I was in your position for a long time. For me, the problem with writing was/is that it's very slow, and you get very little positive feedback, so it's hard to stay motivated, hard to keep going. You write and you write and you write some more. Is it good? Is it bad? Who knows! Eventually, if you end up publishing your story, you might get some praise from your readers, but it's not a lot, and much delayed, which is much too late to your lizard brain.
What finally got me out of that rut was AI-assisted writing. Every time you write something, the AI writes something back. Sometimes it's awful, usually it's prettty good, and rarely it's much better than what you had planned and you end up rolling with it. It's the contant play of question (your own text) and response (the AI's) that kept me going through those early days... and weeks... and months until I could finally keep a story going on my own. Yeah, it took me a while.
Anyway, if you want to give it a try, this is what I used: https://play.aidungeon.io/main/newGame. There are also others that I haven't tried personally, like NovelAI or HoloAI.
Haven't use AI for this, but it sounds potentially useful for generating descriptive sentences that don't sound repetitive, which is always a problem for me. Like an auto-thesaurus.
Agreed. The AI's context (ie, the part of your story it uses to generates a response) is fairly small. It only builds on what you've produced during the last couple of pages. If something happened 5 pages ago, it won't remember it at all. As a result, it has no concept of long-term plot or structure, nor does it understand character arcs, or anything else that requires more than a chapter's worth of text.
This is exactly my experience.
Yeah. You can tweak the text that goes into it, but the overall limit on how much text the AI can use for its generation is still the same: some of the recent story text, some of your relevant lore, maybe a style note. All of that is still just flat text, though, and (if you'll excuse me speculating wildly for a moment) feeding it too much non-story text might actually make it worse? You don't want the AI to generate text that looks like a lore entry, after all.
Haha, agreed. I was pretty annoyed when I noticed that.
Yeah, that is how it works. What I meant is that lore entries that are included this way are generally not formatted like story text. You want to include as much information in as few tokens as possible, so they tend to be phrased more like Wikipedia articles, or worse still, dry lists of properties. Or at least mine were.
Yes, I've ended up doing that also, due to the token limits. I DO wonder, however, if lack of structure harms the AI's writing, given the higher priority it gives these sections. Hopefully not.Yeah, that is how it works. What I meant is that lore entries that are included this way are generally not formatted like story text. You want to include as much information in as few tokens as possible, so they tend to be phrased more like Wikipedia articles, or worse still, dry lists of properties. Or at least mine were.