Feeding story ideas into Deepseek defeats the point of creative writing. At that point I may as well just ask Deepseek to write me a story instead of creating it myself.
As for writing Chinese setting in English, that's not quite what I'm doing. As I've been world building, part of what I've been doing is translating Chinese story tropes into English-language expressions. Part of this was inspired by the fact that a majority of Anglosphere-originated "Eastern" themed fantasy is often just typical medieval Euro-fantasy but with an "Eastern" coat of paint. Calling a knight "samurai" doesn't make it an "Eastern" fantasy.
In contrast, Japan-originated medieval Euro-fantasy (as seen in the likes of say Dungeon Meshi and Sousou no Frieren) are Japanese-style stories told using a coat of Euro-fantasy paint. While the words are Westernized, the concepts, themes and tropes are drawn from traditional Japanese storytelling.
Basically, I'm trying to do the Dungeon Meshi/Sousou no Frieren style storytelling, where the proper nouns and words are all Western, but the underlying concepts, themes and tropes are the stuff I like, which is Eastern.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2025-03-24 07:58 (UTC)Feeding story ideas into Deepseek defeats the point of creative writing. At that point I may as well just ask Deepseek to write me a story instead of creating it myself.
As for writing Chinese setting in English, that's not quite what I'm doing. As I've been world building, part of what I've been doing is translating Chinese story tropes into English-language expressions. Part of this was inspired by the fact that a majority of Anglosphere-originated "Eastern" themed fantasy is often just typical medieval Euro-fantasy but with an "Eastern" coat of paint. Calling a knight "samurai" doesn't make it an "Eastern" fantasy.
In contrast, Japan-originated medieval Euro-fantasy (as seen in the likes of say Dungeon Meshi and Sousou no Frieren) are Japanese-style stories told using a coat of Euro-fantasy paint. While the words are Westernized, the concepts, themes and tropes are drawn from traditional Japanese storytelling.
Basically, I'm trying to do the Dungeon Meshi/Sousou no Frieren style storytelling, where the proper nouns and words are all Western, but the underlying concepts, themes and tropes are the stuff I like, which is Eastern.