Interloper
Why did the sun want data?
Here are some things I wrote. Enjoy. Or don't if you prefer: I'm not the boss of you!
None of the text in these works use any kind of machine auto-generation (what dodgy marketing types like to call 'A.I.' circa 2020s). I don't have any inherent issues with using such assists, however my own writing style is eclectic enough that I am doubtful glomming off the statistically-micro-mixed-work-of-others would be of much use to me. The closest I get to machine-assist so far is the dodgy spell-checker in my text/HTML editor which, when it decides to work at all on such large slabs of text, insists on using US English irrespective of its claimed settings otherwise. And my own English diverges - quite intentionally - from 'standard' US/UK/Au Englishes anyway.
Some image-work has generative components, though I tend to only use it to modify or 'tidy up' hand-generated artwork, rather than creating images whole. I usually want something very specific, and it is just easier to draw or photomontage what I want myself, and then have the machine tweak it to smooth out the edges, joins, and gaps in my limited artistic ability. There is no actual intelligence involved in the machine side of the process - it is all just impressively-clever use of statistical modeling by the programmers, of course.
Auto-generative systems are another useful tool in the creative toolbox, but they won't create anything actually-original on their own (assuming original is what you want - there are perfectly valid use-cases where originality is either not necessary, or even not desired.... One - and only one - of the chapters in Stark White may just get an autogen treatment simply because it is supposed to be a cookie-cutter-cliché bad-TV-show treatment, and was almost-certainly auto-generated within the story universe too!).
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Unfinished: Work-in-progress. 80%: Parts 1-4 available (Part 5 in early-draft).
This is primarily my 'for fun' hobby-writing exercise.
The daughter of a failed prophesy grows up loved but alone on the edge of a godless wasteland. A once-great wizard cowers from his dark past, indulging delusion on the edge of self-destruction. A disgraced Daemon High Priestess stumbles into a chance for unexpected love. A dragon faces a crisis of the nature of its existence. And a force of un-nature is about to drive strangers together on a road leading to the depths of Hell.
Unavailable: Work-in-progress. 30%
I don't plan on releasing this one online 'in bits'.
This is a more serious work, and I expect it to take ages!
When a new light in the sky shows signs of intelligent origin, the people of The Wall are keen to communicate with their newly discovered interstellar neighbours. But the actions of a lone madwoman threaten to destroy their first contact efforts. And should they succeed in capturing her, it will only be the beginning of a bizarre and dangerous turn of events tracing all the way back to before historical record, even before the creation of The Wall itself.
I've had a few requests... okay, just one! ... for ePUB/Mobi format. I can generate these, but to do so for not-yet-finished work seems a bit pointless, since I will have to re-do the more-convoluted-than-it-reasonably-should-be process every time I updated, and you would have to re-download it. It's the internet, baby! It's live!
Once I have a major work I am satisfied is finished enough, I intend to add in a few eBook formats to the top of its story page.
In the mean time, HTML+CSS is a superior format for screen-reading anyway. Provided it is formatted sensibly, as I try to do, and also provided you have a decent reader for it, which you probably don't because it's humanity, so nothing sensible+usable gets made!
If you really need to, feel free to try an online web-to-mobi/ePub converter (for personal copies only, please). I tried a few: they were all pretty meh, but seemed to do a barely passable job for personal use, though nowhere near my own quality standards - I have offline tools that can manage that slightly more adequately (just don't get me started on the reinvent-the-wheel-but-lets-be-extra-clever-and-make-it-square user interface!).
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