u/Competitive_Leg3598

Obvious point that it wastes time, less obvious point that it's also degrading quality.

Every time you copy a scene into a chat window you're describing your story rather than inhabiting it. The ai responds to a description, you paste that back into your draft. the draft starts to feel described rather than lived in.

Staying inside the document, asking questions and getting answers without ever leaving the manuscript keeps you inside the story emotionally. The prose that comes out of that feels different from the prose that comes out of a copy paste workflow.

(not just slower but smh actually worse)

I spent eight months on tret wondering why my face wasn't doing what everyone else's face seemed to do on this sub, i was using the ame product but smh completely different results, I genuinely thought i was doing something wrong.

Turns out i wasn't doing anything wrong, i just had a type of acne that doesn't respond particularly well to tret alone, something nobody not my derm, sub, not any of the resources i read ever mentioned to me before i started.

Once i understood that and adjusted my treatment approach accordingly things actually started moving, 8 months of frustration explained in one conversation, if you're on tret and not seeing the results you expected, it might not be your routine, it might be that tret isn't the right fit for your specific acne.

Man after years of buying tech has left me with a drawer full of USB-C cables. Some charge fast, some don't. Some might do video, most probably don't.

None are labeled and I don't remember where half of them came from. I've been wrong enough times guessing that i've basically given up. Is there actually a way to audit these without trial and error on every device i own?

My laptop takes 4 hours to charge even though I'm using a 100W GaN charger. Swapped cables a few times - no difference. Is the cable even capable of 100W or am I missing something? How do I actually know what my cable supports?

I write dark fiction (not extreme) just morally complex, sometimes violent, sometimes explicit, normal literary territory.

Sudowrite softens everything, villain does something menacing softened. Trauma scene - sanitized. Morally grey decision that's reframed as obviously wrong so the reader knows it's bad.

I didn't ask for an editor with opinions. Is this a sudowrite specific problem or does every tool do this?

8 months in and I'm done pretending this is a prompting problem.

Like the copy paste, the forgetting, the generic suggestions that have nothing to do with my actual story. tried fixing it every way I could think of. It's not fixable, it's just the wrong tool for what I'm doing

what are people using for actual novel length projects? Any help is appreciated:)

She uses whatever soap is in the shower, no treatment or SPF half the time and her face is perfect.

I have a full routine, i use ai tools to scan my face and check my pimples, I've tried every acne treatment this sub has ever recommended, researched about ingredients, patch test everything. I've even used faceapp just to remind myself what my face could look like without acne so i stay motivated.

My face has active pimples right now as I type this.

Has anyone else had this experience where doing less somehow works better than doing everything right? because all this effort is starting to feel completely pointless.

I have a problem where when I get a new pimple I immediately spiral into research mode. Open 12 tabs, read 47 reddit posts, add three things to my cart, buy none of them because I can't decide, wake up and the pimple is still there.

I've been doing this for four years. I know the name of every acne treatment on the market. I can tell you exactly how benzoyl peroxide works. I have never consistently had clear skin for longer than six weeks.

Someone in my life finally sat me down and said stop researching and just get your face scanned so something can actually tell you what's going on, so I did. Described my symptoms, let it scan, got a real treatment plan built around my actual pimples.

I haven't opened a skincare tab at 2am in two months. That alone has improved my quality of life significantly.