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Tom Beck
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What's the most interesting way to publish fiction these days? 🤔 Is it still just magazines and paper books? Any ideas?
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Tokenized Human
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How are you defining interesting?
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Tom Beck
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It's new and "fresh." Some ideas: it leverages new technologies, it resituates the relationship between reader and writer, it unlocks new monetization strategies, it creates new genres (or breathes life into stagnant ones). Stuff like that.
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Tokenized Human
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Thanks for clarifying. Not sure if there is any progress at all in that area but I'd definitely like to see some. It's one industry that hasn't really seen much change over the last twenty years or so since ebooks became a thing. I expect whatever it is will eventually be AI driven to the extent that the traditional writer is left out of the equation completely, to be replaced be a prompt driven AI service where the consumer has content essentially tailored to their own specification. For something word driven and different on here, but not exactly what you may be looking for, but interesting nonetheless, have a look at @anky
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Tom Beck
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I agree that AI will change the game. But I see it replacing rote genre fiction of the kind that fills Wattpad. That fiction is already wish fulfillment anyway and more efficiently served by AI-agents. “Write me a billionaire romance but set in my hometown of Boise.” Just check out this page on Wattpad. It already looks like prompt engineering! https://creators.wattpad.com/writing-resources/wattpad-tropes-and-verticals/top-genres-to-write-now-on-wattpad/
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Tokenized Human
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That's all genre fiction really. All if it's wish fulfilment. I see AI writing working as a sort of recommendation engine but at that stage I doubt people will consume fiction in the same way. It's much more likely to be audio or visually driven.
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Tom Beck
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Yeah, genre fiction driven is by the novel to movie pipeline. It’s end-form is audio-visual and the written version a “proof-of-concept” that decides what’s worth investing in. But there’s a type of thinking that thinks best in fiction (Shakespeare had it, Tolstoy had it) and is immune to AI but also “under-served” currently. As you said in your other cast, it may be that these thinkers are tech-averse, but I don’t know if that’s true…
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