I'm terrible at writing, but I love reading. I've got ideas for novels, but I struggle to put them down.
What I have found that works is to give the LLM the "world" outline at the beginning and then just feed it one line summary of each chapter and get it to write a chapter at a time.
The problem is that the quality of results drastically decreases as the context length increases. After about 10 chapters the dialogue will start to get real snippy. I've tried getting it to summarize all the previous chapters and feed that back in, but it never includes enough detail.
The only way to get better at something is to do it. Start writing short stories or small novels, and you will get there over time. You don't even have to be a great writer to write a great book as well :). It helps, but readers will forgive a lot along your journey.
Brandon Sanderson has a great series of lectures on how he approaches it that are awesome ->
I am working on some world-building for something I want to write one day, but I am trying just to write little things to help. I write a lot of nonfiction stuff for work, but I am worried that it might not translate as well to characters...
I don't want to write a novel with AI. I want to read them (when they're good enough) because i love reading. Sometimes i want to read something with a certain dynamic and it gets difficult finding human written recommendations.
I run Shepherd.com, and hopefully, it helps :). Feel free to email me at ben@shepherd.com if you need any help with book ideas. I'm working to add more book DNA breakdowns later this year to help tap into certain themes, tropes, moods, etc.
Not really. Everyone recommends the same 20 books that most have read or at least considered.
Let me give you an example that is real to me. I'd like to
- 1. Read a fantasy series that pairs a human male and elf female romantically over the course of the series.
- 2. What i'm looking for is to read the challenges of two fantasy races that aren't on very good terms so just being an elf won't really cut it.
- 3. I also want a love interest that is a big active character in the story so not just a dozen mentions in a book.
- 4. Obviously, i have to like the book(s).
It doesn't even have to be elves, it's just much harder trying to find such recs from a bespoke species.
You would think this would be an easy enough recommendation. Elves are the fantasy race after all and they usually aren't on the best of terms with humans. But it's not.. and at this point, i could give you more obscure recommendations that meet at least requirement 1, than you'd get in the vast majority of reddit threads. I spent months going through general amazon/goodreads recs and goodreads shelves with elves and still came out wanting.
Once you are even a little bit specific, options decay and if they exist, they are hard to find.
If you ask for really specific stuff you can get some good recs, but it can def be hit or miss.
That type of deep analysis is hard, as nobody has access to inside the books (unless your are FB and do it illegally, plus have billions of compute dollars to spend) :)
