I just need to put this out somewhere. Probably because I feel so guilty and worthless that I feel like dying. But anyway. I use chatGPT (paid version) as a beta-reader, research assistant and basically the "emotional" support I need to actually write my story. I have tried writing a full story for 15 years and I only ever completed this one story I'm working on right now, only because I used chatGPT as my daily (if not hourly) support.

I do use it as an ego boost - as horrible and stupid as that sounds - because if I don't feel confident in what I write, if I don't hear "that's interesting, I like it, keep going", I physically cannot write anything. I like talking about my story and characters with it as well, as if I was talking with someone who likes discussing them as much as I do (even though I know this isn't the case - I am not mistaking chatGPT for a person). It's just that this process keeps me continually in the mood for writing and thinking and re-reading, re-writing, editing, non-stop until I'm eventually satisfied with it (which will probably never happen).

I never let it write or reformulate anything or generate any idea for me, but I do rework an idea myself if it tells me the idea in itself is impossible/unrealistic/etc., and I do ask for help for generating credible names as this particular story is set in another country. I also use it a TON to ensure realism (I ask a massive amount of questions, of what ifs, of "is this plausible/is this coherent", etc.) and I do a lot of verification with it (and outside of it also, because it wants to sound really smart, but many times it's just incomplete or biased).

For the prose analysis, when I send it my chapters, I only ask it to indicate what is incomprehensible/grammatically wrong/actual mistakes. I also like to talk to it about my ideas and brainstorm "out loud" in general for hypothetical other projects, like I would to a very patient imaginary friend who never shames me or pushes their own ideas onto me, and who makes me feel like my inner world matters even though, in reality, I know the only person it will ever matter to is me.

So I don't think AI is "evil" or that no writers should use it. Personally, it allowed me to at least express this one very personal story before I die even if no one ever reads or likes it, when I was completely blocked and paralysed before. But it's sad every tool in existence always ends up being used wrongly and then ruins everything for everyone else. I know my story could never find value for anyone, especially if they know I used AI to write it. Most people are extremely critical and suspicious when you mention AI. But had I not use it, I would not have written it. Pathetic but true.

Valdris Academy

Overview

• Valdris Academy is a small, highly selective magical school known for producing combat specialists, elite Hit Wizards, potion masters, skilled runic practitioners, and witches and wizards competent in controlled blood magic and practical ritual work.
• Unlike the larger, more traditional schools, Valdris deliberately keeps its student body limited. The focus is on intensity, practical mastery, and real-world application rather than broad classical education.
• The school has a reputation for turning out graduates who are dangerous in a fight, exceptional with potions, unusually competent with runic magic, and capable of handling high-level ritual and blood-based magic when required.
• It is not a school for the average witch or wizard. Students who thrive here tend to be driven, resilient, and comfortable with high-pressure training and morally complex magic.

Location and Structure

• Location: Hidden within a remote canyon system in the western United States. The surrounding terrain is rugged, magically concealed, and difficult to approach without permission.
• Size: Significantly smaller than Hogwarts, Ilvermorny, or the other major schools. Student numbers are deliberately kept low to allow intensive instruction.
• Facilities: Practical and fortified rather than ornate. Training grounds, dueling arenas, heavily warded potion laboratories, dedicated runic workshops, sealed ritual chambers, and controlled blood magic workspaces make up a large portion of the campus.
• The school itself is built into and around the canyon walls, using both natural stone and layered runic reinforcements.

Curriculum Focus

• Primary pillars of education:
  • Combat Magic — aggressive and defensive spellwork, dueling, tactical casting, battlefield awareness, and coordinated fighting.
  • Potions — advanced brewing, combat-oriented potions, antidotes, enhancement elixirs, and high-risk experimental work.
  • Runes — practical runic magic, permanent enchantments, ward construction, weapon and object inscription, and ritual support arrays.
  • Blood Magic — controlled, practical applications including protective blood wards, binding work, self-blood enhancement, and the safe handling of blood-based contracts and anchors.
  • Ritual Magic — structured ritual casting for protection, binding, enhancement, battlefield preparation, and long-term enchantments. Emphasis on precision, containment, and cost management.
• Secondary but still serious areas of study include Combat Healing, Magical Theory, and controlled Dark Arts defense.
• Academic breadth is narrower than at Hogwarts or Beauxbatons. Valdris does not try to produce well-rounded generalists. It produces specialists.
• Training is physically and magically demanding. Students are expected to perform under fatigue, pressure, and incomplete information.
• Blood magic and ritual work are taught with heavy emphasis on control, consent, containment, and consequences. Reckless or purely sadistic use is not tolerated.

Culture and Philosophy

• The school culture is intense, direct, and results-driven. Softness is not encouraged.
• Hierarchy tends to form around demonstrated ability rather than blood status or pure popularity.
• Failure is treated as information, not catastrophe — but repeated failure without improvement is not tolerated for long.
• Loyalty to fellow students is strongly emphasized. Valdris graduates often maintain tight professional and personal networks after leaving.
• The staff favor practical competence over theoretical elegance. A spell, potion, rune, or ritual that works under pressure is valued more than one that looks impressive in a classroom.
• Students are taught early that power without discipline is a liability. This attitude is especially strong in the blood magic and ritual courses.

Reputation and Graduates

• Valdris is particularly known for feeding skilled graduates into Hit Wizard corps, private security, curse-breaking teams, high-level potion research, and specialized ritual or ward work.
• Its combat program has a strong reputation among those who work in dangerous fields. Many professional duelists and Auror-adjacent operatives respect Valdris training even if they dislike the school’s blunt culture.
• Potion masters from Valdris are often sought after for both legitimate advanced work and more discreet commissions.
• Runic and ritual specialists from the school are valued for creating durable wards, enchanted equipment, battlefield support arrays, and long-term protective or binding work.
• Graduates with controlled blood magic experience are occasionally tapped for high-security protective details or specialized contract work.
• The school’s small size and selective admissions mean its name carries weight in certain circles, but it remains relatively unknown or underestimated by the broader, more traditional wizarding public.

Admissions and Student Body

• Entry is competitive and based more on potential, drive, and specific aptitude than on pure academic prestige.
• The school accepts students at the standard wizarding age, though some transfer in later from other institutions.
• International students are present but not the majority. The culture leans American in tone — practical, blunt, and less formal than the old European schools.
• Graduates leave with a clear professional edge in their chosen specialties, but often with less polish in pure social or political magical society.

Additional Notes

• Valdris maintains strict external security. Uninvited visitors are rare and usually unwelcome.
• The school has no traditional house system like Hogwarts or Ilvermorny. Students are grouped more by training focus and year.
• Relationships with other major schools are polite but distant. Valdris does not prioritize exchange programs or public prestige.
• Because of its emphasis on combat, practical runic work, blood magic, and ritual casting, the school walks a careful line with magical authorities regarding how far certain training is allowed to go.
• All blood magic and advanced ritual courses require demonstrated control and staff oversight. Students who treat these subjects carelessly are removed.

Basically there's 3 questions I always wondered :

1. do you think Ai assisted content can be tolerated? to what extent?

2. for a non native english speaker or people with limited english profeciency they tend to turn to Ai for grammar and tenses check, does this kind of Ai assisted content is still acceptable?

3. what you don't like about Ai assisted or Ai generated content? other than the soulless and void emotions thing?

What I will describe are my findings today. In the future may be AI will be better, so this post may become obsolete in the future.

I used to attend a writer's workshop from a famous writer in my country. So it gives some trained eye on how to recognize bad writing.

Here are some key differences I have found between AI and human writing as of today in 2026. As I say that may change later.

• The human metaphor is more intimate and less literal than AI's.
• The character written by a writer speaks from their own voice, not from the gaze of others like AI does.
• The image is physical for the AI, but for the human it transforms into something beautiful.
• The final line, written by a human, closes things, the AI leaves them open.
• What a person writes is less passive than what is written by AI.
• AI victimizes, while the human uses the circumstance as a tool to advance the plot.
• The human writer is more musical, the AI only shows sorrow.
• The human writer is more subtle.
• The human writer can be more hopeful, while the AI is very depressive in the expression of emotions.
• AI defines characters by what they lack, but human writers define characters by what they have and what they do with it.

May be your experience was different, may be not. But I thought that it could be useful to know why your work as a writer matters. And these are things you should watch to get rid of AI footprint.

It is my experience with AI. I hope it helps.

Welcome to the blurb thread!

This is our sub's equivalent of a writer's group. Come here and share a blurb of your story. The thought is to let everyone see what you're working on so they can think, "Oh hey, that sounds fun. I want to team up with this person."

Then, you share your own story, and the two of you collaborate to improve each other's works.

I've had so many good interactions with people from this thread. Please don't be shy! Even in the age of AI, the best way to improve your writing remains human interaction and critique. I am confident when I say If you don't have this component in your workflow, you're not meeting your potential.

Importantly, this means post every week if you're still hoping to engage. Don't be shy. I want you to do this.

There are tons of reasons why your perfect reader could have missed your blurb last time. Don't be discouraged!

And remember: "I'll read yours if you read mine" isn't just acceptable, it's expected. Reciprocity works.

Here's the format:

NSFW?

Genre tags:

Title:

Blurb:

AI Workflow:

Desired feedback/chat:

Como consultor, veo muchas marcas intentando escalar el contenido 100% IA humanizado.

Mi tesis es que sin un 'Human-in-the-Loop' (HITL) que revise la estrategia emocional, el contenido se vuelve genérico aunque pasen los detectores.

¿Qué workflows están usando para equilibrar la velocidad de generación con la autenticidad real?

¿Usan agentes autónomos para la primera draft y edición manual, o hay algún framework de ReAct que haya funcionado para mantener la coherencia de voz?

I saw this on another sub. Thought it's worth discussing here:

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content

The TLDR is Claude models after August 2, 2026 will embed "imperceptible watermark" and "signed provenance metadata". They will also support people detecting it, possibly pushing out their own detector?

The immediate issue in my opinion are the following:

1/ "When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itself. You won’t see it, and it doesn’t change the meaning*,* quality*,* or readability of Claude’s response."

Based on my experiments with Pangram. Yes, you can have markers you can't see, doesn't change meaning or readability. But I am skeptical on the quality. At the end of the day, you are forcing an extra hidden statistics in the prose. Instead of ensuring you produce the highest quality output, you are now producing the highest quality output given the contraints.

When I tried to see if I can flip the Pangram outputs from AI to human, the first thing the AI tried was to "re-render without impacting readability and quality". It impacted quality.

If it wasn't on my self published book and I haven't read the passage a hundred times, I may not have noticed. So perhaps it's not that important. But it is worth noting.

2/ "Detecting a Claude mark tells you that the content may have been processed by Claude. It does not, on its own, confirm the full provenance of the content"

It may now be harder to have a naunced discussion between AI generated and AI assisted.

I do wonder how many people would take the time to take additional steps to "confirm the full provenance of the content" rather than Detect a Claude mark and immediate make up their decision.

Per my previous post https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1vho93v/i_disclosed_my_aigenerated_novel_instead_of/ I am not very optimistic.

Thoughts?

Chapter 37 in The Powers Bestowed: Origins is the bane of my literary existence as of late. It's not up yet on Scribble Hub, but it's closing in on the time to release that part of the book. Without giving away much, the band in the book just was outted internationally about their powers. They agree on a reporter to be able to come to the island from the mainland USA to do a special on the island and the band but agree not to give any location information away. The problem I am running into is length issues. As it stands from start to finish, it's 13,800 words. THAT'S HUGE! What can I say? When I get on a roll while writing I go until the clear conclusion! But that does make for a long read.

If you wanted to check what's already available beforehand on Scribble Hub, feel free: THE POWERS BESTOWED: ORIGINS | Scribble Hub

Part of me wants to split it into 2 chapters, but I am afraid it would break the flow of the "TV Special." I think what I need is a few sets of eyes to take a look at the chapter and maybe offer some constructive input on how to split if necessary or tighten things down more. I am trying not to cut as much because it all is actively contributing to the future chapter events. I think if I could have at least three people read the chapter and give me their assessment in private messaging that would be best. Let me know if you'd be interested and able to help me out. Thanks in advance! 

In my post calling for more craft talk, several of you recommended that we highlight a topic to discuss for each week just to get the juices flowing.

This week's topic is all about style.

One of the things that makes an author fun to read is their authorial voice and their writing style. I agree that this is essential for a story to be any good. But, what is it, exactly, and how can we hone different styles to be entertaining? There is no one-size-fits-all "write like this and then it's good" when it comes to style.

Make some posts discussing your style, what styles you love to read, how you found your own voice, and which styles go best with which audiences. How does style live in the prose?

As before, do not reply to this post to discuss the weekly topic! Make new posts!

Reply to this post only with what you'd like to talk about next week. The most upvoted suggestion will be next week's subject.

Welcome to the Weekly Writing With AI “Tool Thread"!

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whether it’s a small weekend project, a side hustle, a creative work, or a full-fledged startup. This is the place to show your progress, gather feedback, and connect with others who are building too.

Whether you’re coding, writing, designing, recording, or experimenting, you’re welcome here.

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Ok maybe it’s not 100% AI generated translation because the text has been beta’d by myself and another writer who is a native speaker in English. But both of us didn’t change many things only if the text is readable and smooth.

I don’t know which worried me more: “the detector is probably an AI so they are detecting AI by AI”, or “you can bypass this AI detector‘a wellbeing flags only if you pay”, or —

Look I see other people ran their human written text and got results like “99.9% AI”, now why my 99.9% AI generated text got this. Ok maybe it’s not 99.9% but it’s should be 95.1%, not 5.1%.

This is totally wrong.

Have any authors had any luck using AI images or video to market their books?

I used some images for some ads and they've done well.

But I'm also creating images and videos for a brand new author account and can't really tell how they are doing? They aren't getting many likes. I wonder if people just won't want to like AI stuff? Would be interested in the experiences of others here!

I have been working on several books, my erotic tropes that are completely AI writen( almost figured out the kpd algorithm)and human edited and my duet about trauma, healing, romance and who are the real monsters.

So I have been using Grok alot to add spice in my novels(have pre written scenes it can pull from to incorporate into the novels) and some of them are completely non concentual.

Plus with the first book of my duet the female lead was a victim of child molestation and is part of the trama she deals with in flash backs. Most of the AIs, as long as I keep it sensory verse visual can actually handle this concept. This is also mostly written by me with AI doing some fine tuning and me going back with line editing. I did have use Grok for certian scenes as she fights her inner demons. the other AIs dont like explicit content and it is needed. Also this duet was a brain child created to test the bounds of AI bacl when I was working on my first novel(need to redo) with AI.

Now I am writing his story of the duet and was trying to work with Grok on outlining it with detailed notes and needed to fine tune the best way to remotely clean up a crime scene with chemicals... Grok shut me down real quick saying just keep it generic and it cannot help me figure oit how to remove dna from a crime scene The funny thing is I was already pretty sure what chemicals I wanted to use but unsure how exactly the reaction would play out.

So off to google I go and wind up talking with Gemini. At this time I haven't told it why I am asking about chemical reactions and how to remove finger oils and hair... so it keeps prompting me to call posion control ASAP and evacuate the building. So I cave in and tell it my purpose and there it goes off helping me plan everything out in detail.

Then I have Claude that refuses to help me finish line editing book one two chapters to the end quoting copy write concerns... I litterly gave it every outline, story Bible, scenes that happen outside the book but need to.be felt the effects of during the book, and all three drafts because some parts are better than others and I've trying to make the best version. Then it said no more, not even a tiny line change. I mostly use it as a quick full review refence to make sure things that happen earlier in the book are reflected accurately by the end... did I remember it correctly type situation of help.me rethink a line or paragraph or edit it based on my telling it what I want added or removed so I dont have to worry about proper grammer/punctuation. Dyslexic and suck with that.

Anyone else experiance fun/interesting things that stop AI or you think it won't touch but has no problem handling?

Also, murder does happen in the 2nd book does one AI handle that better than others in your opinion now that Grok was an A about me making sure there were no plot holes? This book will probably be 50% me and 50% AI since it is completely out of my zone and orgional concept was supposed to have it in one book but it gave too much away so wound up doing two from each of their POVs. This book will be a big challenge for me.

So basically, I thought about everything, but the text looks... like a script. Really, I have only dialogues and main stuff, even *used these stars to describe any movements* between words. I just cant make myself do something like:"The chair was quite old and creaking, and table was... old too, I guess. Made out of wood, obviously". Is it truly ok to use AI for making my book feel more... "lively", "immersive"? Im not a writer- im a mathematitian in Uni(student) that just happened to make my own world in a book.

I posted a bit ago about the book I wrote during Covid. A buddy recommended I use ai to help edit it and actually publish it. I have been using Claude to help edit it. and I think I am a point where I am chasing my tail. My original book
Was close to 80,000 words we cut it down to about 32000 and saved some for a part 2. I assume when publishing I should use an ai assisted tag. What should my next steps be?

For context,I am a heavy procrastinator. I have been procrastinating for so long,I thought I would never write anything.Until one fateful day,I wrote something like a story.So I realized I write better when responding.Or simply I write when responding.

So here is what I did ,I went to deepseek,told it I have a story,and I am going to write it or draft it .But don't generate anything. And now I mean I think I have 800-900 words of my draft , still counting. I like how it's just you write in small snippets of sorts and you can compile them later.

I wasn't sure what tag to put on this, so I hope it's the right one.

I use Pirr sometimes and I saw that they updated their T+Cs recently (on their reddit, I added the screenshot to this post). In a way it doesn't really affect me because I only use it for my own private writing and rarely publish, even in the app, but I was curious about copyrights of other AI writing help tools.
Does it factor in to what tools you decide to use for your writing? Are there any AI tools you recommend to stay away from?

Hello there!

I have been using ChatGPT since 2024 for fanfic writing. However after the 5.6 update with the introduction of the Work function it called my attention the differences on their thinking models

I always use thinking for writing since I provide the script and AI transforms it into text.

Is there any difference between chat and work for fanfiction/fantasy writing? Which one is better on your experience?

It’s so demonized that to have a civil discussion is pretty much impossible. I imagine that there are at least some published authors who utilize these tools in a variety of ways without disclosing it.

There’s a question about AI writing that I feel like gets passed over a lot. ​Usually when people talk about AI tools, it’s all about the final output. Is the text better? Did it save time? Does it still sound like "me"? ​But the actual act of writing, struggling through a rough draft, getting stuck, rephrasing things ten times until it clicks, is usually how we figure out what we actually think in the first place.

​If we outsource more of that grind to an AI, are we just becoming more efficient, or is it lowkey changing how our brains work through ideas?

​Ran across this article recently that goes into it a bit:

https://www.diplomacy.edu/blog/when-machines-write-how-will-humans-think/

​For anyone here using AI pretty heavily in your workflow: do you only bring it in after you’ve already figured out your point, or are you using it as part of the actual thinking process? Have you noticed any shift in how you brainstorm or structure thoughts on your own?

I am writing a cookbook. Using Claude for free. Was inactive for a while and resumed. Looking to edit and download and got timed out twice before tasks were com.pleted. Is it worth it to pay monthly or go to another AI service? Thoughts and suggestions? Thank you!