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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      My art of gig yakverse fiction may not be great, but it does dissolve/invent a genre -- absurdist consultant fiction with elements of sci-fi and fantasy but base content being basic airport-business-book style business ideas. It's the only one of it's kind I know of.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      Also bits of murder mystery. There's such a thing as consultant fiction but afaik I'm the only one who's gone down this particular genre-bending bunnytrail.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      One of my suspicions is that for my more ambitious drafts that I want to put more work into, the unblocking move will be finding the genre-busting tweak. Right now, the drafts are pretty much pure-paradigm sci-fi plots.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      In my first flirtation with fiction ~20y ago (which I've since deleted from online), the flow-inducing mashup was first-person regular fiction + cookbooks + lyric books. I had segments with literal recipes and song fragments in them. Again not great, but it flowed.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      Dunno about the rest of you, but for me flow is key. If the words don't flow at near the physical limit of typing speed and physical endurance, it's not working for me. Until I can unlock that flow rate, the writing lacks both quantity and quality of words. Minimum viable flow.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      Ground-truthing this thread... I've written probably a couple of million words of non-fiction, and maybe 50k words of fiction in my life (publicly published that is). I've never directly made money off fiction though. Art of gig doesn't count since it is a nonfiction trojan horse

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    7. Nick Parker‏ @NickParkerPrint Nov 23
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      Replying to @vgr

      Nick Parker Retweeted Liminal Warmth  ❤️

      Have you tried playing with GPT3 as a fiction aid? @liminal_warmth has had a fair bit of success 'unblocking' with it, which sounds like your issue. Bridging choppy flow states at the edge of your envelopehttps://twitter.com/liminal_warmth/status/1296104035800375296 …

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      Liminal Warmth  ❤️ @liminal_warmth
      1/ I've now had a few more weeks of playing intensely with GPT-3 as an AI fiction writing aid and have been working on building a tool for authors to use it effectively. It's interesting to see what kinds of things it can do well and where it struggles.
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    8. Liminal Warmth  ❤️‏ @liminal_warmth Nov 23
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      Replying to @NickParkerPrint @vgr

      In fact I built an app for that http://textspark.ai 

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    9. Benno von Archimboldi‏ @von_archimboldi Nov 23
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      Replying to @liminal_warmth @NickParkerPrint @vgr

      Already getting something I wouldn't have come up with on my own. This is fantasticpic.twitter.com/5UlTMAySOq

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    10. Liminal Warmth  ❤️‏ @liminal_warmth Nov 23
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      Replying to @von_archimboldi @NickParkerPrint @vgr

      Thank you! It means a lot to me that people like it, it’s a little bit of a passion project

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Nov 23
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      Replying to @liminal_warmth @von_archimboldi @NickParkerPrint

      strong product-zeitgeist fit, nice timing

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