The Birth of a Novella: On Lyra and the Creative Writing Process
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay is written as a B.A. thesis for the University of Iceland and explores the process of creative writing. It consists of two parts. The first part is a novella, Lyra, which is about a twenty-three year old girl named Lyra. When we first meet Lyra in the novella she is sitting at the top of a very tall building in Vancouver, Canada, having trouble deciding whether she should jump or not. The novella focuses on major events in her life including her battle with anorexia, her stay at an inpatient eating disorder treatment clinic and how she tries to cope with the death of her girlfriend, Claire. Lyra, who is living in Miami, Florida, when her girlfriend commits suicide, decides to move back to her hometown in Canada. She wants get as far away from her ignorant mother and the man who she refuses to call her stepfather as she can. But moving to Canada does not make living without the love of her life any easier and her internship at The Northern Star does not live up to her expectations. Lyra has to decide whether life is worth living without Claire and if she is capable of living a normal life without her. \nThe second part is an exposition on the writing process. It explores where the best ideas usually come from, how they transform during the creative writing process and how an author can use his or her own experience and others to create fiction. It also explains where the idea for this particular novella came from and how it developed. It discusses the main elements of a story such as plot, setting, narration and characters. At last it touches on the subject of writer’s block and any roadblocks an author may encounter and how to solve them.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.022 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.028 | 0.014 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.012 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.010 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".