How to Write a Fiction Story with AI

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Hey, what’s going on everyone, Darby here. I just want to show you around this new tool from Conversion AI, a template that I just came out with called Creative Story. It’s something that’s been asked about a lot in the community, and so I want to walk you through how I’ve been playing around with this for the last few days and how I’m using it to write stories in a lot of senses - emails, blog posts, but also in the sense of writing a fiction story, for example.

So let’s take an example and just go off the top. Let’s say I wanted to write a fake romance novel, or short story in general. Basically what I’m doing is putting the inputs into the plot side: “Donnie was drumming when he met Ray.” I’ll put the tone of voice as romance, have it set to one output, and click generate.

This is very open-ended on the plot side of things, but I want to see what it’s going to spit out, because what they were basically doing was having the AI learn from fiction writers, downloading a lot of different fiction stories across different genres. So this is the first output it gives me for this plot line: “Donnie was in the middle of his daily drumming practice when he met Ray. He had been at it for an hour and a half before she showed up, but he didn’t stop to greet her because he wanted this part down as well as possible. The first time they saw each other, she lost this on her phone.”

That’s good enough for me to start with. So what I want to do is take the tail end of this and write it into the plot to continue the story. Let’s take this and move over until we finally… this might be too much, it might not, but I want to let the plot continue. Obviously there’s editing that needs to go into this, but this is just building it on the fly.

The plot: “Hey, you’re a drummer, right?” Ray looked up from her phone to see the voice she had been avoiding for weeks. “Wow,” he continued, “what did you now, I just wanted a battle of the bands,” and she managed one word before, “you were there.” He nodded with an enthusiastic smile and said, “Yeah, I’m glad you got first place because I knew you all deserved it.”

I’m going to copy this and continue it: “He… until he asked if she wanted…” I’ll put that down here. “They kept walking back down it with every intention of seeing him again until…” okay, so “you were there, he nodded with an enthusiastic smile on his face, yeah, I’m glad you got at first place because we all deserved it.”

So thinking about what the next conversation might be if I’m walking down this: “Hey, I’m gonna find your name, you want to start a band with me.” A smile curled the side of Don’s lips - remember this is the romance tone of voice, so taking a romance novel or romance story approach. I’m wondering if you want to start it there. “Was not expecting a question from…” I already know that somebody one time when you were younger, “but now you’re so much an…” she looked down to see her expression of him.

I want to copy this now. Okay, cool, so now we’re continuing down the line. We’re out with the story again, you’re trying to write daily drumming practice, you’re ready. How might I want to continue this story, or at least what direction do I want the AI to go? So: “I’m glad,” he smiled and quirked, “I’m just wondering if you want to start a band with me,” it’s always just blowing, enticing. Ray blushed, not expecting the question, “from… they were younger, she was cute and too much an… for liking, she looked to see your expression, answer, no thanks, right? Yes, she…” liked him because he was a drummer.

Okay, the plot thickens. Ray has a crush on the drummer of her favorite band, but he never noticed her. Ray shines - one of the members in front of everyone playing an offbeat rhythm, Ray finally had enough, misconstrued punching Josh and called him out. She’s walking in six minutes, being… she passed by with a look on his face that resembled shock mixed with the noise. He turned slowly, asking if she didn’t like him.

Okay, cool, and as you can see, I can continue this pseudo romance story. I’m going to do it, but now it’s at the point where I’ve got a few paragraphs of the story going. Maybe I’ve got a sense of how the rest of the story is going to continue, and then I can just keep playing with it there. I’d probably want to open up a Google Doc right now and copy this over, and then just keep the story going. But that’s a little bit of how I’ve been playing around with the plot - taking the inputs, creating the outputs, and combining them to keep the story progressing along.

I think they make some pretty interesting stories, or some interesting angles here - like if you wanted to write an ebook using this, a different plot twist and a series of ebooks for romance books, or if you wanted to write a short story that was a different tone of voice, maybe designed to show how a product is used, or a different fiction example. There are a lot of ways to use this, and I’m super excited to see how this tool continues to develop and what other people come up with on how to use it in their workflow.

If it looks interesting to you, make sure that if you’re not already signed up with Conversion AI, you check it out, play around with it, and let me know what kind of stories you come up with. Curious to see what you got.