#how to write a book with ai

[bangjiazheng]

How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 (2 Best Methods)

[inkskinned]

i hate to say it because i'm neurodivergent and a chronic-pain-haver but like... sometimes stuff is going to be hard and that's okay.

it's okay if you don't understand something the first few times it's explained to you. it's okay if you have to google every word in a sentence. it's okay if you need to spend a few hours learning the context behind a complicated situation. it's okay if you need to read something, think about it, and then come back to re-read it.

i get it. giving up is easier, and we are all broken down and also broke as hell. nobody has the time, nobody has the fucking energy. that is how they win, though. that is why you feel this way. it is so much easier, and that is why you must resist the impetus to shut down. fight through the desire you've been taught to "tl;dr".

embrace when a book is confusing for you. accept not all media will be transparent and glittery and in the genre you love. question why you need everything to be lily-white and soft. i get it. i also sometimes choose the escapism, the fantasy-romance. there's no shame in that. but every day i still try to make myself think about something, to actually process and challenge myself. it is hard, often, because of my neurodivergence. but i fight that urge, because i think it's fucking important.

especially right now. the more they convince you not to think, the easier it will be to feed you misinformation. the more we accept a message without criticism, the more power they will have over that message. the more you choose convenience, the more they will make propaganda convenient to you.

[youtubemarketing1234]

Writing a book with the assistance of AI can be a creative and efficient process. AI can help with various aspects of writing, such as generating ideas, providing research assistance, and even suggesting content. In this video, we'll explore how to write a book with the help of AI.

This AI Just Wrote a Best-Selling Novel in 24 Hours!

[byoldervine]

Alternatives To Using AI Art For Visualising Your Writing

General:

Pinterest boards

Paying for commissions

Finding people online who are already asking for drawing ideas (NOT requesting free commissions from people)

Using your own art

Art swaps if the problem is that you can't come up with the ideas solo

Characters:

Picrews

The Sims

Any other form of game that allows for a good level of character customisation

Interiors/Exteriors:

Minecraft

The Sims

Home design games

Landscapes/Cities:

Minecraft

IRL locations

Animal Crossing

Maps:

Minecraft

Map creation tools online

Spill something on a piece of paper and draw around the outline

[itsthenerdwonder]

Warning to my fellow writers out there

Be careful who you share your writing with

Just had a library coworker proudly tell me they put a chapter of their friend's book into chatgpt to edit their book.

[bewitchingbloom]

Actually, one more thing about all the recent book/writing drama... (this is just me being a little hater)

Victoria Aveyard...girl...you are the LAST person who should be talking about "tropey romantasy sludge" considering Red Queen is probably the worst book I've ever read and easily matches that description.

[ellierosescribbles]

Ethical Writing:

Sharing a craft book ^^^

[essektheylyss]

I was personally assaulted (honorific) by this essay on ambition. It's very good.

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Yeah, alright, no. No don't this. I'll do you a few fucking better and teach you right here and now how to do this: You game? Blurb and lesson time. Got you. First up, a SPOOC. This is one technique that can be expanded (gonna give you examples too). WRITING LESSONS AHOY:

SPOOC = Situation, protagonist, objective, obstacles/opponents, climax/cost. So, when Frodo Baggins (protagonist) inherits the Ring of Power (Situation), he must set out on a quest to destroy it (objective). But, will he succeed when the forces of sauron and saruman unite and try to reclaim the one ring and use its power to destroy Middle Earth (climax - cost if failure). This specific example is taught by Jim Butcher so if you want some weight behind it.

There you go. It works.

Want to know how to do a blurb? Practice, but check it:

Who is it?

What's going on?

Why should we care?

What happens if the hero fails?

If you can, end on a snappy one liner or question. You can open on one too or a question like it.

What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of body-hopping and monster-hunting are catching up with him. He's losing his mind. An old contact has shut him out. To top it all off, something's skulking through an asylum, killing patients. Three guesses who might be next, and the first two don't count. The writing on the wall is not so clear. But one thing is: if he doesn't figure this out he's a dead man--well, deader--and a strange young girl might follow. Vincent's got his back against a wall, and that wall's crumbling. Some days it's not worth it to wake up in someone else's body.

That's Grave Measures - book two in my urban fantasy detective series.

Who is it - covered. What's going on? Why should we care (the stakes to the protagonist and more). The costs. And the above. It's not rocket science, and doesn't have to be. Here's one from book three: Don't make deals with the paranormal. They're better at it than you, and they never play fair.

Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, did just that—a deal made in desperation. Now it's coming back to bite him in the middle of a case. He has 57 hours to investigate a string of deaths involving people who've made some devilish bargains. Too bad devils don't deal in good faith. It'd be easy enough, if he didn't have to deal with things such as:

-Being hunted through the streets of Queens by a dark elf with a motorcycle fetish.

-Ending up the target of a supernatural hit.

-An old acquaintance dragging him to a paranormal ball where he could end up on the menu.

-And having one of his closest guarded secrets brought to light...

Not great for a tight clock, because if he doesn't get to the bottom of this case in time, Vincent and company might just lose their souls. Dirty deals are never done dirt cheap. And the supernatural always collect—big! Same formula. A lot of fiction uses it. You just might not realize it. You don't need a fucking AI. You need a few minutes every day of practice. You got that. You got this.

With SPOOC, you can outline a whole damn novel. You get a snappy two-liner pitch to sell with. YOu can expand it into summaries for each book to make up LOTR in this case or your series. Then you can reverse engineer and keep expanding each summary. It does it for you.

[choking-on-roses]

Colleague called me a Luddite today because I wrote the abstract for a book chapter submission by hand without using ChatGPT

[sentientsnakeskin]

no professor of mine better ever say that since i used an em dash it’s ai bc i have well over a decade of documented em dash use and i will make you read my godawful lego chima/greek mythology crossover fanfic i wrote in old english and submitted as a school assignment in fourth grade

[frostyclove]

the way professors are trying to fight ai with blue book tests is just so sad. babes they were using ai to cheat on blue book tests in 2020 you think they wont still do that??? like. what.

anyways the actual solution is to do away with grades entirely and bring back pass fail. theyve gamified education and its ruined it - if you dont do perfect you will get no job and die (taught to you from kindergarten age 5) so students just dont care! if theyre not going to get a perfect grade they dont try because then they have to think about how they dont have a perfect score and will get no job and die.

thats not my take. thats just the mindset of the age. its gotten worse im sure. no more homework, no more grades, no more gpas. no more private equity. everything else just shifts the issue around

[shelter-wood]

daily mantra: bigger idiots than you have done it

[gailynovelry]

There are lots of reasons to hate AI generators right now. But aside from the plagiarism, the impact on career artists of all stripes, and the general use of AI for grifting schemes, they also just really suck if you already have trouble with unreality.

I'm not talking about "oooh those AI images sure are creepy."

I'm talking about "folks with low media literacy are telling me, a nervous, obsessive wreck, that Unreality-Type Things are Definitely Real because the Smart Science Fiction Machine told them so."

There's an old lady who frequents my workplace as a customer, and she likes me, y'know? I keep the place clean, I let her chat. I'm polite. So, she's decided that I'm a nice person who deserves to be warned if something bad is happening in the world. Trouble is, she eats up every news source without scrutiny, and has chipperly informed me that "ignorance is not bliss" when I've admitted that I don't follow the news very closely (for mental health reasons.)

Anyway, her daughter's taken to addressing the AI software in her phone about current political events. So the old lady came to me one day, very nervous, and quietly informed me that World War Three is probably going to happen in November.

Because the AI said so. And the AI, it's smart right? That's why it's callled "artificial intelligence." It's gotten fed all that knowledge, so it must know these things.

Except that it doesn't. Text AI are just sentence generators. No context, no awareness, no thought process to speak of.

I know this. I'm not socially competent enough to inform her of this in-person, since that requires more talking than an "uh-huh, yep," but I know this. I know that World War Three is not happening in November just because an AI said so. Ask an AI "when is WW3 happening?" ten different times, and it'll give you ten different answers. Tell it that it's full of crap, and it'll automatically apologize right before spitting out the next crap answer.

But she doesn't know this.

She's trying to warn me about something that scares her.

And she does not know that in trying to warning me, she is a) ineffective, and b) inflicting a different kind of harm.

Because my terrible, frustrating brain, with its ten different kinds of internal malware and software glitches, is looking over my shoulder at the future just in case. And so is she.

AI is misinformation and misinformation is hell.

[street-corner-felines]

Zero Day Director commentary - With actor Andre Keuck

[shamebats]

I'd genuinely like to see how many ppl who regularly share anti-ableist & laziness doesn't exist type posts are also anti-AI because "it's low effort" I thought we agreed not to measure the value of people's creativity by how much effort & energy they were willing or able to expend