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I'm going to highly recommend the short story I just read called The Silent Supper of Hetty Vail By Wesley Doyle posted here at SOL today as near as I can tell. I think that this is one of the most powerful and well written short stories I've read in a long time and proof positive that a moving story doesn't need 1,000,000 words to clutter up the simple and heart-wrenching story that can be told in so few words as Mr. Doyle has provided to pull us through his very haunting bit of fiction!
https://storiesonline.net/s/63221/the-silent-supper
And other assorted tasks. I've recently announced that Volume one of an at least two Volume set of stories is open for editing and proofing to the Swarm Cycle Writers' Guild. I have one other person working on the story now and I'm considering the best way to publish it and the best title as I'm not at all sure that my working title is a reasonable or good title. Now I'll keep asking for other people who want to read a Swords and Sorcery story that has very little on screen sex and hope that I get at least one more person who will be willing to take a look at the story. Maybe someone who is able to do some cartography as well so that the vague descriptions I've given in my story can be converted to a map...
Any way, thank you for your kind attention to my rambling, though know the story will be published under my other Pen Name as I'm going to reserve this one for poetry, and Swarm Cycle stories if I write any more.
I was trying to figure out how to post an editing request. I'll need other help too I expect, but that will be a start. I declared Jakob's Tale, a Swords and Sorcery story with almost no onscreen sex open for editing and proofing to the Swarm Authors' group, but I'd like at least a couple more people to look at the story. As it stands it is about 80,000 words. When I have agreement with the team, it will be posted under the name Tori Jones.
About the NotebookLM... It is responsive. If I give it a few hundred words to chew on it responds with an analysis within moments. Now I don't at all expect that sort of response from a person who is assisting me in writing, but it is certainly, I hope, helping me drive my story forward. The LM may well hare off in crazy directions and make interpretations that seem to me to be out in left field, but it is very good at keeping me on task!
I shan't use the model to directly write, but it is definitely a tool that I am liking. I might like something that was a little more able to do the thing I hoped for in the first place, but having a research assistant that can read my text and find names, even if I haven't got an exhaustive cast of characters is very helpful.
About NotebookLM is that no matter how I've put the request the LM refuses to give me a complete cast of characters in my story. I'm working around this by the expedient that the LM can scan my uploaded text and provide me character names... But that is not exactly what I want if I can't remember how I described a person, or a title I'd given them...
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