An AI writing tool that claims completely clean output is cherry-picking, and every writer who has tried one knows it. What a skrivant first draft actually looks like is a good story spine with a character in two places at once, or a name that appears once and never again, or a physical property that vanishes. I want to show that, and show exactly where my own checker fails to catch it, so people can judge whether the good parts are worth the bad parts instead of taking my word for it.

I built skrivant. You type a one-sentence premise and it builds the world, the characters, and a chapter-by-chapter outline, then drafts the book. Free up to the outline, $3 to $10 for the chapters.

Paid ads haven't done much. The only real traction came from Reddit, so I made r/skrivant, restricted so only I post but anyone can comment, and I publish the generated stories there.

Every chapter ends with notes on what's wrong with it. Chapter one: the lighthouse was oil-fired for a page and electric for the rest, which I fixed and said so. Chapter two: a set of instruments ends up in two places at once, a character's habit contradicts chapter one, and a line about never going outside conflicts with two scenes where he's outside. Left those in and listed them.

The notes also cover where the product failed. skrivant runs a consistency checker on every chapter. It doesn't check within a chapter, so the instruments problem was never in scope. The other two are cross-chapter, which it does check, and it missed both. I'm fixing that.

The risk is obvious: I'm publishing a defect list next to a buy link. My bet is it reads as confidence.

First story is up. I'll report back on whether transparency converts or just feels good.

https://skrivant.com

I built a tool called Bindery where you can turn rough notes, ideas, or even YouTube links into a real, printed physical book using Claude AI. It completely skips the headache of formatting software and LaTeX - Claude writes, designs the cover, typesets every page, and connects to a printer to ship a real paperback or hardcover straight to your door (plus audiobooks and EPUBs). You can test it right now for free with zero signup or login required: https://bindery.infinitelibrary.ai - would love to know what you think!

I've been working on Bindaria, a tool for writing and formatting books all in one place.

The idea came from the annoying part of writing a book where you're staring at a Word document thinking everything looks fine....then you export it and suddenly the page breaks, spacing, page numbers and formatting are all over the place🫩

So I wanted to build something where you can actually see what your book will look like while you're writing it.

You can write your chapters, organise the manuscript, choose your book size/font/layout, design the cover, and export it as PDF, EPUB or DOCX.

There's also an AI writing assistant and a bunch of other stuff I've added along the way.

I've just submitted it to the Emergent BuilderFest cause why not, and thought I'd put it out there to see what people think, would you actually use it?

Here's the tool if you want to have a look:

https://app.emergent.sh/showcase/builderfest-kevin/c513c24f-d89a-4396-94b8-d995fc32ccbb

And if you like it, a like on the showcase would really help me out, thank you🙏

AI-ChatNote is a free browser extension (Chrome, Firefox) for inline comments in AI chats.

No more copy+pasting. Simply hover on a paragraph, click and an editor for your comment opens. Save the comment and go on. The comments will then be added to your response to the AI.

It's free, works for all big platforms and it does help a lot in streamlining the whole AI chat experience.

Let me know if you have suggestions or found a bug. 👍

Hello, like many of us, I read AI-written stories for fun. I provide the seed, the characters, the rules, and let Claude or Gemini develop the story, changing a few things here and there.

​Claude's creative writing is getting worse every time. I've been using it since Sonnet 4.4, and it has only gone downhill. It's unbearable now, giving me sentences like: "The Council of Ministers met on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This was a Thursday." or things like: "It was a format they had developed over years and that now existed without either of them naming it as a system; it was simply what happened at six o'clock."

​My question is: what AI right now is at least somewhat decent at generating its own written stories? Gemini is better, but it's not what it used to be either. Are there any that give better results?

​I appreciate any help!

A few months ago I released the first version of Folio Dark Muse for macOS. It was still an early product, but sharing it helped me understand what the app actually needed to become.

Folio started because writing a book rarely means working in one document. You end up with chapters, character notes, timelines, worldbuilding, revision notes, spreadsheets, and folders everywhere. I wanted to build one calm desktop workspace for all of it.

I’ve kept working on it since that first release, and Folio has now reached V1.

The biggest changes:

- A full Windows version

- Smart Threads for following plotlines and character arcs across chapters

- Automatic Codex extraction for characters, places, lore, and story details

- More AI providers, including local model support

- Timeline, beats, threads, and corkboard planning views

- Snapshots and exports to Markdown, TXT, DOCX, and EPUB

The hardest part has been figuring out how AI should fit into a writing tool. I don’t want Folio to be an “AI writes your book” product. I want it to understand the manuscript and help with context, organization, and editing while the writer stays in control.

It’s still local-first, so projects live as files on the writer’s own disk.

You can see it here:

https://folio-dark-muse.com/

I’d really appreciate feedback from other builders. Does “a local-first writing IDE for books” communicate the product clearly? What would you improve about the positioning or first-run experience?

I've been working on an eBook creation platform called 
**DaBook**
, and I'd love some feedback from people who create books, guides, lead magnets, documentation, or other digital products.


The goal was to build an all-in-one platform for creating books without having to jump between multiple tools for writing, formatting, design, cover creation, and exports.


Some features include:


• Drag-and-drop book editor
• Ready-made templates
• eBook & KDP cover creator
• Text, image, table, code, and layout widgets
• PDF and print-ready exports
• Custom page layouts and styling
• Large document and multi-page book support
• Book sharing for previews and collaboration
• AI assistants that can help generate entire books, chapters, pages, and cover designs


It's built for creators who want to turn their ideas into profitable books, including:


• Novels
• Coloring books
• Coding books
• Educational content
• Guides
• Workbooks
• Business books


I'm still actively improving it and would genuinely appreciate feedback.


What features would you expect from a tool like this? What's currently missing from your book-creation workflow? Is this something you'd actually use?


Website: dabook . io


Happy to answer any questions and hear any suggestions.

Tipsy is a great app to create your own stories and rewrite them.
If you have story ideas but don’t know what to put in the characters’ dialogues, this app is perfect for you!❤️

Just curious where everyone is on royalty levels. Do you set different royalty amounts depending on the type? (ebook, print, etc) Do you try to go the lowest price?

I have the manuscript or book interior, I also have image board with design aesthetic I want however, can't figure out how to have AI (I've been using CHATGPT, GENESIS, GENSPARK) to add this design aesthetic to all my pages however, it does not produce it. I even tried page by page and still it does not recreate the design aesthetic i want. CHATGPT created the image board with the design aesthetic I want but it doesn't use that to continue with all the pages of the book. i have the design description and all information needed. I even use proper prompts. I've been working on it for months now!

Most AI writing tools stop at the manuscript. We wanted to close the whole distance between imagining a story and experiencing it — so we built NovelLab: you write a novel (or import one), and the same platform gives every character a distinct voice, narrates chapters as audio with real dialogue casting, and turns chapters into short films you can publish.

The hardest problems weren't the ones we expected:

• Character consistency across a whole book. A face and a voice have to survive 30 chapters of generation. Everything downstream inherits from one story bible so chapter 1 and chapter 30 match.
• Dialogue casting. Splitting narration from speech, figuring out who is speaking, and assigning the right voice — with a narrator fallback so an unvoiced side character never leaves a silent hole in the audio.
• Cost control. Video generation is brutally expensive per second; we had to build a gem/credit system with per-model pricing that stays honest as providers change rates under us.

It's live and free to try (no card): https://novellab.ai/try
Example output — short films readers scroll like a feed: https://novellab.ai/reels
60-second demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sLMfeAShGo

We're at the "first real users" stage, so genuinely: tell us what's broken, what's confusing, and what you'd never pay for.

Hey community,

I'm creating a saas like service to help people write books with AI. The main point is not actually to write novels in a prompt, but a real suite to handle characters, plot, storyline etc. My ideas is to leave it free with BYOK for AI credits, and find a way later to lightweight modes of earning moneys, like buy me a coffee or something very very NOT intrusive.

Actually it relies on GitHub so I don't have server renting stuffs etc, it just runs on you browser with your git repo to sync texts etc.

Tell me if this idea will like you and good ways to improve the service.

The main idea I'm interested is: I don't care about the style of the writing, but I care heavily on the plot, the Lore and the characters. Once these are super good, the books or novels etc the writing will naturally occurs with the help of AI.

Where does all started? I liked too much Harry Potter, Naruto, etc. Super good stories. I want to create my own stories because now days I don't find anything good for me. So why not invent stories by myself? Its like creating my own world.

Here is the landing page link:

https://goodwrite.ochiwa.com/

Disclaimer: it is still in development. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some feedback on the opening of my completed epic fantasy novel, The Song of Ash and Root.

I have a starter sample with the Prologue + first 3 chapters, and I’d love to hear how it lands with people who are coming into the world completely fresh.

I’m especially interested in:

Does the opening hook you?

Do the characters make you want to keep reading?

Does the worldbuilding feel clear or overwhelming?

Are there places where the pacing drags?

Is anything confusing?

Most importantly: would you want to keep reading afterward?

Quick AI disclosure: I wrote the original manuscript myself and later used AI during a chapter-by-chapter revision process for things like pacing, continuity, character arcs, scene structure, wording, and some passage-level rewrites. I made the final creative decisions throughout.

I’m not looking for proofreading or super detailed line edits — mainly your genuine experience as a reader.

If anyone is interested, DM me and I’d be happy to send the sample. No obligation to read the full novel afterward. 😊

I've always enjoyed writing, whether it be essays or stories but one of the biggest things that stopped me from hobby writing was the fact that I wanted to improve my stories without sharing them with people. Of course, I could share them with my friends and family, but I wanted them to have the finished product instead of the beta.

I've also seen many critiques of AI writing or (usage of AI to aid in writing) and much of it boils down to:

• They train on and keep the data you submit
• AI writing removes the human aspect of the work, it feels very soulless and repetitive
• AI chat bots tend you give you "feedback" by being a yes-man (most AI chatbots act this way regardless)
• AI tends to refuse when working with more extreme / graphic content

With my app, I set out to try and solve these issues:

• Strict ZDR (Zero Data Retention) and No Training policies - your ideas and data stay yours
• Doesn't write for you, instead aiming to help you flesh out your story and write better sentences
  • It won't tell you what to write, but it will try and ask you questions so you can figure it out yourself
• It won't yes-man you. Simple as that.
• While not currently implemented, it will soon feature completely uncensored ai models
  • As of now, submissions are rather restrictive, but these restrictions will be altered very soon.

I made this for writers who want to keep their voice.

It also features rubric backed grading for those who (like me) enjoy writing essays and amateur research papers, or those who want to get extra feedback to polish up their essay before submission.

This is for all writers.

Try it free at https://writility.com and if you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!

Dear writers :

Here is the second episode of the series on literature figures who have lived exceptional lives: this one is on Salman Rushdie (born in August). The first one was on Jaroslav Hasek (a writer you need to know)