On my blog ( https://offmodernity.substack.com/ ), I've written so far two novels, "The Sorter" and "The Null Shard", with each consisting of three parts. I also released them on Amazon for Kindle.
"The Sorter" was first written out in the traditional manner, then edited and stripped down using Grok, then fleshed out with better dialogue and descriptions using Claude. It was inspired by Vox Day and the SSH, although that is only one element; the emphasis is on an alien invasion of a future American space colony on an alien planet.
"The Null Shard," which takes place immediately following, after writing out the first few chapters traditionally, was then organized and outlined with the help of Grok, then with rough drafts using Grok, and then fleshed out using Claude. At all steps, of course, I myself had to do a lot of adding, editing, and correcting of the outputted material to keep it consistent between chapters and with the overall storyline.
These two works are my first-ever forays into science fiction writing.
I like that technique. For many of my substack posts, I narrate carefully what I want to say into voicenotes on my phone, then have Turboscribe create a transcript, which is practically mistake free. I then have either Deepseek or chatGPT take the transcript and winnow it down about 10%, but directed to "maintain my voice" and "adhere to the theme" of whatever it is I wish to speak / write about.
I'll add points, or images, and review the entire thing, but the process is fast, and the finished product is often better than much of what I've written in the past.
Using different AI for sections of your novel - what a great idea. Great comment.
A truly astute and sufficiently autistic author may even shore up their writing based on their reflection in the AI. "Oh, the AI that writes in my tone never really uses dialogue well does it, better see what I can do about that personally". Or even deliberately made certain writing pieces to feed into a personal AI just to see what comes out the other end.
Really, this is an opportunity for writers and artists to do the video-self-review performance analysis that sportsmen have been using for decades. Nothing improves a boxer like watching his own fight in 3rd person to see things he missed and this could really help artists do the same thing. Rather than weakening artists and writers this is a new lever for hyper maximizers.
Related: I truly understood what women meant by men's weak fashion when I tried out the swap-my-gender AI thing and the recontextualized reflection just made something that had become habit into an unignorable easily fixed flaw.
On my blog ( https://offmodernity.substack.com/ ), I've written so far two novels, "The Sorter" and "The Null Shard", with each consisting of three parts. I also released them on Amazon for Kindle.
"The Sorter" was first written out in the traditional manner, then edited and stripped down using Grok, then fleshed out with better dialogue and descriptions using Claude. It was inspired by Vox Day and the SSH, although that is only one element; the emphasis is on an alien invasion of a future American space colony on an alien planet.
"The Null Shard," which takes place immediately following, after writing out the first few chapters traditionally, was then organized and outlined with the help of Grok, then with rough drafts using Grok, and then fleshed out using Claude. At all steps, of course, I myself had to do a lot of adding, editing, and correcting of the outputted material to keep it consistent between chapters and with the overall storyline.
These two works are my first-ever forays into science fiction writing.
I like that technique. For many of my substack posts, I narrate carefully what I want to say into voicenotes on my phone, then have Turboscribe create a transcript, which is practically mistake free. I then have either Deepseek or chatGPT take the transcript and winnow it down about 10%, but directed to "maintain my voice" and "adhere to the theme" of whatever it is I wish to speak / write about.
I'll add points, or images, and review the entire thing, but the process is fast, and the finished product is often better than much of what I've written in the past.
Using different AI for sections of your novel - what a great idea. Great comment.
I've got a feeling the pay wall game is just beginning.
China’s AI models are being trained on vast corpora, including (illegally scraped) English-language works the U.S. refuses to free for domestic use.
The result? U.S. copyright law is helping foreign adversaries build better American-language AIs than American citizens are legally allowed to.
A truly astute and sufficiently autistic author may even shore up their writing based on their reflection in the AI. "Oh, the AI that writes in my tone never really uses dialogue well does it, better see what I can do about that personally". Or even deliberately made certain writing pieces to feed into a personal AI just to see what comes out the other end.
Really, this is an opportunity for writers and artists to do the video-self-review performance analysis that sportsmen have been using for decades. Nothing improves a boxer like watching his own fight in 3rd person to see things he missed and this could really help artists do the same thing. Rather than weakening artists and writers this is a new lever for hyper maximizers.
Related: I truly understood what women meant by men's weak fashion when I tried out the swap-my-gender AI thing and the recontextualized reflection just made something that had become habit into an unignorable easily fixed flaw.