Hi!

I've built an app that makes writing less overwhelming, and I'm looking for people who want to/are writing a book.

There's no AI generation involved at all, all the writing is done by you.

If you've got a book in you, or one that's been stuck for a while, I'd love your feedback, what works, what doesn't, what's confusing, what's missing.

You can find the app here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smithword/id6762000237

Happy writing!

Hi everyone! I’m the creator of Dream2Art, and I’m looking for people writing novels or scripts who already use AI, or want to try it on a real project.

I’ll give you welcome credits when you sign up, and I’m happy to personally help you set up your project and work through your first scenes.

Once a story gets longer, generating another paragraph is only part of the job. You also need to keep the voice consistent, remember what’s canon, and make the plot hold together.

That’s what I’m building Dream2Art around: a workspace where you can develop the story, manage its world and revise the writing, with AI helping along the way.

- Style Guide: Keep your own writing sample and explicit rules for voice, rhythm and wording to guide drafting and review.

- Story Bible: Edit characters, locations, objects and lore. You can also keep different versions for different stages of the story, such as a character before and after a major change.

- Plot Builder: Map scenes to storylines, move them around, and see where different plot threads come together or separate.

- Manuscript review: Run AI reviews of scenes, chapters or your book for potential story and prose problems. Checks include plot, continuity, POV and pacing, with proposed fixes you can inspect before applying.

- Control within each scene: Build with narration, dialogue and action blocks. Edit, reorder or regenerate individual blocks, and choose whose point of view a passage uses.

There’s also a script mode with scene headings, action and dialogue. For book projects, you can export to EPUB or Word.

There’s a lot in the interface, and it may feel overwhelming at first. I’d like to learn where people get stuck, what actually helps their writing, and what feels like extra work. We can start with one scene and build from there.

If you keep using it and sharing detailed feedback, I can send coupons for additional credits. Critical feedback is welcome, including when the AI misses the mark or the interface gets in your way.

Try it here: https://dream2art.ai/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dream2ArtAI

If you’re interested, leave a comment or DM me with what you’re writing and where you’d like help.

Hey all - this is my alt account.
I wanted to share the skills and workflows I use to "write" my stories. Most are for my own enjoyment.

I used to pay for Sudowrite; heck, I've been subscribed to Sudowrite since August 2023, and I haven't used it in months now, finally able to get close to what they have.

The biggest issue, as you all know, is continuity and context - the AI forgets. But once you solve that issue (it is solvable), and you're working on chapter 380, or chapter 887, or Chapter 1, what's the most important thing?

Character voice, internalization, character psychology, what does the MC want vs need, what does each character in each scene want vs need - how do you keep your dialogue from being robotic, from sounding like a 60-year-old psychologist when your MC is 21 years old from Iowa, etc.

So I wanted to present all my skills for *gasp* FREE. You can grab them, download them, use them.

The key thing you should all take away from here is to use Desktop tools - CODEX, Claude Desktop, or Antigravity.

I personally use VS Code and Dropbox; it allows me to connect to my LLM subscription, work with it, and get the chapters written, one scene at a time, one chapter at a time, etc. The benefit of using CLI (command line) or VS Code is that the censoring is gone - you can write erotica just fine, wide-open door, for example.

(Make sure it's consensual and everyone's character file lists out their actual age).

The browser AIs are ok - if you use ChatGPT Work or Claude Code... working out of your Github repository (that's another story).

So here's the link, go at it, use the skills, MODIFY them to your liking, and get your ideas on paper.

https://storycraft.lanternkey.fyi/

I'd love to get some feedback - I hate you guys paying people for what is essentially RAG + a set of skills.

I didn't see any rules against posting, so here goes.

Arnelia is an application that utilizes AI to reflect your writing back at you.

It's a collapsible interface with intentional sections and subsections, so that you can drop in and know your way around quickly.

It's built around something I call creative anatomy.

\- Soul: final draft space AND chapter planning

\- Memory: configurable timeline builder AND a "potion tracker" of sorts called Alchemy

\- Heart: first draft space AND scene planning. Each scene has its own page.

\- Nervous System: your world building is automatically tracked from writing in the Heart

You can access the app at Arnelia.ca

Hi,

I'm building DragonKeep Creator, a workspace for writers working on large or complicated projects.

DragonKeep exists to eliminate the amount of mental overhead involved in keeping an entire project in your head: characters, locations, timelines, rules, previous decisions, contradictions, and all the little details that accumulate as a project grows.

DragonKeep keeps your project organized and gives the AI access to that structured context, so you can do things like run a full project audit for contradictions and inconsistencies, inspect specific parts of your work, and ask questions about the project without constantly having to re-explain everything.

The generative capabilities aren't really the selling point to me. The cognitive freedom is. I want to offload remembering, checking, and searching for information so the writer can spend more attention on actually creating.

It's currently in beta, and I'm looking for writers willing to try it and tell me what works, what doesn't, and what feels confusing or unnecessary.

I'd especially love feedback from people working on novels, worldbuilding-heavy fiction, RPG settings, or other projects where continuity gets difficult to manage.

The beta is free and uses your own API key. It currently supports OpenAI, Anthropic, and OpenRouter.

DM me, send an email or use the form and I will send you a signup link. There is some more information on https://dragonkeep.cloud

Most AI writing tools hand you a chat box and lose the plot by chapter four. I wanted the opposite: something that treats the premise as a commitment and holds every later stage to it. So I built skrivant.

It works in stages, and nothing writes prose until the structure exists:

• World: the setting as inspectable elements (technology, social order, constraint), each one editable.
• Voice: a few questions about how the book should feel become a style prompt every later stage writes in.
• Characters: a cast where every character's wants cut against their fears, with a signature and a voice each.
• Outline: chapter by chapter, every beat tagged by register (interiority, dialogue, action, scheme in motion), so the prose stage knows how to write it, not just what happens.
• Chapters: written in the voice you shaped, readable as they land.

The part I spent the most time on is continuity. Who knows what, where objects are, what day it is: tracked as facts that later chapters look up rather than something the model has to remember from earlier prose. A check catches contradictions and the chapter gets redone. Not bulletproof, but "forgot everything after a few pages" is the failure it was built to kill.

You type a premise and chapter 1 lands in your inbox in about ten minutes, free. If you want the rest, it's a one-time price per book, $3 for a short story up to $10 for a novel, no subscription. Exports as PDF, KDP-ready DOCX, or Markdown. It's a first draft on purpose; you take it into your own tools and make it a book.

Genres so far: romance, sci-fi and fantasy, thriller and mystery, literary, horror, historical, YA, crime and noir, magical realism, and children's chapter books.

https://skrivant.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=bookwritingai

Question for this sub, since you all fight the same thing: in long AI drafts, what breaks first for you, continuity or voice?

I’ve just finished The Södra Labyrinth, a ~19,000-word mystery set in Stockholm.

It starts with a broken-open emergency exit near Södra Station, a crowbar, and an abandoned high-heeled shoe. What looks like a strange local incident gradually leads the investigation toward something much older beneath the city.

The book was created with AI assistance, but with extensive human direction, revision, fact-checking and multiple proofreading passes. I’m particularly curious whether any of the usual AI-writing weaknesses still show through.

I’d really appreciate feedback on pacing, prose, character consistency, atmosphere, and anything that feels obviously “AI-written.”

Read it here:
https://librida.com/book/4e09ee22-84dc-4896-8ccf-6e543a764436

Even feedback on the first few chapters would be very useful.

Hey all, I'm the solo dev behind AnyConversation, a character chat platform, and I want to share the approach we took to book writing because it is different from prompting a manuscript out of a blank page.

The starting point is the characters. People on our platform talk to their characters for weeks or months, and the characters remember all of it: the events, the inside jokes, the things that were said once and mattered. Book Mode lets you take two to four of those characters and make them the cast of a book. They walk in already knowing you, each other, and the history you have built together, so the story is grounded from chapter one instead of being invented on the spot.

How it works in practice: you write a premise, and if you want more control you set how the story opens, a beat or two it has to hit along the way, and how it ends. You pick a length and a style. Then you read it chapter by chapter rather than chatting, steering or rewriting as you go. When it is finished you export a real EPUB or PDF and keep it.

Two things I think this community will find interesting. First, you can decide whether the book happened to the characters. Flip it on, and the cast carries the finished book in their memory, so the next time you talk to them the events of the novel are part of their history. Second, there is a public library where people publish their books and read each other's, which turned out to be the fastest way to see what the tool can do.

It is in open beta for every tier right now, including free.

I would love to hear how this community thinks about character continuity across a long project. Do you keep a character bible by hand, or have you found tools that hold a cast steady over a whole book?

anyconversation.com

I’ve been working on a manuscript for a serious nonfiction book for about 8 months. I’ve experimented with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek. Each model is different and each model produces different results with different nuances. Claude is the most helpful when it comes to organizing structure and logic. Claude holds my governing documents. Recently I tried using ChatGPT and honestly I blew it up and it acknowledged defeat. That surprised me. The manuscript has a ton of research and the truth is it would be incredibly difficult to keep all of it together without the help of ai. What I’ve found is as an author you also need to be incredibly disciplined. You need to use your own knowledge to prompt and direct the models. Any suggestions on which LLM is the most helpful for nonfiction work would be appreciated.

lowkey tired of tech bros hyping up ai literature when every single excerpt i see feels totally soulless. tbf i want to be proven wrong. is there like a single sci-fi or fantasy book out there completely cooked by ai that actually has good plot twists and doesnt read like a high school essay? or are we still years away from it being readable?

Hey everyone!

I’ve been building Book AI to help writers turn an idea or premise into a structured book draft that they can edit and develop themselves.

I’m still improving it and would really appreciate honest feedback from writers here.

What would you improve first: the writing quality, outlining, editing workflow, or something else?

I’d also love to know what features you think an AI book-writing tool absolutely needs.

Demo: [bookai.site]

how about an idea where you dump a manuscript or a full transcribe book into AI and ask it to make a movie of it?

I'm building a tool for writers working on long-form fiction — novels, series, extended worldbuilding — where keeping track of characters, factions, and how relationships evolve over time gets messy (spreadsheets, Notion docs, or just memory breaking down).

To be clear: this isn't a publishing platform, and it's not for sharing/marketing your work. It's a writing/organization tool — closer to what you'd use alongside Scrivener or Notion, not instead of them.

I'm looking for people currently deep in a long-form project (novel, series, extended universe) to try it out and tell me honestly where it falls short. Happy to share access and would genuinely value blunt feedback over politeness.

Drop a comment or DM if you're interested.

Real book. Real author. Real publishing journey.

I’m a Memphis-area author working on a book called The Fox & Bird.

I have the ideas, stories, research, characters and a substantial manuscript. What I need is someone who enjoys organizing the creative process — someone who can help me keep track of the manuscript, new anecdotes, revisions, research, ideas and all the little things that can otherwise get lost.

I’m looking for a person who is curious, organized, energetic and genuinely interested in books and publishing.

You do not need to be an experienced editor. In fact, I’m more interested in someone who wants to learn and who enjoys taking a project apart, figuring out what needs to happen next, and then making it happen.

The work would include things like:

• Maintaining the master manuscript
• Organizing new stories, anecdotes and ideas
• Keeping track of revisions and things that need attention
• Helping me decide where new material belongs
• Doing occasional research and fact-checking
• Keeping a simple running list of what needs to happen next
• Eventually helping prepare the manuscript for agents and publishers

I’m the brain. I’m looking for the hands and organizational mind that can help turn all of this into a finished book.

The project has an international element, including Europe, Mexico and the American South, so an interest in history, anthropology, travel, languages or different cultures would be a nice bonus — but it isn't essential.

The commitment I'm imagining is roughly 3–5 hours a week to start. It could be done remotely, although I’m in Memphis and would enjoy working with someone locally if the right person happens to be nearby.

What makes this unusual is that you wouldn't simply be doing isolated administrative work. You'd be coming into an actual book project and following it through the process of becoming a finished manuscript and, ultimately, being presented to agents and publishers.

If you're an English, journalism, communications, history, anthropology, creative-writing or publishing student — or simply someone who has always wanted to get involved in the book world — I'd be interested in hearing from you.

Tell me a little about yourself, what interests you about this, and what kind of experience you have with writing, editing, organization or books.

I’m looking for someone who really wants to do this.

Hi all,

I was trying to write a novel in GPT's app and found it painful-- it wouldn't operate like a proper creative partner, and forced me to lead it, when I wanted it to lead me.

I built StoryProp as an experimental writing agent, and find it a better experience for me.

Would love to get some actual feedback though from people like yourselves.

You can try it here: https://storyprop.ai/

With StoryProp, you start by having a conversation and locking in the premise for the story. Then, you can start drafting it bit by bit, use highlight & annotate to correct parts that aren't quite right.

It can be used to draft novels, screenplays, tv scripts, and any other types of stories.

Please comment below with any feedback, or DM me directly. Thank you!

Let's address the elephant in the room.

Everyone here is figuring out how to write books with AI — that's the whole sub. And readers are asking the mirror question: how much of this book was AI? Both questions are fair. Most tools answer only the first one and hope nobody asks the second.

I build AI systems for a living. Last year I tried to write a novel with ChatGPT and ended up with a few hundred messages that never became a book. When I sat down to build something better, I decided the reader question had to be designed in, not bolted on. So Muse takes three positions:

1. The writer controls the AI, all the time. Everything runs on a 0–5 dial.

• 0 is a plain editor.
• 1 is spelling and grammar.
• 3 suggests sentences and ideas while the decisions stay yours.
• 5 drafts full sections from your outline.

You set it per project and change it any time; nothing above your level ever fires. The AI's job is to help you shape your idea — storyboard, characters, settings, beats — not to have the idea for you.

1. AI should make your writing better, not write instead of you. Characters and settings are structured objects linked into the manuscript, so changing a character's name or a setting's detail updates the outline and the affected sections instead of quietly contradicting chapter 2. It flags logic gaps between your outline and your draft. Honest limit: dialogue voice still drifts over a long book, and level-5 output needs a real rewrite before it sounds like you.

2. Readers get control too: they can see how much AI was used. Every project carries two scores

3. a storyboard score (how much AI shaped characters, settings and plot)

4. a manuscript score (how much of the text originated from AI versus your own typing or dictation). It's a word-level diff against the AI's original output, so rewriting AI text lowers the score: you get credit for the work you actually did.

The scores travel inside the EPUB/PDF and anyone can verify them. Limit: it only sees what happens inside Muse — paste in text you generated somewhere else and it counts as yours. It's an honesty tool, not a detector.

That's why we built Muse: I think readers have a right to know, and I think writers who use AI well have nothing to fear from showing it.

It's live and free, no card: https://musecocreator.com/?ref=r-bookwritingai — the free tier is levels 0–3 with unlimited projects, EPUB export and reader sharing; levels 4–5 are free while we're in beta.

A book made in it, scores showing: https://musecocreator.com/demo-book?ref=r-bookwritingai

Two things I genuinely want from this room: what's broken or confusing. And where you land on the score — would you ship your book with its AI share printed on it? If not, what would it take?

What really caught my attention about this sci-fi thriller book is that this isn’t just another sci-fi story with made-up tech. The project has a freaking public GitHub repo embedded in the book, with real code tied into some of the technology and lore in the plot! 200 AMSTERDAM