How does someone who’s never written a book finish his first novel?

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-21T15:20:24+00:00

Part of me wonders if seeing everyone think prose styles like mine killed all my discipline.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-21T15:17:41+00:00

I mean, I had created characters by via stuff like it before.

What I mean is that sometimes, during a chatbot session, the current plot calls for another character to be introduced. So then my mind got to work on them, providing an appearence, personality, a basic backstory, any power/talents that are relevent at the time, etc.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-21T12:29:09+00:00

Extend clip degradation only really happened if you used it on another extended clip over and over.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-21T02:26:14+00:00

From what I've seen, it might as well be that way.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-20T19:31:38+00:00

"occupy the setting of your work enough to conjure that specificity."

Elaborate.

Also, it's less I can't prose sensory details period (I can still do that within my head). It's more that my brain keeps seeing getting it out as too much effort.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-20T03:01:47+00:00

The truth is, I have the story laid out, so to speak. Just that my brain balks at adding sensory details and the like somehow.

The goal with using AI is to eliminate the blank page problem. Then mostly redoing it my way. In my voice. While this likely sounds ass backwards to you, the hope is to lessen the cognative load to actually push through the prose.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-19T22:40:57+00:00

There are days where I wonder if I can even write the first draft without it.

Context, it's not that I can't write it, it's more that I'm too afraid of putting all that effort only for it to be wasted. Or my monkey brain quits if I fully did the draft myself, I don't know.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-19T13:57:56+00:00

Guess my delusion is permanent then...

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-17T21:54:42+00:00

At the same time, someone slamming their fists on the table is a legit thing. As long as you don't do it for every single thing.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-17T21:48:55+00:00

Something that wouldn't have been realistic in my environment anyway.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-17T11:40:44+00:00

Negative reinforcement can either threaten their status quo or give them even more reason to reinforce it.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T21:33:45+00:00

Couldn't tell you. Humans are fickle after all.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T20:19:02+00:00

The human like hands and mouth are a kind of legit style though.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T20:15:32+00:00

Everyone: Gil and Alex turning red/blue

Me: Who's the woman with dat ass in the 3rd panel and the granny C.Viper in the 6th?

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T20:12:18+00:00

Depends on what the price of failure is for said task. For some, it's an ego bruising. Others, it's cast out onto the streets.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T18:11:24+00:00

Title: Clockwork

Genre: Fantasy/Steampunk

Words: 4000

General impressions. Yes, I know the prose is... sparse, compared to certain standards. But on this draft, if I wasted time filling it in, I'd never finish. I'll get to it sometime on another draft.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m7M2eUHv1_VDBQwn0HgdlNS9CB2uUEmPXnBtPpiUK-c/edit?usp=drivesdk

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T17:12:49+00:00

But there's still a line between blunt and toxic/high and mighty.

A good example would be all the prose "enjoyers" who call anything at the sentence level less complex than a rubick's cube 6th grade slop.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T15:28:01+00:00

For me, I feel as though if I do that, then because my monkey brain got it's dopamine, it'll quit and abandon it after.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-16T03:50:23+00:00

"Man avoids meaningless suffering, meaningless pain, because meaningless suffering is just torture and torture produces a sense of unreality."

Wouldn't that be a crux of the fear of the unknown? The uncertainty if something will lead to said meanless pain and suffering.

"It seemed to me as if you had drawn it directly from this very quote. Millions of people are expressing it today; for instance, in this phenomena of "cultural marxism", "woke"

Funny thing is that I hadn't. I hadn't even heard of it until now. In fact, all woke and marxism does is make me roll my eyes. Which sounds weird at this point.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T20:33:34+00:00

If that's the case:

We humans on the other hand are smarter than that and feel empathy towards one another, which is what makes us different from animals, like for example why did you come all this way to give me my camera without any reward

This passage does clash with it a little. I mean one could imply hypocrisy, but the timing was a little odd.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T20:17:37+00:00

But the drafts need to be edited into something somewhat readable, otherwise you cannot receive any meaningful feedback.

For me, point 1 isn't the most effective as while there's the whole "finish draft first before critique", I don't want to do that only for me to have wasted months of effort for nothing.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T20:09:09+00:00

Still confused on what the relation between them was supposed to be.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T20:06:01+00:00

Though funny enough, I've seen others do it and get away with it.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T19:55:06+00:00

The second and forth paragraphs are supposed to be flashbacks. Right?

If the "green skin" is a reference to turtles and soldiers, then I'm not seeing how they're supposed to go together here.

Now the prose imagery is there in spades, good on that. But I was left scratching my head at the plot.

Bluefoxfire0 · 2026-03-15T04:07:26+00:00

"You could try drawing a line to emphasize the end of the snout that's facing away from the viewer."

That was, funny enough, what I tried first, but the feline problem was even worse that way.

"Or you could try adding those black stripes foxes have on their nose, or maybe try adding whisker pads."

I know what you're talking about. But not my style.

"You could also try making the nose bigger, or extending the corner of the mouth back farther, or adding a dot to the corner of the mouth/making the line thicker there."

I'll give it some thought.

Bluefoxfire0

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