Recent content by skip.knox

Not at all awkward. The historian who is uncomfortable being corrected on points of fact really ought to find another occupation. The two quotes taken together helps with my attitude toward my own writing. I do need to plan; I'm unable to start a novel (or even a short story) without planning...

Here is the best way to stress test your worldbuilding: write a novel. Seriously. You can have multiple sets of eyes on your worldbuilding. You'll make all sorts of revisions as a result. Then you'll start to write and the damn thing will unravel in places you didn't even know were places. I...

LotR absolutely is the better movie. I still remember reading Sam Delaney's review of the movie in the magazine Cosmos. He hits the target on the movie's strengths and shortcomings. Harlan Ellison didn't like it, but ol' Harlan disliked a great many things. His critique said much the same thing...

The phrase "use AI" begs for clarification. The easy part is, Human fed one or more prompts into an AI engine with the express intent of getting back a complete story. Look back through this and related threads and you'll see that is how the phrase most often gets used, especially by those who...

>The question I'd ask is what actual benefit do you get from using these more writer based programs? Because if it was me using them, I'd probably spend days just updating the cast, world build, magic systems and everything else, instead of writing the book. Valid question. I was pretty...

Shirer is great. He was a journalist posted in Berlin in the 1930s and even traveled to the front during the war. I listened to the book as well, but under different circumstances: it was on vinyl. Twenty-four disks, if memory serves. Anyway, I recommend a second book, also excellent but from a...

I'm a bit more optimistic about the art side, more pessimistic about the commercial side. Artists will always make their own stuff. They are driven to it and, as others have noted, letting someone else do the work negates the whole effort. Use AI to produce a novel, or hire a ghost writer, or...

Mad Swede I'm not real optimistic about AI being an advance. Just fundamental change. I agree, too, that AI tech should be controlled, probably by governments in the same way they oversee other critical national resources. (though, AI may well prove to be the first world resource, making...

I'm not looking for a free pass. I'm trying to be clear about what historically is happening here. This is a fundamental shift, on a par with steam or electricity. It's axiomatic that this process will be destructive in many ways and that it will be driven by people indifferent to consequences...

Speaking of nuance, AI is not actually doing the stealing. Corporations operated by human beings are doing the stealing. It would be entirely possible for the corporations running AI to have taken the time to contact each and every author and had the morality to pay ... *snort* *guffaw* ...

Well, I guess this means the OP is doomed, forever poisoned by the original sin of actually having used AI. There's no coming back from that. There's no un-thinking the thoughts that person has already thought. Pity all the poor creative writing students, for they have all touched the poison, at...

What if, as I believe is the case here, the individual uses AI at the front end--to create a sketch, an outline, or even a rough draft. Then the individual uses that as a starting point to rewrite, possibly several times? Will the result still be misshapen clay? Doesn't that belittle the effort...

>now my story is actually expanding Do you mean that Claude is doing the expanding, or that you are doing it? >at first i didn't feel like a fraud bc it was fanfiction This is odd. Do you mean that if it's fanfiction you don't actually have to be serious about the writing? Because lots of folks...

>Anything can work if you write it well. This. Forget about the mechanics for a while. What matters is how the characters react to the mechanics. So, as others on this thread have suggested, just invent *something*, set up a scene, and concentrate on what happens and how people react. I used a...

Do you mean get noticed on Wattpad or get your work noticed more generally? It's somewhere between devilishly difficult and even more difficult. But you coudl enter a search string like "how do I get my book noticed on wattpad" and the range of answers will give you a notion of the difficulty.