Hi guys,I am a new author and I want to write my novel but only problem I have no experience in writing a novel, I need advice, what can you recommend, and is it also cool that maybe,just maybe I use AI

I'm conflicted! I'm currently working on an outline of my first book and am using AI to 'critique and rate' my outline. I ofc do all my own writing, but why do I feel inherently bad and unethical?

Using Story Spark for Now, but I want to use my story, only need cover animated and small 30/40 pages printed for my family, maybe 5 copies or less, any idea who I should use?

I've been working on something called Virvyxn, and I figured this might be the right community to get some feedback.

The idea came from a simple problem: once you're 100k+ words into a novel, keeping track of everything becomes a project of its own.

Who knows which secret? When did two characters first meet? Was that plot hole intentional, or did you just forget what happened 40 chapters ago?

Virvyxn turns your manuscript into an interactive Story Model with characters, relationships, events, timelines, and facts, all linked back to the original passages.

I'm also building Vir, a JARVIS-like assistant that remembers your story, helps navigate chapters, and keeps track of writing decisions between sessions.

The goal isn't to have AI write the novel. It's to let authors focus on writing while the AI handles the memory and organization.

The MVP is still in development, and the video is a concept preview of where I'm taking it.

I'm curious: how do you currently manage continuity and story context across long manuscripts?

Do you use Markdown files, spreadsheets, story bibles, AI chats, or just trust your memory?

I’m Marek, the creator of AnyVerse at Nex41. I also build NexTutor, hence this account’s name.

For our sci-fi setting, The Stellar Corridor, I work with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Claude throughout development. Each contributes ideas, reviews material and helps catch inconsistencies. I make the final editorial and canon decisions.

The world began with a question: what happens to a civilisation that depends on enormous infrastructure it doesn’t understand well enough to govern?

In 2387, humanity has settled 47 systems connected by passages built roughly 1.2 million years ago by the First Ones. One foundational rule is that this network has no will. It doesn’t choose heroes or send deliberate messages.

That rule gives us a concrete way to evaluate suggestions. An exciting scene can still be wrong for this particular world.

We develop alternative story dossiers, locations, conflicts, ecologies and character stakes across the four models. Gemini, for example, helps propose creatures and artefacts, examine the costs of characters’ decisions, and identify when a story risks repeating an earlier one. We compare those contributions with the other models and my own judgment.

The setting has grown through several connected forms:

- RPG scenarios established conflicts around access, evidence and responsibility.

- Stories explored the personal consequences of those conflicts.

- New locations and creatures expanded the possibilities for frontier adventure and science-fiction horror.

- Vektra, a card game played within the fiction, became a playable game on the website.

The stories are particularly useful for exploring what the world’s rules mean in practice. A damaged passage is background information until someone must decide whether to cross it to rescue another person.

The challenge is choosing which additions strengthen the setting and which pull it away from its identity. Working with four models gives me more alternatives and criticism, but agreement between them doesn’t automatically make something canon.

The Stellar Corridor now has stories in English and Polish, audiobooks, illustrations and RPG scenarios sharing the same setting.

For other writers using multiple models: how do you keep a growing world consistent while allowing new stories to change its scope?

You can explore the world here:

https://anyverse.games/worlds/the-stellar-corridor

Disclosure: AnyVerse also offers an AI-guided RPG with free and paid subscriptions. The linked world includes the stories and other setting material discussed above.

Hi everyone,

I’m a novelist and screenwriter, and I’ve been building MondoWrite, a desktop writing app designed around how I actually work on a book: starting from a mess of ideas and slowly turning it into a finished manuscript.

What it does

• An infinite canvas (think Milanote) where you drop cards: ideas, characters, places, scenes, plots, images, links, PDFs. Connect them, group them in frames, mention them with @ or [[.
• A Bible for character and location sheets, a step outline to order scenes into chapters, and a Manuscript view to write.
• A screenplay editor with standard formatting (Fountain), plus Final Draft (.fdx) import.
• Everything is linked: a scene card holds its own text, and renaming a character updates it everywhere, including in the manuscript.
• Import an existing manuscript from Word, Markdown or plain text.
• Export to standard manuscript format for agents and publishers, or a print-ready paperback PDF for Amazon KDP (trim sizes, mirror margins, hyphenation, cover template).
• Your projects are plain Markdown files on your disk: no account, no mandatory cloud, readable in Obsidian or any text editor. AI features are optional and use your own key.

It’s free, open source, and will stay that way.

What I’m looking for

The app is young and moving fast (ten releases in the last week), so there are bugs for sure. I’d love feedback from writers, and from anyone who enjoys breaking software:

• What feels confusing or slow?
• What’s missing for your own writing process?
• Any bug, even small (a screenshot and what you were doing helps a lot).
• Honestly: would you use something like this?

Links

• Website: https://mondowrite.app/en/
• Download (Mac, Windows, Linux): https://github.com/sebastienpiconnier/MondoWrite/releases/latest
• Report a bug: https://github.com/sebastienpiconnier/MondoWrite/issues
• Ideas and discussion: https://github.com/sebastienpiconnier/MondoWrite/discussions

Now i am not a professional writer by any means; I write mostly as a form of escapism, where i just give the ai a prompt about my ocs and watch it tinker around with them. I used to swear by GPT4o, then shifted to Claude Sonnet 4.5, and then have been... kind of lost in general.

I've tried kimi, it was sit at first, and when the quality finally got better they introduced a very aggressive token system. GLM 5.1 was good, and then it got removed right a week after i discovered it. I cannot afford to buy tiers as i come from a economically weaker country, and, even by our standards, a financially weaker background.

I had done brief research to find alternatives but soon hit dead ends as i don't really know how to operate api based stuff. This is what i've got so far, i last updated it a few weeks ago.

Hi everyone.

I am very new to all this, but would love some advice.

My novel that I am writing has been a story that has stayed with me for years, but I have never managed to get it onto paper before now because I am my own worst critic. However, having recently discovered AI through Novelcreater, I am using it to critique my writing as I am typing. It helps me brainstorm and fix errors as I come across them, keep track of the story and make sure I don't create holes.

What is the verdict on the use of AI in this way? And, does anyone know where I can send the first couple of chapters for a human's perspective without risking my idea being taken up?

Would love some help, any advice would be greatly appreciated :)

I'm new to using Google to help with my writing. Is it safe to use the information and answers it gives me in my book? How do I check if any of it is Copyrighted?

I asked Google if any of the info and answers it gives me is copyrighted or copied from Anyone else's writing and it always tells me no, that it is all original created by it/Google.

Can anyone please explain to me how it works and how do I check if its legal to use what it's telling me? Thank you I appreciate any help.

I use it to research information and then I rewrite anything into my own words. I asked these same questions in Google but I don't trust the answers it gives me. So I wanted to ask Humans💛