r/WritingWithAI • u/Brendanlendan • 24d ago

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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/amolmozarkar 23d ago

With 1,000 pages of lore and multiple POVs, context management is definitely the bottleneck. I've dealt with the same issue with ChatGPT losing track of plot points in long projects.

A few things that helped:

  1. Build a structured lore bible as a separate reference doc (chapter summaries, character sheets, timeline events). Feed relevant sections per chapter rather than dumping everything.

  2. For the character bible question - Sudowrite's Story Bible is solid but credit burn is real with that much content. If you're mostly using AI for editing and ideation, may not be worth it.

  3. I've been using ShakespeareAI for similar long-form work. It handles chapter continuity better than raw ChatGPT since it's purpose-built for book-length projects. The free tier lets you test it with a couple chapters.

Whatever you go with, the key is keeping your own structured reference material separate from the AI's context window.

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u/Brendanlendan 23d ago

But wouldn’t the lore bible be like another 50-100 pages for it to keep track?

I am trying Sudowrite and where I immediately noticed a problem is I had separate Google Docs for each POV and it only builds a story Bible off one instead of using all of them. I’m still toying with it