April Fools Day Plans for my Story

Jerynboe said:

Any other ideas for fun things a writer might do for April Fools Day?

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ConansWitchBaby said:

Change the entire text to Sumerian.

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CharlesEBrown said:

Almost as bad - I have a link to an Old English translator...

But back on subject - just listened to one of those "Real Stories of Corporate Justice" things my wife is, sadly, addicted to. Started enjoying it when I could count the excessively superfluous and flowery adjectives aggressively inserted for the obviously transparent purpose of blatantly padding an already excessive word count.
Make sure your AI does THAT too...

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Jerynboe said:

- The wine merchant had deeply kind eyes that spoke of a life lived at the intersection of commerce and genuine passion, a man for whom each bottle was not merely a product but a small act of faith in the enduring capacity of human civilization to produce beauty even in difficult times.

He also had no Chelish red.

“Sold out this morning,” he said, not unkindly. “I’ve got a very nice Taldane white, if you’re interested. Or there’s a local vintage, made from the island grapes. People say it tastes like the sea.” -

I let Claude do its best. Micromanaging would defeat the purpose of the exercise, but given that this was what it came up with for a scene in which a support character was doing some shopping that would normally be 90% offscreen? Yeah. All good there.

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CharlesEBrown said:

Sounds like a much shorter version of the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch...

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Jerynboe said:

I am planning on releasing a fake bonus chapter for my story. Now, if I were releasing a real bonus chapter that would set my schedule back. Instead, I will be asking the AI I use to beta read and sanity check my chapters before I give them to my real editor to do something I otherwise forbid it to do: try to write original prose in my style.

So, my full process:
First I told Claude my plan. Being a sycophantic clanker, it was incredibly enthusiastic about being the butt of the joke.

Then I asked it to write up three proposed outlines for chapters that it could write. As in, the plot of the chapter and how it would lean HARD into AIisms so as to make the chapter into self parody instead of merely aggressively mid. I picked the one I found most appealing and will be posting that one next Wednesday while claiming that I was trying out something new to see if I could crank up my output.

I will include an explicit disclaimer that it was just a joke for April fools day at the end. Frankly I found what Claude cooked up to be delightful. Not good, but delightful. It took less than an hour of playing with prompts and negotiating with the AI to get something I found fun enough to share. I can definitely see the appeal of cranking out a hundred chapters of ai slop. This was way easier than having standards and putting in effort.

What do you think? Any other ideas for fun things a writer might do for April Fools Day?

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Jerynboe said:

3000 words of shopping and wrangling unruly goblin children and it’s ALL like this. Claude also used the format of “x had the particular expression of (extremely specific description of that person’s specific situation) about 8 times.

Like I said. Delightful. Not good. But delightful.

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Jerynboe said:

I am planning on releasing a fake bonus chapter for my story. Now, if I were releasing a real bonus chapter that would set my schedule back. Instead, I will be asking the AI I use to beta read and sanity check my chapters before I give them to my real editor to do something I otherwise forbid it to do: try to write original prose in my style.

So, my full process:
First I told Claude my plan. Being a sycophantic clanker, it was incredibly enthusiastic about being the butt of the joke.

Then I asked it to write up three proposed outlines for chapters that it could write. As in, the plot of the chapter and how it would lean HARD into AIisms so as to make the chapter into self parody instead of merely aggressively mid. I picked the one I found most appealing and will be posting that one next Wednesday while claiming that I was trying out something new to see if I could crank up my output.

I will include an explicit disclaimer that it was just a joke for April fools day at the end. Frankly I found what Claude cooked up to be delightful. Not good, but delightful. It took less than an hour of playing with prompts and negotiating with the AI to get something I found fun enough to share. I can definitely see the appeal of cranking out a hundred chapters of ai slop. This was way easier than having standards and putting in effort.

What do you think? Any other ideas for fun things a writer might do for April Fools Day?

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Rolanov said:

For a moment, i thought Claude was a person,
I didn't realize you named the AI as Claude.

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