Sorry to interrupt… I wrote something last thread in case anyone missed it!
https://rentry.org/vtwbg-vnugai1>>35451214Thank you!
>tail useI do love the aesthetics and the often soft fantasy-esque feel of Ghibli movies and want to try bringing it to my work (although I still have a long way to go) which is one of the reasons why I try to emphasize Palkyrie’s tail use in the story (the other reason being that I really feel having an additional hand is really helpful in daily life) by imagining what Milphy needs to do and seeing which one of them would be more convenient when done with the tail. It helps that the tail’s supposed to have a bit more reach to compensate for his shorter height and thus hands. Funny enough the parts where he holds the twig actually comes from real life opossums who do just that when gathering material for their nest and they’re so adorable doing that! Meanwhile the tail being grabbed is suggested by the AI
even though half the time the writing makes it sound like the tail is a euphemism>environmentThe story’s about /vnug/’s wilderness beauty as much as the interaction between the characters after all so it’s important to describe them in detail to make them come to life. I think the AI’s actually quite good at doing that since I’ve set the genre to travel
>Milphy and controlHis character ends up being kinda bratty so I feel he won’t take it lying down even when he’s in the mood. It’s also a nice callback to Yuno’s words in the beginning:
>"I thought you weren't going to be beaten by a pipsqueak like me!">"Not unless you have home advantage."It ends up being applicable to both the literal environment and the native culture they’re in so it’s kinda poetic that Milphy can re-assert control by leaning on that.
I think I actually first learned that idea from that old Molsen Canadian ad I was going to point that out in my story when Yuno dragged him into the tent since the steam bath feels more like Yuno’s own native environment (hot and humid… also known as sultry) but I kinda forgot to do that between all the writing and editing. I guess it came out better this way?
>AI writingI actually wrote more “racing x” than AI (just barely) with 2 out of 3 in the writing being written by me. The only AI-written “racing x” is actually “racing mind” but good guess regardless! As for your 7 choices, more than half of them are actually done by me! Only the last two are fully written by AI although both the 2nd and 4th lines have AI input there
The AI actually end up writing more than I expected! I did a word count and the AI-written portion counts for a sliver below 30% of the entire story and it actually would account for a bit more since some of my lines are rephrased from AI-written stuff that looks nice but won’t fit the story. I think the longest continuous AI-written portion is 9 sentences making up one long paragraph and one short that’s capped off by me. The main reason the AI didn’t write longer in one go’s because I have to keep wrangling it to keep it from going too off the rail (it keeps introducing random characters)
I wrote most of the worldbuilding info for the same reason you mentioned but that’s more because I never put them in NovelAI’s for the AI to learn. Still one interesting thing’s that when I mentioned and linked the Black Fleet in the writing, one of the AI’s generated texts actually mentioned Yuno’s father traveling around the world for the government. I don’t know if the AI simply extrapolated from the writing so far or if it can actually read links I threw in the text. Maybe I should test it more…
I actually colored the AI-written sentences in a separate doc, would you want me to show the answer?
>Yuno’s fatherI like how that line came out as well! I think it’s actually an important thing when it comes to writing in general (at least for me) which might be part of the soft fantasy-esque feeling I mentioned above. I don’t wanna go full expressionism on that since even the strangest Ghibli movies still feel like it’s anchored to reality in some way and I wanna keep mine like that too
