Writing and AI
Alphabetical Diaries ’ organizational logic presents a rendering of contemporary life that appears asynchronous, atemporal, and acausal because of its departure from the paradigmatic engine that tends to drive narrative movement: time.
Conor Truax • Against Autofiction: Two Paths for the Internet Novel | Spike Art Magazine
In emergent storytelling systems, authorship is distributed. The designer or writer creates a system of possibilities and symbols rather than a fixed sequence. Then the player’s presence and choices in that system bring about specific story moments. Researcher Hartmut Koenitz, for instance, argues that interactive digital narratives demand new anal
... See moreSome researchers even speak of “mythic cognition” in AI – using archetypal narratives as a framework for AI-generated storiesincreasinglyunclear.medium.comdegruyterbrill.com. While that’s nascent, it points to a fusion of the oldest storytelling with the newest technology. Importantly, this union can help in creating stories that feel meaningful
... See more. Large Models are surprisingly effective at abstracting subtle and nonobvious patterns in texts and images. This suggests that such technologies could be used to find novel patterns in text and images that crisscross the space of human knowledge and culture, including patterns invisible to any particular human. We may require new systems that dive... See more
April 2025 Articles
Large AI Models are Cultural and Social Technologies Henry Farrell 3.13.2025
pattern recognition
I realized I wasn't just using AI as a tool—I was using it as a therapist, a coach, a mirror that reflected back patterns I couldn't see myself.
My real breakthrough came with what I call my "Daily 5"—five minutes each day where I stream-of-consciousness dump whatever's churning in my mind into a conversation with an AI. At first, it felt performati... See more
My real breakthrough came with what I call my "Daily 5"—five minutes each day where I stream-of-consciousness dump whatever's churning in my mind into a conversation with an AI. At first, it felt performati... See more
Zettels July 2025
pattern recognition
Case in point: My best LLM-assisted short story is a straight-up transposition of an H. P. Lovecraft story to a different key. This is basically like buying into the S&P 500 of 20th century fiction. It is also among my best stories, period. For me, beating the S&P 500 of fiction is going to be hard. Doing passive++ investing in it is going ... See more
A Random Walk Down Meme Street
A Random Walk Down Meme Street: Living in cultural index-fund Mary Sue civilizations Venkatesh Rao May 01, 2025
textual and video extended universes
Last week, in Protocolized, I published a story called The Signal Under Innsmouth.
This has been my best attempt at AI-assisted fiction writing to date, and also one of the easiest. I simply fed the original story (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a cult classic which Lovecraft wrote in 1937, so it’s in the public domain — not that I’d have hesitated if i... See more
This has been my best attempt at AI-assisted fiction writing to date, and also one of the easiest. I simply fed the original story (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a cult classic which Lovecraft wrote in 1937, so it’s in the public domain — not that I’d have hesitated if i... See more
April 2025 Articles
The Ecstasy of Deep Influence Venkatesh Rao 4.15.2025
I’ve begun experimenting with creating this ‘writers’ room’ in an app I’m building. The app does two things. First, it hierarchically summarizes large creative works so that the AI has context without being overwhelmed. This is equivalent to how you and I have a ‘picture’ of a novel in our head, and use that context to focus on how to re-write a gi... See more
Articles to Print Out May 2025
To Write Well with AI, Write Against It Kyle Munkittrick 5.13.2025
I Replaced My $700/Hour Coach with NotebookLM – Here’s What Happened Tiago Forte 4.29.2025
Notebook LM and load up 40 separate
documents containing almost 150,000
words which is everything that I have
and everything that I know about how I
work inside
The Sources
Private notes your personal private notes are
really one of the best sources most
people don't... See more
Notebook LM and load up 40 separate
documents containing almost 150,000
words which is everything that I have
and everything that I know about how I
work inside
The Sources
Private notes your personal private notes are
really one of the best sources most
people don't... See more