Kickstart Your #Writing Using #AI—Number 5: Analyze Your Story Telling Effectiveness
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
6M ago
When you are pecking at your keyboard in the wee hours of the morning, you wonder if what you’re writing is any good. Even I, who have worked as a ghostwriter for nine and half years question if what I’m, churning out crafting will entertain readers. Many of us turn to Beta readers for feedback, but what if there was a way you could get instant and actionable feedback, before you drag your word baby before your critics Betas? Enter ChatGPT and what I consider one of its most useful functions for a writer. The prompt is this: Please review this chapter for storytelling effectiveness. Please lis ..read more
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Kick Start Your #Writing Using AI: #4 Summarize Your Chapter
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
6M ago
You’ve written an outline, and things are going great. You are cooking on all burners and the story is flowing—until it isn’t. Maybe, you got a brilliant idea during a chapter, or a character gets rowdy, and takes it over, or—you know how it is. The chapter that is now bears little resemblance to the one you carefully crafted. Or perhaps you are a pantser, and then someone, perhaps an agent, asks you for an outline. This is a normal part of some submission queries and all of sudden you need that outline! Your burning need to have an update outline is frustrated by the length it will take to co ..read more
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AI Secrets to Kickstart Your Writing: #3 Dig for Research Info
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
6M ago
One of my favorite benefits of using AI is its ability to gather research information in and ordered list for your consideration.However, you must exercise caution in using this information, as Chat is prone to fudge its results. You should check it against internet sources. Yet, the wealth of what it digs up is impressive, presenting a wealth of scenarios you can use in fiction writing. For instance, this prompt in researching plot points for Master’s License. Beth: What are the potential hazards a space-faring cargo ship hauling different purified gases can encounter? ChatGPT: Space-farin ..read more
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AI Secrets To Kick Start Your Writing: #2—Outline Your Chapter
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
6M ago
What’s the biggest obstacle a writer faces? Even if you have outlined your book. Staring at the page for the start of that new chapter. Endlessly. All writers do this—even famous ones. Take, for instance, Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath (from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath) Monday, July 7 (1958): …But I have no idea how to begin. I shall, perhaps, just begin. I am somewhere in me sure I should write a good “book poem” a day—but that is nonsense—I go wild when I spend a day writing a bad twelve lines—as I did yesterday… I’ll leave off poems for a bit—finish the books I’m now in the mi ..read more
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5 Stellar Ways to Use #AI in Your #Writing—#1 Rough Outline Your Novel
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
6M ago
Forget the controversy over whether to use AI in your prose. This issue will shake out as writers use AI more and develop best practices in writing fiction with AI. This tool can help you with mundane writing tasks that help to speed up your work without arguments over whether or not using AI is appropriate. And since discussing all five ways in one post makes for a very long post, we’ll take them individually. Today, we’ll talk about rough outlining your novel. If you have an idea for a story (what some writers call a plot) and a character or two rattling around in your head, and maybe a key ..read more
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The Craft of #Writing: Fact Check Your #AI
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
10M ago
ChatGPT is an amazing tool, but like all resources used for research in your writing, you need to recheck the information it provides. Below is an example of today’s research: Beth: Good morning. How does weightlessness in space feel? ChatGPT: Good morning! Weightlessness in space is a unique and fascinating sensation. When you are in a microgravity environment like space, the absence of gravitational forces alters the way your body feels and moves. Here are some aspects of weightlessness in space: Floating Sensation: In space, you experience a constant sensation of floating. Without the p ..read more
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The Craft of #Writing: #Pantsing versus #Outlining
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
11M ago
Listen up! The following is from my post on Quora responding to this question: Do writers and authors write out an outline of their novel first? How detailed is the outline? Whether to outline or “pants” (meaning to write by the seat of their pants) is individual to each writer. Some people, (like me,) “pre-write” their books with extreme outlining. Others start and thrash through each scene without preparation. There are advantages and disadvantages to each system. Outlining gives you the shape of the book before you put the first word on the page. Depending on the level of outlining, you can ..read more
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Relax—#ChatGPT will not steal our #writing jobs
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
1y ago
Nearly ten years ago, before ChatGPT was a twinkle in its creators’ eyes, in one (nearly finished) novel I wrote, two of my characters created a program they called Timebender they used to predict future events based on information models fed into it to make military and business decisions. Highly proprietary, only three people in the story universe used the most sophisticated version of it, though a much more scaled-down version was released for public use. With a fourth character added to this happy little group, the female protagonist taught the new person how to choose datasets to produce ..read more
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Weird Christmas 2022
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
1y ago
My Fantasy-Writers.org buddies and I enter a writing contest each year called Weird Christmas, run by Craig, who enjoys the strange permutations of the Christmas season. Unfortunately, most of those that entered didn’t make it to the final cut, as what happens in publishing. It’s a very competitive business. But not to worry. You can enjoy them here.       Seasoned Soldier by Andy Clark Christmas Eve, Ezekiel stood at the same corner he had manned for decades. Gone was the Sears, with its bustling crowd of shoppers, rushed people of all ages, beaming with excitement. Yet each ni ..read more
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Ask A #Writer: Is It Worth It To Be One?
Beth Turnage | Ghostwriter~ Blogger ~ Storyteller
by Beth Riggott-Turnage
1y ago
Ask a Writer Asked and answered on Quora. The Original Question: Is it worth to be an author? It’s the best thing ever, but not for the reasons you think. 1) Your time is your own. You can wake up when you want to, sleep when it suits you, and you don’t let a clock define your day. Who cares if that puts you out of sync with the rest of the world? God’s honest truth is writers write because the worlds in our heads are far more attractive than the mess outside our windows. 2) You have far fewer clothing costs. I got laid off from the cubicle company in 2011 and since that first summer whe ..read more
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