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So I've used NotebookAI on a story that I've had somewhat on the back burner for a while as it had stalled for various reasons. I had an idea that I wanted to write but I was losing track of the various characters so I actually needed the AI to create a master list of characters mentioned in the story, whether they were alive, dead or some sort of spiritual being... Etc
What I will definitely trust the AI for in the future: Keeping names lists
Light research (naming conventions)
What is iffy: The AI's analysis of character voices. It put words in the mouths of people who are mentioned but so far have remained off stage.
To be discounted entirely:
So called clean copy. I found what the AI created from my uploaded files to barely resemble the inputted files that were its basis.
What I apparently can't do at all:
Invite others to see what the AI is doing and the results. Which takes humans out of the loop.
Conclusions:
A decent research tool, but not terribly trustworthy to carry forth your vision.
I will definitely be looking for an editor for a Swords and Sorcery type of story when I feel I have an acceptable conclusion to what I'm writing. I don't have a firm completion day or exact end point in mind so that is somewhat nebulous, though just working with the AI has somewhat helped me improve the impact of my writing in my opinion.
Just like with a human editor or proofreader, eventually the author must make their own choices or the story is no longer theirs.
I've got a case of chair but buns. I up at around 3 AM this morning (Sep 18) and I've been consistently working with only a few breaks on either feeding my story to the NotebookAI or reading reports from the NotebookAI, or pieces of my story to make sure the AI does stay on track. In between doing that I've managed to add nearly a thousand impactful words to my actual story as well as create a nearly 2200 word 'world legend' to help me guide the rest of my story. I've got a possible ending that I believe would be somewhat satisfactory though I don't know how long exactly that will take to write, because it's only an idea that I haven't committed to electrons, even in my 'legend'.
With the help of notebook AI I'm compiling a master document for an ongoing story such that I hopefully can complete the story and post it here.
I'm working currently on a 'legend' for the story and the characters. So far between last night and this morning I've created a document that is more than 1700 words. We shall see if it and the 'insights' offered by the AI will break anything loose. So far I've uploaded 5 of seven existing chapters of the 'book'. While that might seem short, the chapters seem to be no less than 4,000 words. Some extend well over 13,000 words. I'm going to estimate I've fed the LLM at least 50,000 words of my novel. It is interesting to see what it has come up with and to see its 'errors'.
I was going through some stuff preparing to remove some junk from my life when I found a thumb drive with most of my notes for stuff I've got on SOL including (I think) a set of notes for It's a Helluva Job.
That was definitely a worthwhile find, I don't know that the notes will help all that much, but I'll see if I can't find a USB hub so that I can plug both of my thumb drives in at the same time so that I can create a backup copy! That will definitely be helpful to me in some of my writing.
Some of my frustration with my writing is that as my projects grow I gain characters. Even minor characters need to be tracked so that if one appears in the first two thousand words of a sixty thousand word story, I can know the way I described that character and what their name is.
I've found no easy way to do this task or one of tracking places (even rooms in a singular building) and so I'm sitting here frustrated trying to build a DB for an ongoing story and to get it to work for several helps to make my writing progress, rather than spend time creating said DB.
I suspect I could use AI to formulate a DB for me if I could even figure out how to start or where to start on the project.
Frankly, I'd rather be writing, but my projects are stalled due to needing the DB on almost all of them. The only way I can see to do that is to open a secondary file and name it something like Characters for such and such project, then stop writing to add names to a DB as they come up in a story. Which of course interrupts the flow of creating an actual story.
How do other writers deal with this!?
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