I blew my 5 hour window in less than an hour doing a pre-release code review of the entire Bookweaver app. Fixed what should be the last of the bugs, doubled its speed and cut its costs even more and added a few extras, but now i have to wait until I can it continue. Before I went to bed this morning I blew the first window finishing up the plan for a while new piece of the puzzle. Anyone interested in writing branching fiction? This is Choose Your own Adventure style books and online visual novels. I have a 120 page brief created for this. There are only a couple of tools available for the first part and ren'py is the top app for Visual novels. I originally got started writing seriously again for Nanowrimo 2023 and then got interested in interactive fiction and visual novels (pre-ai). Now I'm coming full circle with this and seeing a point where what we create can easily become interactive fiction and immersive fiction (holo novel style from star trek in VR for instance). Last night i was playing with plotcrafter and bookweaver and two hilarious plots came up on a semi-random roll that my lovely and wonderful wife thought would be awesome movies more than books and even started laying out the cast of actors needed. I mentioned that yes converting a novel to a screenplay was on the roadmap for wcp (eventually..its a long and ever twistier road) and this thought occurred to me. We are not long from becoming movie producers as well as writers. As fast as Ai generated movies are being made i can see in the very near future an app that can take a manuscript, create the screenplay, character cards, keyframes, location shots, and put it altogether at major motion picture quality. I haven't had time (or stolen/taken/kidnapped the time needed) to keep up with video. Keeping up with image creation and ai updates is the limit of my bandwidth right now. I've seen a couple of *really* good short movies made by AI (less than thn minutes) that amazed me. They need help with transitions and voices. Why do ALL ai created voices sound so compressed? two of them were made in less than a day.

Doing somethign a little different today with characters instead of plots 5 Character Archetypes With the Wounds Already Built In Five character starters. Take them, rename them, twist them. Each comes with a wound that drives behavior and a voice note so they don't all sound the same. 1. The Fixer Who Can't Fix Themselves Background: Former crisis negotiator, voluntarily resigned after a hostage situation that ended badly despite a textbook-perfect performance on her part. Spent three years convincing everyone she's fine. Wound: Doing everything right and still failing taught her that competence is a lie she tells herself. She micromanages everything now because if she controls every variable, she can't be blindsided again. Goal in story: She wants to solve the problem in front of her. What she needs is to learn that some things can't be negotiated. Voice note: Precise. Reads the room before speaking. Says less than she means. Never asks for help out loud. 2. The Optimist With a Body Count Background: Small-town mayor, beloved, genuinely good at the job. Three terms in, two major local crises averted, one that wasn't — a factory closure he supported that gutted the town's working class. He still thinks it was the right call. Wound: His optimism isn't naive. It's a survival mechanism. If he stops believing things can be better he has to sit with what his decisions have already cost. Goal in story: He wants to save the town from whatever's threatening it now. The complication is that he might be part of the problem. Voice note: Warm, persuasive, slightly too practiced. Says the right thing slightly too quickly. 3. The Youngest Who Never Got to Be Young Background: Youngest of six siblings in a family where resources were always thin. Became competent early, responsible early, invisible early. Now in her thirties and still defaulting to taking care of everyone around her while having almost no idea what she actually wants. Wound: She learned that her needs were less important than other people's needs and she's never fully unlearned it. She reads as capable and low-maintenance. She is exhausted.

For the last two days I haven't been able to get Crap out of Gemini.. or rather all I've been getting is crap. 1800-2000+/- words is all I can get at a time, none of it very good and it just QUITS. and happily scampers on. I was getting great results out of Gemini 2.5 flash last week, this week nada. Testing other cheap models but they all seem really slow and off this week. Are we in the midst of a robot revolution and missed it??

I know I'm supposed to be taking a rest today, but I'm on a marathon coding session after having an epiphany last night. So I'll be around most of the day to answer anything and try to get more short videos posted.

I'm going to reinstitute regular open office hours again. This is a time for anyone to drop in and talk about anything or ask questions. This will last an hour or so and I'll do my best to be available almost every Wednesday night. Discord is also available at https://discord.gg/DzSkjQEm5 around the clock to leave messages or do a chat meeting. I'm also glad to schedule time when best for you if we can arrange it if you need some 1 on 1 time. At least until we get much larger.