So I lurk in many subs on Reddit, also subs that I strongly disagree with. And if you think I am one of those gung-ho ai people, you’d be wrong. There is a sub (there’s several) for writing with ai, and I get so fucking angry when I look at it. It’s just post after post, on how to avoid AI detection, and how to not write a book, but get the best AI to just do it for you.
It’s these assholes that ruin it for the rest of us, seriously.
So I tested the free demo of Sudowrite, because that is what everyone there suggests, and this moron he made a video on it – so I decided to go see.
Okay so I embedded his video, and so I thought I should disclose that on YT like on Reddit, I do lurk on ppl I don’t like. I don’t follow this fool, but I do look at his videos once in a while – just in case I forget how delusional he is.
So with that in my backpack I tried.
I imported my sequel to Heart Shaped Tattoos (working title Cold Hollow), and my google doc has several pages, but Sudowrite only imported one, the last page, and I don’t fucking know why.
It states that it’s making a library of characters, but how – if it doesn’t actually import the whole damn file? Also it’s library is just broken.
I played around with some of the shit he mentioned in his video. and come on… those suggestions it gives me is – just off.. seriously. what the fuck, everything is wrong. I might add that I asked it to rewrite/restructure my paragraph, not continue, so it ought to take my own words right? yeah I don’t feel like it did.
So, one of my major issues when writing is describing stuff around my characters, I don’t find it interesting, it’s that simple, and I struggle to get the right words too. It’s like artists who hate making backgrounds. But when you write, you NEED the background, and that is why I tried out novel.ai back then, because it CAN actually give you suggestions to environmental descriptions, even in it’s old build.
But seriously if there’s anyone out there struggling with the same, I suggest you use either copilot or gemini (or chat gtp, even if that is very limited if you don’t pay), copy paste your sentence and then ask the ai ‘how would this place smell’ or ‘give me two suggestions as to how to describe the hotel room’ whatever. it’s just easier, and it leaves much more wiggle room for you to edit and shuffle around – and also it’s fucking free.
I will get back to this in the end of this entry.
Now the suggestions given by Sudowrite was flat out unsuable, so I undid it, and tried something else.
Yeah if nothing else, it’s even worse. And I didn’t miss the fact that you gotta type in narrator and stuff… but call me a gatekeeping little cunt, isn’t it just easier to fucking write it yourself? if this pretty expensive, ‘state of the art’ author AI, can’t fucking tell what narrator you use, or if it’s past or present tense?
I tried the sound option, to add something Moon heard, but yeah… that just made me laugh… Just saying.
Salem is a dog.
Atticus is a person.
And so I just gave up on Sudowrite, and I hated every moment of it, sorta like I knew I would – but I had to try.
Seriously, even if Novel.ai is pure shit if you’re not into making furry porn images, it was heaps better at this a year ago (when I last tried it) than Sudowrite is now. Don’t believe the hype, seriously.
And so I decided to make this post about what I personally do, and the program I use which is Outwrite, it’s also AI driven, but it’s an editing tool, not an AI writer. And you can get this as an addon for most text programs too.
I mean the same text (chapter) as I imported to Sudowrite, just to test this. And as a pro tip, I suggest that you edit your document first, or disable the different sliders, or the document will skip to where you need to edit by itself, which is very annoying if you’re editing something else.
Even if I think the suggestions here are more relevant, and better than Sudowrite, then you have to edit them too – often it adds some words that is either not one you want to use, or in a tone you don’t use. So see the improve option as a crutch to change your sentence if you just hate everything about it.
It’s an ai for fucks sake, so ‘contemporary’ or ‘casual’ speech isn’t really what it’s best at, and you only have those two options besides ‘regular’ – and that is formal and casual. But what Casual is good at, is speech – so if your character says something like ‘I failed at that task’ – who says that? well me, cause I wrote it, but remember this text has not been edited at all, this is the raw file where I just wrote whatever fell out my head. This edit in Outwrite is first edit, and in this case the ai suggest ‘and I messed that up’, which absolutely sounds more like something Izzy would say.
Just be careful because like in this case, it does change your entire paragraph to ‘casual’ – and I did this because I wanted to just shift that entire paragraph because I hated the original. But otherwise, isolate your dialogue, and use the ‘casual’ option on it.
And with messed around, I mean I deleted some stuff, changed some stuff, moved other stuff around in the paragraph. And wrote some extra to it as well.
If you write stuff for podcasts, or narrators, this is SUPER neat, because you can see how long runtime your text have when read out loud (as a general)
And lastly you have the plagiarism tool. I never used it before but I felt like showcasing it for you guys.
All in all, I love Outwrite because it helps me with what I need. I need a way to fix bad syntax, and suggestions to structure and words – not an algorithm to write shit for me.
I do pay for my outwrite, but they have a free version which is just super limited.
So I found this site called docsbot, and it ought to do what I wanted it to, judging from the description of it at least.
The moment you enter something into that prompt there, you can’t click anything, delete it, and you can click. So that prompt is a dud, but also not really what I wanted. So I scrolled down the page.
And then we get this (this is the part right underneath the image above, you can even see the bottom of the dark blue.) alright, this sounds better, let’s try this.
When you click ‘generate custom prompt’ you’re taken here, and you can actually write a prompt, not that you have any hints what so ever which kind of prompt the ai takes, but since it talks about MAKING prompts for Chat gtp, and Gemini, I figured that this would work. Because after all I want environmental descriptions, that’s what I’m here for.
And you do see the ‘NO SIGN UP REQUIRED’ right?
Well, the second you hit ‘generate prompt’ you’re given this window. And okay – but I didn’t make a prompt AT ALL! This means my daily usage is 0.
And to get double that, which by my best estimate is 0 because two times 0 is still 0. I am required to sign up, remember to that ‘no sign up needed’ solution to make prompts for other AI engines.
What?!
Oh fuck off.
This is also why I am not linking to this place, and when I looked about, it was basically the same everywhere else that boasted the same services… much like leech links yanno… fucking flat out scams.
So I figured id show you a tip, like I said in the card of this section. This is chat gtp, and the result isn’t real good, but if you like me struggle with descriptive words in a basically foreign language, depending on how sharp and to the point your prompt is, you can get some suggestions to phrases or words that you had not thought of.
I realise this isn’t writing with ai, because you still have to fucking incorporate it into your text yourself, I would NEVER in my life suggest or support that you just copy paste some half-assed answer from any chat ai. But you can take like a line, or a sentence and edit it… it’s more than you had before, and over time you get better at finding the right words.
You can also use Quillbot, which works as an addon for most text programs too, it will let you edit your entire paragraph in singular words, so you can change the whole sentence, and then singular words with a thesaurus. I actually never saw their page before now, but I do have it as an addon for Word, and I quite liked that feature. I mean that you can change individual words with a thesaurus, and it suggests additional edits to fit that word.
DREAMS OF A LOST MOONCHILD 
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