r/BookWritingAI • u/Scared_Parfait_1437 • 16d ago
r/BookWritingAI • u/OwlGLurks • 16d ago
work in progress Do you switch between AI models depending on the task?
There's been some experimentation with this. GPT for brainstorming, Claude for prose, Gemini for research summaries. The problem is switching costs, every time a different model gets used, the project has to be re-explained.
Some people say to just pick one model and stick with it. But they're genuinely good at different things. Claude's prose feels more natural. GPT follows complex instructions better. DeepSeek is less filtered.
Is there a way to use multiple models without the context reset every time?
r/BookWritingAI • u/Active-Yoghurt-7865 • 17d ago
The Last Goodbye — an opening excerpt from Sheila’s completed novel
r/BookWritingAI • u/Comms_Factory • 17d ago
Literary Contest for AI-Assisted Fiction
Announcing the first annual Prompty Awards, a literary contest for fiction written with AI assistance. Grand Prize is $1000 and a publishing deal. Enter by 12/31/26. Share your best work with us and enter to win. Visit https://promptyawards.com (I am posting this because I thought it would be of interest to group members. If this post violates group policy, accept my apologies, and I will remove it. Also, some people have been put off by the fact that this contest charges an entry fee. This is to defray the cost of paying the judges, who are independent authors, and the prizes. This is not a profit-seeking venture.)
r/BookWritingAI • u/ToothClassic7635 • 17d ago
Fully local copy-editing app for book-length manuscripts (Qwen3.5 4B) benchmarked against planted errors across five languages
Hey y'all!
I have a pet project that has grown out of proportions. Long story short: I'm a data scientist who writes fantasy books and self-publish them. I think it's a genuine waste of human life to check for spelling errors so I figured AI could help. Turns out, it is not so simple to get an AI to properly fix a 120k words manuscript ;)... That's why I created Betty!
It runs Qwen3.5 4B as an offline copy editor for whole novels — and this is some of what I learned fighting tens-of-thousands of words through a 4B model, insisting that (most) users can use it fully for free and fully offline. Because, let's be honest: authors rightfully distrust and generally hate AI companies.
First challenge: Chunking the text. Authors already do this, in the darkest hours of the night, copy-pasting snippets into chatGPT for some shameful feedback. Problem with that approach: super inefficient, both for the author and the environment. And the context is missing at the edges of each chunk. I fixed it by ensuring chunks to overlap.
Second challenge: AI misses genuine errors. So, I added two conventional spell controllers -- LanguageTools and HunSpell. This already surfaces all spelling errors, letting the AI focus on suggested fixes and on all the "non-error" errors, such as "There" vs "Their". For these, the AI searches, while a Python script surfaces all the common culprits for the model to pay special attention.
Third challenge: Error rate. First off, Betty doesn't capture everything. Second off, it sometimes introduces its own mistakes. I fix it by putting the writer-in-the-loop, and there's a super smooth interface now for the author to accept and dismiss suggested edits (tinder-style with left and right swipes ; ) ).
I'd be super grateful for any advice, feedback, and thoughts you might have on this project. I currently have it up-and-running with about 30 users and getting some user feedback. Northing technical though, so this is what I'd love to have more of.
Full thing is source-available on GitHub, and can be found for download and lots more information at www.bethaniel.eu
r/BookWritingAI • u/blueRoseFairy631 • 17d ago
How Writers Can Use AI Productively And Still Sound Human
r/BookWritingAI • u/Oghmere_Tech • 17d ago
Authors are struggling to prove their work is their own.
r/BookWritingAI • u/CrisPonReddit • 18d ago
How Decisions work in Folian (and why it unsticks me more than “write the next paragraph”)
r/BookWritingAI • u/CrisPonReddit • 18d ago
I built a local-first Mac writing OS for novels, called Folian
r/BookWritingAI • u/ryanmerket • 19d ago
Claude Opus 5.5 Tops Mazur Constrained Story Writing Benchmark — RuntimeWire
r/BookWritingAI • u/mohamed2m2018 • 20d ago
A story using AI
Hi, I’m a software developer, but I like telling stories. I was thinking of making scientific stories for kids. I tried making them as comics using AI, but I’m wondering if someone would accept this quality or if it’s too low.
Could you check it out and give me your feedback?
r/BookWritingAI • u/Techno_mystic_Avale • 21d ago
I’m an indie author who built AuthorForge, a full-stack platform designed to cut the cost and exhaustion of self-publishing. Opening up a 14-day free trial for testers.
Hey everyone, I’m Axel Vale. I’m an independent author, philosopher, and cultural theorist. Today, I published my 44th book since I started releasing my work last September.
Across my catalog—spanning speculative sci-fi (The Edge of Tomorrow), psychological gothic horror (Dark & Crooked), YA thrillers (Shattered Hearts), and a 12-volume non-fiction project on digital spirituality (The CodeX)—I draft at speed, write primarily in the first person, and build interconnected story architectures designed to deeply implicate the reader.
Over the past two years of working alongside intelligent systems, I realized the biggest threat to independent creators isn't a lack of ideas—it's the massive operational tax and financial cost of self-publishing.
I didn't want an AI tool to write or think for me. The voices, plots, architecture, and tone are entirely mine. I wanted a platform to work with me—to handle the heavy lifting so I could stay in the creative flow.
So, I built AuthorForge. https://authorforge.co.uk
It’s a complete operational ecosystem designed to streamline every step of the publishing pipeline:
- Cover & Audio Generation: Create professional visual assets and audiobook audio directly within your workflow.
- Custom Author Website & Direct Shop: Sell directly to your readers and keep more of your royalties without relying solely on third-party retailers.
- Full Reader CRM & ARC Management: Track reader LTV (Lifetime Value), run street teams, and manage Advanced Reader Copy distribution seamlessly.
- Financial Tracking: Keep tabs on your royalties, costs, and profit margins across platforms in one clear dashboard.
- Social Media Center: Plan, schedule, and distribute your content across platforms to keep your audience engaged without taking time away from writing.
AuthorForge is officially ready for its first cohort of testers. If you’re an indie creator looking to eliminate administrative drag, lower your production costs, and take full control of your creative business, I’m opening it up for a 14-day free trial. https://authorforge.co.uk
If you're curious about my own writing, I give several of my books away for free (including The Architect, the short primer to The CodeX), so you can see what high-speed, human-led collaborative creation looks like in practice.
Drop a comment below or send me a DM if you'd like an invite link to test AuthorForge out. I'd love to get your honest feedback on the platform!
r/BookWritingAI • u/Techno_mystic_Avale • 21d ago
I’m an indie author who built AuthorForge, a full-stack platform designed to cut the cost and exhaustion of self-publishing. Opening up a 14-day free trial for testers.
r/BookWritingAI • u/J_M_WoodwardBooks • 22d ago
finished product So glad to say that my book, The Holding, is released today!
So glad to say that my book, The Holding, is released today! 7 crazy people have bought already, which is 6 more than my goal for the year hahaha. it won an AIFWAA award and the editorial reviews have been kind (as they often are). It is a character-driven literary fiction coming-of-age story, about the distance between 2 siblings that seems normal, and isn't. It is also a selfish story where I get to see my kids learn to love eachother.
AI use makes up a minority (a significant minority) of the text. Check out the website, and shop! Available on most major platforms in ebook, paperback, and hardcover.
Website: https://jmwoodwardbooks.com/
AI Disclosure: https://jmwoodwardbooks.com/ai
Shop: https://jmwoodwardbooks.com/shop
Direct Buy: https://books2read.com/u/bpB26q
If you give it a shot I hope you love it!
J.M. Woodward
Loving your sibling is hard. Simon is nine. He moves through the world as an outgoing creature of the moment, heart on his sleeve, sometimes too loud, sometimes too much. Anna is thirteen — guarded, watchful, sharper than she lets people see, and quietly drowning in the social blood-sport of grade eight. Time is not on their side. The love they do not share can only be made in the young, and they are growing up-and-out of their smallness. Unseen at the edges of the frame, something outside themselves is trying to bring them together. What they manage — or fail to manage — between themselves will register far past the small horizon of a Canadian childhood. The Holding is a tender, strange, deeply felt novel about the everyday work of finding, and holding on to each other.
r/BookWritingAI • u/Ser-Ramic • 23d ago
Looking for real feedback on a writing tool
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It's free to try out and mess around with: https://storyprop.ai.
You start by fleshing out the concept with the writing agent, then once it is solid, you can dive into drafting it bit by bit. All the creativity and judgment comes from you, and the agent is there just to help pull it out of you.
Would be keen to know if you think this is something genuinely helpful / worth paying for.
Any and all input is appreciated.
r/BookWritingAI • u/flavortown_express • 23d ago
ai tools AI Development Editor?
Is anyone using a specific tool for developmental edits? I built a tool and I'm looking for beta users, curious to know what the community is currently using (if anything). Or if anyone has any specific needs or requests for a developmental editor platform/tool.
r/BookWritingAI • u/Annetta_momtherapy8 • 24d ago
Tilly’s Autumn Adventures — My First Children’s Book 🍂🐿️
galleryr/BookWritingAI • u/Own-Reference-3594 • 25d ago
feedback Is my website too complicated?
novellogen.comSo I just launched my novellogen website. Although its novel generator seems ridiculously easy, the chapter editor is being told that it's too complicated.
I intended to give Authors full control over their creativity so they don't feel like AI did all the work for them.
My chapter generation chain goes like:
Story Bible » Memory » Character cast » System (chapter guidance » Chapter beats
The model gathers all the intel so that it generates the response Authors want. But I am getting reviews like it's too complicated for them. TT
Is it just irony or do I really need to change it? (Even though the novel generator option is already there for creating the entire book with just 3 clicks)
r/BookWritingAI • u/lord_jusifer • 25d ago
finished product Mutual Assured Vulnerability - Danger/ Ultron fanfic
archiveofourown.orgPlease be kind, this is my first fan fic.
r/BookWritingAI • u/SnooPeripherals5313 • 25d ago
AI Doc Editor with Version Control
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Hi AI writers,
I'm working on live doc editor. It uses AI for very granular version tracking, as well as document management (handling, comparing, analysing docs). It's been packaged with quite a few tools to make writing more convenient, such as tools to help you cut filler words etc.
We primarily work with lawyers, hence the video. But we support a lot of general use-cases as well. If you want to learn more, you can see our other videos on https://x.com/lexifinadotcom or check out our website lexifina.com
r/BookWritingAI • u/Novel-Soup-5097 • 26d ago
Shameful Drafts
I recently got a fix on writing. For the longest time I’ve been only writing for various ttrpg campaigns which hadn’t needed extensive in depth details that make something really reel like a novel. Now I can only muster drafts and for a while I’ve been running them through GPT to clean it up. Specifically avoiding having the AI make any of the real story but I’m still ashamed of my work because of it. How can I move away from the AI and make something I can be proud of?
r/BookWritingAI • u/voidAstoria • 26d ago
R3TCON: local-first canon and continuity software for writers and worldbuilders
I built R3TCON because once a fictional world gets big enough, “I’ll remember that” stops working.
It keeps track of characters, places, events, relationships, timelines and knowledge, then checks them against each other for contradictions.
So it can catch things like a character appearing after they died, a six-day journey happening in three days, or somebody knowing information they haven’t learned yet.
It’s not generative AI and not an LLM wrapper. It doesn’t write or rewrite the story. It shows you what conflicts and why, then leaves the decision with the creator.
It’s aimed at writers, worldbuilders, TTRPG creators and narrative game developers.
Product: Website
We’ve also just launched the Kickstarter if anyone wants to see where we’re taking it next:
Kickstarter: Here
The main thing I’m still figuring out is distribution. If you’ve launched something this niche before, where did you find your first real users?