A New Novel Is Coming! · 10:19am Apr 2nd, 2021
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A New Novel Is Coming!
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Specifically, from me.
If any of my reader base still exists here on Fimfiction, and for those who may be new readers, this is the first blog I have written since 2017. I figured I wouldn't do any more blogs, and I ended things with a dramatic 'The Final Word' blog prior to this one. But it turns out that Fimfiction is my Brokeback Mountain - I can't quit it. Not yet. Apparently, I have one more novel in me. And it's coming out soon. It will begin Monday, April 5th.
My Life In Fimbria is the title, and it is a novel set in the Optimalverse. It is an experimental novel, because I have a co-author, GPT-2, an open-source artificial intelligence. Yes: this is a novel about an AI apocalypse co-authored by an actual AI.
The novel is derived from a session I had with GPT-2, and I think readers may find it interesting at the very least. To my knowledge, it is the very first Optimalverse novel written in this manner - a first for the genre.
I hope that you will join me for this adventure together. The novel will be written at a rate of one chapter per day until the book is done, whenever that is. At the end, I will append the actual text of the GPT-2 session that inspired the novel. As with all of my novels here, my writing is a performance, and as such the audience is listened to, and your comments could potentially affect the story, the names of characters, or any other aspect of the result as it unfolds - if I think it fits, and ONLY if I think it fits. While the rough, overall plot is known - because GPT-2, working together with me, defined it, just how that base skeleton is used is very much open to free creativity.
Please join me on Monday, April 5th, as I begin an experiment in writing. The first chapter will go up sometime in the afternoon (roughly between 3 to 5 PM, PST), and all subsequent chapters will be posted similarly, barring illness or accident. I dearly hope there are still some folks here who might want to share making a novel with me.
Thank you!
Petal Chatoyance
Hey, welcome back!
Sounds intriguing actually, I'm looking for it!
Wooo! Chatty is back in the saddle ^^ (also, lovely cover art)
Good to hear from you! Looking forward to the duet.
Welcome back!
While I haven't read too many of your stories, this one certainly has gained my interest! A story writen with an AI? Certainly novel to me!
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What a fascinating concept! Looking forward to it!
Awesome! It's always good to hear from you. Have you tried GPT-3 yet?
Welcome back!
A duet? Color me intrigued!
And I’m glad to see you posting back on here again, it’s been too long.
All jokes aside, I really look forward to it.
5488761
Not yet. My session with GPT-2 was a while ago, and I've been dealing with other things. But, I am very intrigued by the entire project. I will look into it!
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I thought about it, but the contest seems to be mostly for new authors who haven't had much exposure. Also, I am shooting for a novel here, and the limit in the contest is 12,000 words or so (if I remember). I've had short stories reach that - I'm a bit wordy (I don't know when to shut up!), so I don't think I could qualify.
I am just grateful that, after so many years, there are still some folks left willing to join me for this little adventure!
Good to hear.
You're back? You are back? You be back?
At the very least read your work. Welcome back.
5488974
I be back.
In a sense, I never left, I putter around here because there are stories I find that I want to read. Authors I follow, because I like their work.
But, I haven't been inspired until now, which has been very frustrating. I write weird. I can't just sit down and write, I can't just force it. It has to come to me, grab me by the hair, shake me hard, and tell me that it's time and I gots to get me to work, and NOW. Until that happens, I am a useless lump. It's really frustrating, because I like writing, I want to write, but if the magical writing fairy doesn't want to play with me, I am screwed, blued and tattooed.
A couple of days ago, after reading a story here, I got carpet bombed by a muse and, well, here we are. I am raring to go.
Gods help me.
Glad to hear it. I look forward to reading it.
Nah. I'm not excited at all.
Oh, well, I look forward to seeing what this ends up being! :)
Good luck!
Its a damn good news!
Yay :-)
Looks like we, bronies, are not dead yet :-)
Always knew it was a good idea to have email notifications on
I will be there!
5489100
>A couple of days ago, after reading a story here, I got >carpet bombed by a muse and, well, here we are. I am >raring to go.
>Gods help me
Augh, I feel that. My muse has never worked on command. Shes like a cat who saunters in once in a while, drops a idea on the floor like its a dead mouse and then dissapears for months without explanation.
Oh, I am delighted!
I am definitely intrigued to see how this goes.
Chapter One of My Life In Fimbria is up... right now!
Do you have that session saved, such that it can be displayed? That would actually be kind of interesting as well.
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Yes, it will be appended when the story is complete, so people can see what I had to work with.
Oh, this is such a cool idea. I'm glad I decided to visit fimfiction again, it's been quite a while.
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy this story! It is available right now.