A Critical Dragon | "You should never open a story with a dream sequence" - Why? @ACriticalDragon | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
A lot of writing advice is given in the form of 'rules', and they tend to be restrictive as well as prescriptive. They also tend to be short. Afterall, they are the final synopsis of much more complicated concepts and rationales.
Narrative theory (amongst others) gives us an understanding of what the rule is commenting on, why it was established, and can help give us ideas about how to circumvent the rule, because rules in writing are always governed by, and responding to, effects created, impacts on readers, and the context in which the writing is being deployed.
So this is a short video about the rule 'Never open a story with a dream sequence' and one way of thinking about it to understand the 'why' the rule exists, how it applies to more than dreams, and some minor suggestions about the context and theory behind the rule.
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A lot of writing advice is given in the form of 'rules', and they tend to be restrictive as well as prescriptive. They also tend to be short. Afterall, they are the final synopsis of much more complicated concepts and rationales.
Narrative theory (amongst others) gives us an understanding of what the rule is commenting on, why it was established, and can help give us ideas about how to circumvent the rule, because rules in writing are always governed by, and responding to, effects created, impacts on readers, and the context in which the writing is being deployed.
So this is a short video about the rule 'Never open a story with a dream sequence' and one way of thinking about it to understand the 'why' the rule exists, how it applies to more than dreams, and some minor suggestions about the context and theory behind the rule.
If you would like to buy me a coffee or a book, Support me on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/criticaldragon
Intro and Music by Professor Trip.
![Is Chat GPT a good editor [should I be worried]? Will AI editors replace people like me?](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QktobgHRu9A/hqdefault.jpg "Is Chat GPT a good editor [should I be worried]? Will AI editors replace people like me?
A lot is being said about Chat GPT replacing authors, but from the various outputs I have seen I am really not convinced that it will any time in the near future. However, could AI replace editors?
These Large Language Models and AI assistants already auto-correct, flag grammar and spelling errors, and suggest new phrasings, so can they replace editors?
In this video I took three very short samples from some authors work and asked Chat GPT Can you edit the following passage?.
Here are the results.
I am not really concerned if the AI is good at editing, what I am interested in is what it is doing, how it approaches it, and if it can be a useful tool for creative writing. Is it really a timesaving device? Will it actually replace human authors and editors, or do we still need humans intimately involved in the process?
As a point of clarity, I didnt tell the programme if it had done a good job or a bad job as I dont wish to help train something that various industries are seeing as a way to cut human artists, authors, and skilled professionals out of the workplace. But I was surprised at what it did.
The original chat I had with @PhilipChaseTheBestofFantasy can be found here: https://youtu.be/5vVEtWBplVk
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