Hi! 🙋🏻‍♀️ I'd love to hear from anyone who is writing creative fiction, or even just thinking about it. For me, being a newbie novelist at this age means (hopefully) keeping my mind sharp and getting actively involved in the world of books which I've always loved so much. Books have been such a big part of my life and I've been wanting to write one, so I'm just gonna go for it. Are any of you working on a creative writing project?

I'm shopping around for some generative writing AIs to try. Today I found one that has a couple of bits in the TOS that I'm not sure about. Is this a normal thing for generative writing AIs?

• AI output may occasionally produce similar results for different users with similar inputs
• We do not guarantee that generated content will be unique or free from unintentional similarities to existing works

Just wondering if this is standard. Thanks for info/insight. 🙏🏻👍🏻

Looking for a current or most recently updated list of LLMs trained exclusively on public domain works. Thank you. 🙏🏻🥰

A friend who, like me, is writing her first novel, just sent me an email about this, and it sounds like such a brilliant idea! We've both been rather dreading finishing our first drafts because we know proofreading and markup means either trying to do it on the computer or else printing out 300+ sheets of paper to proofread and markup.

Yesterday she stumbled across some YouTube videos of writers who've come up with such an amazing solution!

The idea is, when you finish your draft, upload it to KDP and simply generate a "proof copy", or, if you use Lulu, generate a "personal use copy".

One author chose to generate hers at Lulu because she wanted a spiral bound version. That way, she can open the book and it'll lie flat on her desk as she's marking it.

Other authors chose KDP and generated normal paperback books. These might be a bit more of a challenge because they're not going to lie flat like the spiral bound Lulu version. But, you'll have more of a sense of what your book is going to look like, and how the storyline plays out, if you've got it in actual book form like that.

Absolutely brilliant idea!

Edited to add: Thank you all for the advice and suggestions! This is wonderfully helpful, and I very much appreciate it. I have so much to learn. 🥰

A friend who, like me, is writing her first novel, just sent me an email about this, and it sounds like such a brilliant idea! We've both been rather dreading finishing our first drafts because we know proofreading and markup means either trying to do it on the computer or else printing out 300+ sheets of paper to proofread and markup.

Yesterday she stumbled across some YouTube videos of writers who've come up with such an amazing solution!

The idea is, when you finish your draft, upload it to KDP and simply generate a "proof copy", or, if you use Lulu, generate a "personal use copy".

One author chose to generate hers at Lulu because she wanted a spiral bound version. That way, she can open the book and it'll lie flat on her desk as she's marking it.

Other authors chose KDP and generated normal paperback books. These might be a bit more of a challenge because they're not going to lie flat like the spiral bound Lulu version. But, you'll have more of a sense of what your book is going to look like, and how the storyline plays out, if you've got it in actual book form like that.

Absolutely brilliant idea!

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