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People think my CTO @sanjuruk is scrolling Instagram here. He’s actually running agents, his code editor, and a terminal, all from his iPhone. That’s how we’re building our next feature at @MythrilHQ.

Authors should start putting deleted scenes in their newsletters like how movies drop deleted scenes and you end up watching two characters do nothing for 10 mins because you just miss them i want that for books. the scene that got cut, the ending that almost happened, whatever i'd honestly read all of it. sometimes i don't need another book, i just want more time w the characters We already wrote them anyway, they're just sitting in a folder somewhere.

What if AI doesn’t kill writing? What if it kills trust in writing? Because that’s the part nobody seems to be talking about. If readers, publishers, platforms and marketplaces start using AI detectors to decide what’s “human,” we’re going to end up with a very strange problem. A completely human book can be treated as suspicious. And an AI generated book can pass. So what exactly are we measuring?

Books need a dating app. Imagine swiping through books like you’re on Tinder. “Looking for someone emotionally unavailable?” Romance. “Tired of men who don’t communicate?” Here’s a 400-page fictional man who also doesn’t communicate but somehow you’ll forgive him. “Want to get your heart broken?” We have an entire section for that. Imagine being able to filter books by: how badly they’re going to ruin your life whether the love interest is actually worth it how long you’ll stare at the ceiling after finishing the probability of a second-book emotional crisis And the reviews wouldn’t be stars. They’d be: “Would let this book ruin my life again.” “Red flag. Read it in one sitting.” “Loved the first 80%. Then it emotionally manipulated me.” “Still not over the ending. It’s been three years.” Honestly, readers are already in toxic relationships with fictional characters. We might as well help them find their next one.

Amazon punishes you for pricing your ebook above $9.99. Price it b/w $2.99 and $9.99 and you keep 70 percent. 
Price it at $10 and you keep 35 percent. Your 600-page epic fantasy that took four years? 
Amazon has decided it is worth the same as a novella. So every author prices low.
Readers expect cheap books.
And the cycle keeps going. Who actually decides what a book is worth anymore?

A reader can finish your entire 300-page novel and you get about $1.45. That is Kindle Unlimited. Readers pay one monthly fee and read as much as they want. 
Authors get paid per page read. Less than half a cent a page. Spotify did this to musicians. 
Now it is happening to writers. And thousands of authors still enroll every month. 
Because if you are not in it, you are invisible. Is Kindle Unlimited saving indie authors or quietly underpaying them?

Traditional publishing is the only industry where giving away most of your money counts as ‘making it.’ You spend years writing the book. You find an agent. You wait another year or two to see it on a shelf. Then you usually get 10 to 15 percent on print and about 25 percent of net on ebooks. And your agent takes 15 percent of that. Self-publish the same ebook on Amazon and you can keep 70 percent at most normal prices. And still, a lot of writers only feel like "real" authors once a publisher says yes. Okay i get it. The bookstores, the editor who believes in you, the validation. That stuff matters. But at some point we have to ask if we want the career or the badge. Like be honest. If a publisher offered you a deal tmw, would you take it?

By chapter 300, the problem is not ideas.
It is memory. Which side character owes who a favor.
What the ring looked like 200 chapters ago.
Which power the MC already used. Readers remember all of it. 
And they will tell you in the comments. A traditional novelist can reread one book before writing the sequel. 
A web novelist cannot reread the whole series every week. That is where AI actually helps. 
Not writing. 
Remembering. So why is the AI debate always about novelists drafting chapter one?

Your worldbuilding doc is the best thing you've ever written, and nobody will ever read it Years of history. Maps. Family trees. The reason the war started. The side character you love more than your main one And readers get maybe a tenth of it, because the book can only hold so much What if you could have something that turns your story world into something readers can actually ask questions. Characters, places, lore. That only answers from what you actually wrote, nothing made up Like literally anything you haven't revealed yet stays locked until you're ready This way your worldbuilding finally gets read I would like to know, what's the one thing in your doc you'd want readers to find first?

Most writers talk about writing way more than they actually write Word count posts, craft threads, the whole outlining vs pantsing fight, character playlists Meanwhile the doc has not been opened in like three weeks I am not judging, I do it too But at some point talking about the book turns into the thing you do instead of writing it Be honest, when did you last actually write?

Fantasy fans don't live in books anymore. The official D&D Discord: about 307K members One D&D subreddit: 3.3M members Avrae, a D&D bot, says it's been used by 5M+ people across 500K+ servers Sanderson fans built a whole searchable database of every question he's ever answered None of that is reading. That's people trying to live inside a world Meanwhile authors are still treating the book like it's the whole product It's not. It's the front door Whoever builds what's behind that door wins the next 10 years of fiction.

Brandon Sanderson drops a new Cosmere book tmw By tmw night half the fandom will be on the Coppermind trying to figure out what they just read That's not the book failing. That's how badly ppl want the world Readers finish a Sanderson book with 50 new questions He knows every answer. Readers just can't ask him That's exactly what I'm building a feature called Wander for.

The authors who say they hate AI are the ones who use it the most Half of authors use it, and most of them hide it. Do the math I'll go first. I'm an author and I use AI Not to write my books, I'd never do that, I use it when I can't remember what color a character's eyes were in book 1, what year the war started, or what I named that random tavern 200 pages ago That's it, that's the whole scandal But say that out loud on writing Twitter and you're suddenly a traitor So everyone uses it quietly and posts "I would never" in public Feels a little dishonest to me #Authors #writerscommunity #writers #ttrpg #lrpg

Novels are the worst way to experience a fantasy world.

Building something for authors who have way more worldbuilding than their books can hold. Readers want it and we’re making it possible. Coming soon. mythril.io

What if finishing a book wasn’t the end of the conversation? You finish the last chapter. You love the characters. You’re curious about the world. You have 15 questions the book never had room to answer. So what do you do?

Maki Zenin slaughtered her entire family, and Jujutsu Kaisen fans still can't agree if she was right She killed her father. She wiped out the zenin elders. The same family that called her worthless for having no cursed energy her whole childhood Some people call it the most earned moment in the manga. other people call it a massacre with a sympathetic backstory slapped on top Full breakdown of what actually happened and why nobody agrees → [app.mythril.io/u/mythril-wri… ]