AI Summaries

[Xcalibur_Xc]

We are all so very impressed, thank you for deigning to allow us to bask in your presence.

Be grateful that you are in the presence of someone who actually completes their work.??

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Be grateful that you are in the presence of someone who actually completes their work.??

Yes. But I fear it is too much! I must use the ignore fearure to spare my poor soul and cut myself off from the great wisdom you share.

 

[LillyWhite]

People have been summarizing their own chapters for a very long time, since before AI, so this sounds like a bait or a joke. AI is not needed for chapter summaries. It isn't difficult do to.

*sigh*, you can use this bot to summarize an entire novel (that's how big my chapters can get).

Here, eat up 53,341 words: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4jRvlfxoY-TIeMu_Ht2hVM8FxjLMKvKCB-Is0kb6fE/edit?usp=sharing

You're all used to writing (conventional) modern literature, so you're writing small chapters with concise descriptors (and skipping details, conversations, happenings by summarizing them for the purpose of advancing the story, or even hiding things from your readers for shock value or mystery etc.). I'm writing (unconventional) traditional literature here and not skimming anything like modern literature loves doing, this is why my chapters are so big (and btw, my novel is pretty to listen as an audiobook too).

I offered up this bot (AND THE SYS PROMPT) for grabs for anyone wanting to use it BECAUSE I MADE IT for myself, my use-case, and I was satisfied (also with how well it works) with giving everyone a useful tool for their writing arsenal that can save time.

Fuck me if I'm ever going to give stuff out for free if you're going to derail my topics with needless grandma naggering and egotrips, ya'll.

 

[Lysander_Works]

*sigh*, you can use this bot to summarize an entire novel (that's how big my chapters can get).

Here, eat up 53,341 words: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4jRvlfxoY-TIeMu_Ht2hVM8FxjLMKvKCB-Is0kb6fE/edit?usp=sharing

You're all used to writing (conventional) modern literature, so you're writing small chapters with concise descriptors (and skipping details, conversations, happenings by summarizing them for the purpose of advancing the story, or even hiding things from your readers for shock value or mystery etc.). I'm writing (unconventional) traditional literature here and not skimming anything like modern literature loves doing, this is why my chapters are so big (and btw, my novel is pretty to listen as an audiobook too).

I offered up this bot (AND THE SYS PROMPT) for grabs for anyone wanting to use it BECAUSE I MADE IT for myself, my use-case, and I was satisfied (also with how well it works) with giving everyone a useful tool for their writing arsenal that can save time.

Fuck me if I'm ever going to give stuff out for free if you're going to derail my topics with needless grandma naggering and egotrips, ya'll.

While I'm sure it's already been said, a single chapter should not be the length of a novel, not even a novella. If you wish to structure your book this way, it's fine, though I would go about renaming the chapters to something else, something themed to the overall story (scriptures, verses, section, etc.). If there isn't enough separation per say, 20k words, not even a single section break within the same chapter, I think many would put the book down for longer spurts of time, since bookmarking within a chapter is not as easy to do. At that point, summarizing your chapter as if it were its own book would be about the same process anyway. I will take a peek at this traditional literature to see what you mean, once it is published on SH.

If you want to use AI for that, use AI. I only said what I have because, like many, I am a bit fed up with the mass embrace of AI, particularly on stories, and for the simplicity of novel summaries no less. A personal problem? Sure is.
Was I helpful? Probably not.
Do I care? To each their own.

 

[LillyWhite]

My novel is already posted on SH as Sunshine and Rainbows.

Soon enough I will make a post so vile (with AI, for AI), that the entire community will demonize, it will be amazing to see the shitshow that will occur when I post it, considering people are a 'bit fed up with the mass embrace of AI'.

 

[Corty]

Be grateful that you are in the presence of someone who actually completes their work.??

Here, have a cookie. You earned it.

 

[Deleted member 41774]

>20k to 70k words per chapter

 

[LillyWhite]

Wandering Inn volume sizes.

 

[Corty]

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Wandering Inn volume sizes.

You could break it up to a good amount of chapters. Readers usually start flocking in if they see a backlog and you could easily pass hundreds of chappies. You could also use it to provide 14-15 chapters ahead on patreon to get a little cash in on the side.

 

[LillyWhite]

You could break it up to a good amount of chapters. Readers usually start flocking in if they see a backlog and you could easily pass hundreds of chappies. You could also use it to provide 14-15 chapters ahead on patreon to get a little cash in on the side.

Give my first chapter a test run read (all parts of 3k words ea a try), and give me some ideas on how I could turn these into chapters.

What I do:
1. I write a chapter (doesn't matter the length).
2. I use a script to divide it into 3k word parts and add a continuation indicator at the end: '[...]'
3. I post it and hope for the best.

What my style is like:
1. I write slice of life.
2. World first, plot second.
3. Limited perspective.
4. First Person Perspective, present tense.
5. Vivid narration (lots of sensory details, metaphors and similes).
6. Excessive characterization (naturally enforced, not forcefully enforced).

Typically, I schedule the parts to air once a day, but I'm in a revision process at the moment until chapter 13.

 

[Fakeminsk]

If my first introduction to a work of fiction is a summary written by AI, I'm very likely to skip reading it. For me, the implication is that if the summary was written by AI, then it's entirely possible that the story itself was, too; and I have little interest in reading word porridge produced by software. If you couldn't be bothered to write it yourself, why should I bother giving up my time to read it?

Skimming across a chapter should only take a few minutes, and a well-written summary can offer an insight into that part of your story in a way that an AI simply can't. My current chapters average 20k to 40k words in length, and I find crafting a single or two-sentence summary out of them a useful task. If I can't extract the essence of the chapter, then probably something's gone wrong in the writing.

By all means, if you've got the software skills and want to use an AI do that part of the job for you, knock yourself out. But also be prepared to possibly have some readers skip over your work as a consequence of this. No doubt in a couple more years these things will reach a point where AI prose will come off as unique and inisghtful, but it's not there yet.

 

[melchi]

I think making a script to compress it to 80 to 100k words would be more useful. If it is too much time for the author to read then how can a reader be expected to read it?

 

[KonoKei]

Perhaps post your AI summaries of your AI chapters on an AI forum for AI to respond to?