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Using AI text completion tools like OpenAI’s GPT-3 for idea generation and plot/character inspiration

Tristan Wolff
5 min readDec 6, 2022

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Goodbye Writer’s Block!

Thanks to AI generation of images and text, we’re always just one prompt away from a new list of ideas to help us find a creative solution to problems we may have been stuck on for days!

There are plenty of AI text-generation tools out there but none of them will just magically create stories for you. In addition, most of them are designed to create copy & marketing content, which always makes their fictional stories rather basic, repetitive, sometimes contradicting, and most importantly: they are lacking YOUR style!

When it comes to AI text generation, using @OpenAI’s GPT-3 as a tool for idea generation is much more effective. GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer) works by predicting the next word in a given sequence, allowing it to generate coherent texts. That way you can create

  • loglines to inspire your writing
  • basic story arcs and twists
  • basic character types
  • outlines of story structure & dramaturgy
  • character ensembles

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Tristan Wolff
Tristan Wolff

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