Tree elements' formatting (Scrivener, "Aeon") - The Wolf!

Posted by Amontillado
Feb 15, 2023 at 03:26 AM

Well, you may be painting with an overly broad brush.

Writer’s software doesn’t write, with the exception of ChatGPT. An outline can crush the life out of a story, but when that happens to me it’s not the outliner destroying my tale. It’s my technique. An outline, in my view, is a shorthand way to tell a story. If I abandon narrative order, the story dies.

ChatGPT will not replace writers, by the way. If it did, and if all the content it had to feed on was its own output, I don’t think it would be a trustworthy tool.

When I think of ChatGPT taking over, constantly learning from its own work product, I keep getting an unwholesome picture of a closed loop alimentary canal. It’s not a pleasant thought. Please help me get that image out of my head. I’ll binge on kitten videos, anything.

22111 wrote:
The Outlining Fallacy

>And that’s why dedicated “writer’s software” doesn’t work: Since their
>creators missed that writing’s organisation can just be an ancillary
>“science”; in other terms: promises to help with creation are snake oil.
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