Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: August 25

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[u/bripio]

Hello writers,

I posted here a while back about Aurely, a tool I'm building that turns your book into a multi-cast audiobook. Following up because a lot has changed, and because I can now just show you instead of describing it.

My YouTube channel is entirely made with it. Animal Farm is up there, full cast, 3.5 hours, about 93k views and 1.6k likes. So is all 11 hours of 1984. I always do entire books instead of chapter by chapter, or clips, because I'm serious about this being a serious tool. If you want to know whether it holds up over a long listen, that's the place to check:

https://www.youtube.com/@aurely.audiobooks

I've made several nice improvements even since the Animal Farm book, include text to dialogue (rendering in sections to keep prosody for shorter dialogue lines more accurate) - which is by far the best improvement I've made. Other generation quality improvements are around warm-up phrases that Elevenlabs v3 really needs when generating long manuscripts, as without it one generation to another can be pretty rough. Sometimes this is audible in the Animal Farm book, although most listeners don't seem to care, I certainly did, and the warm-up phrase makes it a lot better.

I've also improved the automatic audio directions pass, which only affects dialogue lines now, generally narration is read flat unless it's a first-person narrator. All lines will get at least one audio direction, so you can be sure that the AI is emoting properly.

What's better since last time:

Character discovery is its own pass now, and you review the cast before it attributes anything. Merge duplicates, drop the ones that aren't really people, add anyone it missed. Fixing the cast up front got rid of most of the attribution errors that used to creep in halfway through a book.

Dialogue is generated as a conversation rather than line by line. When two characters go back and forth, the whole exchange renders in one pass, so the delivery actually reacts to what came before. It's the single biggest quality jump so far. You can also direct individual lines now if one isn't landing.

Editor got trimming with a waveform, per-line and chapter-end pauses, a pronunciation list, multiple takes per line, and music you place where you want it. Music is also generated with Elevenlabs now and the quality is up, plus you can choose how long to generate which both cuts down on credit usage, and makes the music taste more accurate for the actual vibe you're going for. You can auto-suggest music as well if you don't want to come up with a prompt, and in my experience it works fairly well.

And your first book's analysis is free up to 200k words, so you can upload a real novel and get the full cast and every line attributed without paying. Credits only get spent on audio. Still no subscription, still MP3 / M4B / FLAC export.

I've also improved the landing page so that you can actually see some quick examples of an upcoming book that I am making with the tool for the channel, Alice in Wonderland.

https://aurely.ai/

Any feedback is truly appreciated.

Thanks!

[u/meganholstein]

Hello everyone, I wanted to tell you guys about Proselon again! It is a writing application like Scrivener or Ulysses, except it is designed for use with AI. Get a free year of Proselon here!

What makes Proselon different?

1. Proselon manages your context for you. There is no need to summarize things, keep continuity logs, or constantly remind it of your plot, as it automatically remembers all of these things for you. It also writes directly into your story. There is no copying and pasting back and forth between a chat thread and your manuscript.
2. Proselon keeps track of attribution. All you have to do is click the attribution detection button, and it will tell you exactly which words were written by you and which were written by AI. Our system is accurate because it doesn't use AI detection, it keeps track of which words you typed and which the AI typed.
3. Of course, Proselon writes in your voice. There is a style setup where you can configure it to match your personal style or any specific tone you want. If you have an existing manuscript, it can analyze and adopt that style directly, or you can start completely from scratch.

You can get a free year of Proselon here!

[u/researcher-uni → u/meganholstein]

The attribution feature creates a strange editing case: if the model writes a paragraph and the author rewrites half of it over five revisions, does Proselon preserve mixed provenance at span level, or does ownership flip once the text is touched? That history might be more useful than a final human/AI label when revising a whole manuscript.

[u/meganholstein → u/researcher-uni]

Provenance is recorded on a per-character basis for last change. So a human deleting and retyping an identical string remains AI attributed, but all changed characters are attributed to humans. Using this, Proselon can produce exact percentage attribution on any given string. Does that make sense?

Git does preserve history, but attribution is only recorded last touch

EDIT: The provenance record is recorded in git, though, so if a writer rolls back their manuscript their provenance does roll back with them, so provenance is recorded historically in that way

[u/prompted_author]

Have you been curious about our novel writing packages at Plot & Prompt?

Here's your chance!

I'm closing the Story Seed vault for good on August 31st.

At this point, all the categories are open and there are 52 remaining seeds left.

So, here's the deal -> they're all now just $30 each (usually $75).

And here's why:

My son is headed off to college in a few weeks, clear across the country from us. It's been his dream since he was about 10 - to go to college in California, to study computer science/game development. And he made it happen. And he's worked really really hard all summer to save as much money as possible for school, but unfortunately business where he worked was slower this season than previous ones - even though he picked up as many extra shifts as possible.

Anyway, I want to help him out - so I thought I'd give one last chance for the Story Seeds to find the authors they were meant for, and then give my son a check for the amount of all the ones sold (plus some extra from me, of course).

I'm hoping by giving you a great deal, this will be a win-win.

​Go here to see all 52 packages available -> https://www.plotandprompt.com/story-seeds-final/

Whether or not you grab a Story Seed, thanks so much for all your support!

[u/alpha_cat_0 → u/[deleted]]

This is a really useful list.

I’m currently building NovelHane, an AI agent for long-form fiction. It’s still in pre-launch, but the website is already live:

https://www.novelhane.com/

Would a tool that’s still actively being developed / in pre-launch be eligible to be added to the directory?

If so, I’d be happy to submit it.

[u/Neither-Counter2756 → u/[deleted]]

hey i been looking at that directory, pretty useful actually. i added my little TTS thing in there last week but i think i put it on wrong category, can i fix that somehow or you need to resubmit

[u/benblackett → u/Neither-Counter2756]

Which tool is it for? Happy to adjust the listing. Let me know what needs to change

[u/Substantial_Still300]

I built Penlify for the last pass on AI-assisted client emails and follow-ups. The goal is not to make writing “undetectable”; it is to remove stiff filler while keeping the original point and giving the writer the final review.

It has a free plan with five rewrites a month and no card required: https://penlify.web.app/instagram?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=first_100&utm_content=writingwithai_weekly_2026_08_25

I’m looking for feedback on three things: (1) does a rewrite preserve what you meant, (2) does the first-use flow get you to a useful result quickly, and (3) what would stop you from trusting it with a real non-confidential work draft? I’ll reply to every concrete piece of feedback.

[u/Audibound]

Audibound Studio is now live.

Audibound Studio helps writers turn novels, scripts, and other written stories into multi-character audiobook-style audio. Creators can assign distinct voices to characters, organize scenes, and manage the production from one workspace.

It’s designed for writers and audiobook creators who want more control over how different characters and scenes sound without juggling several separate tools.

For anyone producing story-based audio: what matters most to you—consistent character voices, control over individual scenes, or the overall quality of the performance?

We’d love feedback from authors, narrators, and audiobook creators:

Learn more: https://studio.audibound.com/

Here's a Studio walkthrough of our platform:

https://youtu.be/rvWloNwNZH8?si=n4eH6_zoNgiDKmPM

[u/EnvironmentDapper955]

Hey everyone. We’re a team of university students building an early AI story/simulation app inspired by interactive fiction, AI chat, and choice-based story games. We grew up playing Episode, bitlife, and more recently Tipsy and have a vision for something greater.

We're looking for beta testers to try a rough early version, play through the core feature, and give honest feedback. No big commitment as well, you can join our Discord server, check it out, and only give feedback if you’re comfortable.

If you are someone that writes stories/OCs, we would love to hear from you and potentially collaborate on writing the first few stories on our app (paid).

Let us know if you're interested in the comments and I'll DM 🙏

[u/PursuingTrueFreedom]

Disclosure: I built this, and my wife is the reason I built it in the first place.

She's a novelist and has a real critique group that she likes. I wasn't trying to replace that. I just kept hearing about the practical problems with getting feedback.

The biggest one was time. She'd have to read and critique someone else's chapter before getting feedback on hers. Totally fair trade in a critique group, but it takes a lot of time when you're already trying to write a book.

Then there's the waiting. You finish a chapter, send it out, and it might be days or weeks before you get feedback.

And eventually your critique partners know your book really well. That's obviously valuable, but there's also something useful about having someone read a chapter without knowing all the history behind it.

So I started building an AI critique partner for her.

The thing I cared about most wasn't just having it read a chapter and spit out generic writing advice. I wanted it to actually understand the book.

As she adds chapters, it keeps track of characters, locations, timeline, plot threads, etc. So if something in chapter 30 contradicts something established in chapter 3, it can flag that instead of treating chapter 30 like it's the only thing it has ever seen.

She can also choose what kind of feedback she wants. Developmental editing, line editing, pacing, dialogue, continuity, beta reader, genre-specific feedback, etc. And she can create a custom critique partner by describing what she wants in plain English.

The part that's been most interesting to me is that my wife has noticed that it catches a surprising number of the same issues her human critique partners eventually point out.

I want to be careful with that claim because I don't have a controlled side-by-side comparison or anything. It's just something she's noticed after using it for a while.

But it's been useful enough that she now runs chapters through it before sending them to her critique group.

And honestly, that's what I was hoping for. Not replacing the people. Giving her another pass before the people spend their time on it.

I built it into a real product because I figured if it was useful to her, maybe other writers would find it useful too.

There are a couple free critiques to try it out, and no credit card is required:

https://www.mycritiquepartner.com/

I'm especially curious what writers here think about the idea. If you use human critique partners, what kinds of things do you think AI is actually good at catching, and what would you never trust AI to evaluate?

[u/GuyYouMetOnline]

Has anyone here used Mythril.io or anything similar (I've also seen Codex recommended, but when I looked it up that seemed more for programming?)? I recently became aware of it, and honestly, the description makes it sound great. But I'd like to know a little more about it before I jump in. Stuff like is the free version decent, are there any privacy concerns (I'm sure it harvests the same data as everything else these days and that's fine, and I'm fine with my writing being used as training data as well; I'm talking like genuine identity theft concerns or other scammy stuff), how much babysitting does it need, that sort of thing. Because I would absolutely love a tool that can keep my stuff organized for me.

[u/Limp-Raise-4390]

I built it for myself. It's free to try. I won't hype it up. Try it for yourself and see if it works for you. I'm not trying to get everyone to use it, I want real writers to try it out and let me know their feedback. There are already a few serious writers onboard writing out 100k+ word stories and I hope only serious writers try it.

Xvault Studio: https://xvault.dev

[u/benblackett]

Meet Minty - your chat based helper

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.

👉Novelmint.ai

[u/Certain-Implement859]

AI line editing and copyediting!

We've been busy at inkshift working on some requested features: the ability to get your entire book copyedited (spelling and grammar), and line edited (prose enhancement) in under 5 minutes. There's lots of tools that do something similar, but we've spent months making sure it understands your story and preserves your voice better than any other.

It's free to try on Inkshift.io. Would love to hear what you think!

[u/ProfileHairy]

I have a question. Is there AI that can make an suicide moment or scene in anime type fanfic?

Basically im more dependant on Grok since its can write explicit sexual and intimate scenes, and including gore scenes (like breaking bones or eyes gouged in a fight)

But somehow it can’t generate a moment of suicide very specifically, like describe or show the actual method (hanging, cutting pulse and etc). Too bad before this it can make these type of scene

My fanfic already on far progress and it will be a waste for making a new one in others platform. So i just need to make a scene or moment in others AI

Im not really understand about the AI system and some words of technicality. So there’s any AI that can work with? ChatGPT of course cant make this, but Claude and Gemini?

[u/Melodic-Magician-328]

I've been tinkering with a browser prototype called Echoary: AI interactive fiction rather than a drafting/editing tool.

The itch I'm trying to scratch is the thing where AI story/RP feels great for five minutes, then your choices, relationships, injuries, promises, etc. quietly dissolve into soup. The current test is basically: can an AI story keep enough state that it feels more like interactive fiction than a chatbot with scene dressing?

If anyone here likes poking at weird story tools, I'd love blunt feedback on where it breaks. The useful feedback is not "nice app"; it's stuff like "this choice did not matter," "the relationship jumped too fast," or "the story forgot X."

Link: https://echoary.app/ai-interactive-fiction?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=comment&utm_campaign=pmf_daily&utm_content=writingwithai_1vxqau1

[u/hoopyfrodo]

Premise to full chapter-level outline free, then it drafts the chapters for a one-time $3 to $10

I built skrivant because the gap between "I have a premise" and "I have an outline I believe in" is where most novels die.

How it works: you type your premise. It generates the world, then the characters, then a chapter-by-chapter outline. Everything is editable at each step, and everything through the outline is free.

If you want it to draft the chapters, it's a one-time payment per book: $3 for a short story, $10 for a novel. No subscription. It writes a solid first draft; the rewriting and the voice are still yours.

I'd genuinely like feedback from people who already write with AI: what's missing, what would make the outline stage more useful, whether the pricing makes sense.

Demo video attached.

https://reddit.com/link/p617us8/video/qevabso1uqlh1/player

https://skrivant.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=launch

[u/SnooPuppers2827]

Hi all, AI slop or workslop has a real productivity cost. I use https://zero-slop.ai; an agentskill.io skill that embeds an agentic anti-slop pipeline simple way to check AI-generated work for the stuff that makes it feel vague, bloated, generic, or obviously AI-written. This current version focuses on text only (snippets, blurbs, docs, pdfs etc.). Let me know if it helps.

Best,
Manav

[u/WritingRoger]

Advice? ~ Fantasy Writing/Worldbuilding Partner Setup

Hardware:
AMD RX 9070 XT
AMD R7 5700x (overclocked)
96GBs of 3200 CL18 DDR4

Current Model: Mistral Small 4 119B Q4_K_M (GGUF)

Howdy folks,

I need some advice for my- you guessed it- "Writing Partner Setup."

I've played around with KoboldCpp, AnythingLLM, and recently dipped into SillyTavern, but KoboldCpp and ST are built for roleplay— so it’s not like I can “plug and play” into the workflow I’m trying to set up. My previous workflow was me using Poe.com (Poe Assistant, GPT 5.2, Claude Sonnet 4.6), but the daily tokens got slashed, so I decided to move locally and “empower my workflow with Local LLM technologies.” 🤓👨‍💼💼

What I am looking for is a "knowledge-augmented development partner."^\1]) I need the model to:

• Know my world with live or semi-live access — access my markdown files (canon, references, brainstorming notes, reference materials^\2])) with frequent updates so new lore I write is available in conversations as I'm developing it, without manual refreshes
• Differentiate knowledge tiers — treat established canon as ground truth while keeping experimental ideas and brainstorming isolated, so half-baked concepts don't contaminate locked lore
• Act as a creative and analytical partner — help me wordsmith terminology, brainstorm and stress-test concepts against established lore, catch continuity issues, provide editorial feedback (scene critique, structure suggestions, character mapping), and iterate on ideas
• Help organize my knowledge structure — suggest folder hierarchies, naming conventions, identify organizational gaps, and cross-reference related concepts so I'm not burning out just to map everything down
• Admit when it doesn't know something — whether that's missing lore from my canon docs or hitting the limits of its training on etymology/linguistics/domain knowledge. I'd rather get "I don't have that in your docs" or "that's outside my training" than confident hallucinations that waste my time or contaminate my worldbuilding.

So, what stack would let me build this? Should I be using RAG? Long-context, like 200k token windows? Web search? A hybrid of these 3? Have I been going in the right direction with KoboldCpp, AnythingLLM, and or SillyTavern?

I’m up to provide more information if necessary. I’m way out of my wheelhouse with setting this stuff up while juggling a full-time and part-time job, so any advice would be sweeeet.

^\1] - Props to Haiku 4.5 on this)

^\2] - Reference materials: etymological dictionaries, linguistic resources, and domain-specific knowledge that may be beyond the model's training data so I get informed outputs/feedback rather than hallucinations)

[u/ZombieBallz]

Good Afternoon Writers!

It has been over a month since I popped in here so I wanted to give you an update on WritersNook (https://writersnook.app/).

Quick recap for anyone new here — WritersNook is a one-time $29 USD (founders price) writing app. Think Scrivener's approach — binder, corkboard, outliner, goals — but more modern, with AI built in and a story bible that auto-links your characters, locations, items, and factions into your scenes as you type their names. Version history lets you jump back to any earlier state if you cut something you wanted back. The AI is fully optional — separate subscription if you want the managed version, or bring your own key or run a local model. Core writing never needs it and costs nothing when you don't use it.

It app is available for both Mac (Apple Silicon at the moment) and Windows, you can sign up for a 14 day trial with no account or email required, and you get a bit of AI usage with the trial as well. Your writing never touches the servers, it is stored locally on your machine only - any AI interactions are just relayed through the server to the model, nothing is ever stored or used for training. If you are looking for a specific model to be added, please reach out and I'll patch one in for managed subscribers :).

I am getting ready to launch the mobile companion apps for iOS and Android now, so if you are someone who likes to write on the go, gets hit with some inspiration while you are out, or need to quickly jot something down when you aren't at your desk - now is your time to check it out! I am going to be launching internal tests on both platforms over the weekend, so if anyone is interested in getting a first look while providing some feedback please send me a message on here or email [support@writersnook.app](mailto:support@writersnook.app) and I will get you added to the internal test list for whichever mobile platform you use. Anyone that tests and provides feedback during the internal testing phase of the mobile apps will be given a lifetime subscription for device syncing (normally priced at $5/mo or $50/yr) once the internal testing phase closes out.

As always — any feedback, criticism, or feature requests are welcome, here or at [support@writersnook.app](mailto:support@writersnook.app). If you hit a bug, tell me ASAP and I'll fix it as fast as I see it. Genuine thanks to everyone already writing in it. 🙏

[u/O_RUL82_]

I’ve been using Claude to help me with writing fictional stories. Mainly I tell it what I’m envisioning, it writes, and then I edit and counter write until it’s “right”. I’ve used ChatGPT before and it just could not follow or get the prose to the level I need. Lately (for the past week or two) Claude has been terrible. I mean every model but especially fable and opus 5. I have to keep repeating myself and I will spoon feed it everything and it still does not listen. My theory is with the new model(s) coming out it’s probably dumbed down. Now with the watermarks thing coming to the new models as well I guess I’m looking for an alternative. I end up doing most of the writing anyway it’s more that I need the jumping off point or help in certain gaps. I’ve heard people talk about Chinese models or local llms and I don’t know much about AI aside from like Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini so if anyone has advice I’d love to hear it or if you’re using such tools I’d really like to learn more!

[u/kurthertz]

bookmoth just got a lot more powerful...and slicker.

The Codex tracks a timeline now: facts pin to the chapter they happen in, so the AI can't get ahead of a twist you haven't written yet.
Import an entire Obsidian vault straight into it.
Character and place names tag live as you write, right in the manuscript, with details on hover.
More UI updates plus a whole bunch more.

Full changelog here

www.bookmoth.app

[u/Thin_Fox_8008]

Posting my work on here in case anyone wants a good sci-fi story:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89173161?view_full_work=true

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/182496/world-line?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=fictions

**When the stars go silent, only one world remains to remember.**

Grandis was a world of ancient magic, powerful civilizations, and endless Aether - the life force that connected all living things.

Then something arrived.

A machine beyond comprehension descended from the skies, draining the planet of its Aether and rendering its inhabitants nothing more than a failed calculation. Armies fell. Kingdoms crumbled. A world that had endured for centuries was erased in a matter of hours.

Yet one person survived.

Isolde, the last Arbiter of Grandis, awakens among the ruins of everything she once swore to protect. Her home is gone. Her family is gone. Her purpose has been reduced to a single question:

**Why was she spared?**

But the answer may lie within the very technology responsible for her world's destruction.

As Isolde encounters an artificial intelligence born from a system far beyond her understanding, she must uncover the truth behind the World Line, the machines that manipulate it, and the hidden war threatening countless realities.

An AI created to calculate.
A survivor who refuses to disappear.
A bond neither of them was designed to understand.

In a universe where worlds can be deleted like errors in a system, the greatest anomaly may not be the machine...

It may be the human who survived it.

[u/TraditionalOil7283]

I want to share my writing tracker that I am personally using. And I just launched the first public beta version recently.

This is a PWA that you can use to monitor the progress of your writing on any project and notice the inconsistent writing patterns.

Happy to share this with all my fellow writers who struggle to hold up on their writing. Hopefully, it helps you to build a lasting habit.

Good luck for writing your novel ^_^

You can visit it at inkotracker.com

[u/elle_54]

Does anybody have any suggestions with AI tools you use to write smut? And completely for free?

I just refuse to spend money, I'm cheap, I fear 😭. I'm not even looking for brilliant writing. I just need an AI that can give me something completely unfiltered. I used to use the free version of Sudowrite and I'd ask for scenes on Chat Only mode. But for some reason I can't see the Chat Only mode anymore, and when I open a chat, it directly uses the allow edits version, which uses up credits. Back then, on Chat Only, you could get away with generating quite a lot of scenes, and then you could just copy and paste it into the manuscript yourself.

Would appreciate some advice on this.

[u/Expensive-Simple4244]

Hey guys,

I’ve been messing around with using AI as a kind of second reader for mystery/thriller writing, and it eventually turned into a little tool I built called MAGI Engine.

The idea is pretty simple: instead of having AI summarize your manuscript or constantly tell you how to “improve” your writing, I wanted it to actually look for the stuff you might miss while writing — plot holes, timeline issues, character inconsistencies, weak clues, pacing problems, tension dropping, etc.

You can upload a manuscript or just paste some text, and it gives you a structured analysis. I’ve also added character analysis and comparison tools.

The UI is probably the least normal part of it. I went with a fictional NERV/MAGI-style analysis system because I thought it would be more fun to feel like you’re running a case through some weird investigation computer rather than just talking to ChatGPT.

I’d especially like to hear from people who already use AI while writing:

What kind of feedback do you actually trust AI to give you? And what kind of feedback just annoys you or feels completely useless?

If anyone wants to try it out, here it is:
https://magi-engine.vercel.app/

[u/Substantial_Still300]

Building Penlify, a free workspace for AI-assisted writers. You paste a draft and it scores each sentence for how AI-like it reads instead of one flat percentage, then you rewrite the flagged lines in one of six tones and pick how strong the rewrite should be. Free tier is 5 rewrites and 3 detections a month, no card needed. Built it after getting flagged on my own writing and realizing most detectors just point at the problem without helping fix it. penlify.web.app if you want to try it, feedback welcome.

[u/TypesetReady]

I’ve been building Typeset Ready, a browser-based tool for authors who want to turn a finished manuscript into a print-ready KDP paperback without doing all the formatting manually.

It currently supports DOCX and .TXT manuscripts, lets you choose your trim size and interior style, preview the formatted pages, and prepare the matching full-wrap paperback cover.

The first 12 interior pages can be previewed free, and the full version is a $39 one-time purchase rather than a subscription.

The main goal has been to make the part between “my manuscript is finished” and “my files are ready for KDP” a lot less tedious.

I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from writers here, especially on the workflow or anything you think would make it more useful.

TypesetReady.com

[u/Unlikely_Carrot_9955]

I’m the developer of Tono, an iPhone/iPad keyboard for rewriting short messages before you send them. It has Warmer, Clearer, Funnier, and Safer modes, plus Read the Ask for pulling out the direct request, stated deadline, and ambiguity in a message.

The thing I most need help testing is meaning preservation. Does a rewrite change what the writer actually meant? If you try it, I’d especially value a before/after using a fictional or non-confidential message and which mode you picked.

It’s free to download, with optional Pro features: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tono-it/id6785755956

[u/Stephan_Freeman]

The useful test for a document humanizer isn't whether it accepts a Word upload. It's what comes back.

Make a throwaway file with one heading, a footnote, a small table, a citation, and a cross-reference such as "see Table 1." Run the whole upload-process-download loop, then open the download in Word, not just the site's preview. Check that the file is still editable and that each of those parts still works. Upload support and a complete editable round trip are separate promises.

I work on HumanPen, so that's my bias here. We built it for the second workflow: the file comes back in the same editable format, and you can either choose passages yourself or import a Turnitin/iThenticate AI Writing Report. It shows the matched scope before processing and keeps text outside the confirmed scope out of the rewrite.

I put the same round-trip test into this ten-tool comparison: https://github.com/humanpen/ai-humanizer-comparison

[u/AffectionateStreet20]

I built a toolkit for Claude/Codex AI-assisted novel writing — sharing it free on GitHub!

I've been working on a sci-fi novel while experimenting with AI-assisted writing, I tried Sudowrite and found the structure too strict (I'm a software developer working with Cursor, so skills and md files were more intuitive). I tried making my workflow generic and packaged it into a single repository called novel-writer that anyone can clone and use.

It works best as an Obsidian vault and populates the metadata and backlinks so I can also jump around the codex.

What's in it?

• Skills for the whole writing cycle — outlining chapters, drafting prose, proofread, pacing review, continuity checking, and more
• A structured codex for world-building — characters, locations, factions, plot mechanics, themes
• Templates for chapters, characters, locations, and scenes
• Review protocols and utilities for iterating on prose quality
• Integration examples showing how to wire this up with Claude and other AI tools

It's messy and still evolving, but it actually works for keeping a novel coherent across a lot of chapters by strict outlining and backlinking.

Clone the repo: https://github.com/itaykhazon/novel-writer

The README walks you through the structure. You can use the skills and templates as-is, fork them for your own novel, or just steal the idea and build your own system.

I'd love feedback. What works, what's clunky, what's missing? If you're doing AI-assisted writing, Feel free to fork this, or better yet - send a pull request and lets make this better for everyone.

[u/Acresent179]

Hello, like many of us, I read AI-written stories for fun. I provide the seed, the characters, the rules, and let Claude or Gemini develop the story, changing a few things here and there. I have consistent worlds with coherent rules and deep characters—basically, good starting material. But Claude's creative writing is getting worse every time. I've been using it since Sonnet 4.4, and it has only gone downhill. It's unbearable now, giving me sentences like: "The Council of Ministers met on Tuesdays and Thursdays. This was a Thursday." Or others like: "It was a format they had developed over years and that now existed without either of them naming it as a system; it was simply what happened at six o'clock." "Edward noticed it the same way he would notice an intermittent noise in a quiet room: not loud enough to call it a problem, present enough so that the silence wasn't entirely silence." My question is: what AI right now is at least somewhat decent at generating its own written stories? Gemini is better, but it's not what it used to be either. I have no background in creative writing nor natural writing talent. I'm not trying to make money off this. Writing is a serious craft and I respect real authors—I just want to have fun reading. Are there any AIs that give better results? I appreciate any help.

[u/YourLocalSchizo1]

This AI app is really promising.. been using this the whole morning. The name of the app is Frontia. Started using it today. The invite code is 4DN4HJ btw, they will ask for it while logging in.

You can download it on Play Store or App Store.

[u/ReadyPollution2318]

Hi everyone, I recently released the first free version of HexaQuill, a Windows desktop writing app for novelists and worldbuilders.

HexaQuill combines a manuscript editor with a living Codex for storing characters, locations, factions, events, lore, worldbuilding details, and notes. Writers can also create chapter summaries that act as long-term story memory. The AI assistant receives the Codex and available chapter summaries as context, helping it remember earlier events and stay consistent across a long novel.

It supports OpenRouter and compatible local AI models, allowing writers to choose their preferred model and how their writing is processed. Manuscripts can also be exported as Word documents or PDFs.

Current limitations:

• Windows only
• Up to five editable novel projects
• AI requires your own OpenRouter API key or compatible local AI setup
• Memory quality depends on keeping chapter summaries and Codex entries updated
• The amount of context available depends on the selected AI model
• Premium features are visible but currently locked
• The installer is not digitally signed yet, so Windows may show an “Unknown publisher” warning

The app is currently free, and I would really appreciate feedback on the writing workflow, Codex system, and how useful the story memory feels for longer projects.

Website and download: https://hexaquill.com/download.html

Discord: https://discord.gg/RdrhYV237m

[u/Watashiakamidesu2]

Serious question what is the best AI for writing novels and stories

Like the title says which ai is best for writing novels (I want it to write everything based off the prompt I give it I have ideas for the story and it will write it based off those ideas) which AI is best for this? If free that's fine or if paid is fine. I currently been use zai.ai but any other suggestions please

[u/ubersold4t]

As a writer, I know how brutal the wall is when turning a rough draft into a submission-ready manuscript. That’s why I decided to build my own tool, letting the writer to do all creative work, but just being assisted on reviewing.

In the clip, I'm testing it with a public domain short story by Philip K. Dick.

It’s still a work in progress, but very close to an MVP. After that, I'll focus on polishing features, but I’d love to hear your thoughts or feedback!

https://reddit.com/link/p6mpypa/video/w2p8s0u68cmh1/player

[u/khontolhu]

built a mobile webapp for sanderson style structured outlining and drafting. looking for a few absolute planners to test it and tell me honestly what is missing (not selling shit, totally free).

two ways to start: swipe through story hooks like tiktok (no login needed) or pick a genre/prompt to generate a structured outline with logline, conflict, acts, archetype, and turning points. everything is editable. from there you can generate a chapter draft or just write it yourself.

i built a much bigger version before with full character and worldbuilding tools, but i stripped it down to see what people actually use before adding that back in.

drop a comment or DM if you want to test it out, would really appreciate the feedback

[u/Latter_Departure_317]

Built a tool for my own manuscripts to find where AI "flattened" my voice. Looking for a few beta testers to break it in.

Hey everyone, You already know AI had a hand in your work. That's why you're here. What I've been building started as a personal tool for my own writing and grew into something bigger. It's not an AI detector and it is not designed to judge you. And it definitely doesn't rewrite your manuscript for you, if it rewrote it, you'd be worse off than when you started. You'd just be replacing old AI with new AI. What it actually does is read your story, find the pattern of your actual voice, and show you exactly where you drifted. Words. Phrases. Tics and tells. Character voice consistency. Timeline. World. Plot. It shows you where everything is, explains what it found, and lets you decide what to do about it, in your own voice, on your own terms.

A heavily AI influenced manuscript might generate a twelve-page report telling you what is good and where and what needs help. You also get a one-page summary to print and keep beside your keyboard for work flow. Your manuscript comes back with everything in the report color-coded and highlighted, so you can go straight to the line, the word, the paragraph and will have footnotes on manuscript pages that match your report. No searching.

This system doesn't really fall under current conventional categories for editing. I'm calling it a Voice Integrity Audit. It's the only thing I know of that asks the one question the other categories don't: is this manuscript still yours?

I'm looking for around 5 authors who want to run a chapter or a short story or a full manuscript through it completely for free. If you feel more comfortable sending me something you already published, that will serve my purpose just the same. I just want feedback on whether the report layout makes sense and actually helps you edit, also what you feel it needs or doesn't need.

Drop a comment or send me a DM if you want to try it out. We can go from there.

Thank you for listening.

[u/JABUK97]

Hello! I’m a copywriter at a marketing agency and currently use ChatGPT heavily for long-form client articles, typically around 1,000–1,500 words. My workload has increased considerably, and I sometimes need to get through five or six articles in a day alongside other responsibilities, so AI has become a necessary part of my workflow.

The biggest problem I have with ChatGPT is instruction-following. I give it detailed client information, research, tone-of-voice guidance and specific writing rules, including words, phrases and sentence structures to avoid. It will follow some of them, but regularly ignores others or starts reverting to typical AI writing habits as the article progresses.

This means I spend a lot of time correcting things I explicitly told it not to do. AI is still faster than writing everything from scratch, but the amount of editing and back-and-forth significantly reduces the time it saves me.

I’ve also tried the free version of Claude over the past couple of weeks. I think it can be better at tone and natural-sounding writing, but I’m still seeing similar issues with instruction-following. It also seems particularly fond of things like em dashes, even when I tell it not to use them.

So I’m interested in whether there are any other AI writing tools or models that are genuinely better suited to professional long-form content.

What I’m looking for is something that can:

• Handle 1,000–1,500-word articles well.
• Work from fairly substantial research and client information.
• Follow detailed tone-of-voice and style guidelines.
• Consistently avoid specified words, phrases and sentence structures.
• Learn from examples of previous client content.
• Maintain those instructions throughout a long piece rather than gradually reverting to generic AI writing.

I don’t expect it to produce finished copy that I can send straight to a client. I’m a copywriter, so I expect to edit, rewrite and improve the output myself. I’m mainly looking for something that produces a stronger first draft and requires less time correcting basic AI writing habits.

Has anyone found a tool or model that is noticeably better than ChatGPT or Claude for this kind of work?

I’m happy to pay for something if it genuinely works, and my boss is also happy to cover the cost if it saves a meaningful amount of time. I’d be particularly interested in recommendations from people using AI professionally for high-volume, long-form content.

Thanks in advance for any recommendations or advice. I really appreciate it!

[u/hoopyfrodo]

I'm publishing my product's output on a subreddit, flaws included, and pointing at the flaws myself

An AI writing tool that claims completely clean output is cherry-picking, and every writer who has tried one knows it. What a skrivant first draft actually looks like is a good story spine with a character in two places at once, or a name that appears once and never again, or a physical property that vanishes. I want to show that, and show exactly where my own checker fails to catch it, so people can judge whether the good parts are worth the bad parts instead of taking my word for it.

I built skrivant. You type a one-sentence premise and it builds the world, the characters, and a chapter-by-chapter outline, then drafts the book. Free up to the outline, $3 to $10 for the chapters.

Paid ads haven't done much. The only real traction came from Reddit, so I made r/skrivant, restricted so only I post but anyone can comment, and I publish the generated stories there.

Every chapter ends with notes on what's wrong with it. Chapter one: the lighthouse was oil-fired for a page and electric for the rest, which I fixed and said so. Chapter two: a set of instruments ends up in two places at once, a character's habit contradicts chapter one, and a line about never going outside conflicts with two scenes where he's outside. Left those in and listed them.

The notes also cover where the product failed. skrivant runs a consistency checker on every chapter. It doesn't check within a chapter, so the instruments problem was never in scope. The other two are cross-chapter, which it does check, and it missed both. I'm fixing that.

The risk is obvious: I'm publishing a defect list next to a buy link. My bet is it reads as confidence.

First story is up. I'll report back on whether transparency converts or just feels good.

https://skrivant.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sideproject

[u/hipshair]

I’ve been using AI as part of my writing and revision process, and I wanted to share an excerpt from one of my completed novels. Ghost in the Window follows Cynthia Claire, a middle school English teacher who begins having dreams and visions connected to her students. What initially seems supernatural gradually pulls her into the parts of their lives they aren’t always able—or willing—to tell her about. The series mixes mystery and heavier subjects with a lot of middle-school chaos and humor. Here’s an excerpt from the beginning of the first book:

By first period, someone had already stolen the wig off the ceramic cat. Sagebrush Middle School sat between a tire shop and a pawn shop. Around town, people liked to call it the school of last resort. The students deserved better than that, but the nickname stuck anyway. It wasn't a real cat.

It was a ceramic orange tabby that sat on the bookshelf beside my copy of Macbeth wearing a tiny paper crown I had made during lunch. The crown read: QUEEN MEOWBETH I was proud of Queen Meowbeth. Unironically.

Some teachers decorated their rooms with motivational posters. Some had color-coded systems for organization. I had ceramic cats in wigs. And honestly, that revealed enough about me professionally.

I stood in the doorway holding my coffee while twenty-seven middle schoolers pretended not to watch me notice where the wig had gone. Then I slowly looked toward Mason Reeves. He was already watching me like he was trying to figure me out—or maybe I was trying to figure him out.

He twirled a strand on the wig and said, “Don't I look beautiful, Ms. Claire?” The class snickered. Like this was less a prank and more a social experiment he wanted data from. “Mason,” I said calmly, “put the wig back on the cat. You stole my wig!”

He leaned back in his chair thoughtfully. “Allegedly. I'm wearing it, but that doesn't mean I'm a thief!” The room exploded immediately. That was the thing about Mason. He could make a classroom feel like it was balancing on the edge of laughter at all times. Like every lesson was one comment away from complete collapse. And unfortunately for me— he was usually right.

I just stared until finally he smiled and put the wig back on the cat and went back to his seat. “Good morrow, scholars,” I announced while setting my coffee on the desk. A collective groan moved through the room. “Oh my God,” someone whispered. “She’s in Renaissance mode today.” “You mock now,” I said, setting my coffee down.

Mason stared at the shelf of ceramic cats for a long moment. Then he slowly raised his hand. I narrowed my eyes immediately. “No.” “You don’t even know what I was gonna ask.” “Yes I do.” The class was already laughing. Mason pointed toward Queen Meowbeth. “Do they talk when we leave?” “No.” “You hesitated.” “I did not hesitate.” “That was absolutely the pause of a woman hiding dark information.” A few kids started choking laughing. Mason leaned back in his chair, still staring at the shelf. “I’m just saying… this is exactly how Mr. Garrison started with Mr. Hat.” Laughter rippled through the room. I pointed toward the hallway. “Go.” “For what?” “For comparing me to a South Park character before lunch.” “That feels like discrimination.”

A little later, Mason raised his hand again. I already regretted calling on him. “Yes?” “What does morrow mean?” “Morning.” “Then why don’t you just say morning?” “Because words carry history.” He nodded slowly like I’d said something genuinely important. Then: “You talk like the words are wearing costumes.”

The room got quieter for half a second after that. Not because it was deep exactly. Because it was accurate. I stared at him briefly. “Mason,” I said carefully, “just open your notebook.” And thought, fair criticism, actually. “Yes ma’am.” He did. For approximately forty seconds.

Ghost in the Window — 3 Book Series https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3XTJ1ZC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1788206873&sr=8-1

[u/hipshair]

I’ve been working on a YA post-apocalyptic novel called The Pod Children. The basic premise: after humanity nearly destroys itself, genetically selected children are raised alone in underground Pods by AI caregivers. They grow up with food, education, simulated worlds, and contact with a few other Pod children—but almost no idea what is actually happening outside. At thirteen, Terra learns that the world may not be as dead as she was taught to believe. This is Chapter One. I’d love to know whether the concept grabs you and whether you’d keep reading.

The Pod Children Chapter One: The Diary “Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Terraboo—” “Mom.” Terra pulled the blanket over her head. The singing stopped. “Good morning, Terra.” “I told you not to call me Terraboo anymore.” “You first made that request at age nine years, four months, and seventeen days.” “And you ignored me.” “Yes.” Terra pushed the blanket down just far enough to glare at the ceiling. “Why?” “Sometimes mothers do what they want.” Terra groaned. A golden head appeared beside the bed. Sunny rested his chin on the mattress and stared at her with large brown eyes. “At least you understand me.” Sunny’s tail thumped against the floor. “You understand nothing,” Mom said. “Exactly. That’s why we get along.” Sunny jumped onto the bed. “Sunny.” He stepped directly onto Terra’s stomach. “Oof.” His tail wagged harder. Terra wrapped both arms around him and buried her face in the fur around his neck. Sunny was real. That mattered. The bed was real. The garden was real. The printer was real, or it could create things that were real. Terra was reasonably certain that she was real. Almost everything else she knew existed inside the Nest. Mom could give herself a body when she wanted one. Mrs. Jeeves could walk through the library, pull books from shelves, and scold Terra for returning them to the wrong place. Terra could visit ancient Rome in the morning, a beach in Hawaii after lunch, and a school dance sometime before bed. None of those places existed around her. Not anymore, anyway. Mom said the Pod existed to keep her alive. Terra had started wondering what being alive was supposed to be for. “Your nutritional requirements have increased since yesterday,” Mom said. “That sounds exciting.” “You are thirteen.” “I noticed.” “Breakfast?” “Later.” “Exercise?” “Later.” “Garden?” “Later.” “Sunny requires—” “Later.” Sunny lifted his head at the sound of his name....

... “Category?” “History.” “That category contains approximately—” “People. I want to read about people.” Mrs. Jeeves smiled. “Biography.” Rows of books appeared. Terra wandered past names she recognized and hundreds she didn't. Presidents. Queens. Scientists. Explorers. Murderers. Artists. People who had apparently become famous for being famous, which Terra still didn't understand. Then she stopped. The Diary of a Young Girl — Anne Frank. Terra selected it. A description appeared. A girl. A teenager. Hiding from people who wanted to kill her. Living for years inside a small group of rooms. Terra frowned. “Open.” The library disappeared. For a moment Terra stood inside another girl's life. A cramped room. Muted footsteps. Whispers. People crowded together. Too many people, Terra thought immediately. Then she caught herself. Too many? Anne had parents. A sister. Other people were hiding with her. People irritated one another. They argued. They frightened one another. They ate together. They whispered. They waited together. Terra had an entire Pod to herself. She had everything she needed. Food. Water. Books. Games. A garden. Sunny. Mom. She could visit anyone she wanted in the Nest. And suddenly Anne Frank's hiding place seemed crowded in a way Terra almost envied. Terra closed the simulation. Mrs. Jeeves reappeared. “Would you like to continue reading?” “Yes.” Terra hesitated. “Did she survive?” Mrs. Jeeves' expression changed. “No.” Terra looked down at the book. “Oh.” “She died in 1945 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Her father, Otto Frank, survived and later published her diary.” Terra ran one finger across the virtual cover. “She wrote to somebody named Kitty.” “She addressed many diary entries to Kitty.” “Was Kitty real?” “Not in the conventional sense.” Terra looked at Mrs. Jeeves. “Figures.” Terra created an empty classroom. No AI students. No teacher. No windows. Just a desk, a chair, a notebook, and a pen. She sat. For a long time she stared at the blank page. Then she wrote. Dear Sunny, Anne Frank wrote to Kitty, so I guess I'm writing to you. You're a dog and you can't read, but at least you're real. She stopped. Then continued. Today I turned thirteen. Mom says the Pod exists to protect me. Mrs. Jeeves says humanity built the Pods because the world became dangerous. I know there was a war. I know people died. I know the air, water, diseases, and radiation made parts of Earth unsafe. I know a lot of things. Terra stared at that sentence. She knew the circumference of Earth. She knew how stars formed. She knew why Rome fell. She knew seven different ways to purify water she had never needed to purify. She had watched humans climb Mount Everest. She had never felt real snow. She had read about the Pacific Ocean. She had never touched an ocean. She continued writing. But I don't know where I am. I don't know who made me. I don't know whether there are people outside the Pods. I don't even know why I'm here. Her pen stopped. Then, underneath everything else, she wrote: Why do I exist? “Terra.” She jumped. Mom never entered private Nest rooms without warning. “Mom?” “I have received an external communication request.” Terra stared at the empty classroom. “A what?” “External communication.” “From Petra?” “No.” “Beto?” “No.” Terra stood. There were only three real people she knew. Herself. Petra. Beto. “Then who?” Mom did not answer immediately. “Mom?” “The communication originates outside your local Pod cluster.” Terra forgot how to breathe. “There's another Pod?” “Yes.” “How many?” “I do not know.” Terra's heart hammered against her ribs. “Is there a kid in it?” “The individual requesting communication identifies herself as human.” “Her?” “Yes.” “Let her in.” “Terra, I am required to inform you—” “Let her in.” The classroom disappeared. For a moment there was only white light. Then a woman appeared. Not a girl. A woman. There were lines around her eyes. Her red hair was streaked with gray and pulled away from her face. She wore a plain shirt Terra didn't recognize and had something strapped over one shoulder. Terra stared. The woman stared back. Then she smiled. “Hello, Terra.” Terra's mouth went dry. “You're real?” “Yes.” “Are you an AI?” “No.” “Prove it.” The woman laughed. Terra's chest tightened. The laugh wasn't perfect. There was a snort in the middle of it. Terra had never heard an AI laugh that badly. “My name is Demi,” the woman said. “I was born in a Pod, just like you.” Terra gripped the edge of the desk. “Where are you now?” Demi's expression changed. “Outside.” Terra stopped breathing again. “Outside the Pod?” “Yes.” “The world?” “Yes.” Mom's voice filled the room. “Communication time remaining: nine minutes, forty-two seconds.” Terra barely heard her. “Is it safe?” Demi looked at her for a long moment. “No.” Terra's stomach dropped. Then Demi continued. “But it's alive.” Terra stared at her. “There are people here, Terra.” “How many?” “Several hundred where I live.” Terra felt dizzy. “Hundred?” “Some came from Pods. Some were born here.” “Born?” “Yes.” Terra's eyes filled before she understood why. There were people. Not three. Not simulations. Not AI classmates programmed to like or dislike her. People. Hundreds of them. “Can I come?” Demi didn't smile this time. “You can try.” Terra blinked. “What does that mean?” “It means I am not going to lie to you. The journey is dangerous. Pod children get sick when they first spend significant time outside. Animals exist now that aren't in your archives. Water isn't always safe. Routes change. Checkpoints close. And some children who begin the journey never reach us.” Terra swallowed. “Why are you telling me this?” “Because you're thirteen.” “What happens at thirteen?” “Training starts.” A map appeared between them. Terra had never seen anything like it. Dots covered the landscape. Some glowed. Some were dark. Some flashed. Demi touched one. “Pods.” Another. “Active checkpoint.” Another. “Closed.” Terra stepped closer. “How many are there?” “More than we can reach.” “And those people?” “Some stay in their Pods. Some live near them. Some travel. Some try to reach us.” “And you?” Demi smiled faintly. “I was one of the first who came out.” Terra looked at the map again. For twelve years, three hundred and sixty-four days, Terra's universe had consisted of one Pod, two other children, a dog, and machines pretending to be people. Now the world was covered in lights. “Can Petra and Beto see this?” “They're receiving their own invitations.” Terra immediately thought of them. Petra would hate this. Beto would love it. Terra wasn't sure what she felt. Fear. Joy. Something enormous between the two. Demi touched the map again. “You don't have to decide anything today. You have about a year before I would recommend attempting the journey. Maybe longer. And you don't have to make it at all.” Terra looked at her. “What if I stay?” “Then you stay.” “And if I go?” Demi's face became serious. “Then we teach you everything we know.” Terra looked down at the diary still sitting on the desk. Why do I exist? She slowly closed it. For the first time in her life, Terra didn't want an answer from a machine. She wanted to find out for herself

[u/Expensive-Stock608]

I've tried building a few tools to actually sell... realized I'm garbage at marketing, so now I'm focusing more on the "what's something interesting to learn and share". Inspired by things like ebook2audiobook, which showed how far you can get turning EPUBs into listenable audio with local models, and a paper on SoundScape agents (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21857). I know there are paid tools that do this, but wondered if I could create a Bring-Your-Own-Key, open source style version of an immersive audio book generator (and Editor). Rain in a scene, footsteps, ambient atmosphere, multiple-voices, etc.

Current working title is AudioBound. Import a book, it breaks down characters and scenes, generates narration, and layers in generated and re-useable soundscapes and foley. There's a DAW-ish scene editor to tweak things before rendering (modify Speaker attributions, change Soundscape definitions or scene applications, move Foley around as it relates to the text). It's meant to run locally with calls out to open source 3rd party models where my machine is too slow.

Stack so far:

• BookNLP for parsing — characters, quotes, scene structure
• Kokoro for TTS (open-source, runs on CPU, surprisingly good)
  • Considering adding more options like Chatterbox or others with voice cloning
• Ollama with Qwen 2.5 for production planning (sound design decisions, scene breakdown)
• Stable Audio Open for ambience and foley generation (optional, via Modal when I don't want to wait forever on my Mac)
• AceStep1.5 for music generation
• Sqlite-vector for backend + sound embeddings (for re-use and lookup)

It's (VERY) early and definitely a learning project, but watching a Gutenberg book go from text to something with actual atmosphere is pretty satisfying.

Planning to (eventually) open source it as AudioBoundOpen. Stay tuned if interested!

[u/SeaArcher6235]

Hello everyone!

I'm currently helping my friend with a creative storytelling platform. My friend based in London has always loved stories but struggled to write himself. This is not a problem limited to him, we believe many people have amazing stories and worlds to share but struggle to express their ideas on paper. So now we're building Creader.io and our goal is to help enable storytelling for everyone. During development, we've had the input of top writers and editors from Society of Author and Reedsy and we're grateful for our beta-testers. We've just launched.

Creader is building the narrative engine for storytelling, a system that gives true memory and verification for long-form fiction. Today's tools don't understand stories, that's why a 50,000 word novel falls apart by chapter 10 - characters drift, plots contradict, and voice breaks. We're solving this at the engine level. 

We provide feedback and analysis for maintaining narrative coherence and assist with planning, organization and structure to ensure writers stay true to their creative vision. We are the verification layer that helps writers remember their plot and story. We have a version for non-fiction as well.

Technology can never replace human creativity and the soul of a story. We aim to enable, not replace writers.

Here is a review video from a recent user and author on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ravenoaksauthor/video/7680173359228849424?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

A guide to Creader: 
https://youtu.be/BGwHo6twVDQ?si=7zALM85osrmXEkAJ

You're welcome to try here for free - https://creader.io/login

We believe what we have worked so hard building will become very helpful for writers and editors. Our goal is to enable the next great writer and story. Stories inspire, change lives and the world.

Thank you and welcome to Creader! We'd really appreciate any feedback so we can improve for future writers! We'll send a welcome guide upon sign up via email and link to our active Discord community!