NO AI Policy
THE QUIET SITE does NOT use AI to generate content.
All stories, art, voice recordings, and everything else you see or hear is created by humans.
If you hear a voice, it's very likely mine, or a member of my family.
I do use some processing to change the pitch and tone of our voices, but it's still human.
No AI
If you hear music. Well, I suck at this, but I have family that's rather good at it.
They compose and build/perform it all by hand. No AI.
I do all the planning (limited because I pants mostly)
and writing with a fountain pen and a nice leather bound clipboard.
Then some time later I type it up and edit it. No AI.
All the art is created in my comfy lazy boy chair with a few pencils
and the same leather bound clipboard I use to write.
I then scan it, clean it up, and animate it in Blender. No AI.
All the programming, css, and html is hand written by me.
I've been a developer for over 20 years.
I started way before AI and still rather like the control.
Never AI.
My Process
At night, right after supper, I sit in my comfy lazy-boy chair with my fountain pen
and I plan out a bit of what I'm going to write next.
It's super rough, and I use a bit of Gregg shorthand to get things down fast and loose.
At some point I grab my pencil set and I read my plan for the writing, and I sketch out two or three hero images, while I watch TV with my family.
When I wake up the next day, I grab the images and plan,
and write the story to match them. I shoot for about 751 words per day.
I write the whole thing with my pen and my clipboard. I use a blend of Gregg, cursive and printing. But most important I don't spell check.
That kills any flow.
After I finish hand writing the story, I type it up into this website (because I built the app as I like it) and then I edit, and edit some more. This gives me a decently clean version.
I then scan the images and clean them up in Blender. I do a bit of animation, but I'm not great yet, so it's slow going.
I take the text and sit in my car and record the audio. I do cleanup with Audacity, and then I might do a bit of pitch and tone adjustment, but it's still my voice.
Now I have text, images and audio. I use Mac default apps to create the video.
This gives me everything for all formats.
I use this site to build an EPub (I wrote the code that does this years ago).
I upload the video, EPub, and audio to the various sites and
when I'm ready I mark thing as published on this site.
Then it shows up in the feed, on the home page.
Shout Out
I want to thank PunkyDoodle for her amazing art style.
I very much took inspiration from her work.
If you're her and reading this. I swear I did not use any sort of AI to copy you.
I spent months learning to draw and animate in a like style, with my own bits.
If you're not her, please check out her work.
PunkyDoodle Youtube