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BetterFuckChuck said:
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Can you post the sentence you're trying to use it in with some context?
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BetterFuckChuck said:
Ive been looki g for a word that escapes me so far. It’s somewhat related to evolution or promotion, typically used to refer to higher, more enlightened beings, but elevate, uplift and the like are not what im looking for. Ive check multiple synonym sites and had no luck
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Metamorphosis?
 
A little late to the discussion about exercises to improve but if you want to practice writing itself without the added task of making characters and "lore", try writing nonfiction. It doesn't have to be a detailed history on an ancient empire, just choose a topic you are knowledgeable about and write about it. Write some for a reader not familiar with the subject matter, and some for a reader who is. That last part is so you can practice knowing your audience and when to hold back. You wouldn't explain the basics of your topic to someone with similar experience to you, and you wouldn't distract a beginner with advanced theory or obscure historical figures.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
Any of all y'all using AI as a writing assistant? Not for whole paragraphs or anything because that's kind of lame for creative writing, but more as a beta reader to tell you when something sucks and give you ideas on how to fix it.
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It doesn’t seem like a great idea to me given how AI can be pretty stupid a lot of the time.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
Any of all y'all using AI as a writing assistant? Not for whole paragraphs or anything because that's kind of lame for creative writing, but more as a beta reader to tell you when something sucks and give you ideas on how to fix it.
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I tried it once. It does okay, overall. It gave some decent advice and said: "this is what's good, your writing is dramatic, lots of tension" but then it went full retard and said: "you used the word tempest while talking about a man's mental state. This might be confusing to readers because there's not an ocean."
I hate it. I'd rather give it to a human that you don't have to keep giving context to because it is acting autistic.
I would recommend finding a friend or a farmer to beta read for you.
 
Grand Duke Snowfall said:
It doesn’t seem like a great idea to me given how AI can be pretty stupid a lot of the time.
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I've found the local Gemma 4 model I'm using to be surprisingly literate. Not saying I'd use it uncritically, but it actually provides decent feedback on how to improve things if you ask it.

Elf Supremacist said:
I tried it once. It does okay, overall. It gave some decent advice and said: "this is what's good, your writing is dramatic, lots of tension" but then it went full retard and said: "you used the word tempest while talking about a man's mental state. This might be confusing to readers because there's not an ocean."
I hate it. I'd rather give it to a human that you don't have to keep giving context to because it is acting autistic.
I would recommend finding a friend or a farmer to beta read for you.
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I will never allow my shitty and autistic fanfiction (safe for work, but shitty and autistic) to be linked to any other identity I have. My parents taught me shame.

NSA said:
Im just paranoid about the AI stealing my ideas.
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Again, local models. I would never use a remote hosted model for, well... anything. Glows too bright.
 
Elf Supremacist said:
it went full retard
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This has generally been my experience as well. Admittedly, I've used it if I get stuck on how to progress a scene. It can be pretty helpful for coming up with transitions or ideas for the next scene. It's like throwing darts at a wall, and even when it comes up with a good idea I have to change it pretty drastically. But with almost everything else I find it to be near useless. It gets oddly fixated on certain words, it hates prose, it doesn't understand symbolism, it can't grasp subtlty of any kind, and it doesn't even do a good job of checking your grammar. In case you were all wondering, chatgpt literally does not know how to use a semicolon unless you specifically ask it to define it, and even then it will mess up. AI is near useless (right now) and people who have hopped on the hype train are marks.
 
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in honor of doomsdale and in wanting of attention and rating, here's my fanfiction of him
 
Getting back into the swing of things after a series of distractions.

Here's an excerpt (not for the faint of shart)

If Gravity's own gonads produced gametes with which to breed an ancient yet new instance of the so-called Last Man, If banality were a womb and insipidness a placenta, If sourést ressentiment milk seeping from autism's teat, well, our meagre moldy mutt would be the end result of such quasi-semitic spurdo-spardaeic somnambulism & botulism also. Never to wuther but merely to churn the venomous sea of milk seething over each solitary niggerpenny. Always only getting the secondworst head too needfully done by the hijra hadji hot snake charmer. Disgraced, diseaséd, and down so much worse than bad. An invocation, a witless autismal autumnal inbred infant baying in anticipation of the living end. None need atone, None need atone, None need atone shall be both measure and maxim and ceaseless mantra by which this beniggeréd world must needs become — MY — Ashtray.
 
my penis is on fire said:
I have a fairly general question, for which I'm looking for fairly general answers.
How do you write an abrasive, unlikeable main character without turning him into the guy from YiiK?
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Take a look at the Flashman series by George Macdonald Fraser.

He’s a scoundrel and coward and manages to bumble and scheme his way through the Anglo-Afghan war of the 1830s.

He’s a great character and despite being a dirtbag his adventures and schemes keep you reading more.

The big question is why do we as readers want to spend time with your protagonist? If he’s too awful then why bother? We meet jerks every day in real life.
 
my penis is on fire said:
I have a fairly general question, for which I'm looking for fairly general answers.
How do you write an abrasive, unlikeable main character without turning him into the guy from YiiK?
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I don't know anything about YiiK, but if you're writing about miserable fucked up retards you have to lean into the absurdity of their lives or make them into punching bags to trigger some level of sadism or pity depending on the reader. When you focus on someone no one should/will like your goal is to torture them, the reader, or both. If that's the kind of story you want to tell, you have to throw the capeshit/hero's journey mentality out the window entirely and be an even bigger dickhead than the character you're writing in how you structure the story because it has to be cruel, aggravating, or both to be effective.
 
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