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More of a general question about the writing "sphere" than it is about writing itself, but what are Kiwis' opinions on tying anonymous work to an account for "legitimate" purposes?

To clarify: I'm considering consolidating a lot of writing I've done in the past ~6-7 years onto one account specifically so that I can use it as part of a creative resume. This writing is currently completely anonymous, with no attachment to me outside of my knowing that I wrote it, and it's scattered across four or five disparate sources that are very hard to trace back to me (outside of my writing style, which I didn't make much attempt to disguise). It is also derivative work, often made within a short timespan, and not all of it is work I'd say I'm proud of. Still, I think it might be necessary as proof of "employment" in the field should I want to pursue a creative job. (I don't, for the record, but I'm in need of cash and figured I may as well try my luck.)

The account will be completely isolated if I can help it-- not tied to any other online aliases, only tied to my real name through that resume. The creative resume will be one of many, hopefully offline (emailed through pdf at worst), and the account in question will be used as an easy way to access all of the works listed on it. Still, there's always the risk of ending up compromised through the stripping of anonymity, and I know there's at least one piece of writing (one of my better ones, unfortunately) that is directly tied to a more obvious personal account. Looking for a few more brains to comment on the matter before I do anything definitive, as I can't put all of my attention on this atm but need to figure it out.
 
Anonitolia said:
More of a general question about the writing "sphere" than it is about writing itself, but what are Kiwis' opinions on tying anonymous work to an account for "legitimate" purposes?

To clarify: I'm considering consolidating a lot of writing I've done in the past ~6-7 years onto one account specifically so that I can use it as part of a creative resume. This writing is currently completely anonymous, with no attachment to me outside of my knowing that I wrote it, and it's scattered across four or five disparate sources that are very hard to trace back to me (outside of my writing style, which I didn't make much attempt to disguise). It is also derivative work, often made within a short timespan, and not all of it is work I'd say I'm proud of. Still, I think it might be necessary as proof of "employment" in the field should I want to pursue a creative job. (I don't, for the record, but I'm in need of cash and figured I may as well try my luck.)

The account will be completely isolated if I can help it-- not tied to any other online aliases, only tied to my real name through that resume. The creative resume will be one of many, hopefully offline (emailed through pdf at worst), and the account in question will be used as an easy way to access all of the works listed on it. Still, there's always the risk of ending up compromised through the stripping of anonymity, and I know there's at least one piece of writing (one of my better ones, unfortunately) that is directly tied to a more obvious personal account. Looking for a few more brains to comment on the matter before I do anything definitive, as I can't put all of my attention on this atm but need to figure it out.
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In my experience, creative writing doesn't get you hired by your resume but by your results. Publishers care much more if your books/online uploads/whatever spread your name around or gave you many social media followers than about your quality. Followers guarantees them sales and profit, and for publishers who do it "for the craft", they tend to judge the book you submit on its own merits. I can't think of a case use for a resume in creative writing.
 
I have made the brilliant idea to make an interactive kind of chapter for my novel. Which means I'm looking for contemporary music to link that connects to my story. I've been trying to do a kind of contemporary youth in the POV of their historical time (in this case it being the late Victorian era to the early Edwardian) basically the same way Sofia Coppola wrote Marie Antoinette.

The bigger challenge I'm finding though, is just how much youthful details I have to apply while also keeping it grounded in the historical era. Especially since it's easier to get away with this in a movie more than a chapter.
 
God of Nothing said:
>purposefully name MC something irregular, even in-universe
>one of many hints about a vague and mysterious origin
>tfw can't decide if it's a bit much or just enough
damn you, names
why must you be like this when it comes to creativity
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this is why i prefer simple straightforward names for my characters to avoid this trouble

like John Writer, Jack Lawman and Jose Sex
 
Space Roman said:
I’d like to translate my urban fantasy novel into English. It’s a cross between ’80s adventure movies about a group of kids, the SCP Foundation, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Would Claude be a good choice for translating it?
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No. LLMs change your sentence structure liberally and make you sound like an LLM. Even Google Translate would be more faithful.
 
vegetarian_bragging said:
No. LLMs change your sentence structure liberally and make you sound like an LLM. Even Google Translate would be more faithful.
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I found one way to bypass this problem. I feed it information about my story and characters, and instead of writing for me, I make it ask me questions about what my characters would do and then I write it out.

There are clever tricks. You just need to figure them out.
 
So, I asked a while back about AI; getting suggestions towards which one I could use, for testing some ideas with. I got one, used it, and... I would like to kindly inform everyone that stated that AIs are "people-pleasers" are wrong, as I've never been more frustrated in my life.

Yeah, so... turns out, using Reddit and similar sites to gather information for your AI leads to them posting outright wrong or illogical arguments during the best of times. I tried a few simple queries concerning my writing; nothing major, just a few basic suggestions on characters and worldbuilding, and the AI's answers were by far the most illogical and nonsensical responses that it could've dropped, offering very little advice in favor of randomly sperging. I had asked the site a few questions about old games (yes, this was relevant to the plots I made), and it kept dragging up answers from completely unrelated modern titles, often ones that catered to woketards and similar. Character concepts and worldbuilding was similar, as the AI repeatedly and consistently failed to bring any accuracy to the table, using outright wrong information about basic topics before inevitably going off on tangents.

For clarity, the reason why I was considering using an AI model for this was a form of "method acting", as retarded as it sounds; there was going to be a plot point about a character doing similar to get some information in-setting, so I figured using a similar method could get at least some results. After the repeated tests... I'm going to retool that plotline entirely, poking at the complete failure of the AI, whilst also looking at other methods. Sadly, I couldn't get anything on KF - I've already asked around - so I'm going old-school and hitting the books; got just over three weeks for my (unofficial) deadline for info-gathering, so hopefully I can dredge something up.

EDIT: Grammar.
 
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Scream Aim Fire said:
. I would like to kindly inform everyone that stated that AIs are "people-pleasers" are wrong, as I've never been more frustrated in my life
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Hell no are they all people pleasers. Claude Sonnet 5 is famous for arguing with users and being difficult to use. Many people have complained about it.
 
General Patton said:
Hell no are they all people pleasers. Claude Sonnet 5 is famous for arguing with users and being difficult to use. Many people have complained about it.
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Interesting. Not going to give it a try, though; already looking to take the piss out of AI.

Commissar Fuklaw said:
Told ya.
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That you did. Like I said, though; wanted/needed to test it out anyways for the story. Not the greatest reason, but... failure is the mother of success, as some say.
 
Eh, it's still useful for putting together story outlines and other things. And as I said, interacting with me as characters I write to help me write scenes. Kind of like a choose your adventure thing that still makes sure I write it myself.

So I won't trash it. It's useful in other ways.
 
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