Bringing Your Characters to Life with AI - Overview
Hello, dear writers and dreamers! Today marks the exciting beginning of our new mini-series: "Bringing Your Characters to Life with AI." We're delving deep into the art of crafting vibrant, authentic characters, and how we can guide AI to fill our narratives with their unique voices.
AI: The Dance of Words, A Comparison of ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude
In the ever-evolving world of AI, comparison becomes a natural part of progress. Today, we dive into a unique experiment that pits OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT, against a promising newcomer on the scene, Anthropic's Claude.
The task at hand was simple: draft the first scene of a novel, following a given style guide and beat list. To level the playing field, the challenge was designed to flex the AI's creativity, understanding of the narrative structure, and ability to breathe life into a fictional scene.
Leveraging AI in Writing: An In-depth Look at Scene-Level Outlines
As we continue our exploration of using artificial intelligence in the writing process, specifically the OpenAI language model, ChatGPT, we are now ready to delve deeper into our story structure. After our comprehensive walkthrough of Act One and chapter-level outlining, we turn our attention towards crafting scene-level outlines.
From Concept to Story: Using AI for Plot Development
Creating a captivating story isn't just about great characters or intriguing dialogue; it involves a deep understanding of the narrative structure, pacing, and timing. Recently, I turned to ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI, to help me outline Act One of a novel I've been working on. I found the experience not just helpful, but transformative. Here's how it all played out.
Harnessing AI for Novel Writing: Worldbuilding
Welcome back to the fourth installment of our series on how AI can be utilized in the worldbuilding process for supernatural fiction. If you've been following along, you'll recall that we started with a pair of intriguing story synopses that wove together elements of psychological horror, surreal fantasy, hidden histories, and familial bonds. Our protagonist, Ava, stood at the heart of both these narratives, anchored in a town brimming with supernatural occurrences.
Harnessing AI for Novel Writing: From Concept to Cast
Welcome back to another edition of The AI-Assisted Writer! Today, we're diving into the depths of our protagonist Ava, and the vibrant supporting cast of our psychological horror novel. I'm excited to share how I used AI, specifically ChatGPT, to help flesh out Ava and tease out the quirky ensemble surrounding her in this uncanny town.
Harnessing AI for Novel Writing: Expanding a High-Level Concept
Our high-level concept now takes the form of a single sentence: A young woman and her friends find themselves trapped in a town that seems to exist outside time and space, where the rules of reality seem to be overwritten on a whim. The next step is to transform that high-level concept into a full paragraph that describes the plot of the story. This is where the Snowflake Method and AI can be incredibly useful.
Harnessing AI for Novel Writing: Brainstorming Ideas
Last month we talked about some broad issues dealing with AI, and I've no doubt we'll dig deeper into them. This month, though, I want to get into some practical ideas on how you can incorporate AI into your writing process.
AI in Writing: Embracing the Future Without Losing Your Creative Spark
AI can certainly mimic and reproduce what it has learned, but it lacks a deep understanding of the human experience. It doesn't know what it's like to stand in a field with the sun on your face or to feel joy, sorrow, or pain. An AI can never cry or fantasize. It can only follow instructions.
Collaborating with ChatGPT: How an AI Writing Buddy Can Boost Your Creativity
One advantage of working with a chatbot is that it can help you fill in the gaps in your knowledge. Let’s say you set your story on a magical tundra, but you’ve never been to a real tundra before. Don’t worry! No need to start from the beginning researching tundras, ChatGPT can assist with environment research and offer ideas for your story.