tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post8798910671919340656..comments2024-03-15T08:49:44.929-04:00Comments on Dreams and Dragons: In Which An AI Attempts to Do My JobSarah Penningtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377945004067760298noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-13641934512768698922019-07-24T21:30:40.433-04:002019-07-24T21:30:40.433-04:00I mean, I also find it hilarious, so . . .
Wow. Th...I mean, I also find it hilarious, so . . .<br />Wow. That's seriously impressive. Probably one of the best ones I've read. And yeah, I was thinking that it sounded like something out of one of the OT books, though I was thinking the Kings or the Chronicles, not Daniel.<br />Thanks for sharing!Sarah Penningtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377945004067760298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-85992178043215952802019-07-24T21:27:57.890-04:002019-07-24T21:27:57.890-04:00Heh. Based on this, I don't think it would act...Heh. Based on this, I don't think it would actually work . . . but it's a fun experiment.<br /><br />Thanks! Hope you enjoy what you find!Sarah Penningtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377945004067760298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-28276437877628078402019-07-24T14:32:06.633-04:002019-07-24T14:32:06.633-04:00Is it weird that I find this unbelievably hilariou...Is it weird that I find this unbelievably hilarious?<br />I fed the Transformer the first few lines from Guardian of Our Beauty (my Sleeping Beauty retelling from 5 Magic Spindles) and got this: <br />[mine] And it happened in the days of the great heroes, in the years of the warrior-shepherds, that the king of Gubla had no son. (He even begged a wife from the King of the Four Quarters, the master of the Black-Headed People; but the Great King did not send him a wife. The Great King did not even receive the king of Gubla’s messenger.) <br />[Transformer] As they went out on their journeys, the warriors came to the island of Mafra. A battle commenced, fought on the waters of the Red Sea. With these warriors came men of the kingdom of Gubla, and their king was slain. The army that the queen of the south laid waste with its great wealth, which it had taken away from her enemies and which her enemies themselves took away by force became the enemy and the foe of the kingdom that lay under her. The king's son was captured, killed, and sold as slaves. A few days later there were captured warriors again, to be killed, to be burned, and as the queen of the south returned by boat to them; this time she returned with the king's child. (And again the king of Gubla was slain, and his son was sold again as slaves.)<br />Wow. I'm impressed that the AI was able to figure out where in the world my story was set, and to do something with it that makes historical sense... though it ended up with a Daniel 8-9 kind of feel.Kathryn McConaughyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16752547114451811791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-44936164215702210652019-07-24T12:51:38.357-04:002019-07-24T12:51:38.357-04:00What an interesting concept! I haven't heard o...What an interesting concept! I haven't heard of writing through AI before (though I have heard of AI editors). <br /><br />I'll check out your writing; I love fairytale retellings!Nushu Shrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16099330810616707449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-59024593704882317622019-07-23T11:27:38.942-04:002019-07-23T11:27:38.942-04:00Something like that. Though, if I were going to ex...Something like that. Though, if I were going to expand that story, I'd actually fast-forward the setting a couple decades so it would be closer to our WWII era. I don't know why; I just feel like I can see Breen working on a battleship or a submarine more easily than I can see her on a pirate ship.<br /><br />Yeeeeaaaah . . . he's very glad that's not his actual story.<br /><br />Thanks! Obviously, I have that one planned, and possibly a Cinderella one that would be a sequel to Once Upon a Dream, and I have vague ideas for a Mechanical Heart sequel but I don't know what fairy tale it would be yet. So, we'll see.<br /><br />Huh. Honestly, it reads like something a tired NaNoer might write if they pulled an all-nighter and maybe had a glass of wine . . . which is to say, it has potential. The bit about her sword is particularly interesting. (Also, the actual lines of your story sound cool.) Thanks for sharing!Sarah Penningtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06377945004067760298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6336480024326420194.post-39021549019009372882019-07-22T12:52:08.281-04:002019-07-22T12:52:08.281-04:00Ah, Breen, a mysterious...pirate, I guess? I can s...Ah, Breen, a mysterious...pirate, I guess? I can see this as a possible AU, if, say, she figures out how to recharge her heart herself, and manages to keep it secret until this Akenes fellow came along.<br /><br />Oh my goodness, poor Josiah. XD<br /><br />Once Upon A Dream sounds like an interesting story! Are you planning any other steampunk retellings (if it’s as good as MH, I get the feeling this might end up being a niche of yours)?<br /><br />I put in the first few lines from the reworked opening of Renewal of Spirit. The first few results were, ah...unpublishable, as they were gory and contained a bit of cursing, but this one turned out okay:<br /><b>Staccato drumbeats laced through the darkness. They cut through the groan of settling earth, called forth the beasts that slumbered beneath the surface.<br />In the midst of the music, Corinna ran.</b> Her fingers wrapped around the handle of the blade, and it felt as if it was a blade that could hurt her. She couldn't help but smile. It would never hurt her.<br />When the final few drums and snarls settled around her, Corinna was about ready to go, and as she walked out of the cave, she stopped.<br />"What—"<br />There was a silence and then one of them said,<br />"Well what do we know of Corinna? If it is her, she could have been hiding up all along in the hole. I'm not sure what kind of creature she made the lair, but a dragon or an insect. The beast's jaws were large enough to tear through steel, even steel with a lot of flesh around it."<br />And Corinna stopped in her tracks. She looked around the cave, watching her fellow survivors take their own breaths, then turned back to the sound.<br />"I'd say we heard quite a lot of things this morning."<br />The others looked back as quickly as they had walked. Corinna stood still, her sword still in her hand, wondering what their leader had in mind.Marlene Simonettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06467939783399662851noreply@blogger.com