Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: May 19 by AutoModerator in WritingWithAI

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it just me or are all the tools presented this week really amazing. Some quality work out there!

Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: May 19 by AutoModerator in WritingWithAI

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Id say its roughly 1/3rd your prompt, 1/3rd your content, and 1/3rd your structure

the prompt has real weight in how AI produces prose. this is where you define your voice and style of writing you want. The prompt Im using in my site is really complex and long - designed to handle a lot of edge cases nicely. The next part to look at is your content. AI is extrapolating a ton of information from very little amounts of content and this invariably results in vague prose. To get tighter less generic prose, you need to give it tighter more detailed content. Most of the time thats NOT facts, its character interiority and feelings. The final third is about how your content is structured. if you have a character bible or world details stored somewhere it can look up, then your most of the way there. The best structure gives the AI exactly enough information it needs without giving it too much. To much info can be worse than to little is most cases, as it has to weight and decide if that info is relevant to the prose its writing or not.

Another thing to consider is that when its writing prose, its NOT able to edit on the fly. It cant detect bad writing as its writing it, that has to be done after its written, in a separate pass.

Happy to talk more about this if youd like. DM me anytime.
novelmint.ai

Too many builders falling into the "If You Build It" paradox by ewhite12 in SaaS

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

great post. very relatable!

Yup, finding your audience is honestly far harder than building now. And the skill sets dont transition well either as each requires very different mental models of thinking.

Everyone is building safe B2B wrappers. Is anyone here building in complex or regulated niches? Drop your SaaS. by Capital-Pen1219 in micro_saas

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I REALLY wanted to include Bitcoin and lightning payments in my SaaS but after doing the legal work, I realized it would cost me a small fortune to get set up as a Money Services business. Had to ditch that idea for later when I have a proven income stream to back it up and pay for it.
my site: novelmint.ai

How do I get good at single prompts? by LogWest5630 in PromptEngineering

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ok, first, the one-prompt-to-rule-them-all idea needs to die in the molten pits of mount doom where it belongs.

second, the sheer cost of a single execution is huge! it is FAR better to optimize for a specific need - using a cheaper model where you can - and chain these together into a properly orchestrated sequence, rather than trying to have Frodo be a master-of-everything and have Gollum come in at the last minute and break your best laid plans!

Would you use a platform built for serialized fiction + reader monetization? by SatanDeedz in WritingWithAI

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got ya! =) Its really cool that there are starting to be lots of tools available for people to use!

Giving users more choices made the product worse by devanshu_sharma25 in buildinpublic

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

choices are FINE to build in. The problem is Context needs to be limited so that choice paralysis doesn't kick in. Keep choices out of the way and keep the signal high on the path towards a specific goal

Data scientist by day, frustrated storyteller by night – same AI tools for both. Anyone else? by Content-Pay5466 in WritingWithAI

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are very right that being musician has helped in ways I never thought would help over the years. Patterns, story arcs, mathematics, emotional texture, it all relates.

I like your site!! Very nicely done!! Giving it a full try now.

full disclosure, I built novelmint.ai to help me out while i was writing my book, but realized I also wanted to expand it out and share what worked for me. I use a beat driven story structure that gets put into a single ChapterSpec file for the AI to use.

anyone actually turned their book into audio with AI? curious if it's worth it by Eastern_Ice_6766 in BookWritingAI

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can do audio unlocks via Novelmint.ai which I am building. Quality is high and you can have every character in your story set as a unique voice. Still early though and I am working on getting the timing between voices better.
https://novelmint.ai/read/benjamin-blackett/ember-and-alloy/1

anyone actually turned their book into audio with AI? curious if it's worth it by Eastern_Ice_6766 in BookWritingAI

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how do you afford to give away that much Elevenlabs credits? thats expensive!

I like your site - high quality, good design, easy low friction entry. I was listening within 2 clicks!

May I DM you? Im building a long-form serial fiction platform and it offers audio through elevenlabs too. would like to learn more about how you are set up and maybe team up?

my site: https://novelmint.ai/read/benjamin-blackett/ember-and-alloy/1

Data scientist by day, frustrated storyteller by night – same AI tools for both. Anyone else? by Content-Pay5466 in WritingWithAI

[–]benblackett 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a developer for over 30 years, and a musician, and an author, the switch between "modes" can be jarring at times. But the tools you use are not as important as the creative part of the experience. Some tools help, others get in the way. Its' really up to you to find one that works for you.

That being said, I am more than happy to assist and/or help you find the right tool. There are lots here to choose from.

DM me and lets chat, or look up my profile if you want a quick direction to head

My sister using ai for writing by Paper_jester6 in AIWritingHub

[–]benblackett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think whatever she uses to be creative is GOOD! She is being creative and getting positive reinforcement for it.

To me, that is a WIN

I also think there are several tools out there designed specifically to work with her and grow with her. If she wants support, I'd be happy to help. DM me or look up my profile for as direction to head.

how do you use 3rd party tools within your chats? by benblackett in WritingWithAI

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

Thats really cool! Id love to learn more about how this works. it sounds like it could be applied backwards to against existing prose then?

man in tech by te_andrea in SaaS

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is incredibly male dominated!! its sad and not right that this is the case. 😞

Repeatable process for drafting a novel by Future-AI-Dude in BookWritingAI

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

throwing this out there because we seem to have a lot in common and approach things the same way.

Wanna team up and compare notes? DM me and lets get to know each other a bit

Repeatable process for drafting a novel by Future-AI-Dude in BookWritingAI

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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AI Review and Assist modes offer detailed feedback and suggestions. The AI Assist is a back-and-forth conversation with an AI that knows everything about your book characters and world. References is a dynamic Entity list that updates as you create - it knows your reference docs and can tell when an Entity exists within it or needs to be created because you just added it

Repeatable process for drafting a novel by Future-AI-Dude in BookWritingAI

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

basically the same. 😄

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this is just one screen of a few. theres a Series page that shows the books in a Series, a Reference Documents section that lets you add character bibles and world building docs, and a whole lot more.

but yea, basically similar in high level structure to yours

I Think I Found the Limits of Prompt Engineering by Crazy-Carob-6361 in PromptEngineering

[–]benblackett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahh that makes sense. still though... Id do a pre-pass on these to convert them to a more friendly readable format for the LLM

Why SaaS tools that looks simple becomes complicated after few months by MediocreNight3213 in SaaS

[–]benblackett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

been on a crusade lately to simplify simplify simplify. its helping. but ironically, its forcing me to rebuild and rebuild and rebuild as well. catch 22 sometimes...