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Roundup for Week 03 of 2023
21 January 2023 05:31 pmThese posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the past week.
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Roundup for Week 02 of 2023
15 January 2023 04:29 pmThese posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the past week.
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Roundup for Week 52 of 2022
31 December 2022 09:13 pmThese posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the last week of the year!!
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Roundup for Week 51 of 2022
23 December 2022 10:30 pmThese posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the past week.
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AI Fic? It already exists.
6 December 2022 08:15 pmEvidence has been found that AI's are being trained on AO3. I'm uncomfortable, but not panicked, though I've taken the precautionary step of locking my fic to archive only for the moment.
I don't think that training AI's using publicly accessible fiction is straight up plagiarism, and until there's evidence that AI's are lifting sections of existing works that'll remain my stance, but I do think AI's being used to write fiction is going to be kind of soulless, and maybe even a little bit cheaty?
It's got to be tempting. Blocked? Prompt the AI to give you your next scene starter, or the entire scene, or hell, just let it write the entire fic and then collect all the sweet sweet kudos without having to do any actual work.
But when I'm reading, I want the fic to be emotion-heavy. I X-out of boring fic, whether it's got all the right tags or not, and I do believe AI fic is going to be boring as hell. You can have plot twists and action and all of that shit but if there's no human emotion I'm gone.
AI has already been used to write fanfic. I tried to read it, but it lacked any kind of emotion. Someone died and I didn't care. Sure, a human being can absolutely write boring fic, but I find it very hard to believe that an AI is going to be able to write fic that has heart and soul.
And one has to wonder if the cycle of scraping and writing and scraping and writing continues--and if AI fic becomes an acceptable way of writing--what AI fic will be like in the future.
Soulless, at the least. And probably really shitty.
These posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the past week.
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These posts are my weekly 'round up' of the things I've been up to and the things I've seen in fandom over the past week. This one's a doozy 👀
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30 Days, 50,000 words
12 October 2022 11:02 pmNaNoWriMo? What was I thinking?
I've lost my mind if I honestly think I can win NaNo these days. Back in the day, sure. I kicked NaNo in the ass from 2009 thru... I dunno, 2014 or so?
But I gave it another go a few years back, and I believe I failed horribly.
I just can't seem to crank out 1000 words an hour like I used to be able to. The mojo dried up and the words just don't flow like that anymore. It would take me at least twice that now, and it's terrifying.
So I'm nuts. I've officially lost my mind. Because I want to sign up for NaNo this year.
I've spent the last couple weeks jumping from plot bunny to plot bunny and I keep changing my mind. I still have a couple weeks to settle, but I want the time to work on an outline, because a good outline is the only thing that'll get me through.
I used to pants my way through most things, these days I need a really detailed outline. So I'll be busy the next few weeks. I just hope I'm not burnt out on the story before I actually start writing it.
no subject
7 June 2021 02:41 pmAfter taking 3 months away from writing (indeed away from fandom as a whole), I'm starting to feel the itch again. I poked through my writing folder and found something I finished but didn't post before my hiatus.
So I'll probably start by editing and posting that. At some point. I'm not in a hurry.
So I'll probably start by editing and posting that. At some point. I'm not in a hurry.
February Wordcounts
2 March 2021 07:49 pm
Total words written: 14,769
Quite pleased with that, considering I targeted 14k for the month. That's based on 500 words a day, every day. I definitely had some fail days, but towards the end of the month I got a prompt where the fill just kinda dragged me along for the ride, so the catching up I had to do was relatively easy (and you can see that in the graph above, from the 21st onwards).
I even took a couple days off at the end of the month 👍
Of course, not all of that got published this month. I've been doing a mix of writing to the prompts on fan-flashworks and working on a few personal projects, but only the fan-flashworks fills from this month have been published to AO3:
- Nothing Gold Can Stay - 182 words
- Timeline - 1371 words
- The Button - 1206 words
- The Flaw at the Center - 4638 words
That's a total of 7397 words published this month, which is roughly half of all the words I wrote this month, but that's pretty good, considering there's also a few ongoing things on my hard drive, and a couple new completed fics waiting for me to edit there too.
