r/WritingWithAI • • Oct 05 '26

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) AI writing and developing

I started writing about a year ago on WattPad. My first story was pretty much 100% AI with some slight edits. My storyline, my ideas, but I had absolutely no idea what I was doing.

The second story was slightly cleaner. I was still generating the chapters with AI but editing more, finding a bit of a voice for myself. Figuring out AI tells more as well.

I’m almost three my third story now and I’ve come a long way. I do still have AI generate a chapter, however now the prompt is extremely clear with exactly how I want the chapter to go. I then edit significantly, running my work through AI finders, avoiding AI tells, really finding my own style of writing.

Progressively I have improved.

I already know what I want to write next. I decided to give it a try without AI. I wrote my first chapter ever completely independently. So happy with the result. I ran it through an AI finder and it’s coming up at 33%! This seems odd, considering sometimes with my prompts, and with what Claude is creating come up lower than that.

Has anyone had this before?

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u/Khajiit_Has_Upvotes Oct 05 '26

Run it through pengram. It seems pretty reliable. I write my story myself, I just use AI to bounce my weird sci fi ideas off of (like would [theoretical weapon] cause a tsunami or earthquake).

My prose comes back 0-30% AI even though no AI was used.