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A lot of people use LLMs for fiction & role playing. Do you know of a place where some of these interactions are shared? The only ones I've found so far are, well, over-the-top sexual in nature.

And I'm just kind of interested _how_ other people are doing all of this interactive fiction stuff.

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Sure. Here is the fanfiction book I've been using LLMs to help me write. Helps a lot with improving prose and identifying plot holes. It's much better then a rubber duck for talking out how to improve a chapter and write plausible story arcs. It's not great at word smithing, but I find it errs on the side of too many similies and metaphors, so I just delete some of them as I copy the suggestions over into my draft.

https://github.com/frypatch/The-Price-of-Remembering

(I'm looking at the paragraph after FORWARD.) You should cut down on the sentences with commas. The flow stops and starts way too often.

Thank you for your feedback. I've rewritten the "Forward" to apply your suggestions and will keep them in mind when writing and improving chapters in the future.

I have some science-fiction story ideas I'd love to flesh out. However, it turns out that I'm a terrible writer, despite some practice at it. Also, I can never be surprised by my own writing, or entertained by it in the same way that someone else's writing can.

I've tried taking my vague story ideas, throwing them at an AI, and getting half a chapter out to see how it tracks.

Unfortunately, few if any models can write prose as good as a skilled human author, so I'm still waiting to see if a future model can output customised stories on demand that I'd actually enjoy.

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