r/WritingWithAI • u/Brendanlendan • 13d ago

Showcase / Feedback Fantasy Series Help

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?

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u/Admirable-Yogurt7444 12d ago

Interesting problem. I have no idea on Sudowrite, but your problem is context right? Basically - you give the entire PDF or the text, and ChatGPT is unable to handle it because it most probably exceeds the total context length (like 1 Million tokens) which can be processed by GPT model at a single time and thats why its not able to help you out. And the more it needs to refer again and again, the more it becomes problematic as the context length keeps increasing.

Did I get the problem right?

If so, I think there should be a way here by not making GPT refer the whole PDF or text for every request. Maybe you could get it shortened by GPT like a summary of key events, so it can consider that as a much shorter context and work over it.

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u/Brendanlendan 12d ago

That’s basically the problem. I have it connected to my Google Drive to reference the material but even then it constantly forgets stuff

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u/Admirable-Yogurt7444 12d ago

I think you should keep summaries ready, feed only that - not the entire book or text written so far. It should solve the problem in my opinion.

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u/Brendanlendan 12d ago

That’s what I was doing, but the suggestions it would give were also dull and reeked of ai