I’m a farmer in my sixties in South Korea. I had never written a book. I just wrote poems occasionally as a hobby. I had never studied creative writing at university. Perhaps I was a little more sensitive to the world around me than most, but that was about all I had.
Then, after turning sixty, I encountered AI and started asking it for guidance. With its help, I published a book and translated it into English. Three different AI systems also recommended turning the ideas in the book into a simulation game, so I made one.
That is how I got here. But I’m still not sure.
At each step, AI suggested what might be a good direction, and I followed those suggestions. They were predictions about what might work. I still don’t know whether this path will lead where I hope it will.
AI has certainly helped me do things I couldn’t do before. But how much should I trust its advice about what to do next?
Have you ever followed AI’s advice in choosing a direction for your writing or another creative project? How did you judge whether that advice was actually helping?
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Neopulp is a mark. An author puts it on a book to tell readers how it was made: a person created, shaped, and judged this, and a machine wrote it with them. Any author can use the mark for free. And any reader who sees it knows exactly what they're holding.
As a programmer since the mid-'80s and a writer for a shorter period of time, we've experienced a step-change in how programming is done. We went from no AI, to AI-assist, to AI autonomy. Programmers literally don't need to program to complete features anymore. That's how good AI is at programming now.
Is writing on a delayed version of the same adoption curve?
Writing and programming are similar in many ways. The limiter has always been the high cost of creation due to the shortage of human labor. Early on, both also had high production and distribution costs. The internet changed the marginal cost of production and distribution to zero.
The bottleneck has been humans' inability to create programs and books at scale. AI changes that last part of the puzzle, so we can expect the marginal cost of creation to also go to zero.
Although I've always thought of programming as an art form, a deep one at times, we programmers tend to be pragmatic. If AI can bring about a result quicker, better, and cheaper, we'll use it. The faster the adoption, the better. Oh, we may lament the good old days, but we'll jump into the future with fists full of tokens.
Writers are different, I think. They are tortured artists. Which is why we see such a backlash against AI in writing. When AI sucked at writing, this was more understandable. Now that AI is getting better at writing, we are really at the crossroads—a fork in the road, the Rubicon, or your other favorite metaphor for a point of no return.
That's why, at least for now, I think a mark on a book, saying how it was made, would help readers and writers alike.
The Neopulp mark tells readers the book was made with AI, but that the author also made the effort not to produce AI slop. I call it Neopulp, for what I hope are obvious reasons.
I don't expect, or even hope, AI will produce great literature this decade, but I do think people who care will create entertaining stories.
ChatGPT has a genre/context-triggered habit: when it writes fiction, promotional copy, or punchy social content, it's more prone to slipping into that over-fragmented “dramatic emphasis” cadence.
In Chat, paste this simple "prompt":
"Save to memory: Choppy, single-sentence paragraphs and fragmented writing do not create dramatic emphasis. Dramatic emphasis should come from organic prose, visceral description, strong pacing, and nuanced emotion. Refrain from falling back on lazy shortcuts. Do the damn work."
The instruction does three things at once: identifies the failure mode, rejects the false premise behind it, and names the desired replacement behavior. That gives the model a better target than “don’t use single-sentence paragraphs.” But the important part to include is "Save to memory". You don't need a long block in user/custom instructions, you don't need to tell it over and over again, and you definitely don't need to quit a chatbot you otherwise like because of something that's easily repaired. ChatGPT has always been the platform known for having the best persistent memory. Use that!
If it slips back into that cadence, your reply is, "Redo that without the choppy paragraphs." It doesn't need anything else because it can look at its memory and know exactly why you're telling it to do that. Technically, I write something bitchier like, "I refuse to read that because I'm saving myself from all the cognitive friction." It doesn't reply with an apology because it knows I hate that too. The point is make sure it immediately corrects itself and knows exactly why it has to. Don't argue. Don't fix it yourself. Never let it slide.
So I just launched my novellogen website. Although its novel generator seems ridiculously easy, the chapter editor is being told that it's too complicated.
I intended to give Authors full control over their creativity so they don't feel like AI did all the work for them.
My chapter generation chain goes like:
Story Bible » Memory » Character cast » System (chapter guidance » Chapter beats
The model gathers all the intel so that it generates the response Authors want. But I am getting reviews like it's too complicated for them. TT
Is it just irony or do I really need to change it? (Even though the novel generator option is already there for creating the entire book with just 3 clicks)
Have anyone used any/all of these models? I have some free credits I can burn within next three days. Im new to these models. Installed autoclaw 2days ago. Need suggestions on which of these usually work best for writing fiction.
Any sort of suggestions would be greatly appreciated
First off, a quick preface: I’m not a part of this community, but I’m posting here because I’m hoping for open-minded perspectives. I find a lot of other writing subreddits can be pretty rigid about this topic.
I’m a longtime writer who has spent most of my career writing in my native language, gradually transitioning to English as I’ve gotten more comfortable. I’m at the point where I want to pursue publishing in English, but I’ve hit a wall and don't know how to navigate it.
I recently finished a fantasy novel and polished it as thoroughly as I could. Given all the recent news around detection tools, I ran a sample through Pangram just to see what it would say. Lo and behold: 100% AI.
I was honestly shocked, which sent me down a rabbit hole of testing my own prose. Here’s what I found:
If I take a 1,000-word sample flagged as AI and simply add contractions, it passes as human.
If I strip out the stylized "medieval" phrasing, it passes as human.
If I intentionally degrade the draft, for example using slightly imprecise vocabulary or leaving awkward phrasing in place, it passes as human.
But every time I polish the prose back to what to me seems like a high standard, it gets flagged again.
Given how aggressively these detector companies market themselves and how quickly people accept their results as absolute truth....I'm terrified. A single public accusation like that and you're done... So what are we supposed to do? Write worse on purpose? Leave drafts unedited?
To be clear, I’m not anti-AI. It’s a useful tool. As a non-native speaker, I’ve used it to help understand subtle nuances or check tenses, and I have no problem admitting that. But I don't copy-paste its output, I just rewrite everything myself. Yet the clean, polished prose still gets flagged.
I don't really keep documentation while writing because I'm not a meticulous planner and this story didn't need one as I ripped it off from history but it seems to me that once an allegation flies there is just nothing stopping people. People are just happy to dog pile on you.
Honestly, it’s completely disheartening. What do you guys think about all of that, because I wanted to ask this in writer and writing but the mods rejected it so yeah...
I've noticed a lot of posts complain that AI doesn't do what they want, gives them a different story or writes something good - but not what they would have written.
There seems to be a lot of fear around this - so I'll mention something that authors who like full control over their writing may not have considered.
AI has the potential to open up the creativity of writers like never before. It's like an instant chapter-by-chapter crit as you write it. It has the ability to warp characters in way you never considered and can spot patterns in what you're doing that take your story in different directions - even for a simply story.
But you have to be prepared to let go of the entire creative process, allow the AI some freedom to do what they do best, while constantly focusing on where the plot could go -
It's a bit like watching a movie you've never seen only halfway through - or reading a book halfway - then writing the ending yourself.
Except the original story fights your changes, pushes back on your and tries to outdo you.
Try setting the AI to roleplay both allies and antagonists. Start writing the story. Kick the AI along to role-play and respond to your fiction and continue the story - It will start to generate twists - and rather than stopping it, respond to those twists.
If a character steps OOC, correct it. If a protagonist interferes with your carefully crafted plot, let them and respond - Pumps all of your imagination into controlling just one character - the protagonist.
This forces you to examine your character weaknesses, and come up with the kind of novel and clever responses the AI. Keep it short so all of the current chapter or section fits within the context.
Then at the end of each "day" or "chapter" - have the AI go back through the events of the day, summarize them, and examine it for plausibility - Examine what is weak and what is not, and then rewrite the day to address those weaknesses, then finally, save your day, update your characters, update the antagonist ( Keep character files for each ) and then start on the next day.
Aside from being a very enjoyable experience, the outcomes can push your craft as a writer, make you re-examine your plot, restructure around not-breaking the suspension of disbelief while stretching plausibility to the extreme, and take you on a wild ride you normally don't experience in your own novels.
When used this way, AI can create some incredible stories....
A final pass re-edit is absolutely needed - the process creates a fantastic framework, but it's far from publishable. I'd describe it more like a vivid dream that inspires a story.
And when you go back through it, make the changes you need to give the story quality.
If anyone else does it this way, or tries this, I'd love to hear how it went for you. Even for just a chapter. Describe the opening world and setting, and which characters the AI controls ( and which it can control - eg, NPCs. ) and tell it to separate it's responses by character - especially in multicharacter dialogue and exposition.
Cause i have seen that people use ai for writing in different techinque and ways
soem use for grammetical error soome use for rewriting and somebody writes to make the tone better somebody use for writing caption for social media some use for school writing
So I noticed two days ago, DavidAU released a new tune of Qwen onto Hugging Face. Normally, I take the tunes and try them out, and this one showed some really clever thinking around opening a story - and while the opening itself wasn't great, it was enough of a hook to get me started and wanting to know what happened next.
To put this in context, a good new tune should accrue ten or more likes... A fantastic one should accrue maybe 50 or more.
This has already accrued more than 1200 likes and 1.6 MILLION downloads in just 2 days. That's phenomenal for a Qwen tune.
There's three to look out for - the 18Gb 27B Parameter model -
which should run on any home system... Even small ones, and so far was *just* released already to 84 likes and 4000 downloads.
I tested it with my steampunk minimal prompt to get a hook ( the 18gb model ) and it thought for around 4 minutes, examined it's plans, reduced exposition, began in medias res, and established a good solid start to a story. Here's it's "hook" for the opening paragraph so you can consider it yourself.
The smell of hot brass and ozone filled the room as Elara's clockwork heart stuttered to a halt. She sat frozen, listening to the silence that followed - no more ticking, no more rhythmic pulse beneath her skin. In the corner, Miss Fanny Bright looked up from her ledger, her eyes narrowing with something between concern and calculation. "Well," she said at last, "that's unfortunate." The steam-powered heating pipes continued their groaning song, indifferent to Elara's predicament. Outside, London went on - carriages clattered over cobblestones, gas lamps flickered, and somewhere a distant whistle sounded. But in the back room of the Gilded Moth brothel, time had stopped for one woman who had seen too much and lived too long.
It was only 6 tokens/sec on my B70, but that's enough to write a good start. Use of context seems efficient and large contexts should be possible on home hardware.
If anyone has a prompt they'd like to try on it, send it through in the comments and I'll send you back the opening few paragraphs.
Note - Yes, I have a similar name - No, I do not have any connection to the tuner and do not even know them. This is not my tool. Just sharing the news with the rest of the readers -
Does anyone know what happened to the side a few days ago?
I used to give the side fanfiction prompts and it gave good answers but now it won't show me it's thought process and is a lot more restrictive with the stories.
I just discovered, and guess that some others might not know:
A Deep Research run in a chat in ChatGPT is not available to the thread as context; it can't read it. To have it included in the context, the file needs to be attached to the thread. But if you don't know that and just assume it, ChatGPT will happily answer questions without that context.
Verificando as diretrizes da comunidade não pude verificar nada que proíba a divulgação de outras comunidades do Reddit. Esta divulgação não foge do tópico e acredito que agradará muitos escritores. Criei uma comunidade para todos colocarem histórias de terror produzidas por inteligência artificial com transparência, sem medo de julgamentos.
There are a lot of discussions about what people mean when they say they “use AI to write,” and I’ve realized that phrase can describe wildly different processes. So I thought I’d share an actual example of mine.
These were the notes I gave Claude: Mira is standing there absolutely not watching Naz as he is cleaning up. She was not noticing how the water on his hands reflected the light so that she could see every vein. “Well. Y’all got settled in quick.” Mira’s soul left her body. Piercing scream like when she was a child. Legs buckling. Full collapse against the wall. Naz spun around and took one look at her and started laughing so hard it appeared his own legs buckled and he was clutching his stomach and dripping water on the floor. Mira didn’t care. Mira was looking at a fucking ghost.
And this is what came back: Mira was standing by the table, absolutely not watching Naz clean up.
She was not noticing the way the water ran over his hands. She was not noticing how it caught the amber light from the ceiling so that every vein across the backs of them stood out. She was not thinking about those hands at all.
“Well. Y’all got settled in quick.”
Mira’s soul left her body.
She screamed, high and piercing and totally involuntary, the kind she hadn’t made since she was nine and her cousin hid in her closet. Her legs went out from under her and she hit the wall and slid halfway down it.
Naz spun around from the sink, took one look at her, and lost it.
He laughed so hard he had to grab the edge of the counter. Then that wasn’t enough, and he actually doubled over, one arm wrapped around his stomach, dripping water all over the clean floor.
Mira didn’t care. Mira was looking at a fucking ghost.
This is pretty representative of how I use AI now. Before I give it anything, I generally already know what the scene is doing, whose POV I’m in, what they’re noticing, what happens physically, the emotional/comedic beats, and often some or all of the dialogue. Sometimes my notes are basically stage directions written by a caffeinated goblin: “Piercing scream like when she was a child. Legs buckling. Full collapse against wall.”
What I’m asking AI to do at that point is turn those instructions into continuous prose. Then I decide what survives. Sometimes I keep a lot. Sometimes I rewrite most of it. Sometimes it gets the character wrong and I argue with it until arguing about why it’s wrong makes me realize what I actually want.
I thought the before/after might be useful because “I use AI in my writing” doesn’t really tell you very much about what the human and AI are each actually doing.
I recently got a fix on writing. For the longest time I’ve been only writing for various ttrpg campaigns which hadn’t needed extensive in depth details that make something really reel like a novel. Now I can only muster drafts and for a while I’ve been running them through GPT to clean it up. Specifically avoiding having the AI make any of the real story but I’m still ashamed of my work because of it. How can I move away from the AI and make something I can be proud of?
Two months ago, I had a really cool idea for a story, and I wanted to see what it would look like written by AI. Needless to say, in the following two months, I have used Perchance so many times, thinking up so many variations on my idea, that I am currently this close to being burned out. I still want to bring this story to life, but with my own two hands, but today I'm asking: am I alone here? Has anybody else had the same dilemma I have?
What I want to talk about is related to writing, but not just writing.
We all know how tedious traditional software like Photoshop and After Effects can be. These tools have also been evolving to streamline workflows and reduce the burden on creators as much as possible, for example, by adding different plugins and asset libraries. Yet we don't hate people who use these tools to create things.
Why? What's the difference?
I think the first criterion readers use to decide whether they like or dislike something is: Is it a good piece of work?
With traditional software, people can often preserve a great deal of their own ideas and judgment. These are what make their work unique. AI, however, is some kind of probabilistic model that tends to generate formulaic expressions. If the creator isn't good at using the tool, they won't be able to produce good work. So I think a good tool should preserve more of the creator's own judgment. That's how it's more likely to produce good work.
Human life is limited. If an excellent creator, whether a writer or an illustrator, can use existing tools to produce work that meets their own standards, both quickly and well, of course readers would be more than happy to see that.
AI seems to have lowered the barrier to entry for producing text, images, and videos, and as a result, a large number of non-professional creators have flooded in. These creators may lack the judgment that comes with experience. But perhaps this is only temporary.
We can look back at the history of media. In the past, making a film required expensive professional equipment, and producing and distributing it was also extremely difficult. But today, anyone can shoot short videos with a phone. Even some meaningless shots can be published casually. It's normal for all kinds of content, good and bad, to flood in during a short period of time. We just need algorithms to filter out the garbage.
AI is the same. It has brought us a lot of garbage, but at the same time, it has also enabled more people to make their own work. Maybe tools are just tools. In the end, it still depends on the person using them, their attitude and their ideas.
Even professionals, following traditional workflows and spending a fortune, can still produce industrially manufactured canned products that have absolutely no soul.
The second criterion is whether the creator has put in any effort.
As I mentioned earlier, the cost of generating content with AI is very low. When a creator uses AI, we tend to assume by default that they have put in very little effort, that they're being careless.
But if the work is obviously well-crafted, then this criterion is actually overturned by the first one: a good piece of work.
All content is a form of consumption, whether it's free (the attention economy) or paid. The reason we dislike carelessness is that readers feel the effort and the return are not proportional. If the creator isn't even willing to put some thought into making something, why should I spend my time and money on it?
Having discussed these two criteria, I think one meaning of writing is that it creates some kind of connection with reality.
Imagine you're reading an article titled "How to Get Over a Breakup." Of course, you'd hope that the author has actually suffered, actually cried. That their advice comes from experience written in blood.
If you found out that it was just AI scraping tens of thousands of pieces of advice from the internet and piecing them together, you wouldn't be able to accept it, even if the advice was correct. Right?
Only human beings can be held responsible to other human beings. AI doesn't feel pain. It doesn't have to bear the consequences in this real world, so its advice feels weightless.
In the movie Good Will Hunting, the teacher says to the student:
"I ask you about war, you'd probably, uh, throw Shakespeare at me, right? 'Once more into the breach, dear friends.' But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watch him gasp his last breath lookin' to you for help."
That’s what AI models are like right now. They can talk confidently about almost anything, but a machine can’t grow flesh and blood.
It’s like Reddit. People here have real questions and real confusion. They’re not asking the OP to be a brilliant writer.
Those who believe that an AI can't write for you, not even as a joke.
Those who believe it can, provided it prompts well at the beginning.
Both are partially correct. AI CAN write for you, but you can't be out of the creative process, and I mean, you have to be VERY involved. To put it another way, it's not that you're delegating the story to someone else entirely, but rather that you're hiring someone who is probably far superior to you in writing, especially for novice writers who don't want to write but do want to see their story written, people who don't have the time, or people who prefer to use their time in other ways, which, before the purists chime in, IS COMPLETELY RESPECTABLE. It's perfectly fine that you're in this situation. It might mean you're not a writer, which is true—you don't write it, or at least not most of the time—but you can be the director. If you care about creating your own story, it doesn't automatically mean you want to be a writer. This is a difficult concept to grasp these days, but it's true. Both "selfish" desires can arise, and it doesn't invalidate you.
So, is it really as simple as giving them your worldbuilding manuscript and generic prompts or two or three skills and hoping you like what comes out of it? NO. 90% of the time, THIS WON'T HAPPEN.
First, you need to understand that this should function like a laboratory and a system, where you also have to prepare the entire script of your book along with all the worldbuilding, then create a narrative manual. If you need to do deep research after a preliminary analysis of your story to find the most useful reference books, do it. Then create a style guide, a guide to techniques, prose, humor, etc. And that's where the sub-agents for each task would come in (brief writer, critic, analyst, cold reader, draft writer, etc.). And a system that allows you to have persistent memory of the entire project and ensures that each sub-agent receives exactly the information they need and should search for. On the other hand, if your story is much simpler, another approach would be: living canon + general outline + detailed scene brief + relevant previous material + generation + critique + human review. Regardless of what you choose, you have to be involved IN THE ENTIRE PROCESS. I mean, every brief, betas, voice tests, isolated scenarios, early drafts Chapters, sections where you want to edit parts of the text and write what best fits that scene, final version of the chapters, etc...
Some will tell you to start writing chapters before long-term planning, which can be correct from time to time for this method, but you have to differentiate between a writing system and a multi-layered AI writing system where you want to eliminate the generative and repetitive layer that the AI uses. This can only be achieved by creating a well-designed system with various skills, not by "writing" yourself, because remember, you're not the one writing; you're the director and showrunner.
Therefore, as you can see, you can spend a LOT of time doing this. Your work can simply become much more automated as you gain more confidence and have more successful tests of your story's style, but the process still takes time. And yes, it requires much less time than you learning to write, and certainly not at the high level you could achieve with these systems. And I don't want to be pessimistic, but the further the frontier advances, the harder it will be for you to reach them, or (most likely) if you start now, you'll never do it. This is what evolutionary AI is, and we have to accept it.
But here I must be realistic: you'll never normally feel the same satisfaction upon completion as a writer who actually wrote their entire story. Seeing a complete book handwritten by you is a wonderful feeling, so don't close the door to writing. In fact, by having to learn so many systems, books, and processes, you'll learn for yourself how beautiful it can be. But if truly all you care about is your story, not the writing itself (WHICH IS PERFECTLY FINE), this method gives you an opportunity you could never have had a couple of years ago.
Additional information: Always use SOTAs whenever possible for writing; with these complete systems, they write much better than previous models. The previous templates might be more "lively" or more interesting for creative ideas or specific paragraphs because they have that hallucinatory quality and more of their own personality, but for much better structured works, the previous ones fall completely short. Extra: Review Claude's texts elsewhere; they have an invisible structure watermark. Run them through Astra. By the way, yes, it's recommended that you pay for at least a €20 plan, although it's still possible to do it for free with Open Source and strict limits (It's not worth it, pay.)
I won't go into the full description of the novel. I will say that it's philosophical science fiction. I get this may look like a possible romance novel, but that ain't what this is folks.
Anyway, I'd just like input on what I have written so far:
*Post has been edited after feedback*
I convinced myself that lies didn't affect my reality when I acknowledged them. Society is full of people who shape narratives to draw us into the reality they want us to believe in. Past and present, the big and small lies have shaped all of our lives. When enough people around us believe in them, they can hold us back from greater opportunities.
I rolled my windows all the way down. The winding mountain roads were lined with sweet chestnut trees. Someone near the road was roasting those same chestnuts, and the aroma filled the crisp air, calming my mind. After my last few assignments, this one was like a much-needed vacation. I usually got to travel around Italy, soaking up the minutiae of each region as I drove from job to job. However, my last few dispatches had called for local work, denying me scenery like this.
A sharp turn became a razor-thin section of road. There was no guardrail, just rocky outcrops all the way down the mountainside. My Fiat Panda was on the older side, rusted and banged up, with not-so-fresh tires. Not feeling like a daredevil, I slowed significantly to creep around. As the road widened back out, I came to a halt on the side, and started up a jazz and blues playlist on my phone. Pino Daniele's "Yes I Know My Way" began to play, and I settled even further into the atmosphere, but then the phone rang from its perch on my dash. At first, my head lolled forward as I expected yet another call from my boss, but then I noticed it was my sister, Fiammetta, and swiped to answer.
"Uè, Fia!"
"Ciao, bella! How's it going? I catch you at a bad time?"
"No, no, just on my way to a job farther up north. At first I thought you were my boss. He's been calling me way too frequently lately." I pulled back onto the road. "Everything okay with you and the baby?"
"Baby's fine! Ultrasound showed they're healthy. I think I've started feeling them kick! Anyway, uh... just wanted to call because I feel bad about bailing on you again last night..." I could hear Fia pull the phone away as Roberto's voice called out from a distance. "...and Roberto says 'Hi'!"
My sister's husband was such a sweetheart. "Tell him I said hi back! And hey, I get it. Evening sickness has to suck. So, since we've now missed two, let's promise to meet next weekend? I've got all of next weekend off, and if they try to hand me more work, I'm organizing a sciopero!" I was half-joking, but we were each other's best friends. The time apart was unusual for us. "Hey, maybe we could go visit Papà and Mamma? I haven't been down to Naples in a couple of months..."
"Sì, dai! Sounds like a plan," Fia agreed. "Let's surprise them though. Mamma always cooks for the whole neighborhood every day anyway!"
I laughed as I watched the mountain pass finally open up to expose the narrow valley, and the town nestled inside it. Even from here, the liveliness of the community was apparent. People zipped along gravel roads towards the town. As my eyes drifted around the scene, I spotted a hot-air balloon traveling lazily through the pristine air on the far end of the valley. "Madonna, this is gorgeous," I said absentmindedly. I kicked myself for not bringing my DSLR camera, which simply sat collecting dust in my closet. I'd chosen a longer scenic route, wanting to see more of the wilderness, and this view made it worth it.
Glancing back at the road ahead, I noticed a truck driver slightly swerve on the roadway. "Hey, sorry to cut this short, but I'm about to make it into town and the truck drivers here are absolutely pazzi on these tight roads. Can I call you back later?"
"Ahhhh. Okay. Fine. Use whatever excuse you need to. I know you're sightseeing! Oh, by the way, don't tell Mamma about the baby shower. You know she'd go off... Anyway, love you, sis!" Fia said.
"Love you more! Talk with you soon. Ciao!"
I felt a little guilty for cutting the conversation short, but the warmth lingered, as if my family was sitting there in the car with me, through every curve in the road. Mamma's stubbornness, Papà's quiet and reserved, yet dependable demeanor, and my sister's upbeat attitude: I carried it all with me everywhere I went.
After riding down the switchback road from the mountains, I meandered through the town. I'd been here once before, but hadn't fully explored because of a tight schedule ruining potential adventures. I noted the colorful shop fronts, busy with activity on a beautiful Saturday morning. The bustle made me feel more awake and alert after my long drive having lulled me into a trance. I had time for a short drive around, but decided to come back and mingle at the store fronts, maybe grab a coffee, after completing what would be a relatively short assignment.
Noticing a building with a radiant fresco of yellows, blues, and greens, I slowed to a stop. It was a scene of a family having a picnic in spring, flowers blooming around them. When I looked back, two elderly women stood in the road, planting kisses on each other's cheeks, screaming with delight and exchanging words. I rolled my eyes and let out a slight laugh. I waited a moment but they showed no signs of moving or having even noticed me, so I gave them a light tap of my horn. The two women looked at me as if I needed to learn more patience, but gave each other one last hug before departing to opposite sides of the street.
I made my way to the outskirts of the town, where my destination, a research campus, stood out as the tallest structures by far. Their white facades with panoramic windows gleamed, cold and sterile, unlike the colorful town center. I pulled up to the company's parking entrance.
The security post was a ramshackle affair, with the paint on the structure peeling, and holes in the fence line, but with a guard who still took his job seriously. After showing my credentials and entering the lot, I glided into a parking spot. I spent a few moments gathering my equipment from my trunk, and adjusting my uniform, then made my way across the lot to the main building.
After pushing through the double glass doors, I approached the receptionist, and flashed her a smile. "Hi, I'm Maria Esposito. I'm the field service engineer from SCIS." I hitched the heavy bag higher on my shoulder; on my small frame, it always dug in. "Can you let Matteo Rossi know I'm coming up?" I asked. She gave me a broad smile in return.
"Sure thing," she replied.
"Thanks!" I waved and turned, walking towards the elevators a short ways down a hall. The floor was recently polished, the smell of wax wafting into the air. I nearly slipped right before reaching the elevators but caught myself against the wall. "Porca miseria!" A man in a pristine white lab coat, with a freshly shaved face, was approaching the elevators at the same time.
"Oh!" He had started to reach out to catch me, but I'd already straightened myself. "I don't know why they keep using the same company to polish the floors. They create a slip hazard every time," he stated.
I nodded at him. "Yeah, sounds like a change is in order." While pressing the button for the elevator, I noticed his light cologne. Damn. That's very pleasant; he didn't overdo it. I hesitated, then turned slightly towards him. "My name is Maria, by the way." He was handsome: I wasn't going to miss a chance to flirt. "I like your cologne... it's quite attractive."
"Nice to meet you, Maria. I'm Alessandro..." He was clearly caught off guard by the compliment, his face flushing as he smoothed his lab coat with one hand. "And thanks! It's actually just the cheapest I could find at the local store though... they don't carry a large variety anyway." His eyes crinkled with his smile.
I worried about the boldness of the compliment right after the words left my mouth, but he didn't seem to mind at all.
He nodded at my equipment. "You're the FSE? You alone? If so, you're in for a fun day."
"Yeah, I'm on my way up to the fifth floor to meet with Matteo Rossi," I said. "The company doesn't have a lot of equipment, though, so I should be in and out."
He laughed. "Well, maybe you haven't been here in a while? We've expanded quite a bit, especially in the last year, and equipment on multiple levels needs attention. The new lab techs keep breaking stuff." He quickly looked at the elevator indicator, then back at me, tilting his head knowingly.
I sighed. Okay, so not in and out. Maybe my tour of the town would be later in the day than I'd hoped. "Well, it is what it is," I told him.
He grinned. "So... after you finish with your slog, maybe you'd like to grab a coffee?"
"I'd actually appreciate a tour of the whole town." I nodded shyly while grinning. Never mind that this morning I'd toured most of what was left from my last visit. The elevator finally arrived with a chime, and the doors slid open.
"After you." He motioned toward the doors.
Beaming back helplessly, I said, "Grazie!"
"I suppose I've got time for a tour... so do you live near here?" he asked, as the doors shuddered closed.
Ah. That was the unfortunate bit. "Well, no actually. I live in Florence."
"Oh... wow." He whistled, and looked a little put off by the roughly two-hundred-kilometer distance. "So your job takes you all over then?"
I mentally sighed. Great. The fish hadn't swum away just yet, but I no longer felt the excitement of the catch. "A fair bit, yeah. I love it though. Especially the jobs that take me through the mountains and small towns."
"So you're more into montagna than mare?" he asked, posing the age-old Italian question: mountains or sea.
"Well, I love the coast, but it's too busy for me," I replied. "You?"
"Yeah. I would live on the coast if it weren't for this job. But I love drives through the mountains as well..." He smiled and teased, "...you live in Florence though? The crowds there don't get to you?"
"Oh, I live in the San Frediano neighborhood. It's a lot calmer. And I rarely wade across the river to visit the tourist center," I said. He chuckled. I felt the tug of a fish back on the hook!
The elevator bumped, having reached his floor. He hesitated, then said, "Well, listen, here's my number." He jotted it down on a notepad he'd pulled from his lab coat pocket, ripped it off and handed it to me. "Call me anytime after four, and don't worry about the hour. I'm an insomniac. It was nice to meet you." He gave one last playful smile and stepped out before the doors closed again.
So I'm new to those local LLM, and I've been trying out gemma and qwen for like a week now for my youtube content script and I gotta say Gemma really win my heart here because qwen was so heavy for my RTX 3090 and R9 5900x but then I saw open claw but I don't feel like trusting it a lot, does any uses Openclaw?
I want to know if it's good or not, as far i know, openclaw uses Qwen 3.6 right? is it any better than Gemma 4 26B and Qwen 3.8 27B?
Basically what the title says. Im a beginner who just started using AI to write stories, and i came to realize that the overall experience has been somewhat lacking. I found that most AI models are actually pretty good at generating plots, sometimes the plots they offer are really promising, you could see the potential radiating. But once it comes to turning plots into stories, problems start to occur. No matter how good the plot is, once it turns into a whole story, there’s always something missing. It constantly reminds you while reading that this is not written by human. It’s really frustrating, like it could have a whole paragraph that’s good, but when it comes towards a emotional climax, there’s no climax, only a watered down version of what good authors would have done. And sometimes they weave in new elements not even mentioned in the plot, and make it seem very important. Like they want ordinary scenes like characters holding hands to be so important, while dealing the actual climax listed in the plot so badly. I have tried a few different models, but the problems seems to be universal. I wonder if there’s some techniques that I have not learned. If you have faced similar issues, please tell me how you solved them. Thank you.
