Hacker News with Generative AI: Storytelling

How to Write a Novel Using the Snowflake Method (advancedfictionwriting.com)
Writing a novel is easy. Writing a good novel is hard. That’s just life. If it were easy, we’d all be writing best-selling, prize-winning fiction.
Writing, Novel Writing, Storytelling, Creative Writing, Fiction
5 points by Tomte 2 days ago | 1 comments
A Story About Jessica (2014) (harihareswara.net)
The cybersecurity expert SwiftOnSecurity, a decade ago, wrote a parable called "A Story About Jessica" and posted it to their (now-deleted) Tumblr blog. I found it moving and insightful. The consultancy Superbloom pointed to it as one of several "security-focused resources for building empathy".
Cybersecurity, Storytelling, Empathy
10 points by colejohnson66 4 days ago | 2 comments
Dev Therapy, part 4: Tending the narrative gardens (melatonin.dev)
tl;dr When working alone on a big project, deciding what stories you tell yourself makes all the difference.
Software Development, Mental Health, Storytelling
5 points by sudara 6 days ago | 0 comments
Our narrative prison (aeon.co)
How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot?
Media, Storytelling, Culture, Society, Philosophy
184 points by anarbadalov 9 days ago | 143 comments
There Is a Monster in the Forest (bsky.app)
Horror, Fiction, Storytelling
8 points by kentbrew 11 days ago | 1 comments
DuoBook: Generate bilingual stories to learn any language (duobook.co)
Language Learning, Storytelling, Generative AI, Software
95 points by celltalk 19 days ago | 79 comments
Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director - Chapter 3 (substack.com)
Animation, Design, Storytelling
10 points by genderdoog 21 days ago | 1 comments
Clowning Around: On the Principles of Clowning (funnyhow.substack.com)
The most basic technique of the clown is to create and maintain rapport.
Comedy, Performance Art, Substack, Storytelling
37 points by NaOH 40 days ago | 13 comments
Show HN: I built an app to generate story relationships using Mermaidjs (github.com/herol3oy)
Austen is an AI-powered Angular application initialized with Analogjs to generate story relationships between book characters using Mermaidjs diagrams.
Show HN, Artificial Intelligence, Web Development, Storytelling, Visualization
144 points by herol3oy 44 days ago | 43 comments
Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece (mssv.net)
Blue Prince is a startlingly original puzzle game that marries compulsive roguelike mechanics with exceptional art and storytelling at an incredible scale.
Roguelike, Puzzle Games, Video Games, Storytelling
187 points by adrianhon 45 days ago | 115 comments
Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel (nareal.substack.com)
“In late May, I was sent across the ocean through an undersea cable to be delivered from the USA to India. It’s not like my life has much meaning, I exist as a bunch of bits, electronically defined and crafted, but physically, just a jitter of electric impulses. My developers certainly reminded me of that”
Kafka, Artificial Intelligence, Humor, Storytelling, Programming
10 points by iwatog 49 days ago | 6 comments
People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI, study says otherwise (theconversation.com)
People say they prefer a short story written by a human over one composed by artificial intelligence, yet most still invest the same amount of time and money reading both stories regardless of whether it is labeled as AI-generated.
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Storytelling, Research, Consumer Behavior
23 points by PaulHoule 57 days ago | 37 comments
Narrative and the Structure of Art (2023) (medium.com)
We are used to thinking of writing as having a narrative.
Art, Writing, Storytelling, Structure
33 points by bryanrasmussen 87 days ago | 6 comments
Keep Driving's perfectly annoying hitchhikers are a game-design master class (polygon.com)
This road-trip sim is a great storytelling system about a joyfully wasted youth
Video Games, Game Design, Storytelling
4 points by vasco 92 days ago | 0 comments
A luminous, brave, and unputdownable article about blurbs (countercraft.substack.com)
Blurbs. Can’t live with them, can’t live a luminous tour-de-force life of tender-hearted lyricism and soul-nourishing honesty without them.
Writing, Storytelling, Substack, Online Publishing
8 points by benbreen 109 days ago | 2 comments
How to Prepare Your Next RPG Campaign Instantly (rpgtabletops.com)
ANNOUNCING... A SECRET MESSAGE TO ALL GAME MASTERS...
Role-Playing Games, Gaming, Storytelling
5 points by doener 109 days ago | 1 comments
The Door Problem (2014) (lizengland.com)
"So what does a game designer do? Are you an artist? Do you design characters and write the story? Or no, wait, you’re a programmer?"
Game Design, Programming, Storytelling
28 points by bemmu 110 days ago | 5 comments
SCQA: What is it, how does it work, and how can it help me? (analytic-storytelling.com)
SCQA is a framework for structuring information. Using this framework, you can structure your message in a clear, attractive and narrative way. The SCQA framework is used in business, policy and science, among others.
Storytelling, Communication, Frameworks, Business, Policy
7 points by mooreds 112 days ago | 1 comments
Stories I Refuse to Believe (tedunangst.com)
The internet is filled with stories that purport to teach us a valuable lesson or something about how the world works, and they’re really important because they really happened.
Internet Culture, Storytelling, Truth
3 points by akkartik 121 days ago | 0 comments
Stories from the Internet (dbrgn.ch)
A collection of internet folklore.
Internet Culture, Folklore, Storytelling
53 points by ColinWright 131 days ago | 10 comments
Browser Adaptation (bradwoods.io)
Stories are often adapted from their original medium to a different one. An example of this is J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which began as a trilogy of books before being adapted to films by Peter Jackson. Due to its constant evolution, the web browser has emerged as a new medium for storytelling. This note explores the opportunity the browser offers.
Web Development, Storytelling, Browser Technology
15 points by surprisetalk 134 days ago | 1 comments
A Pixel Parable (olano.dev)
“How would you like to work on video games?”
Video Games, Game Development, Storytelling
160 points by facundo_olano 138 days ago | 19 comments
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (nickbostrom.com)
Once upon a time, the planet was tyrannized by a giant dragon.
Fantasy, Storytelling, Dragons
12 points by Levitating 146 days ago | 9 comments
The Christmas story of one tube station's 'Mind the Gap' voice (2019) (theguardian.com)
If you happen to find yourself at Embankment station on the London Underground, pay particular attention to the tannoy: the station’s “Mind the Gap” announcement is pronounced in rich, theatrical tones, a voice you won’t hear elsewhere on the network.
London Underground, Public Transportation, Audio, Storytelling, Culture
34 points by taubek 153 days ago | 4 comments
"Founder Mode" and the Art of Mythmaking (charity.wtf)
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse.
Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Opinion, Storytelling
30 points by gpi 156 days ago | 1 comments
Founder Mode and the Art of Mythmaking (charity.wtf)
I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse.
Marketing, Storytelling, Startups, Content Creation
6 points by komuW 156 days ago | 0 comments
Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden in plain sight (boydrinksink.com)
Eyes Wide Shut, more than any other movie, gave rise to my interest in cinema as a compelling storytelling medium.
Movies, Filmmaking, Storytelling
128 points by jim-jim-jim 162 days ago | 87 comments
How to Tell Great Stories (julian.com)
Is it possible to turn anyone into a storyteller as good as Neil deGrasse Tyson?
Storytelling, Writing, Communication
13 points by t55 171 days ago | 0 comments
Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit (fandom.com)
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.
Storytelling, Writing, Creative Writing
31 points by yagizdegirmenci 194 days ago | 25 comments
When machine learning tells the wrong story (jackcook.com)
In June 2022, three short weeks after my college graduation, I presented at ISCA, my first serious research conference.
Machine Learning, Research, Artificial Intelligence, Storytelling
305 points by jackcook 195 days ago | 29 comments