Yes! So much here to celebrate! Well said. You sound very s…

Mudfun · July 14, 2024

Yes! So much here to celebrate! Well said. You sound very sane and satiated by the fullness of life such that you can reach forward into the future and embrace it all and express yourself and be heard . Much respect to you for the creation of your cave in your garage. A cosy little space is where it’s at.. Thanks for sharing those childhood memories- they triggered more of mine. This path of Mud Fun first opened up in my heart and mind after seeing a bunch of people in a remote village in the Solomon Islands build a beautiful hand woven house together in a festive way with all ages involved, lots of singing and an audience and food sharing. Years later the memory came back to me while I was in the USA in an artistic community-elevating vibes setting. At the same time I discovered earth and mud as a building material. I’ve mainly been experimenting with the mix of mud and music to transform the whole work vibe into playful, interactive entertainment for all ages - to emulate what I experienced in the Solomon Islands but with mud. I found out later that festive earthen building is still a thing in Africa. During Covid I was prevented from running my Musical Mudstomp events in public so I did it here in private land and the sleeping pod cubby evolved from that. It’s where I prefer to sleep now.

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Mudfun · July 14, 2024

Is it easy to start writing a book here? I have my whole book as a Google doc, plus anll the other stuff I’ve written since l, and I m interested in the idea of interacting with ai to tweak it. How would you suggest I start?

metamitya · July 14, 2024

i think ruthheasman did this fo her book!

ruthheasman · July 14, 2024

Yup, I did. I stored all the snippets, character arcs, character analyses, outline, world building and eventually chapters in here and interacted with the AI to brainstorm and write/expand/improve the prose. I used AI at every stage of the process, and as much as people might rail against that, I found it made the whole process much more playful and enjoyable and frankly, the end result was much better too. I did have a human editor as well, but AI even helped with editing the novel. Like yourself, I am a big fan of the goal of making everything we do in life more playful and joyful. I think we do better when we’re in the flow state, and I try to maximise that by not self-censoring. I also try not to get attached to outcomes, but simply enjoying the work/process/learning for its own sake. It means you’re successful no matter what. Building as a celebratory get together with music and food sounds like a wonderful way to approach home building, and life!

metamitya · July 14, 2024

you should def try it, and let me know if you run into any roadblocks and i can try fixing or adding things you think are missing

Mudfun · July 14, 2024

So where do I start writing the book? Is there a video that explains how to do this? I assume I have to break out of this conversation and start from there? Or is it ok for it to just be an extension of this conversation and start right here in the next post?