I think the thing that's been bothering me about the "is it okay to use ChatGPT to plot/make characters/etc" is that at the end of the day, these are not tools that are helping your writing, they are shortcuts that are undercutting it.
These things are supposed to be hard, because you need to learn how to do them.
And listen, I know this sucks. I've got to knock off 4k of words from my current novel to make it more sellable, which seems like a completely arbitrary thing to do, but things like printing costs absolutely do factor into traditional publishing. It took me five drafts to figure out a completely obvious in hindsight plot point that explains why a character does what he does. It takes a few tries to pull together a detailed outline into a workable story, and it always will.
I would have loved to figure this all out way earlier, but I had to learn how to spot the gaps in my writing before I could fix them. Generative AI isn't ever going to bridge the gap between sitting down and learning how to work things out, because if you don't do that, you never will become a more competent writer. If that wasn't part of the point, none of us would be doing this in the first place.
WE HAVE GOTTEN FEEDBACK FROM HBO MAX AND HAVE THEIR ATTENTION TO SAVE SHADOW AND BONE AND GIVE US OUR SIX OF CROWS SPIN OFF
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO SAVE SHADOW AND BONE AND OUR CROWS TO GET OUR SPIN OFFS AND MORE, THE SCRIPTS ARE COMPLETED ALREADY BEFORE NETFLIX CANCELLED THEM
SIGN THE PETITION TO HELP SAVE SHADOW AND BONE AND OUR BELOVED CROWS
Don’t have them die of old age after a long, fulfilling life. Many people don’t even think of this as sad (note that this can still work if you have enough of the other factors).
Leave one of their major goals unfinished. The more enthusiastic they are about completing the goal, the sadder.
Give them strong relationships with other characters.
Make them fight against whatever is causing their death. Their ultimate loss is sadder if they struggle.
Kill them in the middle of their character arc.
Don’t describe their funeral in detail. Maybe it’s just me, but I find that long descriptions of funerals kill the sadness.
You *female hogwarts student*: Do you see my eye lids, professor? The damn black line on them is called eye liner, and today it decided to fuck with me.
I DON'T GET WHY PEOLE ARE SAYING THAT FANFICTION WRITERS AREN'T THE REAL ONES OR THAT THEY DON'T DESERVE CREDIT FOR THEIR WORK...
I mean, they are kind of like ghost writers, they work with somobody's else idea and characters BUT words, meaning and the emotions their writing evoke - That’s on them. And, oh man, that is the hardest part, sooo...
(And they do this for free, so I'm just saying, they are ANGELS OF FANDOM)
When people tag their Fandom OC story with ‘x reader.’ 🙄 I type ‘x reader’ in the search bar to read stories with ‘x reader’ not your OC x my dream fandom. OC is NOT ‘x reader’ that’s YOUR character. Tag that shit correctly.
~Sincerely,
A fellow writer
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