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☕️ A creative home for black sheep & friends making dark, strange things with prompts, accountability, feedback, and support to finish and share them.

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I am looking to improve my personal writing style. I’ve been a ghostwriter for over 10 years, but now I’d like to dive into more personal and creative writing.
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Welcome back! It's such a great step walking away from ghost writing!
Most Humans Prefer AI-Written Stories, Study Shows
We claim we prefer human writing, but in fact we prefer AI writing. From a research report published today. Key Quote "Participants rated the AI-generated story as higher quality and more absorbing [than the human-written story], but they rated the story better on both measures when they were told it was written by a human." Key Unknown When they ran the study. The quality of LLM output changes so frequently, even a few months can make a difference. BBC's take AI stories preferred to human-written ones - study https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kmpd6lr80o Link to study https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decision-making/article/bot-or-not-can-people-tell-the-difference-between-stories-written-by-a-human-or-by-an-ai-system/45E6DC0BB90AA648654D5AE243F6C667
2 likes • Aug 9
I absolutely love how up front and clear the abstract is. I love that they included the prompts. Study size is small so a big dislike on the title of the BBC article, it's click baity. Also the definition of story at 1000 words is an issue. I believe most people would imagine they are talking about novels. AI is really, really good at manipulating short chunks like 1000 words, but it take a lot more tending when you're using it to write something larger. Nevertheless, a great article and thanks for sharing!
Maximising Simplicity
"Writing is easier to comprehend and absorb when it has the minimum amount of complexity. It's usually better, therefore, to aim for maximum simplicity." —From Writing With Flair: How to Become An Exceptional Writer All editorial "rules" have exceptions. Can you think of a situation where maximum simplicity isn't the best choice?
1 like • Jul 24
@Shani Raja I feel like the answer to that would be evocativeness because the whole point of the book was to evoke or even invoke a feeling. It was really hard reading. I got about 30% in and then I thought "have I gotten stupid since uni?" I went to look at the reviews and saw similar comments and then I realized what the author was doing. I did finish it and I did like it but it was a heavy lift.
0 likes • Jul 29
@Shani Raja There were such vague indications of what the plot was. Like is this plot movement or mood description? It was like a puzzle you had to figure out. I think they meant it to be that. But it was a lot.
Question for fellow authors...
If you could go back and give yourself one piece of advice before publishing your very first book, what would it be? For me, it would be to focus on building relationships with readers from the beginning, not just finishing the manuscript. I'm curious to hear your answer. What's the one thing you wish you had known sooner?
0 likes • Jul 22
@Martina Boone I've published two books under my pen name. I've got a lot of course material that I'm planning to transition to book form. But this is all non-fiction. I'm working on two fiction books under my pen name.
0 likes • Jul 24
@Martina Boone sure sounds good. I followed you on here. Did you mean follows elsewhere too?
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