Due to the high number of entries, I thought it would be better to give readers more time to read and vote on the stories.
I've extended the voting period by 10 days until the 25th.
Due to the high number of entries, I thought it would be better to give readers more time to read and vote on the stories.
I've extended the voting period by 10 days until the 25th.
Considering entry numbers have stayed roughly the same, like, forever, even when the competitions have been publicised well in advance, like the have been in the last few years. I do find myself wondering why entries have suddenly shot up this year. I find myself wondering what has changed in the last year. What could possibly have been released to the general public that suddenly makes people want to write story's. How have they suddenly been able to write all of a sudden... Hmmmm 🤔
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Have you read any of them? I tried a few, abandoning most of them.
One of those I looked at was really good and I'm curious to see who wrote it.
What could possibly have been released to the general public that suddenly makes people want to write story's.
If AI generation encourages people to try their hands at writing, then good.
I checked all the stories that were submitted and rejected the ones that were outright AI and allowed anything under 50% AI. About 5 stories are partially written by AI and close to 50% AI. Many others have been polished using an AI.
To be honest about it, recently I tried one of the stories in my hopper with an AI and it helped break the writer's block I had with it. I fed it what I had written already and gave it the outline. And it spit out several scenes.
I read what it wrote, but it wasn't what I would write exactly, so I rewrote most of the scenes in my own words, changing many of the details that the AI came up with.
The result was text that shows 100% human in AI detectors, and it basically allowed me to restart a story that has been dormant in my hopper for over 12 years.
I found it way easier to rewrite the AI text than to sit and completely think of the text that I needed to write.
So I would say that the AI has its uses, especially as a writing assistant, but not as a ghostwriter.
I wouldn't like to read a story completely written by AI as its text would be too tedious to read and enjoy.
I wouldn't like to read a story completely written by AI as its text would be too tedious to read and enjoy.
I've been playing with an AI explicitly set up for story writing. It is not a chat bot. I haven't posted any stories from this yet, though I have one or two I've thought about posting.
This AI has a number of ways to control the verbosity level. They've releases a number of new models since I first started. And some of the early models without guidance seemed a bit terse for my tastes.
After reading this comment from you I want to do an experiment running the same basic seed with different styles/verbosity levels and compare the results.
Experimental results:
Basic setup: urban fantasy romance. High schools seniors, a human male and an orc female. He asks her out for a dinner/movie date at lunch in the school cafeteria on Friday, going through dinner, the movie, dropping her back off at home, maybe a few paragraphs farther:
All I changed between runs was changing the style from descriptive to terse, to verbose.
Here's what I got for word counts:
Descriptive: 2,299
Terse: 1,016
Verbose: 4,754
So, the wordiness/florid language is controllable.
I am curious about this and worried that my stories may come across as ai because I use grammery for checking, and as a non trained writer (ie learning as I go), I often worry that my stories appear too robotic.
Of note: I takes me forever to write even short stories because I need to edit so much (have dyslexia and an engineer brain...)
Readership has declined a lot over the past week. Will 10 more days make a big difference?
I'm assuming one of the stories there is his, and its download figures are on a downward curve. He's extrapolating from that to the other stories - and he's probably right.
Just curious, how do you know that readership has declined?
Considering that only paying members can read and vote, then it's rather obvious that readership will have declined in comparison to stories that can be accessed by the free loading masses...
Now someone has to remember to remind Lazeez to announce a Valentine's day contest.
Well although there are more stories to read, none tweaked my interest so I passed on participating. That being said I think the contest is a great feature of the site.