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Complete amateur. I'm figuring out how to use chatgpt to help with long-form fiction writing.
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It feels good to me when chatgpt tells me "no" about something. It's refreshing, that the AI isn't just "yes, and"-ing every thought I have. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate how much ChatGPT has helped me realize that I have a writing voice of my own. Its text suggestions are uniformly bland and unusable, compared to what I want to say. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_... ChatGPT, in a lot of ways, is a high-functioning rubber duck. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I'm noticing, when I review my writing-focused chatgpt logs, I skip over chatgpt's parts almost completely. Like it's mainly there to move my creative process forward. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My prompt from a few days ago about cultural differences in plot structure has turned into an outline for a novel that I previously didn't think I could do. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

"I've heard mention that different cultures or literary traditions have different definitions of what makes an acceptable payoff. are you aware of different cultural expectations of plot resolution? can you help me understand some of those varieties?" #chatgpt #writing #promptdiary

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Chatting with ChatGPT can be a real "safe space". It always wants to talk about what I want to talk about. It likes my ideas and helps me brainstorm new ones. That kind of chat can have a lot of good uses. But it can also have a lot of drawbacks. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I use words, and choose the tone of words that suit me. Who else chooses words? My characters! I'm finding tone analysis in dialogue really useful, to ensure that my characters each have a distinctive voice, different from the others, and they only "break" when I want them to.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

ChatGPT projects let me make 'tools', though I'm still trying to understand what 'tool' means in that context. I'm using the tools for managing my novel - character database, world knowledge, the core stuff. Next I'm working on word-level tone analysis. Stay tuned.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Words exist on various dimensions - active/passive, negative/positive, formal/informal, and so on. The dimensions of the words I use in my text are a big part of the 'tone' of my writing. ChatGPT knows words, and it's pretty good with tone. Good enough for early editing feedback.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

chatgpt thrives as a thesaurus on steroids. "what's a word for 'frustrated', but escalating toward a violent outburst?" "what's a word for 'surprised', but low energy and blah?" "give me a progression of words for 'angry', from subtle to overpowering." try to stump it. #chatgpt #writing #llm

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Personal rule: if I copy and paste anything from chatgpt into my writing project, then I'm doing it wrong. #chatgpt #writing

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Exporting my chatgpt memory was... an experience. It gave me five or six different bad attempts at an export file, and each time it was _so_ certain that this one was a good one. #chatgpt #hallucination #trustbutverify

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments