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The Writing Thread
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Don't. Just relax and let the ideas arrive. If you're really struggling then sleep on it, take a shower, blood will rush to your head and ideas tend to happen. If you're really desperate then get high and see what happens.
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I think I am almost done with the outside of the dreamscape (Next I will be moving on to the city of Kadath's world building).
I am thinking about giving Randolph a guide who is also from the Lovecraft Mythos: Richard Pickman.
Instead of being a painter from the get go, I want him to strife to become a doctor like the rest of his family, Using the technique of accessing the dreamscape which have been passed on for generations to use its lucidity to study more.
He will draw crude drawings of the human body and its internal organs in sand as a way to do this.
In the Lovecraft Mythos, He only is known as a ghoul painter, but never really explained how he became one in the first place.
I am trying to make him an "Non-traditional Ghoul" by him surviving an acid attack and becoming disfigured in the process, and due to paranoia and shame goes into hiding and takes painting up as a hobby.
It sounds very gay, but I often use chatGPT as a small practice tool.
I feed it stories or scenarios of my stories to see what it has to say and what I can improve.
Do specify though that you do not want anything added to the story, as it tends to write the story for you.
I often to this during my IT job during quiet hours.
I am thinking about giving Randolph a guide who is also from the Lovecraft Mythos: Richard Pickman.
Instead of being a painter from the get go, I want him to strife to become a doctor like the rest of his family, Using the technique of accessing the dreamscape which have been passed on for generations to use its lucidity to study more.
He will draw crude drawings of the human body and its internal organs in sand as a way to do this.
In the Lovecraft Mythos, He only is known as a ghoul painter, but never really explained how he became one in the first place.
I am trying to make him an "Non-traditional Ghoul" by him surviving an acid attack and becoming disfigured in the process, and due to paranoia and shame goes into hiding and takes painting up as a hobby.
It sounds very gay, but I often use chatGPT as a small practice tool.
I feed it stories or scenarios of my stories to see what it has to say and what I can improve.
Do specify though that you do not want anything added to the story, as it tends to write the story for you.
I often to this during my IT job during quiet hours.
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Using AI to help with writing isn't bad but you really have to stay on top of it and ensure it's not trash.
Anyways Kiwifrens, wrote a bit. I'm not sure what refinements I could make to it.
Memories linger in the twilight
Shadows fall on mountain heights.
Praised in peace and praised in war,
Now I wander, limbs grown sore.
Heavy head and blood-stained ground,
Battle's echoes all around.
Through the fray, I did survive,
Whispers haunt me, still alive.
Wars are done, I'm out of place,
Children's laughter, distant grace.
Her voice guides me through the pain,
Buys me moments, light again.
Haunted by the scars I bear,
In the stillness, grasping air.
Night enfolds me, clutch her name,
In this peace, I feel the flame.
Though peace abounds, it feels afar,
With her love, I'll mend each scar.
Shadows fall on mountain heights.
Praised in peace and praised in war,
Now I wander, limbs grown sore.
Heavy head and blood-stained ground,
Battle's echoes all around.
Through the fray, I did survive,
Whispers haunt me, still alive.
Wars are done, I'm out of place,
Children's laughter, distant grace.
Her voice guides me through the pain,
Buys me moments, light again.
Haunted by the scars I bear,
In the stillness, grasping air.
Night enfolds me, clutch her name,
In this peace, I feel the flame.
Though peace abounds, it feels afar,
With her love, I'll mend each scar.
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Don't use ai to write. It never ends well.
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AI's becoming an increasingly helpful tool in writing, especially on the grammatical side of things. My word processor's slow-as-hell AI spellcheck is excellent at picking up typos and errors I've missed.
Aside from that, I came to lament that I've barely been able to write since becoming a mother. It was my greatest passion, my obsession, and now I fear the talent I had is slipping. Having a child changed my brain on a physiological level.
I never quite feel as though I can immerse myself while I'm at my toddler's beck-and-call. I know it'll get better someday as the kid ages, but I just found out I'm having another one, so my intellect's gonna go out the window all over again. Pregnancy retardation/fog/zombification is very real, and it hampered my writing ability for months. Since I can hardly write anymore, I've resorted to turn-based games and movies to keep myself sane.
Some advice to other creatives out there, apart from the obvious "having kids makes writing hard" advice—be extremely careful with psychiatric medications because they can take a piece of your soul away.
I was on a few different things after postpartum depression hit me like a truck. I'm not as creative or imaginative anymore, despite being clean for nearly a year
If I could somehow turn back the clock, I would've never taken that stuff. Your mind usually snaps back from growing babies, but not from pharmacuetical poisons.
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novelai can write the marvel goyslop of my dreams completely unrestricted and uncensored. the future is now old man
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Yeah it's legit, I've seen it happen with my mrs who had a rough pregnancy. She's a musician and lost all creative interest. I came to find that I had the same problem too because if we're not broken mother nature knows best that we have a baby to take care of. My creativity's only come back in the last few months after my daughter turned 2 and I sorted out our life problems.Aside from that, I came to lament that I've barely been able to write since becoming a mother. It was my greatest passion, my obsession, and now I fear the talent I had is slipping. Having a child changed my brain on a physiological level.
I never quite feel as though I can immerse myself while I'm at my toddler's beck-and-call. I know it'll get better someday as the kid ages, but I just found out I'm having another one, so my intellect's gonna go out the window all over again. Pregnancy retardation/fog/zombification is very real, and it hampered my writing ability for months. Since I can hardly write anymore, I've resorted to turn-based games and movies to keep myself sane.
Some advice to other creatives out there, apart from the obvious "having kids makes writing hard" advice—be extremely careful with psychiatric medications because they can take a piece of your soul away.
I was on a few different things after postpartum depression hit me like a truck. I'm not as creative or imaginative anymore, despite being clean for nearly a year
I'll die by ProWritingAid and Grammerly. I won't die by entire story generators.
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For the life of me I cannot use either Grammarly or ProWritingAid.
Grammarly sometimes gives the most retarded suggestions, and ProWritingAid often has issues with scanning my document and tries to overlay it even in vidya I play.
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That's the distinction people need to be aware of. When people hear AI in the context of writing, they think "entire story generators" but even Grammarly's utilizing AI to enhance their service. There's nothing immoral about using it as a spellchecker or grammar checker.
Agreed. Grammarly is so fucking stupid even with its AI integration that it's not worth it to me. ProWritingAid is a pain in the ass like you said. I can't wait until all these tools are refined, snappy, and inexpensive—I super hate Grammarly though. My angst toward it started when it was still in its infancy, and everytime I've gone back to it thinking it had to've improved, it's still retarded.
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Fucking up your grammar and verbiage is part of the experience of writing. It's how you learn to get better. Don't use ai.
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I am a newbie and i came for some questions since i'm trying to make a comic. Now personally my problem is mainly more so drawing it and finishing it because i either fuck ink up or poses trad so i'll try digitally and if it don't work i am returning to small gag comics so i am not promising it being finished but i'd like to know about few things:
1. How long should character descriptions be?
If i have to describe character how long should writer make them out to be and what should i include? What if fill their bios like this:
2. If it's action comic how much do i have to worry about the dialogue especially with cast of 8 characters as a team?
3. Any recommendations to making exchange between good guys and bad guys not accidentally seem too corny/sound cheesy in good ways. I mean any things to avoid when writing those kinds of scenes
1. How long should character descriptions be?
If i have to describe character how long should writer make them out to be and what should i include? What if fill their bios like this:
Stego is one of the central characters of the comic. Since his childhood life has been cold and brutal with only warmth being kept by his sister and few friends he had. With little education from constantly escaping schools and orphanages stego and his sister resulted in doing any kind of job to keep their heads up from poverty. Stego hated idea of getting on a such a low level of being janitor resulting in him willingly doing petty crimes to raise extra money. While extra cash was nice luxury, it also came with double edge as chance of getting arrested rises each time. His favourite thing is collection of garbage such as dvd's from low quality and bootleg movies to even buying them as he finds them really charming. Every possible genre he could find he'd get from romance to horror to action with his favourite being shitty martial arts movies. If there is one thing he loves more than movies it's his skateboard and replicating those moves in real life but of course as "ironically"!
2. If it's action comic how much do i have to worry about the dialogue especially with cast of 8 characters as a team?
3. Any recommendations to making exchange between good guys and bad guys not accidentally seem too corny/sound cheesy in good ways. I mean any things to avoid when writing those kinds of scenes
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God of Nothing
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Literature isn't a visual medium. Really, less is more. Your readers will fill in the blanks themselves. Don't do bios. Introduce elements of a character through interactions or events gradually. This will feel a lot more natural and make your readers really think about them.
do you have a gig or something?
it's action so probably not much
keep it brief but don't be samey
Why would they be talking when they should be fighting for one. Have people on either side actually like the other or develop some kind of understanding. You can make a murderous piece of shit feel like a profound character if you just have him behave civilly or friendly from time to time or always. Interactions should be based on character, not on what x should say to y or usually says.
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Good point.
Idk i thought maybe villains would mock the heroes because their team fell off after they did big mission that was supposed to end universal level threat but fucked up with only one original member surviving and these are new generations
So y'know maybe few smaller exchanges of villains mocking how hard they fell off from fighting in space to beating some nobody's up.
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It takes 10-20 minutes for elevenlabs ai voice to read through a chapter in the novel I'm writing. Acceptable length?
God of Nothing
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God of Nothing
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Oh, that's fine. When it comes to size, you should be more concerned on the pacing of your story than how long it is. It's tied to it but isn't quite exactly it. Some chapters are meant to be longer than others.
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Why do you need that block of text? If those are things he does, show him doing them, if these are things he tells other characters, have him tell them; avoid blocks of text like the plague.
Eight sounds like a lot, just think about the number of interjections you need until each member has talked to every other at least once.
I think if you try fully visualizing these guys you'll find it difficult to make them unique; they'll overlap in attributes and attitudes too much to bother. Work on 3-5 characters and if you're sure you nailed them down and still need more introduce them slowly over time.
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Okay then I definitely have another question about pacing. Seven chapters are complete, prologue included. "The big thing" that happens to get the story into full gear has been getting build up, and it's happening probably in the next POV chapter of the main protagonist, so if I were to guess, probably in chapter 9. Is that too long? There's over 16,000 words in the story so far, so it'll probably be close to 20,000 words by the time "the big thing" happens. Would I be making a reader wait too long? Even with the built up suspense of it's arrival?