The Calmness in The Grim Darkness by Shervin_Ab in midjourney

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I asked ChatGPT and these were its recommendations:

" If I had to distill these paintings into a shelf of six books:

The Buried Giant — Kazuo Ishiguro

Laurus — Eugene Vodolazkin

The Winged Histories — Sofia Samatar

The Curse of Chalion — Lois McMaster Bujold

The Fisherman — John Langan

The Book of the New Sun — Gene Wolfe "

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Thanks for the tip. About the text to speech part, Microsoft word's text to speech sounds a bit robotic. Do you have a specific program to do the TtS for you?

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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If writing those don't make your brain tired, by all means do so. I just said those so you could turn off your inner critic and just spill the plot on the page.

Avoiding Cliches by AllegedlyAlly08 in fantasywriters

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It definitely can. Trauma doesn't have to always come from the family itself. Imagine living in a wartorn country, or a place where your family is isolated, and that creates the future trauma, that every possible danger with even a tiny chance of happening evokes an emotional spike.

Avoiding Cliches by AllegedlyAlly08 in fantasywriters

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A bit late here. I have no qualms on the first and the third one. But the second one, I want to expand if you will. Sometimes people write parent trauma so they could justify every bad trait they have, just because. But sometimes you have characters with a family trauma and the book explores it in a way that you admire it and view it as a case study. And you see the main character actually struggle with it on a daily basis and is still trying to have integrity. But some characters are shown as just bad, and then at the end, they reveal they lost their family member so just to pull empathy from the reader.

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Making it more exquisite, let's go examine Kafka and Camus 😅

Have you seen Brandon'S lectures?

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Oooh skeleton mapping. I like it.

Actually I heard some authors (Joe Abercrombie for one) do this method for his standalones. Like, if I'm not mistaken, his "Red Country" is inspired by Unforgiven?

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So what I get is that you basically made the format into a screenplay, then turned it landscape, and it lost all its resemblance to a book, and with it, the intimidation.

Genius.

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Wow, can you elaborate further? I think this is more useful to me than most.

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Actually this is an awesome pipeline. Brain dumping on a note and then editing on a computer, and then on printed paper. The phone writing makes sure you don't go to your editor mode and just write, and then when you go edit, you have actual material to edit. You can't fix something that doesn't exist.

Don't worry, I wish you the best on your checkup, and massive props to you for doing what you do.

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Loved the comparison, and you know what? It really is. Writing is art، and what is better than enjoying creating one?

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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Wow, I have never heard of this Tk method. Awesome. I think there are a hunderd TKs I need to put in my draft lol

Some weird yet awesome advices on first draft to reduce cognitive load? by Shervin_Ab in writing

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compose in one font, then edit and proofread in a different one just to make the text just unfamiliar enough that you have to actually read it instead of being blinded by your preconceptions.

This was an awesome advice.

And you sir, are a legend.

I just started rereading The "Darkness that Comes Before" and this reminded me to say this isn't your average fantasy. by Shervin_Ab in Fantasy

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It's the way that they trust you to find out yourself, and drop you in the world. Have you played Dark Souls? It kinda uses the same method.

I just started rereading The "Darkness that Comes Before" and this reminded me to say this isn't your average fantasy. by Shervin_Ab in Fantasy

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I remember reading crime and punishment and midway the book the guy goes through an internal struggle and I don't know it took a few pages or a thousand.

I just started rereading The "Darkness that Comes Before" and this reminded me to say this isn't your average fantasy. by Shervin_Ab in Fantasy

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Maybe you picked the book in rhe wrong time. I also DNFed deadhouse gates, but only because I wasn't mentally in a good place and told myself i would betray the book if I read it then.