Wise words. Right priorities. We'll always be here for the next novel. Family is a beautiful things. Many regret not doing what you're doing. Those years fly by! Good call bro.
You have brought so much joy to me and my husband, and my small book club followers. . AI ain’t got nothing on you. Your one of a kind, and it has been a joy reading someone that feels like a REAL person. My small opinion may not matter, but your books changed my life and got me through some really dark places. You will be missed.
I'm so glad I could, in some small way, help. And I'm going to keep writing, it's just not going to take the form of a novel anymore. I'm going to find better ways to get traction.
Welp, I've bought everything I could find that you've written and thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Can't argue with your logic, novel writing is a wretched business proposition, but I will miss your stuff. The blow is softened knowing you are taking care of yourself and your family, and if it helps, know that you've got real fans out here.
It does. It's not a fan problem. It's an aggregation problem. A breaking through problem. And I just can't see how to do it with novels in a way that makes sense right now.
But don't worry, I haven't run out of ideas or shots to take. They're just not going to be longshots with low payoffs anymore.
It's only February and I'm just about done with book #2 for 2023, so I guess I'd better slow down. "Direct" by Kathryn Judge is about industry "middlemen" writ large and full of examples from finance, consumer goods, food, and real estate. I wonder if, having published it, she has anything to say about the value of publishers, pre- or post- "American Dirt."
I would like to know what this means, and what, if anything, it has something to do with ChatGPT. I Googled, but it's not obvious to me. I also don't have Twitter, so I couldn't ask directly.
As for reading books, I recently stopped. I used to read a few pages while my characters were getting points in a game I was playing, but I had to cut down on the time I spend on that game, so no more time to read books while the game is doing its thing. Now I just use the in-game function to skip that gameplay. And buying books? That was a long time ago. Now I just borrow books from the library. I am a humongous cheapskate.
Writing books seems like a lottery. If you're really lucky you go viral for some reason.
But "generalize to" sounds like the opposite of that? Though I'm not at all familiar with that grammar, which could be the reason I don't know what it means.
In this sense I took it to mean that you should only write lines that couldn't be written by AI. The generalize here would to take the specific technique, make it a principle and apply it to a larger set of things. It's a usage common in mathematics.
Punished by Chat GPT means that you're dull writing will be lost in the wave of noise that is coming.
I think this a great subject for another essay, in fact.
Ahh, now I get it. I think it would've been obvious to me if it had said "generalize this to every line", as then I would've known it was referring to the previous line, and not just going onwards from there.
When I first read the title of this post, I was certain that you were going to explain how you were just done with creative endeavours all together. While this post isn’t exactly comforting (the dominance of romance novels and the rise of AI stories are a bit scary) I am glad that you’re still being creative through other means. I wish you luck with your short film!
And by the way? I greatly enjoyed your narration for A Town Called Nowhere. Writers aren’t typically known for their acting skills so I wasn’t expecting much when I first gave it a listen, but you did a very good job.
Wise words. Right priorities. We'll always be here for the next novel. Family is a beautiful things. Many regret not doing what you're doing. Those years fly by! Good call bro.
You have brought so much joy to me and my husband, and my small book club followers. . AI ain’t got nothing on you. Your one of a kind, and it has been a joy reading someone that feels like a REAL person. My small opinion may not matter, but your books changed my life and got me through some really dark places. You will be missed.
Your opinion matters to me.
I'm so glad I could, in some small way, help. And I'm going to keep writing, it's just not going to take the form of a novel anymore. I'm going to find better ways to get traction.
Welp, I've bought everything I could find that you've written and thoroughly enjoyed all of it. Can't argue with your logic, novel writing is a wretched business proposition, but I will miss your stuff. The blow is softened knowing you are taking care of yourself and your family, and if it helps, know that you've got real fans out here.
It does. It's not a fan problem. It's an aggregation problem. A breaking through problem. And I just can't see how to do it with novels in a way that makes sense right now.
But don't worry, I haven't run out of ideas or shots to take. They're just not going to be longshots with low payoffs anymore.
It's only February and I'm just about done with book #2 for 2023, so I guess I'd better slow down. "Direct" by Kathryn Judge is about industry "middlemen" writ large and full of examples from finance, consumer goods, food, and real estate. I wonder if, having published it, she has anything to say about the value of publishers, pre- or post- "American Dirt."
"Generalize to every line you write."
I would like to know what this means, and what, if anything, it has something to do with ChatGPT. I Googled, but it's not obvious to me. I also don't have Twitter, so I couldn't ask directly.
As for reading books, I recently stopped. I used to read a few pages while my characters were getting points in a game I was playing, but I had to cut down on the time I spend on that game, so no more time to read books while the game is doing its thing. Now I just use the in-game function to skip that gameplay. And buying books? That was a long time ago. Now I just borrow books from the library. I am a humongous cheapskate.
Writing books seems like a lottery. If you're really lucky you go viral for some reason.
I took it to mean, "You should write the book that only you can write" -> "You should write the line that only you can write."
But "generalize to" sounds like the opposite of that? Though I'm not at all familiar with that grammar, which could be the reason I don't know what it means.
In this sense I took it to mean that you should only write lines that couldn't be written by AI. The generalize here would to take the specific technique, make it a principle and apply it to a larger set of things. It's a usage common in mathematics.
Punished by Chat GPT means that you're dull writing will be lost in the wave of noise that is coming.
I think this a great subject for another essay, in fact.
Ahh, now I get it. I think it would've been obvious to me if it had said "generalize this to every line", as then I would've known it was referring to the previous line, and not just going onwards from there.
When I first read the title of this post, I was certain that you were going to explain how you were just done with creative endeavours all together. While this post isn’t exactly comforting (the dominance of romance novels and the rise of AI stories are a bit scary) I am glad that you’re still being creative through other means. I wish you luck with your short film!
And by the way? I greatly enjoyed your narration for A Town Called Nowhere. Writers aren’t typically known for their acting skills so I wasn’t expecting much when I first gave it a listen, but you did a very good job.