Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut an...
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Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise.
Just having the summary done wouldn't have done this. And reading the summary wouldn't either.
I may never look at the summary again. Making it was the point.
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Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise.
Just having the summary done wouldn't have done this. And reading the summary wouldn't either.
I may never look at the summary again. Making it was the point.
I'm both proud and horrified that the book is long enough that I need to do this. Next I will do a character sheet and describe all of the characters. That should help me check that they make sense as real people among other things.
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I'm both proud and horrified that the book is long enough that I need to do this. Next I will do a character sheet and describe all of the characters. That should help me check that they make sense as real people among other things.
One of the biggest flaws I've noticed from the summary is there aren't enough "ant chapters" VERY excited to fix this.
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Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise.
Just having the summary done wouldn't have done this. And reading the summary wouldn't either.
I may never look at the summary again. Making it was the point.
@futurebird ...also they aren't actually good at that

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."
(www.bbc.com)
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I'm both proud and horrified that the book is long enough that I need to do this. Next I will do a character sheet and describe all of the characters. That should help me check that they make sense as real people among other things.
@futurebird I used to have hand-drawn spreadsheets of characters, places, concepts, and so forth, as well as weird diagrams of boxes and arrows, all on graph paper. And all of that for stories I never finished, and for D&D dungeon-mastering prep.
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@futurebird ...also they aren't actually good at that

AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds
The BBC's head of news and current affairs says the developers of the tools are "playing with fire."
(www.bbc.com)
Well that, and I am not giving the Demon Machine my precious writing. No.