Shutting Down My Baby

Re:Shutting Down My Baby by bambax on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:44AM (#30896138)

> My goal was to allow authors to automatically generate new creative text based on text they had written so far (basically a literary autocomplete). (...) The feedback I received was generally favorable, and people thought of my product as a cool gadget. But potentially paying for it? Nah. It turned out that writers actually like to write themselves

Here's what I would pay for: something that would generate a structure / a detailed lists of scenes, given a list of characters and a theme, or the beginning of the text, or maybe from scratch.

I'm an amateur writer, self-published my first novel last year, which is doing reasonably well. I like to write scenes, dialogue, interactions, and given a scene context, can sometimes write fast.

But I have a hard time coming up with what to write, what scene to write, what comes next. I generally know where the whole story is going and how it's going to end, but what needs to be written now, I don't know.

I suspect many authors are in the same situation.

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Re:Shutting Down My Baby by beaconstudios on Sunday April 03, 2022 @08:48AM (#30896446)

Yeah this seems like it could be a good product for combating writer's block. I don't know if OP tried that angle, but from the tiny amounts of writing I've done, often I could get unblocked if I could only get a couple more sentences written - usually at a transitional point in the story.

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