…that’s only half of it.
And in what will be Book 8 we have two characters with major secrets. One of whom you’ve already met in my short story ‘The Choosing of Avisèd’, where their secret is hinted at.
theshatteredmoon.substack.com/p/the-choosi...

…industrialised theft that underpins generative AI is just one part of it. Creatives need to stand up for the rights of other creatives.

…inspiration. I’ve written plenty (mostly on Substack) about mine, I’d like to see more about other people’s.

…Dawnsingers have reserved the best education and the best healthcare for themselves and it’s probably not sustainable much longer.

…value-judgment. The various 'genres' are now mainly commercial product-labels to make life easy for lazy readers, lazy critics, and the Sales Departments of publishers.'
Ursula K Le Guin

…furniture polish.
Then, too, like most homes in this world, it’s heated mostly by open fires, burning either logs or charcoal. (Central heating is very new-fangled and unreliable.)

…characters;
Stories that don’t show respect for language;
Stories with commas where semi-colons are needed;
And, sadly, because it’s where we are now, stories not written by humans.
At least mine are 100% human-made.

…and still didn’t reach any simple answer…
theshatteredmoon.substack.com/p/a-long-road