True enough — I suppose even making paper introduces industrial contamination. We’ll need to carve our stories into bark with ethically sourced twigs. No electricity, no tools, just pure artisanal authenticity.

Coming soon to a theater near you — "The Purity Paradox". Oh wait....that would require electricity, at the least. Absolutely forbidden! Never, I say! Never!!

Over in WYSIWYG Web Builder, there is a 'Wrap Text" container. Wrap margins can be set also. Copilot suggested a bit of HTML in lieu or the Wrap Text container...possibly for WP, but I haven't tried that in WebPlus to see if it would work.

I don't see anything in WWB that addresses autoflow, however.

<img src="yourimage.jpg" style="float:left; margin:10px;">

@ozdesigner99 On YouTube, you'll find some old videos by Greg Hughes regarding 90 Second Web Builder (a white label version of WYSIWYG Web Builder that is no longer being offered). There are three particular related videos on building a responsive site with Layout Grids. These are quite old vids, but still totally relevant to WWB, and Greg does an excellent job of showing how to build a responsive site.  Well worth your time, I suspect, and if you don't happen to own WWB, Pablo always seems to have pretty good pricing and specials that make the entry affordable.  You'll find that WWB has a lot of similarities to WebPlus, just with more control. I'm busy finally making the jump, even though I first bought WWB at version 15.  Here we are at v20, and I'm finally getting my head around it.  Very pleased so far, especially having remembered Greg Hughes' vids.

We're 12 months into v20 now, and Pablo often keeps about a 15 to 18-month cycle on new versions, but offers price protections for those who have recently purchased WWB.  Makes it pretty easy to jump in at any point.  As of this post, just $44.95 USD.

The first of Greg's three vids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VncgH_cPVM

Greg actually has around 40 vids devoted to WWB (aka 90 second website builder). You'll find lots of useful info.  Good luck. By the way, I took a look at your website, and it looks like it would be pretty easy to replicate in WWB.  There's a bit of a learning curve, but with your WPX8 experience, you'll transition easily enough.

HTH

This is great stuff.

I've had some time to think more about this, and especially after some of this terrific input, if we are looking at a time when the IP separates from the labor of typing....and, perhaps we're already there. 

There is no doubt that AI can produce the book faster than a human, but without good input the GIGO rule applies. To that end, let me try to apply a couple of arbitrary rules to the conversation. 

First: Input or prompt:  With this prompt, "Write a 50,000 word novella about a detective in the Canadian woods". There is no doubt that any one of the AI bots could do it....in seconds...but it would be, as noted, drek.  But, with a perfect prompt....perhaps a 10-page document of world building, dialog and narrative sample, locale description, character description, etc, etc.....the perfect prompt, in other words, that the AI bot would not only be able to produce the requested novel, but a pretty darned good one, that might require limited editing.

So, the first question is, "Does the author of the future become a prompt engineer, who spends maybe days creating the perfect prompt (The Unique IP, my definition) while allowing AI to do what AI does best, the labor of producing the document?"  this seems to beg the question of where is the author's value. The IP or the labor of typing?

Then, I can't help but go to the question of whether there is value in the IP that the author could monetize, instead of the labor of typing and editing, which feels more like sunk cost than value.  In other words, is there a market for the IP alone....because the value of the labor has been reduced to nearly zero by AI?

I'm on a roll here, so let me throw this out there. What are the values of the following prompts?
1. A single sentence prompt. "Write a 50,000 word novella about a detective in the Canadian woods"
2. A 5-page prompt with some world building, dialog, locale, etc, about a detective in the Canadian woods.
3. A 20-page prompt (more expansive than #2) about a space alien assuming the persona of a detective in the Canadian woods and using Arhenium-ion powered, mind-reading light sabers to solve a series of gruesome murders in the Canadian woods.
4. An 80 to 100-page prompt that covers a 750 year history of a intergenerational family of detectives who start with nothing more than Spruce rods to brutally extract crime solutions, but end as a trilogy of stories about the development of a hand-worn electronic glove that can extract a confession from a suspect, without the suspect even knowing the glove has been applied, and thereby ending all murders in the Canadian woods.

...and, the same question as above. Is there a point where a publisher might be willing to purchase the IP, not the finished manuscript? And, by the same token, can you see the writing industry morphing into an IP Prompt Engineering effort?

Mind you, I'm not talking about the author who writes for the love of writing.  I'm talking about the writer who has no desire to go either the traditional or self-publishing route....the writer who started strong, but has lost interest or available time to finish....the writer who has no intention of writing the story at all, but has very good, even excellent story core ideas. Is there a way for that writer to still make money in an AI-driven world? If you could write that 20-page prompt in a week, would you be willing to sell all the rights to the completion of the story? Even if the story changed through AI? Even if the story never saw the light of day? If so, at what price?

If I could be paid $5 or $10 for the single sentence prompt, I'd churn out 20 - 30 per day. I could write a 20-page prompt in a week. Maybe I'd do those for $750. That 50-page prompt, done really well and expansively might take me the better part of a month, but $5000 would certainly entice me.  That JK Rowling-level 100 page prompt, with all of it's unique genre-bending world development is going to take me a minimum of six months...maybe 12 months.  $30,000 t0 $50,000 better be on the table.

Is that our future?  Is the IP valuable at any point short of a full manuscript?

I too remember MikeW, and I'm still in touch with MJH (aka: Marilyn) although it's been sporadic. She seems well and happy.

All valid points, @dcr. I certainly came across similar sentiments while poking around Reddit. While I don't have too many writer friends, I hear that same message in their own self-criticisms, "Well, I guess I just need to sit down and write."  I've said the same words. Thanks for taking the time to comment. It's difficult to express how valuable your comment is. Thanks again.

I'm really looking for the reasons that have stopped a potential writer from completing their story idea.  I polled my sibs, a couple who have had expressed desires to write 'the great American novel'.  Time was mentioned. Plus, there was the excuse of running out of ideas, structure, direction, after just a couple of chapters. I visited Reddit and found a whole lot of answers that fell into similar categories (time, structure).  I also ran into validation issues. ("My family won't even read what I wrote), and ("My writing got slammed, and I never wrote another word.").  Then, there were a couple of honest admissions ("Even I thought my writing was boring and lifeless.").

I'm just curious. I have my own reasons and 'time/energy' are at the top of the list, followed closely by how one tackles the publishing gauntlet.

I'm tinkering around with the idea of a platform to help creative people monetize the core idea of their unfinished stories, addressing the common problem that time, fear, and lack of readership often prevent great concepts from ever being completed. This platform would be designed as a low-risk, high-value exit ramp for those brilliant concepts, allowing creators to get paid and receive market validation for their ideas without having to write a full novel.

Biographies have all been handed in. So, I've started my weekend by creating bio cards for each character.  I have one interview today, with a caveman, 'Thag the Wordsmith'.  They were some of the earliest writers after all.

Working on the Cast page today. Still a WIP.

https://storychopped.com/page3.html

Well, Alfred, you convinced me.  Quick trip over to the local High School, and we drafted Aikin for the season.