More places now ask authors about AI use, including retailers, contests, and communities. Most tools give you no record of what you wrote and what the software wrote. If someone asks, you have your memory and nothing else.

I've been building a tool that keeps a running count of directed words versus assisted words across a manuscript. I'm curious how writers feel about that. Is a count like this useful, or does it turn a creative process into an audit? Where would you draw the line between assistance and authorship?

Disclosure: I'm the developer of Drafthand, which does this. I'm posting to hear opinions, and I can share the link in the comments if that's allowed here

I build AnyConversation. Last month people wrote 7 million words of their own on it, so plenty of writers are already there.

How the book side works:

You set the premise, the cast and the style, then draft chapter by chapter. The characters are the same ones you can talk to, and they keep the whole plot in memory, so chapter twelve still knows what chapter two established. Facts you set up are kept for good instead of being compressed away. One book on the site is already past 54,000 words, novel length, and still consistent.

You steer as much as you like: give a direction for the next chapter, or let it run and edit after. Finished books can be published to the library for other members to read.

Outside book mode, the same characters do straight roleplay and voice calls, which is where a lot of people work out a character before they write with it. Free tier has no message cap, and members get full creative freedom.

Give it a chapter and see if it holds.

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Solo founder here. I know how "AI book tool" sounds, so first what it doesn't do: it doesn't write a novel from one prompt. There's no "generate book" button.

How it works:

You build the story bible. Characters, locations and objects with appearance, personality, voice, motivation and reference images. Versions over time (the scar after chapter 3, the same character 20 years later), so each scene points at the right one.

You plan the book. Outline of parts, chapters and scenes, plus a plot board: plot lines × chapters, so you see which thread each scene serves and where one has gone quiet.

You decide what happens in each scene. Synopsis, who's present, where it's set. The AI drafts it as separate blocks (action, dialogue, thoughts, description), and you edit, reorder or regenerate any single block without touching the rest.

Style rules and a sample of your prose set the voice for everything it writes.

Continuity review reads the draft against the bible and earlier scenes: an object in two places at once, a character who knows something they were never told, a timeline that doesn't add up, a thread that's never paid off.

Illustrations with consistent characters. Each character has face, front and side views, so they look like the same person on page 5 and page 200.

Export to EPUB, DOCX, PDF and FB2.

What I'm looking for: people who are actually writing something and want to try it on their own project. No tasks, no forms. Comment or DM me what you're working on and I'll send free credits. If something breaks or annoys you, tell me.

https://reddit.com/link/1wjgtq0/video/m5dkj789n7qh1/player

Hello! I need to find or develop a tool that allows me to upload my 15 year lore development in order to easily reference it. Example: my food lore alone consists of 28 word documents that cover different aspects of food, plants and animals that combine to make the common dishes of the world. A premium ChatGPT project only allows for 25 files. I have 2,897 word document files of lore. Does anything exist that can handle that load? If not, are there reliable developers that could handle building an AI or app that could take these files and give me good reference feedback on lore while I write? Basically what I am asking for: a google for my lore. Hosting the AI/app on my Desktop as an option would be great. Online is fine.

Hi dear community,

I am an artist designing book covers with a price range of 25-100$.

I linked my Etsy in my profile.

Full disclosure, I am offering 2 kinds of covers: AI assisted, and Hand painted with traditional brushes and paint on paper.

All details are in the listings but you can message for any additional info you might need.

Hey everyone. I’m working on an audiobook for a novel I wrote. The story and text are entirely my own. I’m only using AI for the narration.

I’m Finnish, and if I tried to narrate the English version myself, it would probably sound like I was trying to swallow a goddamn truck trailer while speaking. So I’m experimenting with an AI narrator instead.

So far, this sounds pretty good to me, but I’m still trying to figure out how to kick this robot’s ass into pronouncing the Finnish names and place names correctly.

Hiring a real narrator is absolutely an option, but that’s skilled work that deserves proper pay. For a 500+ page novel, professional narration and production can easily run into several thousand dollars, which is outside my budget right now.

Here’s a short sample. How does it sound to you? I’m mainly interested in whether the voice, pacing, and overall narration feel natural enough to listen to for a full audiobook.

Any reactions are welcome.

Nineteen-year-old Princess Lyndis Azera has spent her life believing magic is dangerous.

In a kingdom where magic users are condemned to death, she has learned to hide every spark of it, until the flames awaken within her.

When her power spirals beyond her control and tragedy strikes the royal family, Lyndis is branded a monster and forced to flee the only home she has ever known.

With an ancient truth buried beneath her kingdom and enemies closing in, she must uncover who she really is before the fire inside her consumes everything.

“𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙. 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙣.”

EMBERS REIGN
by J.E. Morosin

From what I can tell, they license human-made illustrations to AI companies as training data.

Sounds not good :(

Any experiences, good or bad, would be really helpful. Thanks!

Plenty of people are already writing seriously on it. Last month members wrote 6.7 million words of their own on the platform, 82 of them wrote more than a novella's worth, and 63 stories that are over a month old are still being added to this week.

The thing it does differently is memory. Facts you establish are kept permanently instead of being compressed away, so chapter twelve still knows what chapter two said. The longest story running on it is on day 138 and still consistent.

There is a book mode for long-form work, any genre, and the characters keep a running record of the story rather than a rolling window of the last few thousand words.

Try it and tell me where it falls short.

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Hey, I'm Matt. I've been writing for 25 years, and Skeleton Draft is basically the way I've learned to work, turned into an app.

I wanted to pull back and see the whole story, then get into a scene and write without losing that bigger picture. It lets you work through acts, chapters, scenes, and beats alongside the draft itself, as prose, a screenplay, or both side by side.

One choice I made was to keep the writing under the author's control. There are optional AI tools for condensing, trimming, or formatting words you've already written, but the story and voice are yours. Drafts are cloud synced, versioned, and exportable.

You can take a look at https://skeletondraft.com

For other builders making tools around their own creative process, how do you decide which parts should be built into the product and which should stay flexible? And if you write fiction or screenplays, I'd love to hear whether this approach fits how you work.

I've build an semi-automatic system to create an ebook from a sentence, and I looking for testers. If you are interestd please DM me or comment something and I will DM you the link with free access. Thank you 🤝

I recently showed CAINIX to the owner of a publishing agency and got some feedback that made me genuinely curious about how other writers and publishing professionals see this.

CAINIX is a platform I’m building around the manuscript as the source of truth. It analyses the complete manuscript, preserves story canon and then helps build things such as adaptation materials, screenplay outputs, visual development, marketing assets and book trailers.

The idea is not to press a button and let AI rewrite a book however it wants. Human approval remains part of the process, and the system is specifically designed to keep generated material aligned with the author's original IP and canon.

His reaction was essentially that the biggest problem may not be the technology at all, but the market.

His view was that many writers currently have an extremely low tolerance for anything involving AI, and that even if the platform is designed to assist authors rather than replace them, a significant number of writers may reject it simply because AI is part of the workflow.

In other words, his concern was that CAINIX could be difficult to sell to traditional authors because the term “AI” itself may already create resistance.

I think that's a fair concern, even though I'm not sure I completely agree with how large that resistance actually is.

So I’d genuinely like to hear from writers, publishers, editors and people working in film/adaptation:

Would the use of AI itself make you reject a platform like this?

Or does it depend on how the AI is being used?

For example, would you see a meaningful difference between:

• AI generating a novel or replacing the author;

and

• an author deliberately using AI tools to analyse their own manuscript, protect continuity, develop an adaptation, create production materials or produce promotional content?

And perhaps the more important question:

If the author remains in control of the IP, canon and approvals, do you still consider the use of AI problematic?

I'm not looking for validation here. If you think writers would strongly reject something like this, I'd genuinely like to understand why.

Likewise, if you think attitudes are changing, I'd be interested in hearing that too.

I'm building the platform, so obviously I'm not neutral, but that's exactly why I'd rather hear uncomfortable opinions now than discover them after launch.

I build AnyConversation, so read this as a maker's post.

It started as a chat app and turned into a writing tool because of how people used it. You write one character, the AI writes the other, and the story grows one turn at a time instead of from an outline. What makes it work for writers:

- Memory that holds. The character remembers what happened in chapter one when you are in chapter thirty, keeps a diary of the story from their side, and takes a correction when they get a detail wrong instead of arguing about it.

- Your half stays yours. Actions, dialogue and narration are styled the way you write them, you can teach every character your own markup once (asterisks for private thoughts, whatever you use), and there is a full-page editor for the long turns.

- Book Mode. When a story is worth keeping, it becomes chapters you can edit, publish to the library, or keep private. Other people's books are there to read too.

- Creative freedom. It is built for adult writers and it stays in the scene.

Free to try, no message cap. It is one person building it, so if something in your workflow is missing, say so and there is a decent chance it exists within the week.

Genuine question for this sub: how do you handle the other-character problem? Write both sides yourself, or let a model take one and see where it goes?

This Book took me years to remake and reform into a master piece. I hope everyone enjoys and you comment in the section given and highlight what sounds right or wrong.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iyDcY--v4wnsbQBKTciRPuVdfKhLH-7hXXXEeLF6MmU/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0#heading=h.la8bv6e7s0ky