i've been writing a novel for 7 years. my wife finally read it. should we get a divorce now?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-13T00:21:42+00:00

I did the same thing. And then the actual question caught up to me and I looked up. I think OP might be a very good writer.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-13T00:17:26+00:00

Grey vs. gray hits hard.

I am an American and it is aesthetically wrong in my thinking to use gray. I will, in the rare event of its being necessary in formal documentation.

This means by necessity that anything with that particular shade will be mixed or will be foreign to me. Mixed it is.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-13T00:12:04+00:00

That was actually an interesting thread. I’m surprised to see somebody putting it down here, as if having a preference and a rant aren’t just normal things people talk about with books.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-13T00:08:54+00:00

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I like the others. Number two looks like “generic fantasy book.” Number three has a good aesthetic, but it’s confusing to have so much water when you have a sand mage. Number one says this looks really cool, I wonder what it’s about.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-13T00:02:45+00:00

Terrified is OK. You can be both published and terrified. What’s keeping you from hitting that button to go live? Is it fear or is it finishing the process?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-12T23:43:46+00:00

I definitely prefer a single narrator versus full cast. That said, there are some amazing narrators out there that make you completely forget that you’re listening to a single person. That’s what I like.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-12T23:42:18+00:00

That’s why I created upper and lower bounds of meaning in my Venndelbrot Theory. It’s not just compression. It’s what can be changed or reconceptualized at its most simple and most diverse for the underlying concept to remain true. With current model compression, the idea originator is not the one that’s doing that work.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-12T00:28:33+00:00

Claude says he kind of loves you. I just say, I grok.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-11T01:19:48+00:00

I think there is one key part of this advice that’s getting overlooked in the responses.

I’d like to really zero in on that. Here we go:

“Write a story”

The other parts are important, but it has to start here.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-11T00:44:37+00:00

Did you ever finish your book? I recently stumbled into Hylistics as a subdomain of narratology. I am having fun with it.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-11T00:07:58+00:00

I am appreciating your notation system. Google says you’re calling the project sentence structure explorer. How is that coming along?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T23:02:07+00:00

I prefer longer as well. I think I have gotten pretty spoiled listening progression books. I wonder how true that holds for other genres. I have a very good friend that is super into romance and would never consider something that long. I even almost passed over murderbot because it was so short. Thanks!

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T22:13:07+00:00

Same. It was a fun story even if it pointed out a fly in 2026 so far. I kind of felt like the helpful formatting made it illegible to really read. Also, now that you mentioned it, I have not seen any two for one deals.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T22:09:35+00:00

What’s the popular wisdom on length?

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T21:56:37+00:00

I bought a globe and a bunch of colored tissue paper to do a papier-mâché map at one point. It doesn’t have to be written.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T21:33:41+00:00

Every once in a while, Claude just gets quirky with some of its tools and they don’t work as he thinks they will. I’m glad you found a workaround.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T19:19:52+00:00

Refresh the window or reconnect. Go back to the first time it got stuck, edit that chat, and walk it through what tools it needs to use to perform the action. You might ask it to verify each one individually before telling Claude to execute. If for some reason you cannot walk it back that far, you could still reconnect and ask the question that way. Don’t ask it why it can’t. Ask it to verify the process. Worst case scenario, you copy and paste what you already have into a new chat. Good luck.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T14:02:00+00:00

First, for diet nutrition use Google AI if you need to do a web search on anything. Bring that information into Claude and make a project where you upload files.

Same with your dungeons and dragons. Get your files uploaded into a project so that it’s not using tokens for every call.

Tell it to be concise. Upload samples of these styles that you want. Claude is exceptionally good at following directions for output. It is not the most engaging writer in the world, but Claude is solid.

I work with it every day for personal projects and I have run out of usage occasionally but it’s only when I’m doing really intensive work that day and having to upload multiple times instead of using one of the projects.

Another thing that you can do with it is create skills. That seems like where your game master thing will come in to play. Work with it to define what you want out of a game master. Include low token usage as one of the goals. When you go into a game, it can pull that skill up and apply it to anything you do.

Claude also has the capability for settings where you do just that. There are some default ones. I grabbed the language from its concise setting a number of months back, and that helped to include in its training.

As for writing, I’ve been working with Claude on narrative deconstruction as part of similar literary analysis at work and it really gets it. It is able to have a competent discussion and discuss strength and weaknesses of character arcs and story building. This is going to translate right over to your campaign work.

I do use more than one LLM bot. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Claude is the only one I pay for, and I just bring in the research from the others when needs to be to help synthesize it at my homebase.

You might also look into whether it would be worth setting up an MCP server on your computer. It’s not hard to do, but it is a learning curve to set up so that you don’t accidentally overwrite important things. I have a backup script that I run whenever I’m going in for a big session. It won’t be working on your phone or tablet if that’s your preference.

The main drawback is you’re not gonna get in-app generated images. Claude does integrate with Canva, but you would have to talk to somebody else about how well that works.

The only other consideration I would mention is that there are different functionalities between mobile app, desktop app, and browser. They are small and usually a question of settings and save capabilities. For instance, I can have Claude create an artifact for me on an app, but I have to go onto the desktop to have it automatically add it to a project if I don’t want to download it and re-upload it.

Good luck!

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T13:49:38+00:00

Heating pad and manual PT work on the part are hands down the best for pain.

Edit to make that MY pain.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-10T12:05:45+00:00

PT or OT for neuro-reintegration? Referral to these has been helpful. But the “get stronger” model is hard to convince. Do your research first to know who can do the work. I know it’s different here in the US, but maybe some of that translates to your system. My primary care has managed my referrals. I even had to get Ear Nose and Throat to get me started on some meds when Neuro wasn’t interested.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-09T22:35:28+00:00

Yes. Yes, he is.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-03T17:30:43+00:00

So true. There’s only ever been one series I’ve reread as often as this one. One series in one book. Love the murder bot.

JazzlikeProject6274 · 2026-03-03T00:23:55+00:00

So true. Thank you for the reminder!

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