{"id":1255,"date":"2025-06-03T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jevelin10.local\/?post_type=fw-portfolio&#038;p=1255"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:27:38","slug":"im-writing-a-novel-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"fw-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/birdandocean.com\/studio\/project\/im-writing-a-novel-with-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculated try: Writing a literary novel with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row disable_element=&#8221;yes&#8221; overflow=&#8221;default&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]Will it work?\n\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section el_class=&#8221;text_my_black&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1749932730415{padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}&#8221;][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birdandocean.com\/studio\/novel-with-ai-full-daily-notes\/\">TEST LINK TO BLOG POST WITH FULL DAILY NOTES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Try = experimental writing<\/p>\n<p>Calculated = more critically careful than dancing with chaos<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Intro:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing a novel (a sonnet in novel form might be a better way to see it) that i hope will be a quick but literary work and I&#8217;m exploring how AI might make the process faster. I&#8217;m a painfully slow writer and I&#8217;d like to finish a few projects more quickly but at a high level of quality.<\/p>\n<p>My goal is a 40,000 word novel, 1000 words polished to 90% finish per week. That will finish a polished draft in 40 weeks. Give it a week for read-throughs, then off to beta-readers round 1 and round 2, which takes about 3 months. The final product arrives in around 54 weeks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along the way I&#8217;ll also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make vids about the process, showing how the writing is done with or without AI help as the case may be.<\/li>\n<li>make notes and summarize them about what AI seems good, mediocre, and poor\/useless for vis a vis the work of writing this kind of stuff.<\/li>\n<li>record the subjective experience of being a human empowered and threatened by this technology.<\/li>\n<li>whatever else might be useful without slowing the process down.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MORE ON SUPPORTING THIS PROJECT<\/p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column][vc_separator color=&#8221;custom&#8221; border_width=&#8221;3&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221; accent_color=&#8221;#77B59C&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]June 5, 2025[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<ul>\n \t<li>On ChatGPT&#8217;s advice i set up a local AI model using LM Studio and Mistral. The AI was downloaded from Hugging Face, TheBloke, quant method is WHAT (meaning the AI has been compressed for use on a small PC FINISH).&nbsp;\n<ul>\n \t<li>Result: Pretty slow. Quite shallow feedback, especially compared with ChatGPT 4 online. Funny, it kept recommending i use the online version of Mistral (Le Chat LINK). So it seems that to get useful beta-reader feedback, with complexity and nuance, a small local setup might not work. Note, the examples below I made up; they&#8217;re not from any AI generated response.\n<ul>\n \t<li>Complexity: simple ideas (&#8220;Your pace is good&#8221;) are explored in more detail (&#8220;Your chapter starts with a quick, active pace while the characters argue about the money, and then slows quite a lot when Jill contemplates life in a small town. Some readers may find the shift jarring &#8230;&#8221; etc.)<\/li>\n \t<li>Nuance: superficial observations (&#8220;Jill is an under-represented character whom many women readers might identify with.&#8221;) are followed by observations that catch more subtle aspects (&#8220;Jill is an under-represented character whom many women readers might identify with. Her struggle in choosing between building a career in New York and a building a homestead in rural Wyoming offer opportunities to explore themes of gender pressure, gender roles, isolation, adventure, and career. However, you might consider whether &#8230;&#8221; etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n \t<li>I tried Le Chat online. The results were better, but still far below those of ChatGPT-4. 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