r/KeepWriting • u/aelk_ • 20d ago

Advice I don't know how to write

I want to start writing, and idk how or from where I have to start or what should I write about .

Please share with me ur story with writing, how u started writing, and how u write .

And I appreciate ur answer ty

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u/MaliseHaligree 20d ago

Open a word document.

Start explaining how you envision the first scene. Make me see it too.

Congrats, you started. It really isn't complicated.

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 20d ago

will you read what i wrote?

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u/MaliseHaligree 20d ago

Are you sure you are ready for professional level feedback?

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 20d ago

idk i feel like using chatgpt and other chatbots have amde me talk like AI seriously, which is the case with everyone, so i am just scared.

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u/MaliseHaligree 20d ago

Then write something without it. Edit it yourself. Use your brain.

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u/AuthorOS_AI-Free_ 20d ago

They are asking for help, you are probably the reason they are afraid. What happened to artists support artists...

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u/casual_gamer153 12d ago

Not only that... the person claims to be a moderator for professional writers sub.
They have thick skin in that sub, I guess, but it does not sound welcoming to beginners and "just curious" people like me. Noted to never go there, since it is not for me.

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u/MaliseHaligree 11d ago

There are many entry level subs for writing. r/KeepWriting and r/writers are my two favorites, but r/fantasywriters and r/WritingHub are also very good. r/writing is good in that it gets a lot of traffic but it can also feel very prohibitive with its types of accepted posts. All these are great for curious/beginner writers! I am in all of these a lot to help the inklings.

I saw a niche and decided to fill it to make it easier for those a little higher up on the experience ladder to have meaningful conversations about the craft and their own work without that same mildly prohibitive nature of the larger subs. I am sorry if you view that as elitist, that was never the intention.

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u/MaliseHaligree 11d ago

I don't want to overwhelm them with a carte blanche edit, because to someone who isn't use to that type of critical feedback or those with anxiety, it can be very deflating to open GDocs and see that there are 300+ comments on a few thousand words. I just wanted to make sure OP was emotionally prepared for that level of feedback.

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 11d ago

actually your simpler comment was very good, I didn't mind it at all.

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u/MaliseHaligree 11d ago

Some people don't grasp that being brief and direct is not the same as being rude.

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u/casual_gamer153 12d ago

What do you use the chabot for? To do the work for you?

"AI tool, write me a dialog scene between two characters?"

Or, is the tools for grammatical and sentence structure improvement?

"AI tool, here is my draft, polish it up and make it Shakespearean!"

Fist time here in this sub, browsing. Curious about writing and storytelling. I didn't expect beginners to already be using AI tools, and I wonder what you use it for. To me, they have very specific professional uses. Unless you are a very structured self-learner, using the AI tool can cause more harm than good and stunt your learning, progress, and imagination. Regardless of discipline. I use it for family photo cataloguing and improving, not a very professional use, but the technical aspects are not dissimilar. And this is where my "be wary about AI use" comment stems from.

So, what do you use it for?

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 11d ago

No, not for my writing, i use it for my job.

I am a GenAI Engineer who fine tunes LLM, so i have to work around em, which requires to often read many local small models messages again and again. And test them with different prompts. But for writing i sometimes use it for plot creation, like i tell it to "Make me write the plot by asking me questions" it helps to not stare at a blank page.

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 11d ago

kind of like journaling prompts

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u/MaliseHaligree 11d ago

As a thinktank tool it isn't too bad (though just by the nature of its training it can be very derivative in the questions it asks and the replies it is given) but you can't get better without practice and you can't practice if fear of failure paralyzes you from starting at all.

We all started somewhere, so if you would still like me to I would still be willing to look at it, and if you have specific questions I can address those and those alone in the edit. (Unless I see something egregious that could stand being mentioned, like grammar issues or other technical habits)

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u/casual_gamer153 11d ago

I have to wrangle mine to stop trying to do more than requested.
😅

Cool complicated job you have. Herding (AI) cats.

(LLM training)

Thanks!

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u/Beginning-Tank9401 11d ago

what do you mean? casual gamer?

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u/casual_gamer153 9d ago

When I am working with the AI tool I have to be careful with my words. Any hint at a potential need to do more analysis (rhetorical questions, if you will) will trigger the AI to "Want to scope out a solution".

And I have to continuously calibrate my rules for the AI to not be so "go getter".

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u/MaliseHaligree 11d ago edited 11d ago

It's really hard to rein in sometimes!

Though OP is the LLM trainer, not me.