Thanks to the positive encourage here and in my email, I've decided to go the self-publishing route. I setup a pre-order page and will release each chapter as I go. :)
Happy New Years, HN.
Happy New Years, HN.
Ironically though, your reply has another similar one. You read books every day; reading books is an everyday activity for you.
- set up [1] (notice that it's a verb)
- setup [2] (notice that it's a noun)
- Phrasal verbs [3]
Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's mostly stuff one needs to know by heart, but I think it's often that the noun is the one that is all in one word and the verb is the phrasal one (composed of "base" and the particle, in several words). Note: I'm not a native English speaker.
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/set_up#English
Write a sentence and ask it it is correct, if it is idiomatic, and to explain rules behind it.
Edit: actually, either way works, except when using with a pronoun. So, you can 'set it up', but you can't 'set up it'.
You can, however, set up us the bomb.
On the other hand, LLMs are very bad writing partners, they are sycophants and very rarely give substantial criticism, the kind of feedback an editor would give and is mentioned in the article.
This is the substantial service an editor will provide going forward in the AI slop era, where everyone and their grandma will self publish some personal masterpiece: a contact with the real world and setting the bar high, to the point you need to struggle to achieve the required quality. Writing a book, especially finishing a great book, is not supposed to be enjoyable, it's hard, grueling work.
If you can't finish a partial manuscript when you have people reaching out to you and reviewers ready to provide feedback, how confident can I be that you'll actually write when you have a faceless pre-order instead? Or will life just get in the way again?
Considering all the confusion and questions in this comment section, maybe he should have been more open to an editor.