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November Creative Writing Project: Stupid AI Tricks [1]

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Date: 2025-11-02  

A few people have indicated they’d like to see some progress posts on my November novel project, so here I am.

What I’m currently working is a space opera, written from the close third person perspective of a typical hyper-competent space opera heroine. What would the world look like seen through the eyes of such a person, though? It would look like it was run by dangerously incompetent people.

I’m currently editing the manuscript for voice consistency. It’s a long boring task that’s hard to do yourself because after working on your manuscript for a few hours you can’t see it anymore. But it’s a terrible waste of precious human reader time to saddle other people with that task. So I simply took my manuscript, fed it to an AI chat bot, and told it to flag all the places where the narrative voice was inconsistent. It gobbled up the text and seconds later spit out a list of everywhere the narration stood out — too fast, too slow, wall of text that kind of thing.

Then I realize something. There was a model of the narrative style of my novel sitting right in the session context. Could it? I wonder…

So I type: “Show me what Little Red Riding Hood” would look like if it were narrated from the point of view of the female protagonist of this novel:

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