the Oregon Trail of AI

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

I am at the stage of this project where I would like to cry blood.

As it turns out, creating 28 perfect epubs across three books of your favorite series you wrote and making everything as perfect as you can requires an insane amount of attention to detail and a bizarre willingness to punish yourself over and over again until you want to die but you also keep on going because you’ve got to be fucking almost there now, right?

Right.

Except turns out that the English of the text I used for my blurb for Break Her had a term for genitals in it that I softened when I put it up on KDP, however we did not soften it in practice when pulling it from said translations, which led to me having a conversation with code that was all,

Which lead to this realization:

And then immediately to this solution:

And I am now SO TIRED of thinking that I don’t even know which way is up, except that I will be fucking damned if I don’t finish this project and get all of these up onto Google Play tonight.

It’s just been an endless amount of nitpickery, some v v v important like above, and some less but still important like below:

Ukrainian semantic collision: Bend Her and Break Her use the same verb root

• Bend Her uk = Зламай її — but Зламай is the imperative of зламати = “to break”

• Break Her uk = Зламати її — infinitive of the same verb

So both Ukrainian titles literally mean “break her”, just in different grammatical forms. The trilogy’s bend → break → make progression collapses to break → break → form. Ukrainian readers will read these as the same book in different tenses.

Recommend: change Bend Her uk to a different verb (it’s already published — so this might be more practical to address by changing Break Her instead):

• Break Her uk → Розбий її (smash her — different root, conveys the harsher break)

• Or → Знищ її (destroy her — even harsher, fits Break Her’s tone)

• Whichever you pick, it must differ from Bend Her’s Зламай to preserve the trilogy distinction.

This is the thing, is like, I had this glorious vision of getting Arachne a UI and making it accessible to the world — but I don’t know that I trust the world with it, yet?

I mean I think it’s good and so does Code:

But what if the person on the other end isn’t as anal as I am and cross-comparing AIs competitively (or they can’t afford to, which is a legit reason not to — I’m down to just 22% of my GPT Pro $200/mo plan remaining, and I don’t re-up for three days, aie — to be fair to him/me, I’ve got him cranking on Extra High working on all this ish) — like, if they get a bad outcome because they didn’t know any better and didn’t know how AIs worked?

Hooboy.

But…still….

I dunno—part of me wants to whip up another GPT account and just /goal that shit and then slow-roll it out to ppl here (subscribers) and assume that they’ll (you’ll!) know enough about AI to make your own grown up decisions.

I mean, I posted a book in Traditional Chinese to KDP last night.

That felt pretty bomb.

Other ppl deserve to feel that way too.

Maybe if I just put in the biggest FAQ in the world? (Which, yeah, for certain, regardless.)

Hmmmmmmmmm.

I don’t know guys.

This has possibly changed from the Oregon Trail to the Donner Party and I’ll have eaten my own common sense (shout out to Hitchhikers for anyone who gets it) and jfc.

But yeah.

Yeah.

Imma do this thing.

(But after my weekly reset, oy!)

xo!

Cassie