How to Use NovelAI for Writing Fiction
TLDRThe video provides an introduction to NovelAI, a writing software designed for storytelling. It discusses the software's pricing plans, starting at $10 per month, which offer varying context windows for story development. The video also covers NovelAI's features like text generation, image creation, and the use of different AI models. It demonstrates how to use NovelAI's completion model by starting with a story prompt and continuing the narrative. The ability to guide the AI's output with author's notes and the lore book is highlighted, showcasing NovelAI's potential for writers.
Takeaways
- 😎 NovelAI is an AI model specifically designed for writing fiction and storytelling.
- 💡 It offers different pricing plans with varying context windows, from 3,000 to over 8,000 tokens.
- 💰 The higher-priced plans provide early access to new models, features, and additional credits for image generation and AI model training.
- 📊 NovelAI's dashboard allows users to write stories, generate images, and use various text-to-speech models.
- 🔍 Users can start a new story in 'Text Adventure Mode' for RPGs or use 'Storyteller Mode' for more general storytelling.
- 📝 NovelAI supports the creation of presets to adjust the style and AI output, and these can be shared within the community.
- 📖 The 'Lore Book' is a powerful feature for managing story information, though it's complex enough to warrant its own tutorial.
- ✍️ NovelAI works best as a completion model, requiring a story starter or existing text to build upon.
- 🖊️ Users can guide the story's direction by altering the text, and NovelAI will continue writing based on those changes.
- 📈 The platform provides story stats and allows for exporting the completed story.
- 🔄 NovelAI allows for giving instructions to the AI using curly brackets, which can significantly alter the story's direction.
Q & A
What is NovelAI?
-NovelAI is a writing software that has trained its own large language model (LLM) to assist writers and storytellers.
What makes NovelAI different from other AI models?
-NovelAI is specifically built to tell stories and its models are unmoderated, meaning they can write not safe for work content.
What are the pricing plans for NovelAI?
-NovelAI offers plans starting at $10 a month for over 3,000 tokens of memory, $15 for 6,000 tokens, and $25 for over 8,000 tokens which also includes early access to new models and features, and additional credits for image generation and AI model training.
What is the context window in NovelAI?
-The context window refers to how much of the story the AI can look back on, which affects its ability to continue the narrative coherently.
What modes does NovelAI offer for writing stories?
-NovelAI offers Text Adventure Mode, which is great for RPGs and roleplaying games, and Storyteller mode for more traditional storytelling.
What is the Lore Book feature in NovelAI?
-The Lore Book is a feature that allows users to share and access all the story information inside NovelAI, helping to maintain consistency in the narrative.
How does NovelAI handle writing continuation?
-NovelAI is set up as a completion model, working best with a story starter or existing text, and it continues writing from there.
Can you guide NovelAI to change the direction of the story?
-Yes, you can change the direction of the story by modifying the previous text or starting new text, and NovelAI will continue from the new direction.
How can you give NovelAI instructions?
-You can give NovelAI instructions using opening curly brackets to signal information you want it to include, separate from the story text.
What is the purpose of the Future Fiction Academy mentioned in the script?
-The Future Fiction Academy is an educational platform working to keep authors and creatives informed about AI, helping them to work with AI models to further their careers.
How can users access the advanced features of NovelAI?
-Users can access advanced features like the Lore Book by exploring the software's dashboard, and more detailed tutorials may be provided in future videos.
Outlines
📚 Introduction to Novel AI
The paragraph introduces Novel AI, a writing software designed specifically for storytelling. It discusses the benefits of Novel AI for writers, mentioning its unfiltered language capabilities and its training on an LLM model. The video is part of the Future Fiction Academy's series aimed at educating authors on AI. The presenter, Stacy, provides an overview of the software's features, including pricing plans that offer different context windows. The plans range from $10 for 3,000 tokens to $25 for over 8,000 tokens, with additional benefits like early access to new models and features. The dashboard is explored, highlighting the ability to generate images, use text-to-speech models, and work on existing stories. The focus is on the Storyteller mode, which allows users to select AI models, adjust styles, and create presets for customized writing experiences. The paragraph concludes with a mention of the Lore Book, a feature that will be explored in a future video.
🔍 How Novel AI Works
This paragraph delves into the operational mechanics of Novel AI, contrasting it with other AI models that require prompts or conversational interactions. Novel AI is a completion model, best used with a story starter or existing text. It demonstrates how the software continues writing from a given text, using Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' as an example. The ability to guide the story's direction by altering the text is showcased, along with the color-coding feature that distinguishes between AI-generated text (black), user continuations (purple), user changes (green), and the original pasted text (brown). The paragraph also introduces the use of instructions within curly brackets to direct the AI's narrative, catering to different writing styles and needs, including those who write on-the-fly or require detailed sentence-level collaboration with AI.
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Keywords
💡NovelAI
💡AI Model
💡Context Window
💡Pricing Plans
💡Image Generation
💡Text-to-Speech Models
💡Storyteller Mode
💡Presets
💡Author's Note
💡Lore Book
💡Completion Model
Highlights
NovelAI is an AI model specifically built for storytelling.
It offers a variety of models, including the latest KRA model.
NovelAI's models are unmoderated, allowing for not safe for work content.
Pricing plans range from $10 to $25 a month, with varying context windows.
The $25 plan offers early access to new models and features.
Users can generate images and use different text-to-speech models.
NovelAI allows starting a story in Text Adventure Mode or Storyteller mode.
Users can choose different AI models and change the style.
Presets can be created or used from the community for different styles.
Memory can be added for the AI to remember specific information.
Author's notes can be created to influence the AI's output.
The lore book is a powerful feature for story information sharing.
NovelAI works best as a completion model with a story starter.
Users can continue writing from where NovelAI left off.
The course of the story can be changed by editing previous text.
NovelAI can be directed with instructions using opening curly brackets.
NovelAI is suitable for writers who like to make up stories as they go.
Advanced features like the lore book are available for more control.
Future Fiction Academy offers live lessons and access to NovelAI.