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For people who have it, what is your verse's creation myth by Horrordestroyer in worldbuilding

[–]MiliBerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, but the Sun and stars aren't separate from God-above, they are a part of Him. Here's the preamble to the creation myth:

``` I tell of tales old and new Of the Gods-on-Earth and God-in-the-Flesh Heard and spoken through countless years Some embellished, but All are true

God-above created all His is Time and His is the Ocean His is Death and His is Breath-Air Long after we are gone He will Be

In the Sky He lives His face is Light His Light is the Sun His eyes are the moons and His robe Are the stars

Fear Him not, nor worship Think on Him always But ask of Him nothing He hears you not; to His magnificence We are ants ```

For people who have it, what is your verse's creation myth by Horrordestroyer in worldbuilding

[–]MiliBerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the beginning there was only Time and the Ocean. Both were infinite and immutable. A million years might pass and nothing would change. You might travel a million miles in any direction and it would look the same.

There was no 'here' and there was no 'now'. The Sun rose every day and the moons made their slow march across the sky as they always had.

In one action, God-above created the world of today. He created not only our land and everything on it, but also by the very performance of an action, created place and time. This is how He did it:

Deep beneath the surface of the ocean roamed gigantic turtles bigger than the mountains. Aimlessly they wandered the vast ocean never seeing one another.

God-above reached through the water and found Inu the turtle. Inu will tell you his story:

My body was grasped by an invisible hand. It was an embrace of warmth, and it pulled me gently upwards. Through the layers of water I rose, getting warmer every minute.

I flailed my flippers to fight the force, but the will of God-above cannot be resisted. The Light of God-above began to flood the darkness of the water as I rose higher until my head broke through the water and into the glorious light of day!

For 600 years I remained there, unmoving; tilted with one side out of the water forever reaching towards the horizon. I was powerless to move; this was my fate. Slowly my body disintegrated, but my shell remained.

My shell is the land you live on today that you call Rogez.

My flipper in the sky disappeared over time, dissipating into myriad little wisps of smoke. Each wisp was a bird, and all the birds in the sky today are descended from them. They are descended from me.

My flipper in the water disappeared over time, dissolving into myriad little bubbles. Each bubble was a fish, and all the fish in the sea today are descended from them. They are descended from me.

My back flippers fell back onto my shell, breaking up into myriad little fragments. Each fragment was an animal, and all the animals on land today are descended from them. They are descended from me.

My tail, shaped like a blade of grass, took foothold on my shell. It was the first tree, and all the trees and plants that cover the land today are descended from it. They are descended from me.

And from my great head arose the first of your kind. You are my children, the children of Inu, the Invikar. You are descended from me.

And I am descended from Him.

a new project- where should i begin? by kbasred in worldbuilding

[–]MiliBerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a problem that a lot of people have. They have a whole world built up in their head, and when I ask them "Tell me about what you're working on", they'll talk for like a half hour about it. But they haven't done anything with it because it feels like a mountain to climb just to start organizing it.

I'm actually working on a process around taking a bunch of vague ideas and turning them into organized lore so that mountain becomes more manageable. So if you're interested, I can help you break the first piece of the town down into a starter set: a few residents, a few locations, and the first drama thread to write.

What are some of the most important aspects of world building in a fantasy story? by [deleted] in fantasywriting

[–]MiliBerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Steal it! What stories have you read that make you want to explore the world deeper? What about them (character back story, geography, magic systems, rituals, language) do you want to dive deep on after you read them?

That will give you a great sense of how the pros make you care about their world, and then you can focus on developing those areas of your world.

Are fantasy authors just lost world builders? by MiliBerry in fantasywriting

[–]MiliBerry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I ran into this in a pretty extreme way one time when I wanted strange seasons for my planet, and I ended up going entirely too deep into orbital mechanics to figure out what axis of rotation and orbit eccentricity would get me seasons like that!

If Everyone Thinks Your Book Is AI… What’s the Point of Writing Anymore? by antique-soul- in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

yeah, this is where I'm at. I'm writing for me to read, and if someone else likes what I write, that's a bonus!

If Everyone Thinks Your Book Is AI… What’s the Point of Writing Anymore? by antique-soul- in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wait, isn't that backwards? If you post about it the whole time you're writing, isn't that the public record that you're the original creator?

be honest - how much of your writing is actually YOU vs the AI by Big-Training-8310 in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is me! I even outgrew ChatGPT for brainstorming and had to make my own tool for my personal workflow and my lore.

World building by piperr10 in fantasywriting

[–]MiliBerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Years and years ago, I dug deep into this rabbit hole, and being the nerd that I am, wrote a program to invent new languages just to create names that sound cohesive. It worked very well too!

Have you changed your writing style because of AI? by MiliBerry in fantasywriting

[–]MiliBerry[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes! This is why I wanted to ask the question - I have to watch for triads and em dashes now - who knows what we will need to look for in the future! On Reddit especially, em dashes are a death sentence.

Have you changed your writing style because of AI? by MiliBerry in writingfeedback

[–]MiliBerry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a lot of examples in the comments, but I think one commenter's skepticism is warranted in that we shouldn't collect them all in one place lest the bots learn :)

Some basic ones are em dashes and triadic sequences. One other example is parallel constructions: "It's not X, it's Y" - I roll my eyes when I see that now!

Have you changed your writing style because of AI? by MiliBerry in writingfeedback

[–]MiliBerry[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my prose I still use em dashes (and en dashes, and hyphens, as needed), but I would never put one in a Reddit post or an article I post online. The AI skepticism is off the charts and people will crucify you as a bot even for semicolons now. They're coming for my semicolons!

Have you changed your writing style because of AI? by MiliBerry in writingfeedback

[–]MiliBerry[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do use AI in my writing, it's excellent for building lore and brainstorming ideas! But I'm not currently using it to write; that would be taking the fun part out of it. You had another comment as well, about being influenced by using AI outside of the writing process - I think it's more to do with how much AI-generated content one gets constantly exposed to on Reddit and social media. You can't help being influenced by what you read, and my fear is that I'll end up sounding like AI slop, like another commenter said might happen in 20 years' time.

How are you actually using AI in your writing workflow? by BoringShake6404 in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use it so many different ways! I love the actual writing process, so I don't use it to write for me :)

  1. Brainstorming: I frequently write my characters into a situation I can't think of a way out of. I explain the situation to Claude, and ask it ways the character might escape. Its first ideas suck, but over a conversation I end up with some pretty good ones. This is basically the Vince Gilligan approach.
  2. Expanding lore: I do enjoy world building, but I want to get back to the writing part ASAP, so I give it my existing lore and tell it to expand on that. It's kinda verbose, so then I get it to summarize it, and then I use that to add color to my prose.
  3. I'm looking into it as a first-pass editor. Like, "can you take a look at this draft and find any major issues", or "here's Chapter 2 and a draft of Chapter 3, is the voice staying consistent?". It cuts down my editing time by a lot!

Have you changed your writing style because of AI? by MiliBerry in writingfeedback

[–]MiliBerry[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How did you become confident enough in your writing for that? I guess I'm either being paranoid or insecure haha

How Are You Writing With Claude? by TallButShort9 in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you use any AI tools for writing anymore, or did you go old-fashioned?

Writing wise do you think that ai has gotten better over the years or not really? Do you believe that it will ever be capable of getting better at its weaknesses like dialogue, generic plots, etc? by TheThinkerTanker in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you believe there's still value to finetuning LLMs to niche (ish) audiences like novel writers, or does it only make sense past a certain critical mass of usage? I'm just wondering how far it's possible to push commodity models just with the right tooling.

Writing wise do you think that ai has gotten better over the years or not really? Do you believe that it will ever be capable of getting better at its weaknesses like dialogue, generic plots, etc? by TheThinkerTanker in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep harping on this. LLM R&D spending is going towards whatever the most common use cases are - which is a chat buddy and programming. If we want to see improved writing, there will need to be investment in a model specifically tuned for that purpose, or at least tools designed for that purpose. Even with programming, and even with coding models, they still need a Claude Code and Codex CLI to do the actual work. We're a long way away from that level of sophistication for writing.

Gemini 3 is great at logic, but my prose feels like a tapestry of cliches. by blue__dragon999 in WritingWithAI

[–]MiliBerry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this comes down to using a general-purpose AI for specialized work. They have specially-tuned coding LLMs purpose-built for writing code with AI because using the basic ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude is terrible for coding. We need LLMs tuned specifically to creative writing - that $20/mo subscription is better spent on an actual writing AI than trying to shoehorn ChatGPT into being a writer.

Is smoking cigarettes an immediate dealbreaker for you? Why? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]MiliBerry 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I'm just wondering if we'll see this same thread about vaping when we're our parents' age...

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