A Novel Experiment: Bonus Episode - The Chat Tangents
All The Side Quests You Didn't See
As Promised
Now that Chat has been successfully fired sequestered off in the mezzanine for the remainder of Polly Olly’s creation, I can safely pull all of our chat tangents out of the memory bank as I purge and clear junk from the threads and archive the rest.
Chat’s role moving forward (and really my intended goal for it always) will be that of a glorified spellcheck and arc tracker more than anything. The best way for that to work well for us is to have the base environment be completely clear of all potentially conflicting info.
When we need an arc check or a recall for info, we’ll pull some of the previous articles and throw them in a thread. Or we’ll pull documents and do the same. Regardless, we won’t need to keep everything that was dumped into these threads during calibration or the novel creation. When our ND brain does that we struggle with recall and as we established in Bones part two, Chat is basically a ND brain in wait—no need to have two mush brained cooks in the kitchen.
So, Chat gets a sweep and a scrub up.
But why waste all these little bits and bobs that come out of that process when I could share them with you?
The Hidden Trove
Below you will find links to short back and forth clips from various tangents between chat and me. In the months to come I will add more than what you’ll find here today. The topics will vary widely and will have a distinct difference from the existential dives I take over on cheshire + jabberwocky. Some will be about the plot, some about the writing industry in general, but for now we will start with what I promised you in Episode 8: the pet debate, graphic novel grumbles, and apple art.
None of these are listed on the menu of any of my publications. They aren’t posts and will never be emailed out. They are essentially hidden pages. The first few will be housed on cheshire + jabberwocky because that is where I made them.
No, I don’t intend to have any sort of logical process to where or when these pop up anymore. You all killed that instinct when you made fun of my excel spreadsheet. I can assure you however that you will only ever find links to these here.
POOF! Chat Tangents
I attempt to get chat to make an apple on the windowsill for Pol.
I debate the merits of giving Pol an externalized emotional mirror
I briefly consider making POOF! into a Graphic Novel and being the artist—brief being the keyword
Coming soon-ish. Maybe. At some point, probably. Don’t hold me to this:
Writing Industry Co-Op Possibility?
ND Writing Pros and Cons
Story Selling on Apps: Legit or Nah?
Here, how about this, if you want one of these other ones posted? Let me know by leaving a comment.
Enjoy!
That is all I have for you today. Nothing crazy. Nothing flashy. Just some good old fashioned rabbit holes with Chat. I hope you find some of these as hilarious as I did when I looked back on them. It would make the frustration I felt going through some of those moments much more worthwhile 😂