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The best place to publish and discover awesome fiction
I have just launched Fiction Hub — the new platform for publishing fiction:
The goal of Fiction Hub is to make it easy for writers to master their craft and find their audience, and make it easy for readers to discover awesome fiction.
Write and Publish your stories
Use our awesome distraction-free editor to write your stories:
(a summary of everything I have learned during the first 3 years of learning to write fiction)
Story Structure
I wanted to figure out how does the process of writing a Rick and Morty episode look like, and here’s the information I could assemble.
They have 3 boards in the writer’s room:
Using Nulis and /r/WritingPrompts to overcome writer’s block, write fiction daily, have fun, and rapidly improve your skills
In this article I will share a simple, step by step writing process that has helped me to break through my writer’s block, and gave me the confidence in my ability to write regularly. I hope that it will help aspiring writers to develop their skills in the fastest, most fun way possible.
My biggest dream in life is to master the art of writing fiction — to expertly create imaginary worlds and witty, insightful ideas. I desperately want to become a great writer, but the process of practicing this craft turned out to be way more difficult than I…
Create brilliant stories with clarity and flow
Let’s face it — writing is fucking hard, and often boring. I love Science Fiction and Comedy, and I desperately want to become a great writer, but staring at a blank page is goddamn excruciating, and once I manage to come up with the initial idea, crafting a story very quickly becomes overwhelming.
There’s just so much information to manage — plots, multiple storylines, character ideas, worldbuilding details, megabytes of thoughts that will never make it even into the first draft, but were still generated by my caffeine-infused brain. …
you can arbitrage not just products, but also information, knowledge, skill, or even human relationships
This is an extremely useful idea that I’ve learned just recently. In fincance, “arbitrage” means buying and selling things in different markets to take the advantage of difference in price. Like buying a toy in India for $15, and then selling it for $25 in the US.
Turns out, you can arbitrage not just products, but also information, knowledge, skill, or even human relationships.
For example, let’s say you have met two amazing people who don’t know each other. …
Just my vague crackpot theory =) Maybe it’s obvious to experts, probably has flaws. But it seems to make sense to me, perhaps will give you some ideas. I would love to hear your thoughts/feedback!
Consume input
The data you need from the world(like video), and useful metrics we want to optimize for, like number of paperclips in the world.
Make predictions and take action
Like deep learning does.
How do human brains convert their structure into action?
Maybe like:
- Take the current picture of the world as an input.
- Come up with random action.
- “Imagine” what will happen. …
(explained in 5 minutes or less)
API stands for Application Programming Interface. Basically, it’s something that allows different programs to interact with each other.
For the most part, when we talk about APIs on the web, we mean REST APIs. REST stands for “Representational state transfer”. REST is an underlying architecture, designed with the purpose to make the calls between computers simple.
It works the same way all websites do — the client sends a request to the server, and receives a response. The response is simply some data in JSON format, which makes it easy to use and interpret…
(explained in 5 minutes or less)
You’ve probably seen messages like this one:
