Nicolas Cole explains why AI-generated fiction usually disappoints: vague prompts leave the story's middle undefined. He recommends breaking your story into a five-act structure first, then prompting the AI with concrete guidance for each section.
I think part of the reason why AI has not been super great or super well received in the world of storytelling and fiction writing is because a lot of the prompting is really just, here's what my story is about, write me the story. That's why it doesn't work, because you're making all of this middle so ambiguous for AI. Now, someone who's moderately proficient might go, and this is what I tried to do for a while, they might go, all right, here's my whole story. Let's break it down into 5 acts. Now write it.
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