i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off. i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing
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#13I assume the several comments complementing the style of this app are being sarcastic, because.. come on..
My god. I'm getting anxiety. I shouldn't have posted this
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#14Makes me curious. What context is sent? Whole story, including later chapters? Just up to that paragraph? Planning and character description documents? Any way to control all of that?
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#15i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off. i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing
Saw your edit. Yeah I had that too. But I wanted something more ai driven because I'm not a trash writer. I want that lowtech holodeck feel where I tell the model to take the story and it writes a chapter for me. Plus wanted to keep branching trees of different versions
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#16This is so depressing for me. The drip will be everywhere.
AI feels like a Faustian bargain that has been struck on my behalf by others who do not know me.
"Tools" like this make me feel nothing but a profound sense of sadness and despair.
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#17Great UI
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#18I assume the several comments complementing the style of this app are being sarcastic, because.. come on..
My god. I'm getting anxiety. I shouldn't have posted this
I like seeing what people create, and you've created something with some interesting features, particularly around the path map and keeping all drafts. I'm forever duplicating a paragraph and rewording it 6 or 7 times, then deleting the rest - and the next day think "no try #2 was better than the one I kept".
Ignore the haters, they're a HN rite of passage. Good luck with your writing!
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#19Why would you want to write fiction with language models? Serious question. What you would become, in effect, is the fictional Soviet 'writer' from Sam Kriss' 2011 short story 'The Machine'. https://samkriss.com/2011/10/01/the-machine/ I do not think there is anything to aspire to in that.
It's a form of low tech holodeck. You write the stories you want to read. I love these vintage pulp detective novels but no one writes them anymore so I write them myself for myself, and a few of my fellow weirdos on weird discords.
I suppose I am sympathetic to the feeling of having weird tastes uncatered to by the market. But in that instance, why not actually try and write such stories yourself? And as a reader, what is the appeal of reading stories regurgitated by a stochastic algorithm when the possibility is there instead of connecting to another human soul?
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#20i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off. i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing
Saw your edit. Yeah I had that too. But I wanted something more ai driven because I'm not a trash writer. I want that lowtech holodeck feel where I tell the model to take the story and it writes a chapter for me. Plus wanted to keep branching trees of different versions
sorry i'm a writer who edits... this project is genuinely interesting and i'm curious to see where it goes. i would try to market it as ML instead of AI, given the current temperature of AI in publishing and writing circles. if somebody can improve upon track changes in a git-like, narrative-tree way, then that might be super useful tool!