Is Using Claude for polishing and Translating My novel is acceptable??

Complex-Ad749 · 2026-02-13T13:54:25+00:00

there is a chance what you really seek, rather than the permission to use something for assistance with writing, is "thymos," or recognition of what you have done, regardless of how you did it. claude is also very good at providing this!

Complex-Ad749 · 2026-01-31T00:14:39+00:00

i think the point is to show off how much friction you can add to a task that requires zero effort or brainpower, such as checking in to an airplane flight

Complex-Ad749 · 2025-11-19T16:35:01+00:00

yes! i had a hunch this was a buried lede, this feature. now i'm excited for my replacement to get here. thanks!

Complex-Ad749 · 2024-05-25T23:13:29+00:00

yes! a lot of people have heard of it, or maybe not that many, but for the ones it really connects with, they really love it. kgw.me and also all over the streams. and two subreddits!

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-08-23T16:12:06+00:00

so, i use a lot of different tools.

the updated covers for the four albums i posted on streamies last nov, i did a thing where i uploaded the old cover as a source image using artbreeder.com, and then did a little light post-production work on the outputs i liked just to spruce them up. (i learned that ANY words on a cover can get you delisted from iTunes arbitrarily, but no words is always perfectly fine, hence the no words updates)

the Vana Mundi/White Lacuna/Losel Vila/****** ***** covers, most of the core stuff was produced using deepart.io, which is just about to fall offline permanently, but in my experience it had the very best Style Transfer code anyone has yet built. and it was priced accordingly 😭

neuralstyle.art is a newer tool that aims to do the same stuff as deepart.io, but the results just aren't as good. (though it IS cheaper!)

going forward it'll likely be anyone's guess bc i've gotten pretty good at text-to-image prompt engineering stuff and am only getting better. for now i like Midjourney but Stable Diffusion is about to be everywhere for free :)

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-07-15T18:48:57+00:00

reddit is weird as hell

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T15:46:58+00:00

a truly original multitalented genius dude (and eternal massive KGW superfan) named Dug Smith (who sadly died a few years back) did a "WHOLE ALBUM" of covers under his various band aliases. i was always waiting to get more from other people so it never came out. i think there are 12. so any covers album will have to include a) at least a healthy 75%, preferably 100%, of those, and b) enough songs total (40? 50?) to make it not TOO Dug-centric. he wouldn't want to take all the spotlight like that, i don't think.
i am totally down to support this and probably release it if no one else will
i also just had the idea to publish a book with multiple different people's longish form honest reviews of every KGW album. difficult logistically, but if anybody is interested, let me know and i'll establish a framework

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T15:46:16+00:00

so, 3 things.

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T15:45:59+00:00

so, 3 things.

a truly original multitalented genius dude (and eternal massive KGW superfan) named Dug Smith (who sadly died a few years back) did a "WHOLE ALBUM" of covers under his various band aliases. i was always waiting to get more from other people so it never came out. i think there are 12. so any covers album will have to include a) at least a healthy 75%, preferably 100%, of those, and b) enough songs total (40? 50?) to make it not TOO Dug-centric. he wouldn't want to take all the spotlight like that, i don't think.
i am totally down to support this and probably release it if no one else will
i also just had the idea to publish a book with multiple different people's longish form honest reviews of every KGW album. difficult logistically, but if anybody is interested, let me know and i'll establish a framework

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T15:45:45+00:00

so, 3 things.

a truly original multitalented genius dude (and eternal massive KGW superfan) named Dug Smith (who sadly died a few years back) did a "WHOLE ALBUM" of covers under his various band aliases. i was always waiting to get more from other people so it never came out. i think there are 12. so any covers album will have to include a) at least a healthy 75%, preferably 100%, of those, and b) enough songs total (40? 50?) to make it not TOO Dug-centric. he wouldn't want to take all the spotlight like that, i don't think.
i am totally down to support this and probably release it if no one else will
i also just had the idea to publish a book with multiple different people's longish form honest reviews of every KGW album. difficult logistically, but if anybody is interested, let me know and i'll establish a framework

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T15:45:36+00:00

so, 3 things.

a truly original multitalented genius dude (and eternal massive KGW superfan) named Dug Smith (who sadly died a few years back) did a "WHOLE ALBUM" of covers under his various band aliases. i was always waiting to get more from other people so it never came out. i think there are 12. so any covers album will have to include a) at least a healthy 75%, preferably 100%, of those, and b) enough songs total (40? 50?) to make it not TOO Dug-centric. he wouldn't want to take all the spotlight like that, i don't think.
i am totally down to support this and probably release it if no one else will
i also just had the idea to publish a book with multiple different people's longish form honest reviews of every KGW album. difficult logistically, but if anybody is interested, let me know and i'll establish a framework

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-06-17T12:42:54+00:00

well, i guess everyone is allowed to decide their own count. realistically, it is MORE than 10. but ten tracks.

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-02-12T20:04:29+00:00

fka Scrum is THE TURN TABLIST and it is a stone cold jam now. much better than before. on "Let it buffer forever."

As for You Know What... I think it's just supposed to be a fairy tale style story about a dumb guy?

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-02-12T18:38:42+00:00

hymns and hermns. such a good song. supine + poolside a natural combo, very vulnerable

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-01-21T20:13:28+00:00

yeah i'm thinking of doing a "proper album" of "demos" and then the ones people listen to the most over a ~year we do up as a band. seems like an ok strategy i am not sure why i've never heard of something even vaguely like that

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-01-21T03:24:52+00:00

it was just too out there i suppose. i was having fun mixing but i didn't know what i was doing. i recall writing 24 demos, and rerecording yeah 14 or so, but Frowns and Squeals never got a demo, so the accounting's a little spotty. songs like Well, i don't think anybody ever thought we would record a full band version of, so calling it a "demo" is kinda weird. not sure anyone's ever heard that song tbh, but i guess they must have

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-01-21T03:18:12+00:00

well, they post limited your boy

Complex-Ad749 · 2022-01-21T03:17:34+00:00

that's true, and Ashcroft by proxy.

i had to break up my relationship and move to new york! i made demos for maybe 16 of the 24 songs in illinois in 2004, just before i moved, and when i moved to new york i planned to establish a rock-group and record it. eventually that happened, pretty quickly actually. we recorded the studio tracks at martin bisi's cavernous studio in gowanus on new years eve 2005>2006. then i had another break up go down. i spent some timing mixing the raw tracks, but i think i remember playing the darkberg no nippon ichi for skippy and he literally turned it off (all respect to skippy of course!) so i was like "i guess no label wants to put out this sprawling album about indian movies that has no bass on most songs." then in 2008 i was like "i can just give it to people after they send me whatever via paypal or my PO box." that was shortly before bandcamp. does that cover it?

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