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Claude is the main general use default AI by Anthropic, as in the website is Claude.ai. It’s the best of any of the free ais I’ve tried when it comes to acting as a writing assistant instead of just trying to write for me. At the very least it crushes ChatGPT so utterly as to be comedic, and is...

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.

- 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...

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...

He’d end up getting killed in order to establish the villain’s credibility, since he’s currently an OP magical pirate and pre-isekai he was a good natured but jacked frat bro accountant. He’d try to fight in either case. Slasher movie villains can’t be beaten in the first scene, so whether...

Protip: if more than 40% of potential readers need a google image search to know wtf you are saying you should rework your description.

I don’t know where my last stop is (probably dead before I find somewhere decent) but a rural post office is a good first stop. They have pretty durable vehicles designed to haul a relatively large amount of cargo that are gassed up and have the keys on site, and tend to be sturdy buildings in...

I’m a deranged maniac who can’t help but smile when I read my old work despite its objectively lower quality just because I’m still proud that I actually wrote something at least vaguely competent on my first try. My biggest disappointment is the same disappointment I always feel as a pantser...

Like a lot of rules of thumb it breaks down on contact with reality despite being broadly true. Like charlesebrown said, skill issue. Telling tends to be quicker and clearer if done properly. Showing tends to be more evocative and draw the reader in more if done properly. So, assuming you...

Insert someone into someone’s life. Online date works. Then swap that person out routinely with a different paid actor that looks similar to them and acts similarly. How quickly or slowly can you transform someone’s mental image of someone with gaslighting? How subtle do you really need to be?

(Slap) Get back to XNPC. But yeah I fully understand wanting to tell a new story. I’ve fully developed, storyboarded, and outlined like 4 stories I will probably never write in the last year because I have an ongoing weekly serial that eats up 80% of my writing time and I don’t want to leave...

Monica definitely qualifies. As do… basically all of the characters in that game when under her influence.

Yeah that’s the basic idea. The Yan is a shortened version of a Japanese term for “to be mentally ill” and dere is a shortened version of “lovey dovey”. So in love + insane, and generally that means specifically dangerous insanity. It’s easy to romanticize but if you take the concept remotely...

I have one. Nendra is probably the most miserable person in my story. She’s part demon and has a lot of psychological problems partially as a result, most importantly including sadistic intrusive thoughts and anger issues. She’s actually the wife of the guy the MC got isekaied into, who was also...

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If you make an attempt to cause people to have a certain thought, feeling, or experience then that’s art. If you successfully give people a certain thought, feeling, or experience then that’s good art. If you successfully give people a certain thought feeling or experience that can be repeated...

I actually use date and timestamps in my story as glorified scene transitions, which really helps. Its probably not that important beyond knowing when a night happens because that’s when my MCs powers reset, but it’s there.

Yeah sorta. The way it’ll actually work is that the economy will shift around as whatever roles exist that humans are required for will become more important and people who can’t do those things will be increasingly marginalized. Exactly what it is that humans can reliably do better than 2040 ai...

Ai is good as Neo google. Ai is good as a quick and dirty translation. Ai is alright as a beta reader in a box as long as you have it TELL YOU what to fix instead of letting it fix things for you. Thats how I use it most often, and I frequently disagree but just as often it points out something...

Possibly the tuning fork for active sound cancellation as the quick and dirty option OR is highly targeted to counter certain verses (or at least all verses that integrate the one narrow frequency it counters), but something like a crank operated music box for more complex “countersong” like the...