Standardized Units of Writing and Generation

I would like it if I could construct A SINGLE paragraph.

I work according to a specific heuristic. A standardized page is 250 words; this means that a standardized page is a few paragraphs. There is a certain value in multi-paragraph generation, but I think that I’d get significantly better results if I could concentrate the storybible and the LLM’s attention into per-paragraph or per-page construction, and in the long run, it would be very powerful to be able to selectively disable parts of the storybible per paragraph, and similarly, it would be very powerful to be able to selectively enable parts of the storybible including some which don’t effect text generation (style, genre, and so on).

I’ve tried using the outline and draft systems, and sometimes they work well—particularly when the document is relatively new, the storybible is lightweight and tightly focused particularly on cliches and tropes and typical norms of narratives and things over-represented in the LLM training data. But generally, I struggle to get them to work at all. The LLMs are very bad at successfully generating per-scene or beats or whatever we want to call the subdivisions from an arbitrary outline or prompt. When they get it in the format that they need it in, it is very effective, but most of the time they just end up condensing everything into one giant chunk of prose and complain about it not being correctly delineated.

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Status

Proposed

Board

💡 Feature Request

Date

About 6 hours ago

Author

Ian Mclean

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