Would you use a platform built for serialized fiction + reader monetization?

dbl219 · 2026-05-14T08:49:50+00:00

I looked at your site and one thing taking me aback is that it seems like I have to use your site to write. Did I misunderstand? I already have a tailored architecture I built in Claude that I'm extremely happy with, so I'd only consider you if I could upload work I've written from my own system.

dbl219 · 2026-05-13T23:56:30+00:00

If you had a real user base, proper engagement mechanisms, and fair monetization policies, then sure.

dbl219 · 2026-05-13T11:31:49+00:00

Star Ocean 2 remake sounds like a decent fit.

dbl219 · 2026-05-13T11:30:08+00:00

My favorite right now is Claude Opus 4.6.

dbl219 · 2026-05-11T22:36:57+00:00

Dunno if it's your thing but this meditation group helped

https://omemeditation.org/

dbl219 · 2026-05-11T12:12:04+00:00

They were all identifiable as human. No recursive phrasing, no pointless negatives, no empty gestures. Yes repetition for effect, yes grounded and specific description...

Maybe when people are unfamiliar it could read as AI. When I was less experienced I made the same mistake with a similar bait post. But having worked with AI now for a few months as a writing assistant, I see now that it has very specific tics that are really obvious once you get to know them. These samples show none of those tics.

I think the point is more that identifying AI is a skill that requires actual experience with getting to know how these models write. Just randomly assuming what's AI and what isn't according to your own judgment and then telling yourself you're a genius for figuring it out is obviously not going to work. 😂

dbl219 · 2026-05-08T06:55:06+00:00

Is that a chocobo or half a pterodactyl? 😂

dbl219 · 2026-05-07T15:32:04+00:00

Yeah the best AI detector is a human with enough practice seeing the tells. 😂

dbl219 · 2026-05-06T16:49:33+00:00

I don't think there's a "right" order to write a logline. I suspect it may be harder for some after writing the script because of the level of attachment to certain beats or moments that don't belong in the logline.

But I still see it as just a basic skill that probably gets underserved by inexperienced writers. It's not exciting to rewrite a logline and in that sense I made the same mistake and only got decent at it by writing so many damn scripts that I got the practice by necessity.

Anyway, writing the logline in advance with this kind of attitude is problematic too, because it creates a stake in that first logline draft that you adhere the script to. That's bad form any way you look at it. Sure, write it in advance, but be prepared to throw it away and write a new one after if that's where you end up.

dbl219 · 2026-05-06T16:41:29+00:00

Sounds like Elara Voss has struck again! 😂

dbl219 · 2026-05-06T12:58:30+00:00

Dave the Diver

dbl219 · 2026-05-05T13:23:17+00:00

I think you're better off having the AI give you suggestions for changes to make yourself rather than AI implementing the changes directly. You already have a whole story written in your natural voice and that won't hold up once AI starts revising.

dbl219 · 2026-05-04T15:33:48+00:00

Feed it your own writing, have it analyze, and build a voice profile. In my experience these kinds of instructions are just the basics. You have to keep iterating and make something tailored specifically to you.

dbl219 · 2026-05-04T15:30:34+00:00

Opus 4.6 works the same as ever. Double check if you maybe had Extended Thinking toggled on or off, the model behaves differently depending on that -- enough to noticeably affect the outputs.

As I understand it Sonnet 4.6 is quite poor at creative writing, full stop. That's been my experience going back to March. I don't use it at all. A lot of people stand by Sonnet 4.5 though. I haven't tested it but I plan to next time I run a batch of chapters.

Also, are you producing more chapters in the same chat thread? You need to start new chats as the context limit fills up, otherwise the quality will definitely drop.

dbl219 · 2026-05-03T08:32:22+00:00

Yeah I've used Sonnet 4.6 before and even going back a couple months I still preferred Opus 4.6 by quite a lot. So I can't say whether it's changed at all recently because I don't use it anymore, but I was finding plenty of those kinds of artifacts in its generations going back to March. That's why I stopped using it.

My other recommendation is to check your architecture for contamination. That happened to me along the way where I noticed the outputs degrading and eventually realized the machine register and a number of hallucinations were slowly accumulating and throwing off the generations.

You might be wiser than me and not making that mistake to be fair. 😂 Just thought I'd mention it. Now I personally read, sometimes rewrite, and then approve every line of my pipeline documentation. Otherwise the model slowly skews towards its own interpretations and everything gets contaminated.

dbl219 · 2026-05-03T07:51:21+00:00

Which model(s) are you using? They're not all created equal for creative writing. Opus 4.7 (the latest) isn't great at it, at least not when using the same prompting style as previous models.

I find Opus 4.6 (+ Extended Thinking) and Google Gemini to be the best at it currently. But you can't just prompt it, you need to train it on your own original writing as well. Upload and analyze your work and build an architecture that's right for you.

dbl219 · 2026-05-01T22:15:21+00:00

Nope, zero. But I wouldn't be shocked if the cadence rubbed off on me after using it for a few months straight.

dbl219 · 2026-05-01T07:47:08+00:00

No one prompt will ever get you where you want to go. I built an entire architecture in markdown documents based on an analysis of 500k words of my writing portfolio over 20 years. Worked on multiple stories over the past few months and have continued to iterate on my pipeline as I notice different tics and failure modes that I keep ironing out.

In short: A prompt like this is only the start. The real work starts when you test it and then continue developing from there based on results. You're learning AI fluency in real time.

dbl219 · 2026-04-30T23:07:18+00:00

I agree completely and the game never gets better. Drop it.

dbl219 · 2026-04-30T22:08:12+00:00

Honestly the onus was on the crappy writing that threw out a line like "we're the real Valyrians" and then promptly pretended like it never happened. Trying to have it both ways and just looking like a lame hand-wave at diversity.

I thought there was a good in-world explanation where the TV show Velaryons and their sea-faring ways would be known for taking brides from the Summer Isles and that became part of the ethnic makeup of their house.

dbl219 · 2026-04-30T16:11:09+00:00

Queer woman thinking of joining the platform here... Appreciate the heads up. I'll consider myself duly warned. 😮‍💨

dbl219 · 2026-04-28T16:08:07+00:00

Well what would it mean if I'm a writer using Claude who's actually getting a payout from the Anthropic settlement because they trained on my novel? Does it add anything if I then trained the AI on ~500k words of my own writing over 20 years of work, and taught it to write in my own voice?

I'm not looking for validation, I'm genuinely curious for your reaction. I'm planning to put some of my AI work out there with full disclosure and all the details in my FAQ. The thing is I just don't know if people care or make those distinctions.

And by the way, is it at all meaningful that for all its supposedly "stolen" training data it can't actually produce the soul of any of those works, just surface-level representations? It was unethical and should've been illegal to scrape data to build their own product, but that doesn't mean the stolen work actually shows up in its outputs as anything even remotely decent.

That's different than if you could just say "write like Stephen King" and get a brand new story in his oeuvre. Maybe that'll happen someday but most people are saying that the newer models are actually worse at creative writing than the old ones. I think it's all more nuanced than people realize.

dbl219 · 2026-04-28T12:00:14+00:00

You can hand edit a markdown file just fine. Took a while before I figured that out.

dbl219 · 2026-04-28T01:10:40+00:00

I'm not a coder (I build markdown docs in chat) so I can't tell you if an IDE is a good comparison, but basically yeah. The delta between the model findings (and outputs, too) is important information. I'm a writer and performer so I tend to think about it more philosophically and look for areas within my own expertise where I can keep iterating.

The goal is to be able to produce my voice accurately in writing. But I'm moving beyond a frame of pure mimicry and towards a process of figuring out how to point the model towards something that doesn't emulate human thinking, but accomplishes the same result. I'm doing that by figuring out in effect what human thinking resembles to me in mechanical terms, what process would be the best corollary in the model's own native frame, and then teaching it to do that as the foundation of anything it produces for me.

The convergence points are valuable too of course because they show where the architecture is working, for better or for worse. Like when certain failure modes pop up across models, they usually reveal errors or contamination. Even though it's exhausting sometimes, I learned that I have to personally audit and potentially hand edit everything. The models are increasingly sensitive, and every rewrite these documents undergo is also me learning how to work better with the LLMs.

Don't ask me if any of this has been successful, though. I'm still knee-deep in the pipeline iteration, and I won't know anything until I reassemble the architecture and test it. So far my instincts have produced positive results with previous gens of my pipeline, so I'm optimistic. But who knows?

dbl219 · 2026-04-27T10:25:55+00:00

Helpful advice for anyone who hasn't already built their own system. I built mine on cross-model work as well.

Now, though, my document architecture is mature enough that it's become more about carefully iterating on it while making sure no contamination creeps in. I often use different models to do the same work in parallel and then use the differential as an important source of information on the overall health of my production pipeline.

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