TJ Beckman

You don't have ideas because you don't read. You can't articulate ideas because you don't write. You can't leverage ideas because you don't build. You feel bored, anxious, or overwhelmed because your mind wants ideas to flow but you won't let them.

🧵 Future of Publishing: 10 High-Conviction Views (1) The brightest readers are neglected by the publishing industry. Most publishers aim for the mass market and produce boring books, stuffed with fluff, optimized for predictable sales and not cover-to-cover enjoyment.

Suno.ai is the craziest, most magical thing on the internet right now. How is not everyone talking about this

Just a song made with Suno AI is not enough. Copy the URL, paste it in @NoiseeAi Noisee AI turns it into a music video!!! I am loving it and just shared this tool to all my subscribers in my latest issue of PicAisso. (link in bio) Check out my purple song with purple MV! 💜😂

While we are all still in amazement about OpenAI’s Sora I have re-crafted Hogwarts High 🪄 A 1990’s sitcom intro parody of Harry Potter Upscaled all of the images with @Magnific_AI, converted to 16:9, and added some @runwayml magic See full res version on my YT channel:

When any prompt can be turned into reality, writers rule the world.

Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. openai.com/sora Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”

In 2016, researchers at the University of Adelaide tested Kurt Vonnegut's theory that, "There’s no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers." They took the emotional arcs of 1300+ novels from Project Gutenberg, turned that into data, used modern tech to analyze the emotional arcs, and then identified 6 patterns seen over and over again in western storytelling. Here they are: 1. Rags to Riches (rise) Your classic underdog tale. A humble, hardworking peasant climbs the mountain to pull the sword from the stone. • Rocky • King Arthur • The Pursuit of Happiness 2. Riches to Rags (fall) Maybe the saddest story of them all. A journey from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. • King Lear • Citizen Kane • Scarlet Letter 3. Man in a Hole (fall then rise) A character’s doing fine, gets herself into a huge problem, but figures out how to overcome it. They often end up better than they started. “You see this story again and again,” Vonnegut says. “People love it, and it is not copyrighted.” • The Martian • The Hunger Games • Shawshank Redemption 4. Icarus (rise then fall) The hero goes on a meteoric rise up New York (or some other) society, calls everyone “old sport,” and throws the wildest parties in town. Then reality sets in, and he realizes he’s too close to the sun. • Macbeth • Great Gatsby • Death of a Salesman 5. Cinderella (rise then fall then rise) I’ll leave this description to Vonnegut: “We’re gonna start way down here. Worse than that, who is so low? It’s a little girl… the shoe fits, and she achieves off-scale happiness.” • Red Rising • Slumdog Millionaire • The Count of Monte Cristo This is my personal favorite. 6. Oedipus (fall then rise then fall) Up until the ~70% mark of the story it looks like things are sunshine and rainbows. Walter White goes from high school teacher to king of the drug lords, if you will. Then all goes wrong. The original fall is often not their doing while the final fall is. • Hamlet • Gone Girl • Breaking Bad My 3 takeaways: 1. Rags to Riches, Oedipus, and Cinderella rank as the three most popular with consumers. AKA, those books sold the most copies. 2. When you think through a story, give it an emotional shape. Literally draw it. X axis: Time Y axis: Ill fortune to good fortune You might be surprised how much it helps you craft your plot (I was shocked). 3. Vonnegut was a damn genius.

I present "Sister of Battle", my new AI film! 🍿🎥!! Created with @midjourney @runwayml and @Magnific_AI. Big shoutout to everyone who helped with feedback in @visiblemakers community! Check out these other great AI artists afterwards! They inspire me to keep creating: @A_B_E_L_A_R_T @Uncanny_Harry @theGioM @JH4TC @AzeAlter @iamneubert @AILostMedia @CreativeAIgency @next_on_now @JohnMeta8 @javilopen @BMaursky @DaveJWVillalva #runway #aiartcommunity #aifilm

AI video tools like Runway and Pika have started to produce amazing results and will eventually disrupt Hollywood. (PT31) Here are the best AI videos this week:

🔥 This is incredible! Thibaud Zamora is like a one-man Pixar! He has created an entire Christmas animation featuring Harry Potter and Yoda that rivals the quality of a professional production! 💡 SDXL + Pika + Coqui voice + IPAdapter & Prompt twitter.com/i/status/17305…

Something fishy going on with selling books on Amazon? I stumbled on an interesting strategy I just bought a Ninja Creami (a machine that makes homemade ice cream) So I was searching for "Ninja Creami Recipe Books" and got the following search results: All those covers look surprisingly identical. This is not uncommon on Amazon, but you usually only see a handful of books pop up with similar designs, and they typically vary slightly from book to book. In this case, those look like they were designed by the same person, and there are a lot of them (nearly two full pages of books with the same cover). Several of them are also sponsored (i.e. they show up as ads in addition to showing up organically). Digging deeper, they're all written by different authors. And each author has written only one or two books (about the Ninja Creami). When you click on the author profiles, you read something like the following about Marwan Ghabour: And here's another about Diane Geller: And another about Marthar B Malone: The common theme among all of them? They all seem fake. A quick internet/ social media search turns up nothing. No awards given to Marwan, no Instagram presence for Diane, and no trace of Marathar. The profiles have an AI feel to them, and they're stuffed with keywords (I assume to return higher in the search results). Not sure exactly what's going on, but I'm guessing it's mass repurposing with fake profiles. I haven't bought/ read any of the books, so I can't tell if they are similar internally, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are. The concern here is that this strategy might "crowd out" others. So if you're an author trying to compete in this space, and those books take up the first page or two, then the chances of someone seeing your book drops significantly.

Speech-to-speech from @elevenlabs > Upload audio > Select your voice > Generate speech Eleven labs will transform your speech while preserving inflections, tone, and emotion. This is an important release for anyone using AI for storytelling. Link below.

I have a simple rule. If you don't know who this is, you don't get to write online about time management and your "high performance schedule".

Just created my first GPT! Goal: To help authors write a nonfiction book in their own style I uploaded my "Write Your Book on the Side" book as knowledge & gave it specific instructions It's public & free (you need ChatGPT Plus to access it) Link: chat.openai.com/g/g-qSeTrInJH-…

I think, if anything, people underestimate the amount that GPT-4 can do if you just explain what you want in plain English. For example, this prompt works well. It asks you to upload a Word document and a grading rubric, and then gives you back a document with red-line comments.

"Writers have a window where we can use AI to make better books, and make them quicker and cheaper." buff.ly/3QfE705 @jakonrath

✨ DALL-E 3 Prompt Share 🎨 Inspired by @Brownbelle55's nice idea, I tried a prompt that works okay, though the consistency is not so great. Here are the steps: 1️⃣ Run the following prompt on GPT-4: "Create a four-panel, square layout guide for drawing a simple cartoon duck. 1. Panel one displays a grayscale oval for the duck's body. 2. Panel two shows a grayscale smaller circle overlapping the front of the oval for the head. 3. In panel three, a grayscale beak is added to the head, and webbed feet are attached to the bottom of the body. 4. The final panel reveals the completed duck with color now with two eyes on the head, and a wing outline on the body. " 2️⃣ Ask "Do for a [OBJECT/PROMPT]" Few more examples and notes in the 🧵

Shipped before ChatGPT 😎

New idea for authors and book publishers: When you release a book, release a Custom GPT with it for all buyers. Takes minutes to build (and days for a front end that you only need to do once). Upload the PDF of the book. Train a custom assistant with the API. Charge. @OpenAI