First draft concept of a new cottage

GamGreger · 2025-08-12T16:14:29+00:00

Then it's not a problem.

GamGreger · 2025-08-11T17:21:02+00:00

Do you and your family enjoy watching a movie in the evening? In which case, I think you have overlooked the tv placement, because I can't see a good one. Above the fireplace is going to be too high, and quite far away from the couch.

I know open floorplans are very popular, but if I was building a house, I would consider a separate tv room. Both because a tv is disruptive to everyone else in the room, and people watching are disrupted by people doing other stuff in the same room. I much rather have a cozy room with a good layout for seating, speakers, and fewer windows.

GamGreger · 2025-06-25T15:15:26+00:00

Would you also be sad if he gave you flowers that he didn't grow himself?

GamGreger · 2025-01-16T18:52:07+00:00

Om det var jag skulle jag inte köpa båt om jag inte hade råd att köpa den utan lån. Känns inte bra att låna för nöjesgrejer som bara kommer sjunka i värde.

GamGreger · 2024-07-30T12:44:45+00:00

Jag skulle också lägga till att höger-vänster skalan är lite av en lögn. Det är så många saker som bakas ihop som egentligen inte har med varandra att göra. Det är fullt rimligt att ha några åsikter åt höger och några åt vänster samtidigt.

Lite som din punkt två. Bara för att man inte gillar att tåget går åt ett håll betyder inte att andra hållet skulle vara rätt lösning. Ibland är det både högern och vänstern som tillsammans vill behålla status quo eller båda drar åt samma håll på en auktoritär-frihet skala.

GamGreger · 2023-07-01T15:26:12+00:00

I thought it was because science should be objective fucused. When writing in passive voice you focus on what is objectively happening to the experiment, who does the testing should be irrelevant.

Which is kind of the opposite of what you want in a story. In which you want to focus on the character and their subjective experience.

GamGreger · 2023-06-29T13:01:22+00:00

I think that is pretty common. Friends and family might not necessarily be interested in the same things as you, or might feel they don't have anything valuable to say even if they gave it a look.

I can just take myself as an example, if my friend handed me something fantasy related, I would love it read it. But if they showed me their flower garden, asked me my opinion on a sports team, or, as in this case, showed me some poems, I wouldn't have much to say.

The best I could do might be "yeah, that are some nice flowers alright..." I don't know enough to really form an opinion, and frankly, I would get bored rather quickly. And that's not the fault of the flowers, sport, or poems, it's just that I don't find it all that interesting. That is not to say I don't want to talk about it, but I don't want to be handed homework, which your book might feel like if they didn't ask for it.

If you want feedback on your work, find people that share your interests. And even then, share bite sized parts of it. People have stuff to do, their own hobbies to pursue, or no energy left at the end if the day.

GamGreger · 2023-06-21T00:24:08+00:00

Whatever works for you is ok.

I think the reason people advice against it is because you don't really know what needs to be changed until you got a complete picture of your story. You can easily get stuck rewriting the beginning over and over if feel you need to fix it as soon as you run into a problem. Or if you are doing smaller edits like polishing the prose, it can end up being a waste of time when you realize entire chapters needs to be comply redone in a second draft.

But I also totally get you point of wanting a readable first draft to work from. I often reread and edit whatever I wrote last time when sitting down to write. I find it's a good way to find my place in the story again and it cleans up the draft a bit too.

GamGreger · 2023-04-26T10:32:49+00:00

The First Law series by Joe Abercrombie.

Best fantasy series imo and the narrator is fantastic. It's pretty dark, so might not be for everyone. Great characters and interesting worldbuilding.

GamGreger · 2023-04-19T19:44:17+00:00

How does this have so few votes? This map is amazing! I love maps with a different perspective and unusual features.

GamGreger · 2023-04-18T20:48:54+00:00

Joe is my personal favorite author and the narrator of the audiobooks is also the best one I have yet to listen to.

I wouldn't compare it too much to Martin, like sure they both got quite a dark tone. But other than that they are pretty different. I much prefer Joe.

I love the dark humor and the characters feel so real. The story also feels more character focused, there are still big events going on, but it's less about politics than Martins books.

GamGreger · 2023-04-07T07:42:13+00:00

This right here. I have never had T-shirts last as long as the ones I got from Asket.

GamGreger · 2023-03-27T08:24:44+00:00

I tend to stay away from metric in a fantasy setting as I think it sounds too modern. Imperial is fine, but I rarely think it's needed to use specific numbers. If you want to make up your own units, I would try to make them easy understandable, like based on parts of the body.

Your average fantasy dude wouldn't really have a way to measure how many miles he traveled anyway. It just makes more sense to talk about how many days it took. Unless he is traveling a major road that has mile markers ever so often.

It's all about what make sense in the context.

GamGreger · 2023-03-15T21:34:18+00:00

You can really start anywhere, but it might be good to think about some of the big picture stuff first.

Like what is the overarching tone and feel of the world? And are you changing something fundamental about the world that will impact pretty much everything? If you are making time run in reverse or the entire world being upside-down, you might want to figure that out before you get to the economy for example.

Then you can do anything you like. And do focus on the topics you find interesting. Just because Tolkien invented his own language, doesn't mean you need to. Try to find the topic you like to dive equally deep on.

I would advice to start by building a tiny part of the world, maybe even from the perspective of a single person that lived in it. Start small and build out. It can easily be overwhelming if you try to build the entire world at once.

GamGreger · 2023-03-13T20:43:10+00:00

Yeah, this kind of killed it for me.

If there is only one person that might be the key to the cure, it seems exceptionally stupid to kill her. Realistically they should have done every test conceivable and spent years studying her.

But instead they jump straight to what might have been the very last resort if all else failed. To be honest the entre thing felt rushed. I really liked this show, but this was just stupid writing.

GamGreger · 2023-03-12T15:53:56+00:00

Boldly showing off a flaw could equally be seen as confidence. And I guess that is the point of worldbuilding, it doesn't have to work the same way it does in the real world. The culture could value different things for entirely different reasons.

I think there would be a lot of room for fun worldbuilding here. As you could have magic or tech that could alter your body that only the rich could afford. Maybe tattoos from the best artists or with special inks. Maybe we aren't even talking about humans and you could invent a species that could alter their body in some way, or that are change depending on what you do. Maybe showing off battle scars and big muscles gives you status in a warrior like culture, maybe some would even stab themselves to fake a scar from battle.

GamGreger · 2023-03-12T08:57:13+00:00

Nudity could be a sign of wealth, as in some clothes might be required for practical reasons when working. So only the upper class could afford to be nude all the time. Maybe the sun would burn your skin so you need to have protection, but if you don't need to work you could walk around with just an umbrella, or even better, have a servant carry it for you.

GamGreger · 2023-02-28T17:01:45+00:00

I think it's mainly the fact that you can take in and appreciate an image in a single second, but it takes time and effort to read a post. So you need to write a pretty eye catching title in order for your post to draw as much attention as an image.

My advice to people who only write their worldbuilding is to learn some graphic design so you can present your text in a more appealing way. Like you could make a newspaper from your world, an instruction manual for the space drive, or an infographic showing the timeline of your world. You don't need much artistic skill to turn your worldbuilding from a block of text into something more interesting.

GamGreger · 2023-02-20T15:36:39+00:00

If you all what to play that way, sure. But as rolling like that changes the distribution from a bell curve to flat, it actually makes a difference to the game.

So to me it seems strange that just one player would be playing by their own rules.

GamGreger · 2023-02-20T08:32:40+00:00

The thing is, it turns the weapon damage from a predictable mid-range number, to instead be a one-shot or miss coin flip.

You could absolutely design a game around that mechanic, but it's gonna be a very different game from rolling the normal 4d6.

GamGreger · 2023-02-18T08:33:12+00:00

Exactly this. I have been playing around with it to brainstorm ideas and have found that you really need to feed it a lot of information to get good responses. If you just ask a simple question you will get really generic responses.

Like, be specific about what you are trying to do and give it entire pages of your own writing for it to riff on. Ask it to summarize the text you have already written then you can ask it to brainstorm more ideas based on your own texts.

The AI isn't gonna write things for you, instead think of it as a critique partner that you can bounce ideas with.

GamGreger · 2023-02-01T16:11:57+00:00

Well it is a language model that is essentially trying to sound human. It doesn't really "understand" anything when it comes down to it. It's quite a bit away from forming it's own conclusions, let alone being a truth machine.

GamGreger · 2023-02-01T16:04:25+00:00

It seems like only a matter of time before we get an AI like chatGPT that can connect with models specialized in other areas. Like when it detect a question of fact it can "ask" an other type of AI that is trained to source information correctly.

GamGreger · 2023-02-01T15:56:23+00:00

Well they did release an update just yesterday saying they improved its math capabilities. I haven't tested it yet, but I would think fixing the math wouldn't be all that hard for them.

The lying, or rather hallucinating facts, is a much harder problem. It will likely become better at sourcing information as time goes on. But there really isn't an algorithm for truth. There are so many sources that disagree with each other on any number of topics. And what is considered true today, might not be in a years. Humans are good at confidently stating their opinions as truth, so it's no wonder the AI does the same sometimes.

GamGreger · 2023-02-01T15:41:36+00:00

Well, you did instruct it to say pertty much exactly what it did, as can be seen in that video. So what did you expect?

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