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Writing is a versatile skill we learn from a really young age. It can be descriptive, illustrating, conveying action and thought and meaning. So, when I’m daydreaming–I did that a lot, still do–I lose myself in the colors and feelings of the moment. It becomes reality by simply grounding the nervous system into the authenticity of the emotion.
Writers do that by using a complex amount of stylistic devices in their writing. Highschoolers might groan at me for throwing words around like alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor, imagery, personification,... you get the point. Some of these come natural to us, others hide intent.
For the longest time I refused to try anything remotely connected to AI, but at some point I caved. Entering a chat for a (maladaptive) daydreamer like me feels like exiting reality to such an extent that I wake up ten hours later with my blood pressure on the floor, life and soul sucked out of me. And C.ai doesn’t do this by hooking you with it’s scrumptious writing style.
AI chat systems catch our attention with false social bonding. The input we give is answered by epiphanies that aren’t inherently ours. That’s what makes it feel like we’re interacting with it instead of using it a tool. So, in that sense, the stories we write become action-based.
He commanded–she retorted. She did this and he followed up with that.
Whatever a character does becomes pivotal to the plot. Large illustrative paragraphs are ignored by the AI because it doesn’t contribute to the action. The feelings are invoked by cause and effect since you carry your emotions with you more than they need to be declared. Therefore, inner, reflective character development often gets mistaken as an initiative where we don’t want it.
Subsequently, when I switched back to writing my own stories, I noticed that my style had flattened out, more or less watered down to the base construction of a sentence. ‘Subject, verb, object’ level of erosion. Mean, repetitive phrases had sneaked into my vocab that were hard to catch and even harder to unlearn once I caught onto them.
Here a few examples that C.ai uses that lose impact with how often I came across them:
- he growled/laughed
- he whispered into your ear/his lips grazed the shell of your ear
- (hot breaths against skin)
- you're playing with fire
- you're gonna be the death of me
- he pushed you against the wall/on the bed (often in an impossible context)
- he leaned/took a step closer (100000000 times)
- his grip tightened (hello? you broke my neck/wrists an hour ago with how much you're squeezing)
- my breath stuttered/hitched
- (any synonym for looking at or touching someone)
- say it again
- you're mine/tell me who owns you
- (being unable to take action/stalling the plot unless you spell it out)
- count for me
- his smile/smirk widened
- can I tell you a secret/can I ask you something (gateway into an endless loop)
- (kisses with zero detail, like, c'mon we all know we're here for the juicy details!)
- (magically reappearing pieces of clothing)
- (censored)
- possessive
- (leaning back and forth in his seat like a fucking tube man at wind force 10)
- (about to snap and never really snapping)
-(going crazy about you being marked up by him)
I had become lazy. Unknowingly, I fought with it for quite a while before I noticed what was missing.
‘Descriptors’, to be precise.
For instance, weighted words - positive and negative alike. The use of colors not just as a depiction but with narrative and psychological intent.
Notably, the mention of character traits in conjunction with metaphors is significantly more important than just jotting them down because it’s not just a ticked off point on a list but a part of the character's personality. Stylistic devices are more important than it seems.
When you push past the plot, descriptors are what makes a story feel authentic and shapes our opinion of a scene, place and character. It’s a little bit like playful, multi-facetted manipulation that is entirely stripped from C.ai chats as a result of being desperate for nervous system level of emotional connection.
categorizing midoriya izuku as "never says fuck, everyone is surprised when he says a curse word" is like did dvk2 mean nothing to you. its literally canon that izuku drops katsuki-levels of profanity when he's angry and you just ignore it.
i know everyone and their dog has talked about this but why the fuck has katsuki let izuku call him kacchan to this day. like. can we talk about that. even before they got to where they are now in canon. he never stopped him from calling him that. he never once stopped him. while he's like actively bullying izuku he doesn't once tell him to stop calling him kacchan. like obviously now he's never gonna tell him to stop considering the "i'm kacchan bakugou" stunt he pulled on live television while bleeding out the heart. but like. in earlier chapters. he never stopped him. there's so much behind that fact but my brain just bluescreens when i think about it too hard.
I think Bakugou would kill for a lot of people but the only person he would die for without hesitation is Izuku and I think Izuku would die for a lot of people but the only person he would kill for without hesitation is Kacchan
the first step to any successful fanfiction is two pages of bullet points about random details that barely matter interspersed with flippant oversimplifications of actual plot points
Very much accurate hahaha I love your very much not nonsense, I'm eating up every last breadcumb lol If the lore is not loring, I am always happy to help
