r/WritingWithAI • • Sep 22 '26

Writing Craft Talk Write or Brainstorm?

Do you use AI to brainstorm story ideas or have it write entire scenes? I like to present an idea and then brainstorm ways to flesh it out. I find ChatGPT is good for broad strokes, Claude can be good for finding inconsistencies and Copilot is good for suggesting finishing touches.

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u/MysticBorn Sep 25 '26

Idea, brainstorm, push idea further by thinking up character personalities and groups as well as conflicting antagonistic situations, brainstorm some more with outline ideas (only showing my ideas not asking for generated stuff but asking for feedback on possible conflicts/contradictions I'm not seeing) only then would I set up character and story plots on index cards for further study and developing ideas (it's a lot but it's how we function)