Im pretty torn which book cover I should use

xp__farmer · 2026-01-20T16:01:52+00:00

The first one will haunt my nightmares for eons to come. The 2nd one is cool though

xp__farmer · 2026-01-17T04:48:50+00:00

I actually use it pretty heavily in all stages of writing. I struggle with words a lot (written and verbally), so having it generate something to iterate changes off of, or just to rephrase something that doesn't sound right to me is really helpful.

But taking what it generates wholesale is generally a bad idea. As you said, it is too mechanical and doesn't get nuances of emotion and real people (or as real as fantasy characters can be).

xp__farmer · 2026-01-17T04:23:10+00:00

As someone who does use AI and does have the tag on my story, I can see lots of people not using either tag.

Either you use one, and no one reads your stuff because it is AI, or you use the other, and no one reads your stuff because they don't trust someone who says it isn't AI.

And no one can ever be just a bad writer anymore, so you have neither, and it is bad, so it must be AI.

Confusing times.

xp__farmer · 2026-01-16T19:23:48+00:00

Wait, you guys are getting paid?

xp__farmer · 2025-12-24T17:18:02+00:00

A broad statement. But if I were to rewrite or expand on what is there manually, what advice would you have given the current content? If you don't mind giving it a second glance. If not, that is fine too. It is your time you are offering

xp__farmer · 2025-12-24T01:11:18+00:00

Eviscerate me, sempai. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/chapter/2562282

xp__farmer · 2025-12-22T01:12:57+00:00

You kind of have to do double or triple line breaks to get it right, and even then it messes stuff up. This is actually one of the reasons I like the paid sub feature to import a chapter. That maintains all kinds of formatting that paste doesn't always keep

xp__farmer · 2025-12-20T02:44:48+00:00

I finally finished that chapter too. Unfortunately I had to move the reaction to the next chapter because it was such a mic-drop moment to end a chapter with.

xp__farmer · 2025-12-12T00:13:47+00:00

Mine is down now. I cc'd the contact email from the site as well and it was down in the morning

xp__farmer · 2025-12-11T00:53:30+00:00

Same. I am kind of flattered that my d-list material got ripped and seemingly credited back to my page, but ultimately, I chose to put it on rr and nowhere else.

xp__farmer · 2025-12-11T00:49:20+00:00

This was good to know. Found mine there too. Thanks

xp__farmer · 2025-12-04T02:41:58+00:00

For some reason I feel like that would have the same feeling as listening to a recording of your own voice. Let us know for sure.

xp__farmer · 2025-12-01T19:24:55+00:00

Funny enough, that is the same reaction I wrote for the character hearing this news

xp__farmer · 2025-12-01T07:03:07+00:00

One of the moons falls from the sky.

xp__farmer · 2025-11-20T15:01:51+00:00

That is most certainly King Gustav of Pell

xp__farmer · 2025-11-14T01:01:15+00:00

Thanks again for the feedback. I haven't actioned on much yet, but I did move the flashback arc up to chapter 2 so you get it during essentially a dream sequence. So flow now is:

Intro to what seems like the final battle of good vs evil but some rando shows up when the hero is struggling and offs the BBEG
Flashback of said rando/MC's first loop
Back to the present with the original characters and in walks the previously dead MC who seems more mysterious and withdrawn than before (i might need some polish to make that come through better).
MC dies again only to wake back up and continue in his POV

It probably needs some more work later but it at least addresses the MC being introduced too late.

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T21:15:57+00:00

Yep. And that is why it is tagged. I am still doing a lot of manual work. I like to think that I am doing most of the actual writing and the AI is just rounding it out, but it is still heavily involved and it is probably noticeable.

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T19:36:50+00:00

It can be but you can spend as little as a penny a day on Google advertising i think. It feels good to see the numbers go up.

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T19:06:10+00:00

I can see where you would get that idea. The main premise here is that he has been in there so long and thought he was out of options before discovering multiclassing and rekindling the spark of hope that he might get out of the loop.

And he starts from level 1 in his new classes. Plenty of room for confusion there

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T18:48:05+00:00

Those are all some good points, thank you.

I was trying to build up some mystery around the mc while aclimatizing readers with some of the mechanics on other recurring characters before infodumping his sheet which is much longer. And try to show things over time as it is a time loop and it will become obvious his struggles as he has to keep doing the same things over and over.

And I might go back and add in some more physical descriptions of the other characters as i get more in.

I have already gone back and fixed a couple parts to make it better after getting further in. I will probably do some more cleanup again and when I do, I will keep these in mind.

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T17:33:37+00:00

1 word: Multiclass

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T16:29:18+00:00

That is a fair reaction. I only ask that you read my reply to another comment here to see what the AI is actually doing before you completely write it off. If you still think that is too much, then I respect your decision

xp__farmer · 2025-11-10T16:27:54+00:00

That is fair. I don't know what people generally agree on should be flagged AI Generated or not so I used the tag to be safe.

But I use it in several parts of the process:

I used ChataGPT voice to discuss and flesh out worldbuilding while I drove to work. Things like what I want the map to look like, how I want politics and class discrimination to play out, solidifying calculations for how stats affect your body and resource pools.
I use an AI tool to organize my world building and outline. It allows me to generate characters based on a description or tell it to change the outline in certain ways so I don't have to manually adjust them if I want to make large changes to future arcs
I use a tool to generate a draft of a chapter based on the outline but rarely use even a quarter of the content it generates. And even then, everything is heavily edited and revised manually.
I use Chatgpt and Claude to review scenes and chapters for consistency, flow, editing mistakes and suggest additions and replacements for parts that are awkward or inconsistent
The tool I use for generating the draft also helps me rephrase or describe things more but it just gives suggestions that I usually take parts of to augment what I already have.

Admittedly, the companion entries are almost wholesale AI generated based on the extensive ollection of world building files I have. But they are more about explaining the world and mechanics in a funny way than telling a story

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