With no idea what the arc of the run/story will be, it’s really hard to plan for 3 acts, so maybe not so useful. But did want to leave another comment about scenes. With 4 scenes being about 50 steps, just as a reference, we can look at the number of scenes in a movie to figure each run could be 500 to 750 steps in total length. I just don’t see 1,000 steps as being anything other than an arbitrary dataset requirement. 250-300 steps as a playable run. 500 to 600 steps as a “movie length” representation. And then to double that?
The mental requirement to “film” a Lord of the Rings trilogy while also “filming” the behind the scenes of that filming and also “filming” the real-time documentary required to keep track of everything… while not being clear on how that extra “run time” translates into being better training data.
Is there going to be a “THIS” post, using sample work that you really like and “demanding” all other entries follow that exact format? How will variations in formatting be addressed? Does it need to be?
If you get something that checks all the right boxes, with one exception that leads to a rejection, I think we’d all like to know what that one must-have is.
Using scenes as a marker has some added benefit as I find myself leaving high level comments about some of the next scenes (I had nothing planned beyond the start, but the natural progression leads to speculation about future events or details). This is some of that looking ahead data that this project wanted to capture. Perhaps there should be a FUTURE keyword to wrap these things under? It would basically be a THOUGHT for world building ideas, but not specific to the current part of the story/narrative.
Anything that goes into writing or crafting needs to be captured in “real time” which means dumping it right in the middle of whatever you are doing.
With no idea what the arc of the run/story will be, it’s really hard to plan for 3 acts, so maybe not so useful. But did want to leave another comment about scenes. With 4 scenes being about 50 steps, just as a reference, we can look at the number of scenes in a movie to figure each run could be 500 to 750 steps in total length. I just don’t see 1,000 steps as being anything other than an arbitrary dataset requirement. 250-300 steps as a playable run. 500 to 600 steps as a “movie length” representation. And then to double that?
The mental requirement to “film” a Lord of the Rings trilogy while also “filming” the behind the scenes of that filming and also “filming” the real-time documentary required to keep track of everything… while not being clear on how that extra “run time” translates into being better training data.
Is there going to be a “THIS” post, using sample work that you really like and “demanding” all other entries follow that exact format? How will variations in formatting be addressed? Does it need to be?
If you get something that checks all the right boxes, with one exception that leads to a rejection, I think we’d all like to know what that one must-have is.
Using scenes as a marker has some added benefit as I find myself leaving high level comments about some of the next scenes (I had nothing planned beyond the start, but the natural progression leads to speculation about future events or details). This is some of that looking ahead data that this project wanted to capture. Perhaps there should be a FUTURE keyword to wrap these things under? It would basically be a THOUGHT for world building ideas, but not specific to the current part of the story/narrative.
Anything that goes into writing or crafting needs to be captured in “real time” which means dumping it right in the middle of whatever you are doing.