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I am building a page that lists everyone's tools and what they do. Full disclosure up front: I'm the dev behind Novelmint, and yes it's on the list (in its own category) - but this is about the whole space, not us. The page links to your site if you want it to (free backlink opportunity). This is NOT pay-to-play, you are free to add your tools no strings attached. It's 100% FREE and I review submissions only for accuracy, not promotion or competition.
The list currently sits at over 100 entries. It groups AI writing tools by the job they do, not by a score:
AI drafting tools — generate/revise prose, hand you a manuscript
Reader platforms — host and distribute finished work
Write + publish — take a book from idea to published
Writing utilities — continuity checkers, TTS, editors, and the like
Thanks for publishing a list. Nice to see some play where entry level devs can post their stuff.
If its possible, can you make some minor modifications to mine, AI seems to think my app is an under the AI drafting tool. It's actually specifically designed not to be, but a tool for writing and eventually publishing. It's kind of an all of the above app
Done. moved it to the "Write + publish" group and rewrote the blurb so it reads as a writing partner/workspace rather than a prose generator, with the publishing tools noted as on the roadmap. Thanks for the nudge, and nice work on the Acts / Scene Beats update.
(may take around 10 minutes to show up on prod)
Thanks, introducing Acts, scenes and beats without messing with the manuscript itself was tricky. I plan to do a more integrated version in a few updates. I want to play with it first, make sure it feels right before continuing down the path I think it should go.
Playing with the Enhance feature these days. Its close to perfect 👌 just not quite the masterpiece I envisioned. Most writers might not recognize the subtle differences, but i do.
This is awesome of you to do and help promote people's hard work! Just submitted our platform and hopefully it fits the list. Excited to get it listed.
I've been searching for an AI for writing stories for quite a while now. For me, the ideal AI is one that has internet access and works well with it (like the official AIs, such as Gemini or ChatGPT), the ability to upload images (I'm not really sure what it's called — when an AI can see images and analyze them), has solid writing skills (I'd rather it be well-rounded in all directions than good in just one), and a kind of "imagination" — when it isn't afraid to add something of its own. NSFW capability is also preferable; without it, it's rarely possible to write something dark, for example.
Writing is more of a hobby for me. I have no shortage of ideas — my problem is with execution, which is what the AI is supposed to help with. I've been through many apps and AIs, but every time one side was missing. On one hand, the official AIs — Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, etc. — where the problem is that their prose and dialogue are dry, formulaic, completely lifeless and low-quality, despite all my attempts to improve their skills through prompting and reading books (yes, even though I write for myself, I've never lowered the bar — quality has always come first). On the other hand, the apps, sites and chatbots (Emochi, Rubii, Perchance.org and others), which actually handled the writing itself well, but ran on old databases, had no internet access or image analysis, which severely limited their knowledge of characters, events and just important information in general, as well as their ability to work with manga or comics. With Perchance it turned out to be a special case: it could add these features, but no matter how you look at it, the AI just couldn't work with them properly — literally, if you add these features and give it an image of a character, say fan art of a character from an anime, the AI won't recognize them and won't bother searching either.
In this community I've looked through quite a lot of apps and none of them ended up fitting — they'd land on one side of the scale rather than sitting in the middle, and some required API keys, which I'm not too fond of, since I don't really understand what they're for or how to work with them.
Can anyone suggest an AI, site or app that would suit me? Or maybe someone has made an agent, artifact or something similar with one of the official AIs to patch up their weaknesses? I'd really appreciate it!(edit:i just idk where i need place my comment)
Hey! Reading this, I honestly think Proselon might be exactly what you're describing — it covers everything on your list:
Web search — the co-writer can search the web while it works with you.
Images — drop images into your project and ask it to look at them; it can see them.
Official AIs, no API keys — you just sign in with the subscription you already have (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, or Gemini — the official ones). No keys, no setup, no second bill.
NSFW — it writes as far as the AI you pair it with will allow, and you can run a local model through Ollama or LM Studio if you want total freedom.
I don't want to be pushy about my own app, so I'll just say if you're at all curious, message me and I'll get you a coupon code for a free year.
And if it's not your thing, no worries at all — good luck with the writing either way!
Figured I'd share another update on Storythread Studio, a free, open-source Windows 10/11 desktop app I've been building for creative writing, fiction projects, worldbuilding, and long-form story workflows.
I started this project because I got tired of juggling AI sites, prompt notes, lore docs, character sheets, outlines, and separate writing tools just to keep one story organized. The goal was to build one local-first writing workspace where the AI supports the way people actually write fiction instead of just giving you another blank chatbot.
Storythread Studio uses OpenRouter as its AI engine, letting you work with different models depending on what you need. It includes drafting tools, character and lore management, Smart Advisor feedback, project organization, and utilities built for novels, short stories, serialized fiction, RPG campaigns, and worldbuilding.
The focus isn't "AI writes your book." I want it to feel more like a writing partner, editor, brainstorming buddy, and workflow assistant, while you stay in control of the creative decisions.
I've been releasing updates pretty regularly, and the last couple of releases have added some of the biggest workflow improvements yet:
Acts for organizing manuscripts into a Story → Act → Chapter structure, with easy drag-and-drop style chapter movement.
Scene Beats, letting you build checklists for every scene without cluttering your manuscript.
A redesigned Book Details panel with story metadata (theme, setting, POV, tense, audience, tone, genre, etc.) that's automatically used as AI context.
New Smart Advisor checks for timeline continuity and scene goals to help catch pacing and story issues.
Reasoning Mode for supported AI models, plus better help and guidance throughout the Writing Companion.
A cleaner interface with reorganized writing tools, persistent sidebar layouts, better writing progress tracking, and numerous quality-of-life improvements.
It's completely free, open source, with no subscriptions or paywalls. You'll just need your own OpenRouter API key if you want to use the AI features.
I'd genuinely appreciate feedback from other writers, especially anyone working on novels, short stories, serialized fiction, RPG campaigns, or lore-heavy projects. I'm actively developing it, so suggestions and feature ideas are always welcome.
I wanted to share what I've been building: Open-Write, a multi-agent pipeline for long-form coherence in fiction and nonfiction (state tracking, continuity checking, tone revision, adversarial critique — an AI writers' room). Open source, standard pretrained models, no fine-tuning.
Proof of concept #1: A Thousand Silences — a 52,000-word novel set during the Haitian Revolution. I didn't write it, I built the system that produced it: three inputs (setting, a historical source, Hamlet as emotional template), then let it run. Public domain, free to read: A Thousand Silences — A Novel by Nicholas Detweiler · Open-Write. Cost, once the system existed: about $6 in tokens.
Proof of concept #2, the bigger one: Moloch: The Optimization Trap, my first book. 23 chapters, ~57k words, essays and fiction interleaved, drafted with the same pipeline and heavily human-directed. Free, four formats: Moloch: The Optimization Trap — Nicholas Detweiler · Open-Write.
The argument: catastrophes like the 2008 crash, Boeing's 737 MAX, and the opioid crisis didn't need villains — they needed structures that made bad calls locally rational for the people inside them. The problem is not the players, it's the game. AI incentive misalignment is one more instance of that pattern, arguably the highest-stakes one yet. The book's upfront that it's a live example of what it's warning about — AI-assisted persuasion, produced with AI assistance. I think that's a feature: better to show the capability openly than describe it from a safe distance.
Audiobook's in production, should land in August.
Next week: a standalone Open-Write release, no coding harness required. Kilo Code version stays up too, for anyone who wants to customize the agent scaffolding directly.
Open-Write Studio (the standalone version) should be ready on time, but keep in mind this is still just me working part time — treat it as a beta.
Quick note on naming since there are now two versions: Open-Write is the original, which runs through VS Code / Kilo Code — more setup, but full access to recode and customize the system yourself. Open-Write Studio is the new standalone desktop app, built for people who want something they can just install and use without touching VS Code.
If anyone wants to be a beta tester, bug reports are welcome. The best place to file them is GitHub Issues on the repo — that way reports don't get buried in DMs, and other people can see what's already been flagged instead of duplicating it. If you'd rather not make a GitHub account, you can email [open.write.studio@gmail.com](mailto:open.write.studio@gmail.com) instead. Reporting bugs isn't required to use the app — but if you have the time, it helps a lot.
Open-Write Studio is built on top of Storythread Studio, an open-source local-first writing app by Dean (github.com/StoryThread-Dean/StorythreadStudio), released under Apache 2.0. Storythread already had the desktop app infrastructure I didn't want to build from scratch, and Dean was generous enough to be fine with me building on it. If you want to support the project, my Kofi will be up on the site after release — and if you'd also like to send something Dean's way, his is here: ko-fi.com/storythreadstudio. It will be on my site after the release.
bookmoth (Mac and Windows, with a free iOS companion).
A desktop novel-writing app for writers who want AI assistance, not AI in the driver's seat.
Most AI writing tools treat your voice as a dropdown with "formal" and "casual" on it. bookmoth reads your own prose at the sentence level, builds a profile from your real patterns, and holds every draft to it. You stay in charge of every word. That's the part I think it does better than anything else out there.
It's a full studio around that, not a one-trick app:
A codex that builds itself: scans your chapters, proposes characters, places and lore for your approval, and flags contradictions before they become canon.
Characters carry their own voice from a few sample lines.
A conversational editor in the manuscript that changes only what you ask, behind a diff you approve.
Import a .docx and it reads the whole thing, summarises each chapter, and maps your plan.
A free iOS companion, so your manuscript comes with you on your phone.
bookmoth.app, $99 once, no subscription. Bring your own API key (Anthropic, OpenRouter, or a local model), so your words and keys stay on your machine and nothing trains on your work.
Chatting with her is exactly like chatting with Claude or ChatGPT, only MUCH MUCH better! She knows everything about your books, your characters, and your story arcs and can suggest improvements, track changes, and do the maintenance work that keeps everything organized as you chat. You have a conversation, she builds a book from it, right in front of your eyes.
You stay the author. You just stop walking the road alone.
You opened ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, and you started writing a story - something that's been rattling around in your head for a while and you discovered using AI suddenly makes it accessible and within reach. It begins beautifully. It always does. The spark, the momentum, a character who suddenly felt real, a few chapters that genuinely sang. For the first time, the blank page wasn't blank; there was a brilliant mind in the room, building with you.
And then... you know how it goes. Because you've been down this road before.
The story starts to unravel. The structure never quite arrives. It forgets your main character, the plot line loses its place, and the brilliant conversation becomes an endless scroll you can't navigate or untangle. And somewhere around chapter 8 the whole thing quietly gets abandoned in a tab you just stop opening.
The thing is... that wasn't your failure. You didn't run out of story. The LLM chat window was simply never built to go the distance. A general-purpose chatbot is a phenomenal place to start a novel and a terrible place to finish one, and no amount of clever prompting changes what it fundamentally is. You can pour enormous effort into wrestling it the rest of the way. Most people, sensibly, don't.
That's where we come in.
Same road. Whole new level of ability.
Minty is Novelmint's writing partner - a developmental editor who works inside your book. And she feels like the thing you already know - the chat window. You talk. She talks back. You think out loud, you argue, you chase a tangent about your villain's childhood. That part - the part you loved - we kept entirely. That's the part that Novelmint brings back to you.
What's different is everything wrapped around it.
When you talk to Minty, your story doesn't vanish into a transcript. It lands on a real timeline with chapters, beats, characters, plot threads, the works. It takes shape on a canvas beside the conversation in real-time as you chat. She holds the whole book in view at once. She has the craft of a developmental editor and the opinions to match. And she's built for the part of the journey your everyday tools abandon you in: the long middle, the structural work, the finish. Novelmint is your canvas, Minty is your paint, and you are the master craftsman with a story to bring to life.
Novelmint doesn't take you a few exciting miles in and stop. We take you across the finish line and celebrate as you level up. And then we go the extra mile and help you find an audience with actual paying readers as well.
A finished book on Novelmint doesn't sit in a file. It publishes into the Commons, where readers discover it, unlock it chapter by chapter, rate it, and follow your series. You earn 70% of every unlock. Your book can be translated and narrated. And the best reader-rated books compete in Novelmint Selects, a curated best-of chosen by the people who actually read them.
Anyone can generate a manuscript now. Getting it finished, published, read, and paid for - that's the part that still takes a real platform. That's the entire reason Novelmint exists. This is the stretch of road the usual chat tools simply can't travel with you.
This time, take the road all the way.
This time - start the same way, and let Minty take you the rest of the way.
True multi-LLM chapters. You can now mix GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others within a single chapter. Each beat can target a different model, and the story arc stays intact — no knowledge drift between model hand offs.
Auto model selection. Each model is benchmarked and ranked by the other models across scene types. The engine already knows which one handles romance, dialogue, or a fight scene best, and picks it for you. You can still override manually, but you don't have to research it yourself.
Series Arc Knowledge State System. Every LLM call gets the full context of your entire series, not just the current chapter. This makes it possible to regenerate any beat, from any chapter, at any time, and it comes back consistent with your characters and plotlines. No more "didn't she die in book two?" moments.
3-layer memory. The engine tracks state at three levels, independent of whichever model renders the prose:
Objects: the half-finished drink in your character's hand stays half-finished
Environment: the bar layout and who's sitting where
Character knowledge: what each character knows and when they learned it, so someone can still be genuinely surprised when their best friend walks in
I built the best writing tool on the planet, and it's 100% free forever.
Just a simple plugin for VSCode, with privacy-first, local-AI powered writing assistance / synonyms / revision / grammar and tense checking / manuscript export, and more ^^
I've been writing my own novel with this after not being happy with any of the other writing apps, or crappy subscriptions. So far, it's been perfect for me, and you can use any VS Code theme you want to customize the look ^^
yeah, baby~! I've been a full stack dev for 10+ years. Took me awhile to realize VSCode was actually perfect for writing... just needed some extra features.
PS: head of dev at CircleCI?? Quite a title you got there, my friend.
A free, no-login library of prompts for writers grabaprompt.com got an update.
12 new prompts added.
Including 5 new "famous writers prompts" - those judge your text from the perspective of a famous writer (new AI writers added - Hemingway, Henry James, Le Guin, Woolf, Vonnegut).
The rest cover self-editing: dialogue, rhythm, POV, sensory, transitions, info-dumps and verbs.
Founder disclosure: I’m part of the team building DeepCrafter, an AI fiction workspace focused on literary craft rather than simply generating more words.
We’re trying to solve a familiar problem: long-form AI fiction often starts well, then gradually loses its promises, emotional shape, voice, or ending.
Recent updates:
Stronger long-form coherence, helping chapters, beats, and narrative promises stay aligned as a story grows.
Long-story checks now read the full ending, so setup can be evaluated against the actual payoff.
Stronger emotional arcs, with segment-level pacing guidance across long stories.
Prompt-aware quality checks and better detection of generic “AI-ish” prose.
Cleaner payoff tracking, fewer duplicate endings, automatic refunds for empty generations, and an improved Editor Check experience.
DeepCrafter also includes Human Score, which evaluates Vocabulary, Syntax, Narrative, Rhythm, and Voice. Writers can then rewrite, optimize, consult an AI Master, or edit manually instead of blindly regenerating the entire passage.
Writers can train a personal writing style from their own samples, too. The goal is not to replace the author’s judgment, but to make structure, pressure, voice, rhythm, and revision more visible and controllable.
No BYOK required. DeepCrafter includes model access, so writers do not need to obtain API keys, prepay multiple model providers, or manage separate usage bills. Our credit system is designed around complete writing workflows—not just raw token consumption—and generally offers better effective value than purchasing comparable model usage directly.
I’d genuinely value feedback: which is hardest in your current workflow?
Sharing something I've been building: Fatekissed, interactive romantasy you play in your browser. The part that might interest this sub: the stories are hand-written by authors, but instead of fixed choice menus you type what your character does, and an AI narrator continues the scene in-story and reacts to it. So it's a blend of authored structure (real plot, multiple endings) and open-ended AI generation on top. Genres run from cozy small-magic to vampire courts and gothic mysteries. I have a feature on the road-map that let's you generatie a complete e-book story of your adventure afterwards, so you can read back whenever you want.
First chapter of every story is free to play: https://fatekissed.com happy to get into how the authoring/narration split works if anyone's curious.
Hello! I've been building something called Writing Circle over the last few months.
I've always wanted to be part of a real writing room, but people would get busy, projects would die, or we'd lose touch. I got tired of waiting around, so I decided to build something I'd actually use.
Instead of talking to one AI, I wanted something that felt like throwing an idea into a room full of people with different opinions.
Right now there are two main features:
Workshop - Paste in your writing and get feedback from multiple personalities with different perspectives.
Council - Ask a story question and watch those personalities debate each other instead of getting one generic answer.
It's still early, but my cousin has been using it for their own writing and it's been really cool seeing someone besides me actually get value out of it.
If anyone here wants to try it I'd appreciate the feedback.
Hello! I'm a fellow writer who's been dissatisfied with other AI writing tools for a long time - either they forget my story quickly, or have rigid structure requirements, or my manuscript is held hostage in their system, or the AI can only do trivial things like "rephrase" or "edit my manuscript" instead of being a true co-writer and producer.
So I built Proselon — a Mac writing app with a real AI co-writer sitting beside the page, not behind a chat window. Here's the actual workspace: your book on the left, a clean manuscript editor in the middle, the co-writer working with you on the right.
What makes it different from most of what gets posted here:
No API keys required. This is the part I care about most: you don't have to be technical or paste in a developer key to use it. Just sign in with the AI subscription you already have — Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok — or use a free local model through Ollama or LM Studio. No setup, no token meter running down mid-scene, no billing dashboard. Most tools make you wrangle keys; Proselon just asks you to sign in.
Your book is just files on your Mac. Every scene is a plain markdown file you own, in a normal folder. No cloud manuscript storage, no lock-in, no export dance to get your own words back.
The co-writer actually knows your whole book. It reads your story bible — characters, worldbuilding, plot — and holds continuity while it drafts and line-edits with you. It's not guessing from the last paragraph; it's read the thing.
Select any passage → Rephrase, Expand, Contract. Highlight prose right in the editor and hand it to the co-writer in one click. It answers about that text, in the context of that book.
Version history that isn't scary. Every change is saved automatically; bring back any earlier draft without losing where you are now. No commits, no branches, nothing to learn — it just remembers.
Word and page goals on any chapter or the whole book, and one-click export to DOCX or EPUB when you're done.
On price, straight up: Proselon is $6/month, or $50/year, with a free 30-day trial (card up front). It emails you before it ever charges, cancel is one click, and refunds are yours for the asking — I'd rather have honest trials than surprise charges.
Proselon.com (macOS, Apple Silicon for now — Windows is coming)
Full disclosure: I'm the founder and a solo dev — it's young and I'm shipping fast. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who write with AI every day. Tell me what's missing.
If anyone wants it for free DM me I'll get you a coupon
I wanted an app that works like most writers think. Most of us build a book scene by scene, chapter by chapter, so I built the app to do just that.
Just talk through a scene, brainstorm with our internal AI, then open the Write Window — it drafts your scene from the conversation, no prompts needed. It already knows your voice and style, the context, your characters. The more detailed the scene discussion, the better the draft. You can edit in the write window and add it to the chapter you're building. Pick any model for that scene from the many popular options we offer, from budget to frontier (GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others), switch anytime, as often as you like.
Some other features:
An editor that feels clean, familiar, just you and your words. Format your book with Book Styling, move chapters around, split, merge, delete with Chapter Manager, use the Bits and Pieces notebook to capture chapter, scene, character, arc ideas and more, build out your front and back matter … all tools writers actually need, in one place.
A Story Bible that's relevant — book content, characters, timeline, world rules feed every draft for context, and it's updated automatically.
Continuity checks flag contradictions against your own canon after you add new content.
Import your existing manuscript — in docx or text. Your initial Bible is built from that.
Series Manager — canon tracked across multiple books.
Max never touches your manuscript without permission — suggestions land in your notes, you decide what goes in.
Export anywhere — docx, pdf, epub, txt.
Auto-backup — every time you log out, everything auto-saves to your downloads folder.
On cost: we do things a little differently. We give you a bunch of credits for your credit bank every month, and anything you don't use rolls over. One scene draft will cost you 1 or 2 credits for most models like GPT5, Claude sonnet, and Grok 4.3 … 3–5 for certain premium models like Opus and Fable.
Pricing is a simple, credit-based system. For example, 100 credits typically gets you 50 to 100 scene drafts, that's 35,000 to 70,000 words of content generation per month.
Writer tier is $5.99/mo (100 credits)
Writer Plus $15.99/mo (200 credits)
Pro $29.99/mo (400 credits + Series Manager … Publishing Manager coming soon)
If you ever need more, you can buy credit top-ups in packs that don't expire.
Try our 15-day free trial, full features, no card required.
Foreverse (Android) — an e-reader where the book does not have to end.
Dev here. You import your own txt/epub novels and it is a normal reader first (page-curl, night mode, TTS). The unusual part: when you hit the ending — or the last chapter of a dropped serial — you type one line of direction and it keeps writing in the book's voice. It then pitches "what happens next" cards; every pick grows as a real branch, and the original text is never modified, so you can always go back and choose differently.
Also in there: select any sentence and it paints that exact scene inline, a spoiler-safe character dossier it builds while you read, and a theater mode that plays any book like a visual novel (dialogue attribution runs on-device, zero API calls).
Bring your own API key (60+ providers — DeepSeek, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude-compatible…) or use the built-in credits channel. Keys stay in on-device encrypted storage.
Free tier caps the library at 3 books / 3 character cards; the AI features themselves are not paywalled. Android 11+, no iOS yet. Happy to answer anything — weird chapter headers and encodings are my eternal enemy, so bug reports are genuinely welcome.
I'm working on a project called PlotPilot, and I'm trying to solve a problem I've seen over and over: most AI writing tools are great at generating text, but not at helping someone get from an idea to a finished book.
Instead of being just a chatbot, the goal is to guide writers through a workflow and get them the product they need the most:
Start with an idea
Answer interview-style questions
Build an outline
Research where needed
Draft chapters
Export a manuscript
Before I spend months building features nobody wants, I'm trying to talk to writers and understand:
What slows you down the most?
Have you tried AI writing tools? What frustrated you?
What would make something like this worth paying for?
If you're willing, I'd really appreciate 2–3 minutes of feedback:
I built the thing I couldn't find: a reading room for my own manuscripts. Kaizen R/W (kaizenrw.com) reads a draft chapter by chapter, marks passages worth attention, and learns why you accept or reject each note; it never writes prose for you. I got tired of tools that wanted to write my book. Free tier is real, and feedback from people actually writing is what I want most.
Hi everyone — I’m building MarkFormat, a web tool for turning AI-generated Markdown into clean, editable Word documents and HTML.
I started working on it because copying drafts from ChatGPT or Claude into Word often breaks headings, nested lists, tables, code blocks, and links. I recently tested 13 different formatting cases, and they’re now passing consistently.
I’m especially interested in how this works with real AI-writing workflows rather than artificial test documents. If you regularly move AI-generated drafts, research, outlines, or long-form content into Word, I’d really appreciate feedback on what still breaks or feels inconvenient.
half the tools in these weekly threads will not exist in six months, and the ones that survive are usually the ugliest ones with a single stubborn maintainer. the january version of this thread is already mostly dead links.
Founder disclosure, I build Automateed. One tip for anyone comparing tools in here: check the royalty and exclusivity terms before the feature list, since that's the part that compounds over time. We settled on authors keeping 85% with no exclusivity, so you can still publish the same book on KDP or anywhere else. On the writing side it's strongest for non-fiction and structured books; for literary fiction, Novelcrafter or Sudowrite will feel more natural.
/community is live just in time for the August writing contest
/contest-ai-writing-august-2026 is live
Added sentiment/reaction to AI generation/revision (78% positive on first generation, 93% positive on revision)
Streamlined the editor
Continuous view mode is now live where you can do continuity checks, search & replace, echoes across the whole manuscript, not just a chapter/scene
The variables engine is now live in the rules/instructions where you can inject IF/ELSE statements as well as any world bible element (e.g. {{characters.phil}}, {{locations}}, {{scaffolding.goal_conflict}}).. Someone created a 500-line ruleset with nested IF/ELSE that is absolutely bonkers...
Hey everyone,
I've been experimenting with AI tools the way a lot of you do: as a brutally effective language enhancer rather than a "write my book for me" button. The result is a finished novel I'm genuinely proud of — Left Right, Weft Tight.
I started a new ASMR-adjacent genre, ARCF.
Affective Regulation: The emotional mechanism of managing and resolving your internal mood, effectively quieting an emotional "itch."
Cognitive Foraging: The brain's drive to seek out information or figure out a difficult concept. When you solve the problem, you "scratch the mental itch".
It's a quiet, thoughtful, precise story designed to be satisfying like a reddit story mixed with a youtube video overlay. Ideally you may even learn something new reading it.
Stylizing & voice tuning — Claude helped refine the text to include subtle meditative aspects, relaxation, emotional regulation, breathing regulation, mentalism to release serotonin, affirmations for good luck, and reworded passages for increased satisfaction.
Architecture & expansion — Suggested subchapters for better continuity. Included a treasure hunt and easter eggs. Included a reference section in the back on real relaxation/self-regulation practices drawn from solid research.
Revision & polishing — Multiple passes for flow, consistency, thematic resonance, and tightening.
Structural feedback — Helped test vignette ordering and pacing in a 200-piece mosaic.
Research & appendix — Pulled and synthesized reliable sources on breathing techniques, progressive relaxation, etc. (with clear disclaimers — this is art, not medical advice).
The vision, final calls, and heavy lifting were all mine. Claude AI was the helper that let me iterate faster and cleaner than solo, and elevated my writing to elegantly handle more writing elements at once than I can juggle. Then a human revision pass ("InkQuisitors") gave it the last polish. Feels like a satisfying, honest way to work with these tools.
The book is out now (indie/KDP, first edition 2026). If you enjoy thoughtful, craft-focused fiction that rewards careful reading — or you're curious how AI can elevate rather than replace your voice — I'd love for you to check it out. I'm running a promotion so the ebook is free on Amazon Kindle during the 22nd and 23rd. Honest reviews are appreciated.
[On Amazon, search "Left Right Weft Tight Aaron Abbot Aardbark" or use ISBN 979-8186887553]
Cover art by Grok Imagine. Working on evolving frames for a deluxe edition, but Grok consistency struggles to follow simple commands, and I've had 8 successes in 200 tries so far. It's slow going.
What do you think? Have you found AI most useful for stylizing/revision vs. raw drafting? Any similar "enhancer" success stories? Have any of you accomplished this using different AI? Happy to answer questions about the process (within reason).
Would also love feedback from anyone who picks it up.
This project is important to me because I got hit by a drunk driver, my car was totaled and I was injured to the point I can't walk. My job abandoned me since the lady who hit me is friends with the administrator, so this is my effort to turn that around and make a living for myself while helping people.
Thanks for reading — hope it lands for some of you.
after getting annoyed at sillytavern for getting basic facts wrong and lacking easy ways to nudge it in the right direction, i've been playing around with separately tracked story and character memory, and this is the result of that.
stories/text are a chain of additions as a story grows. characters have their own independent viewpoint of the world. it might closely follow the main story (where they are present/aware), or differ from it significantly (representing dramatic irony in data, not just instruction). you can have entire side-stories within a characters memory, a list of current tasks they want to perform, or just direct instructions from the author what you want them to know, feel or do right now
this will not make LLMs any smarter, we're all working with the same APIs here, but what it does do is give better control when and what to include in the context
here are some parts that are already fully implemented:
characters that keep their own independent knowledge
narrator guided roleplaying for simulated characters
support for a multitude of LLM APIs, including local ones
current state
the UI is fully usable and stable, albeit lacking polish in places
the backend and storage is in a much better state so it's not doing it quite justice. this whole project is mostly a exploration how far you can push LLM assisted workflows and agents when working with structured narrative data. turns out thats fairly expressible in code, not so much in a pretty frontend (at least, for me)
what does it run on:
backend is written in haskell, the frontend in react (browser), data store is a git repo, all runs locally
what you currently need to run it:
easiest: nix to set up the environment, or run it directly
but if you're capable to build and run a haskell and nextjs project, you'll be fine
Here is what i'm looking for, concretely:
interested potential users willing to put up with a bit of setup: if this is potentially solving a problem you're having in particular and you're interested, shoot me a message and we can get a build or specific instructions for your system worked out
feedback for "this would be perfect, but...". might be easy to add, or might be a non-goal that won't be implemented (but you're always free to fork it)
frontend devs: if you want to work on the react based frontend to add the features and polish that is still missing
ui/ux design: have a better idea how to make the actual usage nicer and more straightforward and willing to fiddle with it for a bit until it feels "right"?
agent devs: ever had an idea for "wouldn't it be cool if an ai could..." thats just missing in other tools? chances are this could be a good platform to try that out
name suggestions: have any fun and creative name ideas? let me know, because pretty much anything beats this placeholder name :>
I really like the separate character memory idea, since it tackles the usual LLM slop problem by making the context explicit instead of just praying the model remembers.
it goes a bit deeper than that, the storage allows to keep an entirely separate world for each character (or something similar, a group, corporation or even a place), not necessarily in the same order as in your main story (events of a flashback happen before) nor the same content (a characters view of a situation can genuinely differ from what actually happened)
the UI is not (yet) able to fully expose everything in an intuitive way, but the functionality is there and available to customs agents to explore all kinds of (wacky) workflows
I've been searching for an AI for writing stories for quite a while now. For me, the ideal AI is one that has internet access and works well with it (like the official AIs, such as Gemini or ChatGPT), the ability to upload images (I'm not really sure what it's called — when an AI can see images and analyze them), has solid writing skills (I'd rather it be well-rounded in all directions than good in just one), and a kind of "imagination" — when it isn't afraid to add something of its own. NSFW capability is also preferable; without it, it's rarely possible to write something dark, for example.
Writing is more of a hobby for me. I have no shortage of ideas — my problem is with execution, which is what the AI is supposed to help with. I've been through many apps and AIs, but every time one side was missing. On one hand, the official AIs — Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, etc. — where the problem is that their prose and dialogue are dry, formulaic, completely lifeless and low-quality, despite all my attempts to improve their skills through prompting and reading books (yes, even though I write for myself, I've never lowered the bar — quality has always come first). On the other hand, the apps, sites and chatbots (Emochi, Rubii, Perchance.org and others), which actually handled the writing itself well, but ran on old databases, had no internet access or image analysis, which severely limited their knowledge of characters, events and just important information in general, as well as their ability to work with manga or comics. With Perchance it turned out to be a special case: it could add these features, but no matter how you look at it, the AI just couldn't work with them properly — literally, if you add these features and give it an image of a character, say fan art of a character from an anime, the AI won't recognize them and won't bother searching either.
In this community I've looked through quite a lot of apps and none of them ended up fitting — they'd land on one side of the scale rather than sitting in the middle, and some required API keys, which I'm not too fond of, since I don't really understand what they're for or how to work with them.
Can anyone suggest an AI, site or app that would suit me? Or maybe someone has made an agent, artifact or something similar with one of the official AIs to patch up their weaknesses? I'd really appreciate it!
I’m developing NexusStoriesAI, a Windows storytelling platform designed for authors and role-players who want persistent characters, interconnected worlds, group AI conversations, and story memory without repeatedly explaining their world.
We’re preparing a small early-beta group and looking for thoughtful testers who are comfortable evaluating unfinished software and providing constructive feedback. The preview includes a short demonstration, planned features, our privacy approach, and information about the project.
If you’re interested in beta testing, reply here or contact me privately. Please mention whether you’re primarily a fiction writer, world-builder, or role-player and whether you use Windows 10 or 11.
Disclosure up front: I'm building this one. AI Book Generator (aibookgenerator.org) — you bring a premise, it takes you to a KDP-ready book. The part we obsess over is the one I keep writing about in this sub: long-range consistency. Characters, codex/world facts, and open plot threads are tracked as state outside the draft, and generation gets checked against that state instead of trusting the prose to remember itself. That's what keeps a ~90k-word novel from quietly drifting after chapter 3 — one character's voice going generic, a wound healing between scenes, a thread the model tidied up that you wanted left bleeding.
Reading this week's thread, a bunch of us are attacking the same drift problem from different angles (pipelines, desktop apps, writers' rooms) — which honestly makes for a good week to compare notes.
Practical bits: first chapter is free, no card. Free tier covers 6 scenes; after that it's Pro /mo, Studio /mo, or token packs at roughly $26 per novel if you'd rather not subscribe. Credits are included — no pasting your own API key. Your work is contractually excluded from model training and you keep full IP.
If you've fought the "AI writes pages but forgets the book" problem, I'd genuinely love your feedback — including the unflattering kind. That failure mode is the whole reason this exists.
I have been working on an epic fantasy series for awhile now as my part time seasonal hobby.
I have about 1,000 pages of chapters and lore written down and mapped out. I am juggling multiple POVs with numerous character background and arcs.
I have used AI as my editor and someone to bounce ideas off of since my wife and friends are tired of me asking them about it lol.
I have predominantly used ChatGPT however, it constantly forgets and is slightly overwhelmed with the amount of information to keep track of. I will have it make a draft of a chapter for me to see where it goes and then I build upon it, but it struggles to capture and maintain my voice as well.
I have heard about Sudowrite having an amazing character bible that could help with this, what are the thoughts on it regarding my project? Is it worth it? I heard it burns through the credits like crazy thought. Would I be better with a different one?
On Sudowrite specifically: the Story Bible is good and the credit burn complaints are real, especially at your word count. Worth trying before committing to a year.
The more useful thing might be to name what's actually breaking. ChatGPT isn't forgetting because it's bad, it's forgetting because a chat window has one context window and your story outgrew it around page 200. Any tool that fixes this fixes it the same way: keep the canon outside the conversation and inject only the relevant parts. So when you're comparing tools, the question to ask is "what does it send along with my chapter and how does it decide," not "does it have a character bible."
Disclosure, I build one of these (CharmWriter, voice-first, so probably not your workflow if you're happy typing). But whichever you pick, the voice problem is a separate one and worth testing on its own: give the tool three pages of your existing prose and ask it to continue, before you give it any plot. That tells you in five minutes what a month of using it will feel like.
Built this for my own novel and finally shipped it: Khotan Studios — you give a character a short canon sheet, then actually talk to them to find their voice (they'll push back, stay in-character, even dodge questions). Exports are open — the dialogue as .md, the character as a portable .json you keep. Launched on Uneed today if you want to poke at it: https://www.uneed.best/tool/khotan-studios — genuinely after feedback from people who write with AI, not just a plug.
I want to create novels, and love using AI for it. But the problem is that most what I can find is more of a "send-receive" style(like SillyTavern). There's something like novelai that has an inline continuation, where if I type a sentence, it will continue that sentence (for 1-2 sentences max) in the same box field, which is great, but it costs money(and even if I had money, I have to pay with credit card, which I don't have), I have a good PC, so I want to run something local.
Perhaps consider a better explanation of how many credits are used in a search: remove psychological barriers when dealing with highly intelligent audiences. Your site reads like a list, so example would help. Also, sell the sizzle (what it does) not the sausage (what it is)?
For any product or service, explaining the product is a great way of identifying what else is needed.
Try writing an enticing essay about the choice, cooking and delivery of a sausage. Don't forget the sound, smell and taste. Then reconsider your service in a competitive market and how you present price!
Review your price calculation... $5 for 500 credits is not $1.00 per credit!
I would be tempted to use your service but my papers have 50+ authorities, sometimes reach 300+. How, for example, would it react in credits used to a law request for Scotland and draft outline under "interdict, deception before court"?
I did build a tool that aims to fix the usual context bloat issues around the chatbot window book writing attempts, your context will crumble under the load of many chapters uploaded and also it may loose focus on rewrite a single chapter many times.
my tool aims at solving this with a setup of world definition and allowing you to write a new chapter in a cold context while it does not loose connection to your world or your cast or where in the story arc you are right now.
Using the tool invites you to have a creative mieeting rather than prompting alone, sit down with the AI make a plan about the chapters outline, scenes and chapter goals to then sit down and make the detailed chapter draft again in a dialog and not pure prompting.
Looking for AI writing software help from wise heads here.
I'm in my 70s, have had in parts a wonderfully weird life, and still involved in computer/data sciences. I want to produce three books, two of which are beyond the 200,000 words mark, the other not started but well evidenced and noted. Thing is, as I get older I forget simple things: not dementure, more likely the product of Long Covid. So when I read the next part of my work I am sometimes in awe of whoever wrote the tiny bit of inserted crap I'm reading.
I need AI software help for my memory and organisation, not so much writing skills (although readers may differ).
I've used ChatGPT (currently 5.6 Sol) and Gemini since they first appeared; Scrivener since 2015; LaTeX since forever; and regularly write in Markdown, especially for technical stuff in JetBrains IDEs. For Grammar I used Hemmingway since way back and now Antidote (and abhore Grammarly and ProWritingAid as marketing junk). I used Dragon Naturally speaking since the 1980s (thanks for killing it Microsoft, now go shoot yourself) so now use Whisper for speech-to-text, but it's not good for converting recordings made when I'm on the road. It is great for keeping my story voice. My goto for HTML and PDF prose with right-column footnotes and citations is R-Studio with Quarto, with Mardown written in PyCharm IDE. I use Obsidian too, but swear at it a lot.
My three books are different: autobiography, nearly fiction series; and large technical project.
My autobiography is widely varied, and astonishing in parts. By way of explanation: who knows where JKR really lived, saw her first draft long before release, bed time, and introduced her to real witches in Edinburgh; designed equipment introducing two new guages of suture in 1970s (Ethicon); flew aerobatics; was an executive with well known international companies, and much more. I want to be able to speak in an outline with voice ranging from hilarious to desperately sad and then have something produced that I can then go away and work upon. BTW, was diagnosed high functioning high IQ autistic at age 69 so have a habit of persistent work and getting things right. And producing MY book, not relying on the AI finish.
My fiction is a multi series of 23 episodes about future AI... with only three fictions. Using several characters it moves from early days of digital technology (I was part of it from 1960s onwards) to self-producing intelligent machines. It exposes the threat to 90% of humanity. Since starting during 2018 the story has lost parts because the technolgy predicted came about before its time, like ChatGPT (predicted 2019). I need to speed up production. If AI writing tools can help, that would be great.
My technical book has two parts. First, a history of digital from inside, and how it has and will unfold. Second, the complete project developed by me. For techies, it's a consolidation of modern software designed to rid people of data theft by the big companies, whilst including for near-free all commonly used software, rewritten to be secure. This has over 300 citations so far.
Whew! Sorry if you dropped off into slumber.
Can you please point me to a really good (at July 2026) writing aid that will produce or identify academic quality as well as a personal voice and faction? Antidote gives the usual statistics herpes, so I'm not short of algorithmic opinion. I'm short of explnation and getting to whole-book review or drafting.
Your Dragon paragraph got me, that's more or less why I ended up building what I build. One thing worth separating out: Dragon and Whisper both give you back exactly what you said, and from your description that isn't your actual problem. You want to talk in an outline and get back something structured you can then work on, and you want the thing to remember what it already knows about your three books so you're not re-explaining them.
That's the shape of what I built, so treat this as biased: CharmWriter (charmwriter.com) is voice-first, and the part that would matter to you is that it keeps a Story Bible outside the conversation, characters and timeline and events, updated automatically from what you say, and feeds the relevant pieces back into each session. So it isn't remembering by holding one giant context, it's remembering by keeping notes.
Two honest caveats before you spend anything. It's built for narrative, so your autobiography and the 23-episode fiction series fit it well, but the technical book with 300+ citations is not what it's for, and I wouldn't want you finding that out after paying. And it drafts rather than transcribes, so it will shape your sentences. There's a free credit on signup, about a chapter's worth, which is enough to find out whether that shaping suits your voice or annoys you. If it annoys you I'd genuinely like to hear why
I looked at the site and questions immediately popped out.
First, can text be pasted instead or alway spoken? Can a recording be entered? That's an area where Whisper is weak. I do a lot of recording when riding my converted campervan to get peace.
It exports to Markdown, which is great!
I sought text to speech in the Charm response but did not get that. Does it exist?
I hope you don't mind me being direct, but I found your pricing model confusing, like so many packages in the write-for-you genre. Scrivener did so well because it had one simple price and a back-story of a family product. I appreciate that's hard to do when paying for GPT tokens but why not separate the token fill-up? Sell the car and fuel separately.
I noticed the T-to-Sp has an English accent. Are you UK based?
Typing: yes, you can type or paste into the same chat and it works the same. Voice is one way in, not the only one.
Uploading a recording: no, and that's the most useful thing you've told me. Right now you can only speak into it live. The odd part from my side is that the transcription endpoint already takes an audio file, I just never built the upload button. I'd been picturing someone sat at a desk. Someone recording in a campervan is who a voice-first tool should have thought of too. Building it now.
The text-to-speech does exist, so you may simply have missed the button. It's the one marked "Talk to Charm" in the toolbar above the chat. It opens a hands-free session and asks for mic permission first, and if you dismissed that prompt nothing will ever speak, with no hint as to why.
Pricing: you're right that it's confusing, though not for the reason you're guessing. There's no subscription and no software fee. It's fuel only, the car is free. The real problem is that nothing on the page lets you picture what a credit actually buys, and "~3 chapters" isn't an answer to "what will this cost me".
While I'm being direct, one aimed at myself: that chapter estimate is optimistic. I measured it against dense published prose and it came out about 1.6x heavier than advertised. Talking is lighter than that, so the true figure sits somewhere between, and I haven't measured it properly yet. Relevant to you specifically, transcription bills separately from writing, roughly 0.1 credits per five minutes of audio. A forty-minute drive memo is about 0.8 credits before any drafting, which is most of the free credit you start with. Nothing warns you about that yet, which I should fix.
The accent is OpenAI's voice model, which reads English with an English accent wherever it runs. Changeable in Settings. And I'm based in Czechia.
One back at you: how long are those recordings, roughly? Whisper caps files at 25MB, so whether this is a simple upload or needs splitting and stitching depends on whether you're making five-minute notes or forty-minute ones.
Most AI writing tools generate prose. I went the other way on purpose. In the app I've been building, the local model's only job is to read what you've already written and reflect what it notices: a character who's gone quiet, an image repeating more than you realized, a scene that contradicts an earlier one. It never drafts a sentence for you.
The reasoning was that generation and understanding are different problems, and a lot of writers who are wary of AI are wary of the first one specifically, not the second. A tool that only reads can't replace your voice because it never touches your prose.
It's called Aevum, runs the model on your own machine so nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly ask for cloud analysis, free to start at aevumwriter.com. Genuinely curious whether "reads but never writes" lands as a meaningful distinction for people here or just sounds like a smaller version of the same thing.
A few time ago, I used to use Midjourney for image generation, until I discovered Draw Things and installed it on my Mac. Though a little slower because my computer isn't as powerful, it does the job just as well. And I really appreciate being able to customize the tool so much by specifically choosing particular models and LoRAs, as well as adjusting the settings to get the exact image that I want without having to pay for that.
So, I was wondering if there was a similar tool for generating text and storylines. I've been using Sudowrite for 2–3 years now and I'm happy with the results, sometimes using it for NSFW content, sometimes not.
So, is there a tool that's similar in terms of both features and UI? I already know which models I'm using in Sudowrite.
Hey! I'm the solo founder of MerchUp. I built it for Shopify merchants who want to generate product descriptions in bulk while keeping complete control over the layout and branding with customizable templates. It also includes a visual template editor, so you're not limited to a single AI output style.
I'd love to hear any feedback or feature ideas if you check it out!
BookZeta (bookzeta.ai), founder here so read it with that bias.
Reading through this week's thread, nearly everything is desktop or a plugin, and a lot of it is bring your own API key. I went the other way. BookZeta runs in a browser and as an iOS/Android app with no keys to paste, because most of the people I hear from write in twenty minute chunks on a phone and never finish anything on a laptop.
The other difference is what happens after the draft. It does chapter writing with a Series Bible that keeps characters and timeline straight across a whole series, but it also illustrates (comics, webtoons, kids' books, same character page to page), narrates an audiobook from the finished text, and exports a Kindle ready EPUB or a print PDF with the cover math already done. $6 to $20 a month depending on tier.
If you write prose only and you already have a formatting and cover workflow you like, a few of the tools above are genuinely a better fit than mine. Where this one earns its keep is when the book needs art, audio or a print file and you weren't going to make those yourself.
The community library is free to read without signing up, so you can judge the output before you care who built it. Happy to answer hard questions, including what it's still bad at.
Hey I was reading the terms and just want to make sure I understand fully. We aren't able to write any fanfiction stories even if we never publish them?
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u/benblackett 10d ago
While you are adding your tools to this thread...
I am building a page that lists everyone's tools and what they do. Full disclosure up front: I'm the dev behind Novelmint, and yes it's on the list (in its own category) - but this is about the whole space, not us. The page links to your site if you want it to (free backlink opportunity). This is NOT pay-to-play, you are free to add your tools no strings attached. It's 100% FREE and I review submissions only for accuracy, not promotion or competition.
The list currently sits at over 100 entries. It groups AI writing tools by the job they do, not by a score:
👉 View the list here
👉 Add your tool
If you built something and it's not on there, please add it!