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by Retric 1434 days ago
Modern word processors haven’t suddenly and dramatically increased the number of great books available. They save a lot of time and effort relative to a typewriter, but such drudgery isn’t the bottleneck on creativity that you’re suggesting.
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I know a lot of writers who are very good at creating an outline and describing what's going on but poor at actually sitting down and getting words on paper for any extended period of time. These same people can read and critique/edit/etc endlessly. I think it's a fairly common problem because block is the number one topic in most forums for writers. Having a tool that takes an outline and generates a rough draft of a chapter that can be iterated on would make a huge difference for the non-Stephen Kings among us.
This is a great use case and in fact I would pay for this service. Sitting and barfing up text can be fun when I'm inspired, but I'm frequently not inspired but would still like to make progress on my stories.
It’s cheap to pay someone to create a rough draft from an outline, no need for AI. However, doing so isn’t very helpful.