[Stylist] AI and Writing

[Michael Guajardo]

Yes, that is an excellent use and I use it in the same way. I basically use AI as a writing partner. I'll bounce ideas off of my AI partner when trying to construct a backstory or if I'm kind of iffy on some historical or geographical elements that I'd like to use as inspiration. I tell you; things that used to derail me and throw me into writer's block purgatory are much more manageable now. One little tip I can offer is I usually have a sort of story bible for my short story or novel. I write fantasy fiction by the way. This story bible will include names of characters, short bios, geographical info, magic rules and all kinds of reference info that I  use for my story. I have all that information saved in a document which I can now upload to Chatt GPT  using the    Ask Your PDF plugin. The plugin by the way can read all sorts of documents formats besides PDF by the way including RTF. Anyhoo, once I have the document uploaded, I can ask questions if I need reminding on something or if I'm just working on a particular plot point. So instead of having to explain everything I just ask my question and reference the document. Chat GPT will then have a frame of reference to help it in answering my questions or assist me in working out the some details with the plot. Chat GPT is an absolute wonderful tool for writers if you know how to leverage its utility properly.

Michael

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I wouldn't use AI to create the scene. But I have had fun asking it to describe some visual things for me, particularly body language and emotion cues. I've saved some of those things to use in my writing, because I tend to write in multiple points of view, and for blind characters I use little visual description, but the sighted characters need to have it.



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From: Stylist <stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Vejas Vasiliauskas via Stylist
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Subject: [Stylist] AI and Writing

Hi,
I hope everyone is doing well!
I wanted to share with you all that I have been playingaround creating scenes with an AI app. What I would do is, I would tell the app what I wanted to happen in the scene, and the app would create the dialogue. As I played around with it more, I realized I had a new cast of characters that I could use for a story that I could write myself. But as I started actually writing the story for real yesterday, I realized that because I'd created the characters with AI, my language and dialogue were a little simplistic, just like AI's was.
So I think it's fine to use AI to generate some ideas, but when writing the actual story, it's good to beware of the language you're using!
This is just my personal opinion, but I wanted to share it because it hasn't been talked about on this list much.
Vejas
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