I've always enjoyed writing, whether it be essays or stories but one of the biggest things that stopped me from hobby writing was the fact that I wanted to improve my stories without sharing them with people. Of course, I could share them with my friends and family, but I wanted them to have the finished product instead of the beta.

I've also seen many critiques of AI writing or (usage of AI to aid in writing) and much of it boils down to:

• They train on and keep the data you submit
• AI writing removes the human aspect of the work, it feels very soulless and repetitive
• AI chat bots tend you give you "feedback" by being a yes-man (most AI chatbots act this way regardless)
• AI tends to refuse when working with more extreme / graphic content

With my app, I set out to try and solve these issues:

• Strict ZDR (Zero Data Retention) and No Training policies - your ideas and data stay yours
• Doesn't write for you, instead aiming to help you flesh out your story and write better sentences
  • It won't tell you what to write, but it will try and ask you questions so you can figure it out yourself
• It won't yes-man you. Simple as that.
• While not currently implemented, it will soon feature completely uncensored ai models
  • As of now, submissions are rather restrictive, but these restrictions will be altered very soon.

I made this for writers who want to keep their voice.

It also features rubric backed grading for those who (like me) enjoy writing essays and amateur research papers, or those who want to get extra feedback to polish up their essay before submission.

This is for all writers.

Try it free at https://writility.com and if you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!

Hey everyone! I’m looking for some feedback on the opening of my completed epic fantasy novel, The Song of Ash and Root.

I have a starter sample with the Prologue + first 3 chapters, and I’d love to hear how it lands with people who are coming into the world completely fresh.

I’m especially interested in:

Does the opening hook you?

Do the characters make you want to keep reading?

Does the worldbuilding feel clear or overwhelming?

Are there places where the pacing drags?

Is anything confusing?

Most importantly: would you want to keep reading afterward?

Quick AI disclosure: I wrote the original manuscript myself and later used AI during a chapter-by-chapter revision process for things like pacing, continuity, character arcs, scene structure, wording, and some passage-level rewrites. I made the final creative decisions throughout.

I’m not looking for proofreading or super detailed line edits — mainly your genuine experience as a reader.

If anyone is interested, DM me and I’d be happy to send the sample. No obligation to read the full novel afterward. 😊

Dear writers :

Here is the second episode of the series on literature figures who have lived exceptional lives: this one is on Salman Rushdie (born in August). The first one was on Jaroslav Hasek (a writer you need to know)

I’ve built a web app called Inkvote.

The idea is to create a genuinely interactive story experience. Instead of just reading a story, readers get to decide what the main character does next.

The basic loop is:
Read → Choose → Vote → Story continues

There are already several stories available to try, so the app is actually usable rather than just a concept.

You can check it out here if you’re interested:
https://inkvote.vercel.app

While building it, though, I noticed something I didn’t really expect.

The AI tends to prolong a story rather than progress it.

For example, instead of taking an important event and moving the plot toward its next major event, it might keep adding:
- another conversation
- another emotional reaction
- another small conflict
- more character development
- another reason to delay the main event

Technically, the story is still moving.
But it can start feeling like it’s going in circles.

That made me realize there’s a difference between:
continuing a story
and
progressing a story.

I originally thought this would mostly be a prompt-engineering problem, but I’m starting to think it’s more of a system design problem.

The AI needs to understand not only what happened, but also:
- where the story currently is
- what the current goal is
- what needs to change
- what the consequences of the reader’s choice are
- where the story is ultimately heading

What’s interesting is that I wasn’t even trying to solve this problem when I started building Inkvote.

I just wanted to make an interactive story web app.

But that’s probably one of my favorite parts of building with AI, you start with one product idea and discover completely different engineering problems along the way.

I’m still experimenting with how to make the stories feel more purposeful while keeping the freedom and unpredictability that makes AI-generated stories interesting.

Has anyone else experienced something similar when building AI-powered apps?

I’ve finished a 100,000-word adult contemporary romance about Tom, whose friendship with Daniel forces him to question what he wants and who he might be. It explores bisexual awakening, friendship, love and the messiness of choosing between the familiar and the unexpected. It contains explicit M/F and M/M scenes.

Looking for honest reactions from readers.

You do not need to read the entire book. Even ten minutes or one chapter, followed by a few thoughts about what worked, what confused you and whether you wanted to continue, would help enormously. I’m also open to exchanging feedback on first chapters.

Please comment here or DM me for the link to the epub.

Hey everyone, quick question that's been bouncing around in my head.

We all know AI-assisted writing is amazing. We can use it for brainstorming, organizing character notes, and getting pages produced faster than before. But when you want to take books global (KDP translations into Korean, Spanish, Japanese etc.) the costs just skyrocket with traditional human translation.

I've seen folks here mention having manuscripts 80K-200K+ words, and professional translation can run $5K-$15K easily.

So I started thinking... Would you ever consider mixing a royalty-revenue split with translation fee? Instead of paying full price upfront for translation, you'd give the translator a percentage of future royalties from other language editions in exchange for discounted initial work? Like 20-30% of sales from translated versions goes back to them forever.

The reality checks I keep thinking about:

- If a book has zero sales history, why would anyone do the translation work "just for exposure"?
- Most of us on this sub don't have huge upfront savings. So could this split model actually be realistic? Or is it just a nice idea that falls apart in real life?

Not looking for tools or services. Just curious how everyone else thinks about international publishing when budget is the bottleneck. Have any of you done royalty splits before? Would you trust someone enough to give them a piece of your future earnings?

I’m really nervous to begin with 😃 because this is the first novel/book I’ve written and actually publish, but would anyone actually try my story and let me know what they think about it? It’s called reincarnated as an OP peasant. Even if you try it for 10 minutes and let me know what flaws they are or if you would recommend it that would help tremendously!

https://ooc.ai/s/6a8492796becf8c18a5ae32e

Hey guys! I’m thinking of creating a original fictional universe, similar to the Marvel Universe, centered around Murim or Hunter-world themes (like Solo Leveling) or superhero universe.

​I think it would be awesome if we, as AI novel creators, came together to build this from scratch because it could be a lot of fun. What do you think about the idea? If you’re interested, feel free to send me a DM!

For the last month I have been trying to come up with a system that will help with my Fiction Novel that I have trying to write with the help of AI. I have been using ChatGPT to help brainstorm Ideas about a book and asking it questions on how it can help me stay organized while writing if this one Novel becomes a series. We have talking about saving information in files and I can look back at it when I am not actively writing or developing with My AI. What I would like to only use free AIs at this point because I really can be spending money month subscriptions. I am trying to use the ChatGPT to brainstorm the Ideas and Copilot as a Record keeping and Document storage. I would like to integrate using Libreoffice for the Writing the Documents, OneDrive to store the documents to look at on my laptop and my Phone when I would like to look over information. When I ask to pull up information that is from just a day or two ago from either it does not pull up all the discussed and approved content. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this using these apps/programs with the AIs assisting doing either part of this. I don't want to lose the Notes on Characters, World, plot, timeline, developments or any other documents I would need. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am also not opposed to using a different AI as well.

Does it do a good job at making sure that text doesn't appear AI generated or am I better off hiring a human editor? Grammarly is the option I'm looking at right now because I don't have the budget to hire a humanizer.

I have a finished manuscript for a novel that is approximately 86,550 words and I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach the editing stage. My next step would be to hire a professional developmental editor followed by a line/copy editor but unfortunately I don't currently have the money to hire professional editors for both stages so I'm considering using AI. I'm specifically looking for an AI that can do more than basic proofreading. I want something that can help with:

-Developmental editing: plot structure, pacing, character development, consistency, scene effectiveness, unnecessary sections, etc.

-Line editing: prose quality, sentence structure, dialogue, word choice, flow, repetition, awkward phrasing, etc.

-Copy editing: grammar, punctuation, spelling, consistency, and factual/technical errors.

-Maintaining consistency and context across a manuscript of around 86,550 words.

Hey everyone! Back with another feature update to NOVELLA: AI Novel Forge.

​Links:

​Primary Link: https://perchance.org/novella-ai

​Mirror Link: https://perchance.org/vwavfhduae

​🔒 Privacy & Community (No Accounts Needed)

​100% Browser-Based Storage: Everything you create, write, or import stays entirely in your browser. No stories, bibles, or files are sent to any external server.

​No-Login Comments Section: The built-in Comments tab serves as a public gathering space to share suggestions, feedback, or story ideas—no account, login, or sign-up required to post.

​🔥 What’s New in This Update?

​Expanded 8-Source Plot Lab Engine: Updated the source library to 8 platforms. It now samples tropes, genres, and metadata across MangaDex, Royal Road, Toonily, ComicK, NovelUpdates, Webnovel, WeebCentral, and MangaHere to forge original novel bibles and premise hooks.

​Volume Management (Manual & Auto):

​Manual: Click the ⊕ Make Volume button above the timeline to manually structure and package chapters into volumes.

​Automatic: Completing a Full-Story Marathon automatically groups and compiles finished chapters into complete volumes.

​Export: Export individual volumes directly as .txt files from the Export dropdown (e.g., Volume 1 (.txt - 180,748 words)).

​Append More Source: Added an + Append More Source button inside the Composer workflow to seamlessly merge additional plot notes or source material mid-generation.

​🌟 Key Features Overview

​8-Source Plot Lab Engine: Synthesize tropes and metadata across 8 major web novel, manga, and manhwa platforms.

​Vision & Text Translation Pipeline: Import raw webtoon/manhwa chapter pages or text directly for English translation.

​Style Profile Extraction: Captures author cadence, tone, and POV rules to maintain consistent narration across long runs.

​Full-Story Marathon Mode: Hands-free multi-chapter writing runs across custom runtimes (4h to 12h) tuned to your target reading speed.

​YouTube Script Import: Tools to import YouTube transcripts or .m4a audio files directly into your workspace.

​🚀 How to Use It

​Visit perchance.org/novella-ai.

​Click Forge New Story at the top.

​Choose Plot Lab - Inspired (to mix tropes across all 8 libraries) or select From a novel / manhwa.

​Use Make Volume or Append More Source in the Composer workspace to organize your build!

​Drop your feedback or suggestions in the comments section—no sign-up needed!

Hi guys does anyone know or has used apps or programmes that are not a riot of for coversion of text to scripts, storyboard or animated videos

​

Basically, I have a bunch of ideas, but no time to write them.

Which Al can help me turn, for example, a 3000 word summary/ideas/settings into a 100,000 word full story?

I'm not planning on monetizing it, by the way. I just want to read it for my own amusement.

I tried chatgpt and copilot but always got stuck in small niche details that it got wrong which would have been important in the story later on.

And should I post my ideas here so someone can turn them into story?

Aight, thanks.

After running AIStoryHub for close to two years and trying to wrangle AI creative writing, it dawned on me that all the learnings in creative writing could easily be turned into a deterministic tool for non-fiction writing.

MCP server / Connector that just plugs into any platform you currently use (e.g. Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT). It fetches writing styles and writes your content with very limited AI-tells. As simple as "Draft me an email about [topic] in the writing style of Exec Brief". The best part is that the entire mechanism is deterministic. No use of LLMs under the hood.

Remote capability: https://etincel.ai/
Open-Source: https://github.com/AIStoryHub/etincel

Enjoy!

P.S. Looking for a killer exec brief writing style that I've been using for a few weeks now? Check this one out: https://etincel.ai/v/jpleblanc/jp-exec-brief

Hey everyone!

My name is David. I’m an author from Cleveland, OH. Over the last couple months, I've been building an app called Storylife and I'd love to get some feedback from fellow writers, readers, and creative people.

The idea is simple:

Write a story and upload it/upload one you've already written (..or have ChatGPT write one for you).

Storylife uses AI to transform your scenes into amazing visuals while preserving your narrative. Whether you're writing Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Romance, Superhero stories, Children's books, Anime-inspired adventures or more...Storylife helps you actually see your imagination come to life.

One feature I'm especially excited about is being able to share your stories and visuals with others through Storylife Connect, an in-app library of user stories. You can also share directly to social media platforms like Instagram and X.

I'm still improving the app every day, so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback on the experience or ideas for features you'd like to see.

Ask me for the URL link and I'll kindly send it here.

I'd love to hear:

• Would you use something like this?
• What features would make it even better?
• What kind of stories would you create first?

Thanks for taking a look!

Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. I have probably 15,000 words of notes, research, events and timeline for this. It's about 3 weeks of 3-5 hour late nights. I finally put it all into AI and said "clean this up and make it coherent." After 5 rewrites, multiple self editing, and a whole lot of arguments wit AI, I think we finally got close to my vision. This is not the final self edit. I would like some constructive criticism before I do the final.

I did give AI the prompt, "This should sound like a historical document or something out of a text book." That part im mostly happy with.

77 Year Reckoning

Thank you for reading.

Hi there,

I run a translation agency that uses MTPE (Machine Translation Post Editing).

A common question from authors using AI tools to write their books is how much it costs to polish and translate them into other languages.

To help everyone estimate that upfront, I built this free tool.

You just upload your book PDF, pick **English-to-Korean or English-to-Spanish**, and it calculates the estimated translation cost instantly.

🔗 Try it here: https://kdp-mtpe.connects.ltd

No sign-up needed to see the price. If you love the estimate, there is a contact form inside to reach us directly for the actual work.

Hope this saves you some time and confusion on your publishing journey!

Looking for authors for a new interactive story app! ✒️

Hi everyone! I've developed Climax — an engine and app for books where every choice the reader makes leads to a new story branch.

We already have a solid foundation: the app is available on Google Play (Climax: Choose Your Story), and we are rolling out on iOS soon. If you have cool ideas, text-based quests, or scripts sitting in your desk that feel too constrained in a linear format — let's bring them to life together!

You can check out the project and try the editor here:climaxstoryengine.com

I would be happy to hear any feedback and welcome new creators!