11–20 of 73 posts
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
I've just completed my first #NaNoWriMo. I decided to do it as a series of short sci-fi stories. You can read them at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/TalesOfTheAlgorithm It was fascinating to me how much like programming it was. So much planning, lots of time trying to figure out what isn't working, and a bunch of spelling bugs! Well worth attempting this if you have the time to exercise your creative muscles. Anyway, if yo…
I might just suck at it, but if didn't someone would probably pay me to do it.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
A text that reads "Rabbit." written 50,000 times is enough to win NaNo.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
I've just completed my first #NaNoWriMo. I decided to do it as a series of short sci-fi stories. You can read them at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/TalesOfTheAlgorithm It was fascinating to me how much like programming it was. So much planning, lots of time trying to figure out what isn't working, and a bunch of spelling bugs! Well worth attempting this if you have the time to exercise your creative muscles. Anyway, if yo…
Did anyone read then? My experience in writing things online is that barely anyone reads them and even fewer comment on them. I might just suck at it, but if didn't someone would probably pay me to do it.
The stories aren't as popular as my normal blogging - but I was expecting that.
Looking at my logs, I've had a few hundred people read them, which is lovely.
And, frankly, it doesn't matter if I suck or you suck. The joy of creation is its own payment.
However, if you're already someone that is able to maintain a writing schedule and hit daily targets of hundreds of words, and can see your dream works emerge through the simple act of scheduling... I'm gently skeptical of where your motivation to create comes from. Bear with me.
Before we get bogged down in it: Misery and disorder are not requisites for creativity and I'm certainly not advocating that, either.
The issue is that trying to hit some sort of material target by artificially imposing a daily grind on it forces your work into a box created by the work-a-day-world. An undeniably effective one, but for everything?
The global marketplace is what sets deadlines like "by the end of the day!" and "by the end of the month!" where as works of art and creators can both bloom like flowers and get seasoned over large segments of time like waves washing over a rock face.
Your arc as an artist or creator, starting from the discovery of that impulse inside yourself, may be one that spans decades or your entire life. If that's the case, success or failure in NanoWriMo may be a bad indicator for you:
"Oh shit, I missed my 7pm writing alarm and forgot to write ~1700 words, now I'll never be the next Charles Dickens!"
could come from the same writer as:
"After a slow walk through my city on a crisp fall morning, I can sit down and write 5000 words without so much as stopping to stretch my wrist."
and:
"I don't practice art regularly, but sometimes when I get the urge, I will be in the throes for 3 days trying to work out the specifics of an image that has flashed into my mind."
These and many other creative modes are valid and exist independently of schedules, clocks, word counts, time limits and other cops we might invite to sit by our writing desks, easels and computer terminals.
Do they have a policy on AI, I feel like they are not prepared for the coming flood.
I'm less in the frame of thought of using AI to "write a 800 word story on leprechauns" and more in the situation of "edit my lead paragraph in the same style as my concluding paragraph" or "here is an outline of my story, critique it and give me a structure to follow for a second draft".
As a self-driven exercise then, AI becomes just another tool for a writer to get better. Sometimes it's a training wheel, sometimes it's a rocket strapped to your butt.