: Re: What pronoun to use for a sentient, self aware AI? I have a sentient AI in a story. He sentience aspect is mostly an unexpected result and some characters in the story do not believe it.

In Dickens' David Copperfield, the protagonist, David, is given many nicknames by the other characters. These nicknames do not reflect aspects of young David's personality or actions, but they do tell the reader something about the characters who bestow those nicknames.
I think you might approach this question in a similar fashion. To those who do not believe the AI is sentient, the AI is an "it", while those who do credit the AI with sentience will also bestow on it a gender of their choosing. To a female character, the AI may be a "she/her", while a male character may call the AI "he/him" and a trans character (if you have one in your story) may refer to the AI as "they".

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: So you've got a solo Zeus girl living in a New York orphanage, but you don't have a solo Zeus girl enemy. That can make for a rather dull story, so I'll try to help you out. The easiest

: If you're a writer, you're probably aware that there are generally two ways you can create a hero/villain conflict: Active Hero, Passive Villain: The hero is trying to get X, and the villain

: The pacing was unearthly slow When people disparage stories as "too slow" what that often translates as is a lack of engaging content - the stuff that makes you feel that the story

: Is it a good idea to pause a plot while doing a few one-offs and then going back? This is for my webcomic, and I'm trying my best to keep it about writing, sorry if it's off-topic or something.

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