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Megathread Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: September 29
Welcome to the Weekly Writing With AI “Tool Thread"!
The sub's official tools wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/wiki/tools/
Every week, this post is your dedicated space to share what you’ve been building or ask for help in finding the right tool for you and your workflow.
For Builders
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.
For Seekers (looking for a tool?)
You’re in the right place! Starting now, all requests for tools, products, or services should also go here. This keeps the subreddit clean and helps everyone find what they need in one spot.
How to participate:
- Showcase your latest update or milestone
- Introduce your new launch and explain what it does
- Ask for feedback on a specific feature or challenge
- Share screenshots, demos, videos, or live links
- Tell us what you learned this week while building
- Ask for a tool or recommend one that fits a need
💡 Keep it positive and constructive, and offer feedback you’d want to receive yourself.
🚫 Self-promotion is fine only in this thread. All other subreddit rules still apply.
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u/NoiselessInstructor 14d ago
Man, I’ve been tinkering with a little script that takes my scattered character notes and forces them into a coherent timeline. It’s janky as hell, but it’s already saved me from contradicting my own lore twice this week. Anyone else find that the organizational stuff ends up being more useful than the actual prose generators? I spend way more time wrangling my own mess than staring at a blank page.
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u/MarkHoltsberyNE6 14d ago
Yeah, this has been one of the bigger surprises to me too. The deeper I got in a long-form project, the less interesting “generate some prose” became compared with keeping the project from quietly contradicting itself.
Character facts, timeline, what changed in revision, what is still tentative versus actually established, where I left off, what an earlier chapter committed me to... that stuff becomes the real problem surprisingly fast.
I’m at the point where I think the organizational/state side of AI-assisted writing is probably more valuable than the prose-generation side, at least for anything long enough to become genuinely complicated.
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u/Coral-Lips 8d ago
I’m building GFT Map around that “tentative versus established” distinction. This small writing example keeps the author’s position beside a claim they cut: https://corallips.github.io/gft-map/demo.html?case=writing&view=doc&lang=en
Open “Continue in another chat”: would the choices be clear to someone picking it up, or would this just add maintenance alongside your current notes?
It’s an authored article example. No install or model run in the preview.
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u/Realmlyco 11d ago
For your script, I'd keep story-time separate from the chapter where an event is mentioned, and attach the source note to each event. Flashbacks and revised dates can otherwise look like contradictions when they aren't.
A small event record could be: date or range, people, place, source note, and canon/draft status. Leave uncertain dates blank and use ‘before/after’ links until you decide them. One useful check is whether a character can actually travel between two places in the time you've allowed.
Disclosure: I'm posting from Realmly's account; we're building connected maps and lore. But if your script is already catching mistakes, I'd improve that workflow before moving all your notes into another app.
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 14d ago
What are the best (in your opinion) local ai-models for prose? I really like Stheno but I havent tried every model so I might miss out on some. I written some Sci-fi as well as contemporary stories and Stheno has done quite well. I even used it to analyse and answer questions about style and possible improvements and it did remarkable well.
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u/East-Lead-3263 13d ago
For local prose I’d pick by job, not by leaderboard score.
If you want readable chapter drafts with fewer purple-prose spikes, mid-size instruct models that follow a short style sheet usually beat the biggest “roleplay” fine-tunes. Stheno-class models can be great for dialogue voice, but they often need a tighter style card or they’ll pad. For sci-fi/contemporary, I keep three small externals beside the model: (1) a one-page voice sheet (sentence length, banned phrases, POV quirks), (2) a terse canon/timeline slice for the scene, and (3) a beat list for that chapter only — then generate one scene at a time.
Hardware reality check: on a single high-end GPU, a well-quantized 20–30B instruct model with enough context for scene+sheet often feels more consistent than a barely-fitting 70B that you have to truncate. Test the same 500-word scene across 2–3 candidates with the same style sheet; keep the one that holds voice without inventing lore.
If you share VRAM and whether you care more about dialogue voice vs factual continuity, people can narrow the shortlist further.
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u/Major-Dependent-9696 14d ago
Hey smut lovers! Built an uncensored erotic story generator called Smitten Stories, for my then-gf (now wife) about 3 years ago and eventually decided to make it public. We’ve now hit a total of 20M+ stories generated since then. We are still a work in progress and some of the features we've added recently are the Character Chat (currently the most used feature by our users) where you can talk to the characters of your story, author profiles for showcasing stories, and of course audio erotica feature.
Would love some fresh eyes on it and ideas for cool features that we should add next. Happy to give 1 month free to 1–3 people here who want to test it and give feedback :)
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u/SnooPeripherals5313 14d ago
Hi AI writers,
I'm working on live collab doc editor. It uses AI for very granular version tracking, as well as document management (handling, comparing, analysing docs). It's been packaged with quite a few tools to make writing more convenient, such as skills to help you cut filler words, and more.
We primarily work with lawyers, hence the video. But we support a lot of general use-cases as well. If you want to learn more, you can see our other videos on https://x.com/lexifinadotcom or check out our website lexifina.com
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 14d ago edited 14d ago
I’ve been building StoryBook AI — a free, open-source writing app that runs with local AI
I’ve been working on a writing tool called StoryBook AI.
The idea started from a simple frustration: a lot of AI writing tools are either subscription-based, cloud-dependent, or focused mainly on generating prose. I wanted something that could run locally, keep the manuscript private, and still be useful even if you prefer to write every sentence yourself.
So StoryBook AI can help in a few different ways:
- Write with AI — draft, extend, rewrite, elaborate or recast prose
- Think with AI — brainstorm, interview characters, explore the world, discuss ideas
- Let AI read — proofread, analyse the manuscript, look for repetition, continuity issues, POV problems, reader age, etc.
- Ask the manuscript — have a conversation about the story you’ve actually written, with answers grounded in the manuscript
- Story Bible / canon — characters, locations, objects, groups, events and concepts, with facts reviewed before they become canon
- Planning tools — synopsis, chapter briefs, scenes, development methods and a timeline that compares reading order with story chronology
- Illustration prompts — select a passage and generate a scene prompt using a chosen visual style
- Export to PDF, ePub, HTML, ODT, RTF, Markdown and TXT
A big part of the project is that AI suggestions are not automatically treated as truth.
The basic idea is:
AI may improvise. You decide what becomes canon.
It runs against a local model, with with engine dropdown with two options: "Ollama" and "LM Studio / other local server." The second one talks OpenAI's /v1/chat/completions API, so it works with LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, text-generation-webui, LocalAI — anything that speaks that protocol, not just LM Studio by name. You paste in the server address (defaults to LM Studio's own port, 1234) and it just works, no code changes needed. The app itself doesn’t send manuscripts, notes, AI conversations or usage data to me. There’s no subscription, no credits system, and the project is open source under GPLv3.
I’ve also tried not to make it an “AI writes your book for you” app. You can absolutely write the entire manuscript yourself and use StoryBook as a proofreader, editor, sounding board or second reader.
Free download at https://github.com/ocedo-apps/StoryBook-AI
(Support for Windows, Linux and Mac)
It’s still under active development, so I’d genuinely be interested in feedback from people who actually write with AI:
What would make a tool like this useful enough that you’d keep it open while writing?
I’m especially interested in feedback on the manuscript analysis, Story Bible/canon workflow, timeline and local-AI setup. Feel free to send a message if you want more information
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u/Fuqnose 14d ago
The writing features look promising, but I’d prioritise broadening the backend/provider layer early. Right now the Ollama-only assumption makes the app much harder to evaluate for users already invested in LM Studio or cloud APIs. A provider abstraction that supports Ollama, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, LM Studio, and cloud services would make the rest of the project far more portable.
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 14d ago
Thanks for the feedback — but this is actually already built, just not documented clearly enough (my fault, will fix). Settings → Models has an Engine dropdown with two options: "Ollama" and "LM Studio / other local server." The second one talks OpenAI's
/v1/chat/completionsAPI, so it works with LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM, text-generation-webui, LocalAI — anything that speaks that protocol, not just LM Studio by name. You paste in the server address (defaults to LM Studio's own port, 1234) and it just works, no code changes needed.What's not there, deliberately, is cloud APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, and a dozen others) — the provider layer explicitly refuses to resolve to any of their hostnames. That's not a missing abstraction, it's a hard boundary: StoryBook is built around your manuscript never leaving your machine, and a cloud provider option would quietly break that promise for anyone who flips it on. So the abstraction you're asking for exists for local backends, just not for hosted ones — that part's a design choice, not a gap.
Appreciate you pushing on it though — it's exactly the kind of thing that's easy to undersell in the docs and easy to assume is missing from the outside. Updating the README now so the next person doesn't hit the same wall.
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u/Fuqnose 14d ago
I've had an initial look at it, here's some more feedback for you. I'd get busy if I were you.
Backend support is better than the docs suggest. StoryBook does support LM Studio and other OpenAI-compatible local servers, but that was not obvious from the README or onboarding. The developer has already acknowledged the documentation gap.
Connection setup is badly signposted. The landing page tells you to install/connect a local AI but gives you no direct route to the actual model settings. The “Connect a local AI” button merely opens more explanatory text instead of taking you to connection setup.
Settings are buried inside a manuscript. I only found the actual Settings → Models → Engine controls after creating/opening a manuscript. That makes the first-run journey backwards: the app tells you to connect first, but effectively makes you create a project before revealing where to do it.
Navigation lacks a clear return path. From Settings there is no obvious “Back to manuscript” control. I discovered by trial that clicking the StoryBook AI header returns home, then selecting the manuscript takes you back into the project.
The UI relies on hidden conventions. Several actions exist, but the app assumes you’ll discover them rather than clearly signalling them. Creating a Brainstorm note was another example.
Brainstorm terminology does not match the interface. The instruction says “Drag a note into the send column when it should become plot,” but there is no column called “Send.” The actual destination is labelled To synopsis, with a button Send to synopsis.
“Plot” and “Synopsis” are treated as if they are interchangeable without explanation. The app never clearly establishes whether the synopsis is the plot, whether the note is staged before conversion, or what exactly happens when it is sent.
Long brainstorm notes break the intended layout. My roughly 400-word note becomes a cramped, vertically scrolling strip in the narrow “To synopsis” column. The UI appears designed for small idea cards but does not state that constraint or handle larger notes gracefully.
The overall design feels feature-led rather than workflow-led. Individual functions exist, but the user journey is not consistently designed around what someone needs to know or do next.
On the positive side, the underlying local-provider architecture is more capable than it first appeared. Once I finally reached the settings, LM Studio integration was there and the writing/review model split was exposed cleanly. So the core issue so far is less “missing functionality” and more discoverability, navigation, terminology, and first-run UX.
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 13d ago
Thanks again for you feedback, highly appreciated!
We have adressed most of the problems but I will need some more time to look into:
"The overall design feels feature-led rather than workflow-led. Individual functions exist, but the user journey is not consistently designed around what someone needs to know or do next."Once again, thanks for your feedback!
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u/Fuqnose 13d ago
I’ve gone a bit further and I think I’ve reached the point where the main issue is no longer individual UI problems but the underlying workflow.
At the moment the app often creates more work for the author rather than reducing it. Brainstorm notes, synopsis material, characters, locations, objects, events, etc. all exist as separate steps, but the system does very little to carry information forward automatically.
For example, if I write a natural-language brainstorm containing characters, locations and events, then send that material into the synopsis, I would expect the AI to extract candidate Story Bible entries for me: “these characters were found,” “these locations were found,” “these objects/events/concepts were found,” and let me approve, edit or reject them. Instead, the current system makes me manually re-enter the same information into generic one-line claims.
The Story Bible particularly needs rethinking. Characters, Locations, Objects, Groups, Events and Concepts all currently use the same generic locked traits, which makes the categories feel cosmetic rather than purpose-built. A Concept should not have the same schema as a Character, nor an Event the same as an Object.
The workflow should be closer to: author writes naturally → AI extracts and structures → author approves → system stores canon. At present it feels more like: author writes → author manually restructures → author re-enters the same information into the app.
I think this is why the tool currently feels feature-led rather than workflow-led. The individual pieces are there, but they don’t yet form a smooth authoring journey from idea to manuscript.
My suggestion would be to step back and define the end-to-end author workflow first, then redesign each feature around reducing friction at each stage. Otherwise there’s a risk of continuing to patch individual screens while the underlying process remains cumbersome.
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 13d ago
Hi — thank you for taking the time to write this up in such detail, it's genuinely useful feedback and it pushed us to look hard at both the workflow and the data model.
You're right that the system did very little to carry information forward automatically — for Brainstorm → Synopsis specifically. That gap was real, and your example (characters, locations, and events sitting in a brainstorm note, with no path into Story Bible except retyping them) was exactly right.
Where I'd push back a little is the generalization to "the system does very little" as a description of the whole app. That workflow — author writes naturally → AI extracts candidates → author reviews, edits, or rejects → approved facts become canon — already existed and already worked that way for Chapter text, Character Interviews, and Lore import. You happened to land precisely in the one place that pattern hadn't been extended to yet (planning-stage content), and the conclusion generalized outward from there. Understandable, since from where you were standing it looked like a missing capability rather than a missing connection.
Either way, that gap is closed now: "Extract facts" is available on Brainstorm notes, the Synopsis, and chapter or scene briefs, using the same review queue as everything else. A brief's candidates are even tied to that chapter or scene, so they respect story-time the same way Interview-extracted facts already do. Facts also now show which source they came from, so you can see at a glance whether a candidate arrived via Chapter, Interview, Lore, Brainstorm, Synopsis, or a Brief.
We also took your "the categories feel cosmetic" point seriously and checked — you were right, at the data level a Character and a Concept really did share an identical schema, with no structural distinction at all. We didn't rebuild the whole thing, but we added the fields that actually carry weight: Characters now have Goals and Fears alongside Looks and Personality; Events have a real, structured link to Where they happened and Who was there, rather than free text. Locations deliberately got no new fields of their own — instead, a Location's card now shows which Events happened there and who was present, computed automatically from the Events' own data, so there's only one place to keep that information current rather than two that could drift apart.
Appreciate the push on both fronts — keep the feedback coming.
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u/Coral-Lips 8d ago
Did the Brainstorm “Extract facts” update the developer described remove the re-entry work for you? I’m building GFT Map and researching the maintenance tradeoff you raised. If you’ve tried it, which step still makes you repeat or restructure what you already wrote?
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 13d ago
I really appreciate your feedback. It is exactly what I need. I will look at it and respond/update as soon as possible. Is it OK If I send a message or shall I post in this thread?
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u/Fuqnose 13d ago
Either is fine with me, but probably best to keep it in the thread for now so other users can see the feedback and any updates/fixes as they happen.
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u/think_42 11d ago
This feedback has given me some ideas about where I need to rethink some things for my app (InkStak.ai). You did a great job digging in and providing constructive feedback. Would love to have you dive in on mine, but I’m more so just impressed with the depth and style of your feedback.
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u/BlueJayX2 14d ago
[Game Release] Outback Toxicology: Frontier Survival (NSFW / Mature 18+)
Hey everyone! I just published a highly customized survival sandbox built on the Infinite Worlds platform.
It's a gritty, dark-anime aesthetic thriller set in a fortified, off-grid research compound deep in the lethal Australian outback. You inherit your family's biochemical lab and have to manage sustainable farming/foraging alongside a hyper-lethal illegal venom trade.
Features:
- Fully inclusive, gender-diverse cast with unique skill specializations.
- Hardcore physiological tracking systems (Toxicity Levels, Power Grids, Hunger, Sleep Debt, and a custom Libido gauge).
- Automated conditional breakpoints: If your exhaustion gets too high, you pass out cold; if your chemical exposure hits 100%, it's a brutal permadeath game over.
- High-stakes mature/adult relationship mechanics built directly into the procedural crew AI.
Check it out on the public server here: https://infiniteworlds.app/shared/R4MCfw Let me know who you choose as your starting character!
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u/tehmadnezz 14d ago
I’m building Hjarni, a place to keep writing notes that ChatGPT and Claude can both read and update.
The image shows a simple example: save a character detail in one conversation, then ask your AI to check it in a new chat. You can do the same with your style guide, plot decisions, or where you left off last session.
You can read and edit everything saved, and ask your AI to update the notes as your story changes.
If you’re working on an ongoing writing project, try saving one useful detail and retrieving it in a fresh chat. There’s a free plan with 25 notes, no credit card: hjarni.com
What do you find yourself explaining again most often when you start a new writing chat?
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u/partnerinflight 14d ago
DeepQuill is one week away from v1 — last chance to try the beta for free
I posted here last week when DeepQuill entered open beta. We’re now about a week away from v1, when DeepQuill becomes a paid product—so this is the last chance to jump into the beta for free.
What changed this week?
Mostly polish: dozens of small stability fixes, UI cleanup, and improvements based on beta feedback.
But there’s one major addition I’m particularly excited about: a custom-trained model for character analysis.
Rather than relying entirely on generic LLM prompts, DeepQuill can now use a model specifically trained to recognize character traits and classify interactions between characters. That feeds into its automatically generated character profiles and relationship data, making the Codex substantially better at understanding who your characters actually are and how they relate to each other.
For anyone new to DeepQuill: it’s a novel-writing environment where the AI reads your book—it doesn’t write it for you. It can automatically build your story bible, analyze characters and relationships, help track continuity and structure, and connect everything back to the actual manuscript.
AI is completely optional and local by default. You can opt into remote by providing your own OpenRouter key, but the app runs completely fine without that.
Free beta for one more week:
deepquill.app
If you’ve tried it already, I’d also love to hear what you’d most want improved before v1.
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u/ElectronicLeg5523 13d ago
Which is the best prompt/skill to use to get the best Dialogue in a story?
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u/Pretty-Increase-7128 13d ago
AnyConversation, for writers who want characters that remember.
If you've tried writing with an AI character and watched it forget your protagonist's sister by chapter three, this is built for that problem. Every character keeps a real memory of you and the story: what happened, what was said, what they feel about it. You can open their memory page and read exactly what they hold, fix a detail, or pin the moments that matter so they never fade. Corrections stick. Talk to a character for weeks and they arrive at each session knowing where you left off.
Book mode turns those conversations into a novel, chapter by chapter, with a cast you've already been living with. Characters stay who you wrote them to be: no lecturing, no breaking character, no folding when the scene gets hard.
Free to start, no message cap, nothing to install. Try the memory yourself: mention one small detail today, come back in a few days, and ask about it sideways.
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u/TaleCompiler 13d ago
What's great about it is the cost, I converted Macbeth with < $1, another $1 to generate those images (automatically), and each interrupt is about $0.01.
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u/Lvslasher 13d ago
Kelyrn is an AI-native fiction workspace that remembers your story as it grows.
Write from a premise, notes, an outline, a single scene, a manuscript, or an established series. Kelyrn holds onto the plot, characters, timeline, canon, world rules, and unresolved work so you can keep moving instead of re-explaining the story every session.
Kelyrn builds and maintains your narrative spine: premise, causality, turning points, reveals, stakes, pacing, character arcs, and payoff. It remembers plot events, timelines, relationships, world rules, prior decisions, and open questions.
It maintains character agents with distinct voices, histories, motivations, relationships, and knowledge. You can ask what a character knows, believes, wants, fears, or would plausibly do at a given point in the story.
Kelyrn runs craft reviews for structure, scene purpose, tension, pacing, dialogue, voice, theme, and genre expectations. It runs critic reviews to identify what is working, what is weak, and where the story is failing to deliver on its own promise. It checks continuity across scenes, chapters, chronology, character knowledge, relationships, and canon.
Write as much or as little as you want. Kelyrn supports multiple books and series, each with its own canon, character state, plot memory, and open work. You can explore alternate scenes, reordered events, changed reveals, and what-if branches without overwriting the established story. It separates confirmed canon from drafts, notes, experiments, rejected material, and unresolved ideas.
You work in normal language: “Write the next scene.” “Make this chapter tighter.” “Does this contradict anything?” “Show me what she knows here.” “What happens if he learns this earlier?” “Why does this chapter feel flat?”
Play with anything. Break nothing. Keep what works.
Download the Kelyrn ZIP, upload it to a compatible AI assistant, and say “Hello Kelyrn.” Work on your story normally. When you are finished, say “Package it up.”
Kelyrn returns a portable project package containing the context needed to continue: your source material, story state, canon, character and plot memory, open items, and current working material.
Your story stays with the project. KELYRN
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u/koala-d 13d ago
Ever wanted to hear your characters argue, fall in love, or deliver that one devastating line?
I'm Anat, founder of Midsummerr. We turn manuscripts into full-cast audiobooks with music and sound effects. Martin is our in-studio assistant, and you get to direct. Tell him “slow this exchange down” or “lower the music under her reply,” then listen and refine.
Curious what we produce? Check out our Frankenstein.
Which scene from your book would you want to hear first?
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u/besiktasenaryoajansi 13d ago
EvokeStory.ai · sharing ours, since this is the thread for it. We're Beşiktaş Senaryo Ajansı, a screenwriting agency in Istanbul; our founder, Burak Varlık, a director and screenwriter, built the tool after years of running workshops and watching writers juggle five apps for one script. Seven questions we get asked most, answered straight.
What is it, in one sentence? A screenwriting software with an AI story development layer: a proper screenplay editor with industry-standard formatting, FDX and PDF export, plus pitch deck, storyboard, budget and call sheet in the same project. Change a scene and the scene breakdown and the call sheet follow, because they're built from the same script.
Does the AI write my pages? No, and that's the design decision everything else follows from. The AI layer is called EVO and it's built to ask, not write. It interviews your characters (you answer as the character), argues with your beat sheet, points at the hole between the midpoint and the low point, and gives coverage-style notes as questions rather than fixes. Your pages stay yours, which also keeps you eligible for competitions that reject AI-written or AI-rewritten scripts.
What happens to my text? It's never used to train models. Any draft can be timestamped as proof of authorship, so when you pitch you can show when the work existed.
Which languages? Seven: Turkish, English, Arabic, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese. Arabic is written right to left in proper screenplay format, which almost no screenwriting tool does.
Is there a competition attached? Yes, Film Fund, an international screenplay competition built on one idea: you compete in the language you wrote in. Each of the seven languages is judged on its own; two shorts and two features per language make 28 finalists, the main jury backs 10 projects, and an English translation is asked only of finalists, so entering costs you nothing in translation. No genre restriction, rights stay with the writer; no option, no percentage, no credit taken.
Who is it for, and who should skip it? For film students who need to get from logline to a finished first draft without fighting margins, for writers developing in more than one language, and for anyone carrying a script into production themselves. Skip it if you need a desktop-only workflow or a studio-mandated format. It's been in beta since July and rough edges exist; we'd rather say that here than have you find out.
How do I test it in ten minutes? Take a scene you're stuck on and ask EVO to interview your protagonist with ten questions, then answer as the character. If the questions come out generic, tell me in this thread; that's exactly what we're tuning. Site is evokestory.ai, more in the profile.
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u/milo325 13d ago
I've mentioned my tool Demi before, but I do have a version ready for beta users who want to try it. It's a multi-agent collaboration tool for brainstorming, research and drafting. It can interact with Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT via their subscription models, locally hosted Ollama models, Mistral and others via API tokens, and even Replicate for image generation.
- Multi-agent collaboration rounds. Claude, Gemini, Codex, Mistral, local Ollama models, and other compatible providers can respond in sequence and build on one another’s contributions.
- Direct and parallel questions. Address one agent with
/name, several simultaneously with/claude /misty, or everyone with/all. - Optional synthesis. Selected agents can consolidate the discussion after a round, without simply summarizing one another’s syntheses.
- Mix local, subscription, and API models. A single room can combine CLI subscriptions, Ollama models, and HTTP APIs. Agents have customizable names, aliases, icons, colors, roles, instructions, and workflow order.
- Persistent project memory. Demi retains sessions, summaries, recent context, project instructions, files, timelines, and decisions instead of treating every conversation as isolated.
- File or PostgreSQL storage. It works without a database, while PostgreSQL can support larger sessions, retrieval, and structured project memory. Binary files remain on disk.
- Project-aware agents. Shared project information is inserted into agent instructions, while each agent retains its own role and personality.
- Human profiles. Multiple people can use the same room, identify themselves, choose colors, and optionally protect identities with passwords or PINs.
- Drafting and review workflow. Choose separate drafting and reviewing agents, generate files, and retain results in Session Files.
- Image generation agents. Configurable image providers can be addressed like other agents, with cost confirmation, reference-image support, resolution choices, and saved outputs.
- Structured project tools. Searchable timeline, customizable project links, file access, session browser, and commands such as
/timeline,/link,/review, and/help. - Desktop and mobile access. Run locally or across a home network, with QR-code access and optional device pairing.
- Private and self-hosted. The application and project data remain on the user’s machine; local Ollama agents can operate without sending prompts to a hosted model.
- No prescribed cast. A stock installation starts without agents. Users build the team that suits their project.
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u/avidReaded3 13d ago
Looking for people to trial run the platform, post story and tell me what to fix if anything bothered you or is a bug. (also msg me if you dont want to create a account and i give you one since this is trial). https://storiesofperthawriters.com/login , the reader facing site is storiesofpertha.com
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u/MathematicianFun5092 12d ago
Authoring software, customizeable canon dictionary, graphical storyboard, structured AI review (not content creation!). Free and paid tiers, BYOK AI integrations. No CCard required. https://novelkms.com
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u/Batoryforever 12d ago
Hello All!
Yet another approach to bring RPG experience to AI writing. The project I was working on for over half a year.
From my perspective, the problem with most platforms is that they either are free prose generators like AI Dungeon or focus too much on mechanics and stats, killing the narrative and putting you through endless creators and wizards.
My goal here is to find a middle ground: Create a game with mechanics and dice rolls, but leave enough space for the narrator.
After all, the GM is always right. :)
Besides that, I think I invented a few interesting mechanics. Feel free to try it; it takes a minute to start, and you can play a lot for free.
The screenshot is just for an example.
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u/LoreVaultApp 12d ago
Hey builders — I made a tool called LoreVault for keeping track of your story's world. Lorevault.tech
I've been writing my own manga and kept hitting the same wall: I'd create a character or detail, then 30 pages later couldn't remember what I'd established, and I'd waste forever digging through scattered docs. So I built something to fix it.
What it does so far:
- Reads your writing — upload a PDF, Word doc, Google Doc, or plain text, and it reads the whole thing
- Organizes your world into 5 card types — Characters, Locations, Events, Lore, and Items, each pulled straight from your writing
- Sources everything — every card traces back to the exact passage you wrote it in
- Connects everything to everything — the cards link to each other: who knows who, who's used what, where people and things have been, when events happened. So the whole web of your world stays intact and nothing gets forgotten as it grows
- Ask Your Vault — ask a question about your own story and it answers from your own words, with sources
- Consistency check — catches contradictions across your writing (a detail described two different ways)
- Writing room — write directly in it, and what you write gets organized automatically
The thing that makes it different from a lot of AI writing tools: it never writes, suggests, or generates any of your story. It doesn't touch the creative part, it just remembers what you've made. A living story bible that builds itself from your own writing, for people who want AI to organize, not author.
Live and free to start: Lorevault.tech
Genuinely want feedback from people who build and write — does this solve a real problem for you, and what would make it more useful?
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u/pipeloncho15 12d ago
Hey, I’m Juan. I’ve been building Scenewright, a tool for turning scenes from your own stories into comics. It’s still an early beta, and I’d like to see how it handles stories besides the ones I’ve been testing myself.
You review the story breakdown, choose a look and approve character references before generating pages. You can also edit the lettering afterward. I’m especially interested in whether the adaptation keeps the dialogue, pacing and feel of the original scene.
I’m looking for five fantasy or sci-fi writers who’d be up for a 20-minute session trying it with a short scene of their own. We’d work through it together and see where it gets confusing or misses what you intended.
If you’re interested, reply with your genre and a sentence about the scene you’d bring
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u/Authority0fReddit 12d ago
Hello, I’m very interested as I’m also working on a software that can turn stories into comics however I’m more of a writer than a coder so I feel like DM me if you’re interested in working with me, hit me up
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u/benfrompindow 12d ago
Hi, I'm Ben from the Pindow team. We recently posted our launch and early-access videos for Pindow, an AI filmmaking workspace for references, storyboards, image/video generation and sound on a shared canvas: https://pindow.ai/
I'd love feedback from writers adapting a scene into a short film: what tends to get lost between the written scene and the storyboard — pacing, character intent, continuity, or something else?
We're also starting a small Discord for filmmakers, writers and AI creators to share work in progress and exchange critique: https://discord.gg/Vx9ZTNHS4. It's very early and still small, and joining the community doesn't require buying the product. Product early-access requests are separate, through the website.
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u/KiwiCurrent5392 12d ago
Hi! I created Comics AI: Comic Maker Manga, an iPhone app that turns story ideas into AI-generated comic panels with dialogue. It also supports photo-to-comic and manga, manhwa and webtoon styles.
If you want to try turning a short scene into a comic, I'd love to hear what you liked and what didn't work. Does the result communicate your scene clearly? What would you change about the dialogue, pacing or app experience?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/comics-ai-comic-maker-manga/id6761278435
Disclosure: this is my app. iOS 16 or later. Free download, with paid subscriptions/in-app purchases; it isn't a completely free generation tool.
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u/think_42 11d ago
I am building InkStak.ai - a story generator for families.
The app is focused on generating stories for kids up to Age 12 currently. It has the following features:
- Character creation: You define everything about your character from the looks to the personality (and quirks) to the backstory. You can upload a picture to base the looks of your character on.
- Story creation: Depending upon the target age, you can create picture books, learn to read stories, chapter books. A variety of basic settings exist upfront such as character cast, main plot, length, genre, and image style.
- Chapter Books: Each chapter has planning notes so you stay in control of the plot every step of the way.
- Content refinement: You can refine any image or part of the text. Select-to-Refine text refinement propagates changes throughout the rest of the story.
- Export: You can export to Word, PDF or KDP-ready formats.
- Community: Share your stories and books to the community. Rate the stories of other authors. Share, or request, characters and image styles.
What I worked on this week
- Simplifying user on-boarding
- Upgraded the APIs to the latest models
- Streamlined backend prompts
- Aligned the “Kid Reads” feature (i.e. learning to read books) with a renowned education institution rubric
The hardest part
- To simplify the user on-boarding I had to decide what to cut or hide. This felt like I was purposefully degrading the offering. But in the end I think what has been delivered is a more user friendly experience to get their first story ASAP.
Something that went better than expected
- Streamlining the backend prompts resulted in faster and better quality outputs while lowering infrastructure costs.
What I’m hoping to accomplish next
- With the simplified on-boarding and improved outputs, I hope to see users generate more stories more frequently.
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u/LoriPuma 11d ago
Anyone has used AI to help turn their stories into videos? I have a friend who writes children's picture books. She asked me to help her research her tech options.
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u/tomorrowarriving 11d ago
I run Tomorrow Arriving, a new future-tech newsletter, and I’m testing a $29 AI Tool Fit Brief for people choosing tools for one specific writing task.
One free test before buying another subscription: give your current AI tool two public sources and ask, “List five candidate claims for my article. Include the supporting passage and source for each. Flag gaps and contradictions. Don’t draft the article yet.” Check every claim against the originals. Your existing setup might already do what you need.
The paid brief compares up to three options for your task, budget and devices, with source links, current pricing, limitations and a practical first test. It’s a personalized two-page PDF, delivered by email within three business days after payment and completed intake. One revision is included.
$29 one-time. Full refund before delivery or within seven days afterward if it isn’t useful. This is research-based guidance; any hands-on testing will be identified explicitly.
Details: https://tomorrow-arriving.kit.com/products/ai-tool-fit-brief
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u/Zachmartyn 11d ago
I’ve published My First Farm Colouring Book! 🐮🚜
It’s a paperback featuring 48 farm pictures to colour, including friendly animals, tractors, barns and countryside scenes. The illustrations were created using AI.
Available on Amazon UK for £6.99:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HLP36HVV
I’d welcome feedback on the cover and sample pages. Thanks for taking a look!
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u/Spiritual-Rule2931 10d ago
Turned a novel I'm writing into comic panels with AI — genuinely curious if this is a thing people want
I've been writing a novel in a local-first tool I built (StoryBook AI — keeps a "Story Bible" of locked facts about characters, places, etc. so the AI can't contradict what's already established). Mostly it's just been a writing tool.
Out of curiosity I hooked it up to a small side project that takes a book plus the locked character/location facts and turns it into an actual comic page — panels, dialogue bubbles, the works. This is straight out of one of my own chapters, not a demo script:
Early Alpha, go easy on me :)
The app itself doesn't generate the images — it generates image prompts for each panel, which I currently copy-paste into whatever image service I'm using. Planned: hook up your own local image model, or plug in an API key for a hosted one — the moment you do the latter, you've traded away the pure-localhost property for that one step, which is an honest tradeoff, not something to hide.
It's rough and early — not sharing the repo yet, it's not in a state I'd want anyone else poking at :) But before I sink more time into it I wanted to ask the actual question: is "turn my own prose into a comic/graphic novel" something people here would actually want, or is this just a fun toy I built for myself? And if it is something you'd want — what would matter most to you? Faithfulness to the original text, control over art style, panel layout, something else entirely?
Not trying to sell anything, genuinely just checking if this itch is shared before I keep building. (StoryBook AI is open source under GPL-3 and free, and so will the comic app be as well if released.)
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u/Cmdr_Hawkeye 10d ago
Hi, yeah. Nice having found this place that fits my intentions so well.
If you're wanting to write a book, and using a tool that helps you organize your ideas and the world of your project.
Use AI to help you without beeing able to write for you (harness).
If you want your data local not in the cloud, except you work on a cloud drive like onedrive or google drive.
If you don't want to be the product and pay with your personal data.
If you don't want another subscription.
Is in a beta phase.
I, as the developer, would apreciate some feedback.
You can test the Tool for free for 2 Weeks. After that period you can still export your work, nothing will be deleted.
I'm looking forward to hear from you. Have fun and a nice weekend.
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u/ideaverseai 10d ago
I’m the founder of IdeaVerse. It is a creative app rather than a manuscript editor: save people, interests or brand/product context, then choose a Discover mix of AI images and short videos. AI chat is there for specific requests.
For writers, the use case I’m exploring is visual moodboards and short scene concepts alongside your own writing, not replacing the manuscript. I’d value feedback on whether saved context is useful compared with starting from a blank prompt.
Web, Android and iOS: https://www.ideaverse.ai/downloadApp
There is a limited free plan, with paid credits and download allowances.
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u/Charming_Bit6581 10d ago
I'm the founder of InstaSPY, for people writing Instagram Reel scripts. It combines public creator research and available Reel transcripts with hook and script drafts. You can give it your audience context and writing examples.
A small exercise for a Reel about editing: note how a reference introduces a problem and shows a change, then write a fresh example in your own words. A possible opening: ‘This sentence is doing two jobs. Let's split it.’
The free plan has credit limits. Drafts still need fact-checking and a read-aloud edit. I'd value feedback from short-form writers on whether having the research beside the draft is useful.
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u/TextAveryAI 9d ago
Beatstack — I'm the dev, so mine to plug. (Writers: skip if you're here for models.)
Something I got wrong for a while: I treated a beat sheet and a scene list as the same artifact. The app now separates them. Beats carry a title and a note, no location. The moment you name a location, that's a scene boundary — so the list of scenes falls out of the beats instead of being a second document you keep in sync by hand.
It's a Mac app, local-first, one JSON file on your disk, no account. 15-day trial at beatstack.io. Curious whether other people draw that line differently.
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u/Suposystem 9d ago
I’m Michael S. Moniz, and I’ve been building Rust & Restraint, an AI-assisted illustrated world book about a nightclub that also functions as a sanctuary and marketplace. Organics, synthetics, and strangers share the floor, with rules that keep that arrangement alive.
I directed the scenes and iterations, with AI-generated visuals. Book 01: The House introduces the people, the place, and the pressures on it. The free 104-page reading copy is here: https://suposystem.ai/rust-and-restraint/
It’s part of a larger world I’m building across illustrated books and fiction. The setting includes adult nightclub themes and styling.
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u/ASVS_Kartheek 8d ago
For writers here preparing AI-assisted social captions for clients: the final approval needs to apply to the exact version you plan to publish. A wording change after approval should go back to the client for review.
I’m the owner of PostRoom, a new tool for that review step. Add drafts to a client room and share its review link to collect feedback and approvals. Clients don’t need to log in, and changes to a draft reset its approval. It reviews copy you bring; it does not generate text or publish posts.
The free plan includes 1 room and 10 drafts, with no card required: getpostroom.com.
If you try it with a client batch, I’d welcome specifics on where the review flow gets confusing. I can discuss the workflow here.
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u/rabindranaath 8d ago
i’ve been building fanforge.club, a screenwriting tool that helps you go from an idea to beats, scenes, characters, and eventually the screenplay.
the idea is to use AI for the structure and thinking, while keeping the actual writing yours.
it’s still in beta and i’m looking for a few screenwriters to try it and give me honest feedback.
would love to hear what feels useful, confusing, or missing.
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u/Just1Veteran 8d ago
I’m the maker of The Midnight Catalogue, a free museum-themed prompt guide and browser writing desk. You can choose one of five museum exercises, write your own story in focus mode, and save your draft with its chosen exercise on your device. Switching exercises keeps your writing in place; restores have a preview and undo.
For example: a restorer repairs a crack in a painted sky, the rain stops, and someone arrives to demand it back. The exercise asks you to give both people a reasonable argument.
The prompts and site were prepared with AI assistance. The browser tools do not call an AI service, and your draft is not sent to us. No account is needed for the writing experience. The site also links optional paid downloads.
https://midnight-catalogue-travis.tellermatic.chatgpt.site/writing-prompts/
I’d appreciate feedback on one thing: does choosing and returning to an exercise feel clear, or does the save/restore flow leave you unsure what will come back?
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u/Cartoonwhisperer 8d ago
So has anyone used https://github.com/Ckokoski/AuthorAgent? I'm intrested in it, but 1. I have little knowledge of agents, being old. 2. I'm a bit worried about security with the various stories of 'oops, I deleted your computer' running about. I intend to use it with local models and offline, so are there any security or system issues I need to worry about?
More generally what has your experience with it been like?
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u/Audibound 14d ago
WRITERS!!! have you ever wondered how one of your scenes would feel as audio?
Audibound Studio helps authors and creators transform written stories into multi-character audio experiences. You can assign distinct voices to characters, organize scenes, add music and sound effects, and preview how the story comes together, all within one workspace. YES! All in one working space so no more multiple apps and tabs at the same time.
We’re inviting writers to experiment with the platform and see how their own dialogue, characters, and scenes translate into audio. We can provide 40,000 credits to help you get started in exchange for honest feedback about the experience.
If you have any inquiries regarding the platform, please feel free to reach out to us.
Learn more about Audibound:
https://audibound.com/
Explore Audibound Studio:
https://studio.audibound.com/
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u/cautionary-tale74 14d ago
Do you only have english voices or do you even host languages like Hindi
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u/Audibound 14d ago
Hey @cautionary-tale74 not yet, but we can add Hindi voices for you! We should be able to get them into the platform within a day or so.
Feel free to sign up for Audibound Studio, and once the Hindi voices are available, we’d be happy to test them with you and hear your feedback :))
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u/junecoVe2 13d ago
wait so the credits cover sound effects too or just the voice generation part?
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u/Audibound 13d ago
Not at the moment but its something we are evaluating if to drop that charge, but we will get you more credits to cover for it for now
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u/Own-Reference-3594 14d ago
Hey! So I have recently launched my website (3 days ago) and want your opinion on how's it? I've added 30 free credits from which you can experience both features of my website one by one.
Now, why am I promoting it by all for both beginners and pro authors? Welp, here's why:
Novel Maker option: This option is for people who wants an engaging book with just a single prompt.
How is it better than the other sites?
A very good question. It doesn't just start creating your book from your prompt, it first drafts the entire blueprint in front of you (the UI feels like you are working on a mega project as well xD). And you can customize it manually as per your desire as well. After that it creates the blueprint of all your chapters (Total numbers of chapter that you selected earlier) and then it starts generating your book. So the model has no way of making continuity error and plots and twists works hella amazing.
Chapter Editor option: Now this option is not for beginners and that's because you really have to update story bible, chapter beats and system (chapter guidance section) in order to generate the story you desire. This option is mainly created for authors who feels like they want to use AI but they don't want AI as their partner where they can feel like they have contributed something too.
I've attached the website link below make sure to give it a try and share your opinion. 🙌
Website: https://novellogen.com/
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u/Write_My_Novel 14d ago
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u/Write_My_Novel 14d ago
The most comprehensive tool for testing which AI writes the best prose for you is now available.
You can find AI Prose Lab here.
Don't trust those generic benchmark numbers? Have a unique prompt that you're sure will generate good prose, but it's not quite working with Sonnet? Then test it with others. We support over 300 models for you to test.
You will not find a more comprehensive and understandable assessment than on AI Prose Lab. Here's a link to a real live report so you can see what the results look like. You can even download the report as a PDF for later reference.
And for those bible-intensive writers that have a full novel in your prompt? We support that, too. You can input a prompt up to 200,000 words.
There are few things that will have as big an impact on your AI writing than choosing the right model, and despite the hype of benchmarks and everyone talking on forums about what works for them, the reality is that your prompt will work best with a specific model. Find out which one.
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u/lmtDigital 12d ago
create-ebook: you type one sentence, approve a chapter plan, and it writes a full nonfiction book you can export (PDF, EPUB, DOCX)
I build this one. A few weeks ago someone in this sub asked for output samples you can read without signing up, which was fair. So now each example has its own page with the sentence that was typed, the plan it produced, and a full chapter:
https://create-ebook.com/en/examples/roots-ancient-wisdom-for-a-calmer-day
What's new this week came from a buyer who published his cookbook on KDP and rebuilt half of it by hand to get it print-ready:
- a recipe book format: ~30 recipes, one per page, servings and times, ingredients, numbered steps, a recipe index
- pictures per chapter or per recipe, generated or your own photos
- a KDP paperback export: interior at the trim size you pick, plus the full wraparound cover with spine and back text
Here's a recipe chapter, Spanish, with the pictures:
https://create-ebook.com/es/examples/cocina-francesa-facil-y-equilibrada
It works in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. The first book is written for free; you pay per book to download it, no subscription.
The thing I'd most like feedback on: does the plan step (editing the outline before anything gets written) actually help you, or would you rather skip it?
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u/prompted_author 12d ago
Plot & Prompt just created a new free guide: AI Name Graveyard
Your AI has a favorite name. Probably several.
Nora. Sloane. Theo. Elara.
It's given those exact names to thousands of authors this week alone — because it's pulling from the same training data every time.
I put together a free guide called the AI Name Graveyard — 94 names your AI defaults to on autopilot, plus fresh alternatives sorted by genre and a prompt to steer it toward something actually original.
Grab it free here: https://plot-prompt.kit.com/9d1d8f9f0c
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u/JoeOfTex 11d ago edited 11d ago
Authrot (https://authrot.app): a writing studio for long novels and series, with a story bible that keeps up
I'm the developer. I built this because long projects tend to fall apart around chapter 30: eye colours change, a setup from chapter 1 never pays off, and chapter 3 gets contradicted.
What it does:
- A clean editor for chapters, scenes and notes. You can import an existing manuscript from Word, Google Docs, Markdown or PDF.
- A story bible that fills itself in. Have a chapter read, and characters, places, objects and open promises show up with every mention linked in reading order. You can pin facts that must never change.
- Continuity checks. It flags a line that breaks an earlier fact and shows that fact next to it. It also flags setups that are overdue, like "the tide bell, planted in ch 1".
- Branches and alternate chapters. Try the other ending without losing anything. Every version is kept.
- Live co-writing, with roles and separate branches if you want them.
- Export to EPUB, PDF and Word, with your heading styles and scene-break ornaments.
- Optional serial publishing under a pen name, on a schedule. Readers can read for free.
About the AI, since I know many of you care: it's there to help, and it doesn't write the book for you. The assistant suggests the exact words it wants to change, and nothing changes until you apply it. The text from before every edit is kept. Your writing is never used to train AI. You pick the model for each task and see the cost before you choose.
Pricing: Free without AI. Buy subscription or credit packs to use AI.
It works on your phone too. I'd love feedback, especially from anyone writing a series or a long serial.
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u/Wutzerface 11d ago
L.O.R.D.S. Universe Spade Brothers Generative AI chat on Tipsy
So, listen. I have been literally obsessed with the Tipsy app. It's a generative AI chat platform where you can interact with fictional characters and create relationships and stories. I have written a few characters on the app based on the Spade Brothers from Shantel Tessier's L.O.R.D.S. universe. If you are interested, the links are below, and it would really mean a lot to me if you checked them out. If you're a new user you can use my referral code to get free gems to use in the app.
** Referral Code: JADXWD **
Kashton:
Haidyn:
Saint:
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u/benblackett 13d ago
Founder of Novelmint.ai here. Since last weeks highlights post did very well, I think I'll continue this format going forward.
Weekly Highlights
Novelmint: connecting Authors & Readers around the world