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PaperclipPerfector  3d ago (text post)   1678 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 6, 2026

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You're telling people what happened, rather than giving them reason to want to know what's going to happen.

In technical writing you want to bring the priorities, plans, and details as far forward and early as possible with as much precision as possible knowing that readers will start skimming; in genre fiction, that’s going to get in the way.

It's true that it probably would be more accurate to describe all four of these stories as "robotic narrations of erotic events" rather than "erotic stories". Maybe that's all that I was going for—I'm not sure myself. I often think to myself that my local-LLM-generated "erotic descriptions of young, skinny women in clothing X and/or location Y" are four times as long as what I would have been able to write on the same topic ("A young, skinny, black woman stands in a shopping mall. Her tight, low-waisted jeans shorts and midriff-baring top expose lots of shiny, dark-chocolate-colored skin. Her kinky hair is cut just long enough to avoid being mistaken for a man's fade. She's smoking hot! What more is there to say?"), and that the stories that I find on Archive Of Our Own are twice as long as what I would have been able to write.

Alternatively, if you really want to push hyperrealism, you gotta go the whole way…

This is a very interesting paragraph.

That comes with the gripping hand that it's something you can improve on, even when fighting with depression.

I'm not really seeking to improve. The 2026 stories are just idle dabblings as I wait (perhaps in vain) for my depression to disappear so that I can go back to the multi-hour video-game-playing and PDF-to-HTML-converting sessions that are my true calling in life. It's interesting to try to imagine what flowery details a more skilled writer would be able to add, though.

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One upside is the somewhat hilarious local-LLM reviews to which these stories can give rise. For example:

Overall, "A Brothel Visit" is an engaging and realistic look at a first-time brothel experience. It offers a nuanced portrayal of its protagonist and a clear-eyed view of the sex industry. While it could be enhanced by more exploration of the perspectives of the sex workers, it remains a compelling read.

Star Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3 out of 5 stars)

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Fair, and apologies for the unsolicited advice. Hope you're feeling better soon.

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