people to enter all 10 contests and post all 10 entries in 1 post in "The Contest Challenge" forum will get 10k GPs! Post your entries with {post:#######}. I'm giving away 50k GPs -- 10k each to the 1st 5 people! Don't worry! November is the quick/short/easy contest month! It's still not easy, but I believe in you!
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Ooh, I can't do all ten (one is "missing"  ) but can I get 5k GPs for entering 5? Or more? |
| 1. "Daily Flash Fiction Challenge" 2. "Chapter One" 3. "Monsters Under The Bed" 4. "Thankful Poetry Contest" 5. "The Dialogue 500" 6. "Bite Size Poetry Contest" 7. "Writing 4 Kids" 8. "Hook of the Book" 9. "Starting Stories" 10. "The Prompt Me Contest" Amethyst Autumn Angel, if "Monsters Under The Bed" doesn't open soon, either I'll replace it or allow folks to do just 9. I don't really want to get into people choosing to do 5 because then some of the contests will still end up with not getting 5 entries as people will continue to have favorites. |
| I guess I can enter my own as an example / non compete? Thank you for the shout out / inclusion! |
Look what Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting  made!!!
Got a plot rolling around in your head that you know you'll never use? Drop it off here! Need a plot? Uh, well, there's not much to choose from yet, but hopefully soon! lol |
Scifiwizard Retired  and S🤦♂️ , I've added your forum to this one as a resource and I added a new idea to yours. |
S🤦♂️ is one of the folks on here who proudly makes his income from actually writing so please support him.In his blog post "20251031 External Writerings October 2025" , he lists 6 outside links that, if clicked, will take you to his outside music blog. No need to listen to the actual songs (though I'm sure that helps the artists, too) just click on the link above, then click on each album, wait a couple seconds, and click back, then click on the next link. This can all be done in under a minute and he gets paid for each click from a new IP address, so you'd be really helping him out! |
I found this and thought some folks might be interested.
You can share your social media links here. |
| Depends on what you are doing, N.A Miller . There are people making bank on things like TikTok Shop and Bookstagram (Instagram for books). But then there are those of us who just use it for connecting with friends and family. Use 2-factor authentication for safety and don't connect to strangers. I generally don't have too much trouble, myself. I'm sorry you have. |
Schnujo - very true. did that too but it seems they found a way around the two step method. i might try to get facebook acct back if they'd listen to me. Oh yes happy note i got a settlement with the class action suit against facebook. a whole $13.67 part of the settlement plus a $38.47 cent prepaid mastercard. (thinks the prepaid thing is a scam i can't tell) but hey money is money.  |
| N.A Miller , I have a friend who follows someone on social media that announces all those class action law suits and he enters everything he qualifies for. He won't be a millionaire from it, but he makes money. Some are tiny like yours. But sometimes it a few hundred and occasionally it's a few thousand. But even $13 is dinner at a fast food restaurant for him since he's single. Lol He often tells me I need to follow her. When I get done with my PhD, maybe. But for now, it's all I can do to follow my professors lol |
LAST DAY! LAST DAY!
But One Contest Still Needs One Entry!!!
Thank you for all your entries in the other 2 contests, though! YAY! Everyone else has 5, so we appreciate that! Now, let's get 5 entries for all 3 contests this month! Just one more entry... |
WOOHOO! Easy GPs-y |
| I KNOW, Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting ! I can't believe it took me 9 1/2 years to come up with that! But it was worth the wait. Hahaha! |
Looking for a quick and easy 1k GPs? Check out ruwth  's "Note:
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i will give 1000 gift point..." |
| This is the day where we can and should go around posting the "care" emoji on all of her posts. "Note: In case anyone missed this... Note #1137920 ..." I mean everything. Go back through all her old Newsfeed and forum posts and show her how much we care about her.  For those who want to also include the emoji in your comments, but don't use it much, here's the code to copy/paste for her. {e:care} She also recommends you use it for others, but I leave that to your discretion. Feel free to also email her all the "Care" emojis you want today! She'll love that you are celebrating her special day! Amethyst Autumn Angel  suggested we also send this beauty to her. How could she not feel cared about? ![Merit Badge in A Big Hug
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For the idea of sending [Link To User webwitch] a bunch of MBs because of her hatred of the "Care" emoji and her decision to host a National "Care Day" where we are all allowed to give her a Care emoji. <img loading="lazy" style="" class="emoteZ" src="https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/e21/care.png" alt="*Care*" title="Care" border=0 width=15 height=15> [Link to Note #1137920]](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/general-A_Big_Hug.gif) It's called "A Big Hug" so technically, we can send her this anytime. lol If you can't afford to send her a merit badge, I'll sponsor up to 5 people to send her one of these beauties, preferably with some liberally sprinkled "care" emojis included, though there's no obligation, of course. Let me know if you need help participating. It's limited to the 1st 5 people who contact me. Bonus Note: WebWiԎch is Thankful  is also hosting a fundraiser. 50k for her adorable exclusive MBs is a rocking deal! "Note: *Right* [Link to Note #1137959] *Left*
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WebWiԎch is Thankful has declared tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29 -- Already today for some of you) National "Care Day"!She doesn't like the "care" emoji because she thinks it looks like it is eating the heart. lol But she declared that tomorrow (Wednesday, October 29) we should use the "care" emoji on all the responses everywhere, no matter what they should be. (I think she's been drinking her own brew.) "Note: Public Witchy Announcement! Okay, I'..." IDK that it makes sense to do it on other people's, but I definitely plan to do it on her stuff...assuming I remember, of course. Hahaha! |
BƖųҽyҽʐ ꨄ  - It is difficult to make out details in such tiny flourishes to texts, emails, Newsfeeds, and such. It's particularly difficult on my postage-stamp size cellphone. Since you mention it, I can see where it looks like a Smiley sucking its thumb. In all honestly, I've always thought it looks like a Smiley hugging something I assumed was a heart. I knew it was 'giving a caring hug' and just use it as (I presume) it was intended. For me, the symbol is less important than the emotional message it conveys, "I care about you and so your cares are my cares." John Donne struck the construction fastener on the cranium in Meditation 17. A Smiley sucking its thumb would be the reverse side of the coin, meaning either 'things are a bit overwhelming just now' or 'this is dee-licious fried chicken!' |
Charles's Cornucopia 🦃  and Šuŋgmánitu Tȟáŋka  , you two are too funny! Well, Humble Poet PNG- 📓  , giving a friend a cookie is definitely supportive and caring! Glad I can help, ♥HOOves♥  . Be sure to join the fun today and send lots of "Care" emojis WW's way. lol Now that you mention it, BƖųҽyҽʐ ꨄ , I can see the thumb sucking, too. Hahaha! |
John Johnny Johnson sent me a MB yesterday. ![Merit Badge in Halloween
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It's that day when he comes back.
That poor old soul, that stupid Jack.
Will he find a house, grave, or nest?
Neither God nor Satan will let him rest.](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Halloween-2026567.gif) He went above and beyond by writing a poem for it, too! I loved the extra effort and the creative poem so he turned it into an item!
Not into poetry? It's only 4 lines. Check it out! |
| Thanks for the link, WebWiԎch is Thankful ! I was looking for that. It wasn't on my list of recent places since none of the black cases I'd reached out to had responded. Thank you, John Johnny Johnson ! Mostly, it makes me happy because I know it makes WebWiԎch is Thankful happy when we participate. No one wants to run an activity and have no one participating. lol I've only nominated 1 person all month, so you make #2. Thank you for that! Good luck! Maybe you'll win a MB! |
One Contest Still Needs Attention in
But You Can Still Enter the Others, of Course!
Who has a comfort or dessert recipe they want to share in a story?
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| Schnujo - Not only is there flash fiction, but then there is micro fiction. So teeny tiny for a story. Olivia's sprinting a novel  - I know how you feel. I am a novel writer so all of my "stories" for contests here end up being scenes or part of a scene. Back to prep I go too.  |
Schnujo - Dawn Embers  just caught it perfectly. We are novelists. We don't do flash or micro, we do epic (she even more as she does fantasy). The shortest story I remember in a long time was 1.800 words. But that's how things go with writers – some are epics, some are flashers, some are micros.  |
| Well, Olivia's sprinting a novel I don't call it The Contest Challenge for nothing. Hahaha! Good luck with whatever you choose! |
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Definitely check out "Note: 
I couldna resist the fried chicken bit. 
These writers may be the same ones (or would have been the same) as those early adopters of self-publishing, those who self-published wonderful stories that were very poorly written. I've purchased quite a few of those over the years, ones that I thought, "Wow! This could really be a great book, if only the person had graduated from high school" or whatever.
Maybe it's these same (type of) passionate storytellers that are now learning to use AI? IDK, but I really like your questions. I still don't think it's the formula, though you mentioned maybe it's deviating from the formula in a way readers like.
Intriguing idea and that is possible. It's a new way of thinking -- AI-human-hybrid thinking. That could be part of the secret. Things that make me go, "Hmmm..."
But I still think part of it is simply that a human and AI together can create good stories faster than a human alone and most folks aren't looking for The Next Great (insert country of origin) Novel. They are looking for a book they will enjoy. If you and AI can create that together and replicate that process with new plots and characters over and over, it only makes sense you'd make more money.
The writer is still directing the AI. A terrible writer is still a terrible writer with AI. Yes, maybe not AS terrible, but they don't magically become a best selling author because they use AI. lol But as he says in the video, if you are a 2 or a 10, with AI, the 10 becomes a 20 while the 2 only becomes a 4.
I love how deeply you're making me think about this, though I need to go to the VA medical center so I'll just have to ponder more on the drive. Lucky you, no more responses. Hahaha!