Comment by piloto_ciego

13 hours ago

I had a sci-fi plot sketched out in my head, I had Codex give a whack at it. It was "ok" - not the worst content I've ever read, not the best. It was "sufficient."

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piloto_ciego

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jagged-chisel  12 hours ago

But now you have a starting point to edit from. Just find a bit more motivation to continue writing...

  • zem  12 hours ago

    my speculation is that not having written the original text means you don't have a mental history of all the decisions that went into writing it, and the context from being immersed in the work, making it a lot harder and less motivating to go write the next draft.

    • piloto_ciego  9 hours ago

      it was mostly just an experiment to see how well it could go. I didn't have a huge amount of motivation to keep going with it, I just wanted t osee if it could do it. Arguably you could flesh it out way more and have a legit work of fiction, but I only have so many hours in the day and was more interested in seeing if it could make something passable.

      My take? It was passable. Over the last year I've read quite a bit less because I spend a lot of times looking at screens during the day and periodically get headaches, but I read something like 12-36 books a year depending on the year. Some of the fiction I read is good, others is... well, it's adequate.

      From a purely "was it good enough to make money" standpoint, a book written exclusively with codex could probably sell copies. There are a lot of crappy authors out there too.

fragmede  13 hours ago

It's a very fun to go on an exploration of a theme! I had one where the technology was that people could go to sleep for free, but they had to pay to wake up, and when, and the economics and how society got rebuilt around that, and of course the hero trying to break the system.