by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I have been using AI to game out the outline of my scifi dramedy to reasonable success. But, as always, I run smack into a problem when I take the wheel, as it were.
When I start to go through the outline and change things relative to my own vision of the novel, sometimes I really have problems figuring out what to do. That’s what’s going on right now with the first chapter which I, yet again, working on.
I really feel like I’m spinning my wheels, yet again, on this novel, but lulz, the novel is getting much, much better because my hero is becoming a lot more proactive. That’s been a real problem with this novel — and all my novels that I’ve attempted: my hero has been too passive.
I think that says more about how I view the world than anything else, but again, lulz.
Anyway, so right now, things are like this one chapter of setup and then the inciting incident happens in the second chapter. I’ve finished fleshing out the first three scenes, which is good. But the next two scenes are really causing me troubles.
As an aside, I’m really annoyed at how leery of sexual content all the major LLMs are as I work on this novel. One of them even accused me of being “lazy!” But, I think they probably had a point. I do tend slip into writing spicy scenes when I’m bored or can’t figure out what to do with a scene.
But it really is a pain to move the creative ship of state from what I’m given by the AI for an outline and turning into something that interests me, or I actually want to expend the time writing.
Wish me luck
