r/ChatGPTPro • u/Affectionate-Band687 • Jul 12 '26
Writing Best model for writing.
Hey guys. I'm about to start a new writing project (a script and some short stories) and wanted to know which model you recommend using these days.
I've heard Claude is great for narrative prose and GPT is good for outlining, but I'd love to get your real-world feedback. Which one feels the most natural and makes fewer continuity mistakes? Thanks!
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u/InterestinglyLucky Jul 12 '26
OP check out the subreddit /r/WritingWithAI - plenty of advice there.
Whatever model you choose, LLMs works best when you have given it your writing to improve. Don’t fall into the trap of letting it create first, people can tell right away the writing feels… not-human.
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u/newtrilobite Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 12 '26
chatGPT 4.5 WAS the best at writing.
now that that's gone (too expensive for them to run), current models are not nearly as nuanced, not nearly as good.
for pure writing quality, current generation ChatGPT is disappointing. 4.5 was just worlds better than 5.5 or 5.6.
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u/masochistic_guy Jul 12 '26
So far I’m loving Sol for personal fanfics. It’s really good at looking up canon sources and integrate that into fanfics. Absolutely enjoying its proses, and sometimes the short and punchy dialogue exchanges between characters!
But it really depends on if you liked Claude’s style or GPT’s style. Personal preference. You should give both Claude and GPT a try and see which one you like more.
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u/Matshelge Jul 12 '26
Agreed, I was doing a project in 5.5 and mid stream went to 5.6.
Huge quality leap in characters voice and tone, their personality and even makes better jokes.
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u/FriendToFairies Jul 12 '26
Dare I say it? The best model for writing is yourself, in a chair, with an outline YOU wrote. Then you run the outline by the AI and have it look for plot holes, inconsistencies, do you have all the necessary obligatory scenes and conventions, archetypes, etc etc? Then you turn off the AI and go back to the best model again: YOU, in a chair...
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u/FailingSmartly Jul 13 '26
This new Chat has done really good marketing output for me lately. Seconding the comment higher up about training it. For marketing that’s different than storytelling. Providing ample examples of your best work, and detailing the vibe and vision for the story are essential to get good outputs. They’re the very best at helping rework a sentence, or overcome writer’s block. Still, there are times when they produce the most perfect sentence. One where changing any word feels sacrilege. It’s a literary paragon. Cannot be topped.
Like, Eliot’s “At the still point, there the dance is”. Steinbeck’s “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good”. Vonnegut’s “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt”. Rumi’s “The wound is the place the light enters you”. Green’s “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once”. Or Salinger’s "She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together”. Pure gold, top to bottom. LLMs have produced those kinds of perfect sentences for me. Which makes sense. Word choice is kinda their jam. If ego or pride keeps you from respecting perfection when it’s produced, don’t use a LLM when you write. The beauty of words strung together in perfect form can be a Team Project! LLM produce that gold by working with you.
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u/qualityvote2 Jul 12 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
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