Will it have a really long title?

>>120420
that was the title

They're called YA novels in the west and probably sure I'll take a look at it

>>120421
heheh

Good luck, OP!
I can try reading it, but I'm terrible at starting and committing to things.

What genre? What length are you going for? Do you have fun writing? (this part seems important)

How much of the writing will you leave to chatGPT and her sisters?

If you want to work in English in the meantime I'd suggest looking into editor and teaching jobs. I dont know how much longer this will be a viable career choice with LLM AI though.

>>120418
Ganbare yo!
Remember to enjoy your writing and not make into a chore.

>>120432
AI is only a tool, the people who solely rely on it to write out their projects aren't going to make it. Honestly its good for bouncing ideas and trying to workshop without having to interact with another human being.

I'd try to read it but I make no promises because I struggle with books that don't have pictures or audio to keep my attention.

>>120439
Make your own audio book using TTS.

>>120432
>I dont know how much longer this will be a viable career choice with LLM AI though.
People are greatly overestimating the power of LLM stuff. It's not going to write a coherent novel when it struggles to remember what it said a few paragraphs ago and hallucinates things. And even if this is fixed with gargantuan context windows (which would cost like $20-500 per prompt attempt) human ingenuity will reach far greater peaks than chatbots. Many people can already identify chatGPTisms since it likes to repeat certain phrases and the like. Books are also interesting because they are specifically the work of one individual and painted by their life experience which gives each of them a unique feel. After you spend a certain amount of time with chatbots you'll start to become disillusioned with its staleness.
Anyway, yeah, people should definitely keep writing.

>>120448
>(which would cost like $20-500 per prompt attempt)
I assume that a specialized novel-writing AI would fill out and pull from an internal excel table with hundreds of thousands of entries, the vast majority of which would regulate which segments would be relevant to the current chapter under what conditions.

>>120448
It helps me get through the punishment of writing a first draft.

>>120450
the problem with that is you're gonna have to rewrite it entirely to make your first draft as a coherent thing

>>120430
>Genre
It will has magical girls
>Length?
Unsure. I planned on writing a smallish first book and then hopefully many more after depending on how I feel. If I lose interest I'll write something else
>Do you enjoy writing?
Far too much. But I've mostly focused on non-fiction/documentary stuff for most of my life. Which has gotten me in a lot of trouble because people don't like hearing the truth and I'm great with backing up my writings with sources and research. So I thought switching focus to fiction might be better for my health going forward.

I've got a lot of stories I've kept to myself over the years that would make for good fiction. I mostly don't share them with people IRL or on the internet because I don't like to attach my name to stuff like that. So I plan to take a pen name.

The best part is if I can't find someone to publish it I can do the actual making the book part myself. Since I still have enough equipment laying around from back when my family ran a printing shop.

Looking around the average LN is much shorter than most of the non-fiction stuff I've written. So it may turn into a novel. I'm hopeful someone may enjoy it enough to read it instead of putting it down after a couple of pages.

>>120432
I don't really care about money. I only need like $400 a month to eat and pay my bills.

It would be nice to have enough cash on hand to commission some art work for it though.

Right now my plan it to keep self-insert as minor background character for at least the first couple of books then slowly introduce it. I would avoid it all together but it's kind of hard not to have a self-insert. Since fiction comes from imagination. I plan to write down a story I've been mulling over in my mind for the last 15-20 years.

Thanks for words of encouragement.

I've been trying to write too.
I started 2 years ago. I am now at 40k words (estimated 10% of full story). I know where the story would go if I just got to writing it, but somehow, the words just refuse to flow.

>>120456
Yeah, fiction would definitely be far more fun and good for your well-being. I think the deal with your "people don't like hearing the truth" comment is probably the way things are said.
Actually planning on a physical release? That's pretty crazy. I mean, it's good, but crazy that you have the capability of doing it. I enjoyed writing as a teenager, but a lot of it faded away over the years. I can still enjoy writing longer posts on imageboards and stuff, but sitting down to write something without outside input is just not something I do much of any more. People with the patience to write books are pretty amazing.
Well, I guess designing AI characters and scenarios/etc kind of counts in a way, but not really. I bet some people have picked up writing because of this AI stuff the way some people have picked up drawing because of SD and Dalle.

>I don't really care about money. I only need like $400 a month to eat and pay my bills.
I can relate to this a bit, although some luxuries now and then are nice.

I feel for and support you. I've also got a project that I determined to have at least some demo functionality for by the end of this year, but it's three months into the year and all I have are basically the beginnings of a design with scattered writings and dialogue, but still no work into code or art/music assets. I hope to get more done when the semester is over, but I'll be working a job then. Probably need someone to tell me no and reign in ambitions, and maybe with cash I can pay for some help. At the very least I want to get something out the door with best kitsune at some point.

>>120663
>At the very least I want to get something out the door with best kitsune at some point.
Just be careful with what you intend to do with with that. Many people seem to be under the impression that Touhou is managed differently to any other IP, it's not. If you try to sell a game using ZUN's IP and you don't have his permission they will come after you, if they find out and if you are not Chinese that is.

>>120664
I am aware. I read the rules on how they want fanworks to be and don't have much intention on selling it. If it turns out to be something substantial in the end and is something people would buy I'll go through proper channels like the anon who made Udongein X and Artificial Dream in Arcadia.

asahi is cute

>>121492
I agree!

>>120418
OP if you're still around, I hope your writing adventure is going well. I promise to read your cute magical girls book if/when you finish it.

>>135926
Thread getting bumped is kind of depressing. Since other stuff took so much of my time this year that I haven't gotten anything down yet. I have managed to flesh out the story some more. I have a BIG BAD, I have an MC, I have most of the world fleshed out. I just haven't figured out how I'm going to get from the initial introduction of the first MC to the second real MC.

I'm going to set-up a dedicated emacs machine for writing so I'm not so sidetracked with software projects and try to focus more on this after the holidays. Since every time I got started on this over the last months I'd get side tracked working on my various software projects or video projects. Video stuff ate up A LOT of my time over the summer. Far more than I expected since I ended up working on three shows I never planned to. It got so busy I didn't even finish the one video project I planned on doing this year on time.

>>135926
I spent the last two months writing. I'm getting close to having something worth sending out to people willing to read it. Just wanted to thank you for getting me off my ass and finishing it.

Right now the first book looks like it'll be about 80,000-100,000 words. There are two more planned. But I'm not sure if I'll finish the story in the third or keep going. Depends on how I feel when I get there. The second novel will be about a side character that's important to the story. The first revolves around the MC.

>>144710
That's around a full novel's length. Can't wait to read it.

>>144713
I'm really worried about not using the best word choices in some places and run-ons/general errors. So I'd appreciate all the feedback I can get to improve it before I attempt releasing it outside of here. I'd also really really like to get someone that can draw well on board. As I'd like to include at least a few pictures of certain characters and/or scenes.

I've been reading a lot of LNs recently. They all look like they don't use a lot of complicated language and some things I thought were really important might not be that important. I was surprised how simple some of them are but I suppose that's because they're aimed at younger readers.

I'm also really worried some of my choices my come off as retarded. I can't write it in kana/kanji because frankly I'm not good enough. But to convey certain things due to its setting I've used some Japanese phrases. I tried to keep it toned down but some things simply can't be conveyed well in English. At least I haven't figured out how to do it yet.

I ended up dedicating a laptop to this only. I set-up emacs and spent many hours reading epubs and writing. I just keep it beside my couch and write as much as possible. I've woken up in the middle of the night to jot down ideas in org-mode. Best thing I ever did. Since there aren't a bunch of distractions on it. Just emacs and the OS which is fairly simple OS.

>>144710
>about 80,000-100,000 words
Wow! That's impressive. Did you enjoy writing it?

>>144721
I enjoy writing in general and for whatever reason I've always been a natural typist. I didn't find it that hard because a lot of it was things I've had floating around in my head for years. I don't know how normal this is but I've always had these worlds in my heads filled with characters with unique back stories and of course ones I've self inserted myself into. I do a lot of day dreaming in general. Sometimes I just sit around for hours lost in it without realizing it. So jotting things down has been kind of fun. But I've always kept such things to myself so I'm not sure if other people will find such stories as entertaining as I do.

My hope is when I die maybe I'll go to one of those places. Since they're pretty happy places in general. Well happy compared to where I find myself now. I don't really like this place, this planet, this "realm" this universe or whatever you choose to call it. I feel like I was put here to suffer for some reason and I often wonder if we're all in some kind of prison.

>>144725
>I enjoy writing in general and for whatever reason I've always been a natural typist
Yeah, I feel the same way. Writing can be a very enjoyable and even therapeutic experience. I can also relate to the latter part of the post, but I think the ability to create other worlds in our heads (and to share them) greatly helps with that. I'd compare it to being a doctor or therapist, as like music it soothes and heals the spirit.

>>144710
oh is that where you went
i thought a fox ate you

>>120418
Sounds epic, awesome, I love it, BUT actually change ALL of your plans and write a quest on here for us to participate in.
Okay? Good. Thanks. Knew we could count on you.

>>144868
I think the Japanese call this "power harassment..."