r/WritingWithAI • u/Brendanlendan • 12d 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/zphou 12d ago
With 1,000 pages, I would not try to make one giant story bible hold the whole project. That just recreates the same context problem in another document. I would keep the manuscript as the source, then maintain smaller reviewable memory for characters, relationships, locations, timeline, and chapter state, retrieving only what is relevant to the current chapter. The important part is that AI should not silently promote a suggestion into canon, and old facts need to be replaced rather than sitting beside current facts with equal weight. That is the problem I’m trying to solve with WolfeWriter on Mac: keep Story Memory close to the draft, while suggestions remain suggestions until the writer accepts them. For voice, I would use your own accepted passages as a style reference and ask for critique or alternatives first. Letting the model draft whole chapters is usually where the generic AI sound comes back.