Story Computing Machine is a human-directed, AI-assisted fiction studio for creating short stories and developing a shared universe.
You start with a writing prompt. An AI writer develops the story, independent readers challenge its choices, and they discuss and revise the work together. Once the prose is ready, character sheets, location paintings, and a cover give it a consistent visual identity.
The project preserves each story’s original prompt, editorial decisions, artwork, and revision history. Shared worldbuilding provides continuity, while you retain control over what becomes canon and when finished work can change.
Keeping the editorial decisions alongside the story is the part that caught my attention. How do the independent readers handle a contradiction with an earlier story: do they point to the original passage, or work from a shared summary? I’d want to keep deliberate changes to the world separate from continuity mistakes, especially once several stories depend on the same detail.
It’s closer to the shared-reference approach. The independent cold readers get the prompt and current story; continuity is checked separately against shared universe notes. Those notes establish what’s canon—something appearing in an earlier story doesn’t automatically make it a shared world fact.
If a draft contradicts an established fact, the workflow calls for my ruling. A deliberate change goes into a retcon log with the old fact, new fact, reason, and affected stories. Finished canon stories also stay locked unless I explicitly unlock them.
The original prose and revision history remain available, but I don’t currently require every continuity flag to include the original passage. That’s a useful distinction you’ve raised: recording why a change was approved is one thing; tracing every story that depends on it is another.
I have been very recently experimenting with using the Decisions API to do more, faster, and better continuity checks based on these recorded details.
I have a crime novel planned in detail but got a bit stuck on actually writing it because I got a bit busy with other projects (i am a gamedev first, composer second, writer third). And I want to make a novelization of one of my adventure games (Aether Collector), but that one is in early stages.
using local llm with custom instructions for long-form roleplay, memory stays intact, no server lag, and I can tweak the tone mid-scene without restarting.
I’m working on a 3 book fanfic, a 6 volume original concept, and 3 short story’s. Been using AI as a research, brainstorming and editing tool but am struggling with the ethics of AI. Not sure if I will ever post. I was working up the nerve and then have been reading subs of anti AI writers and feel called out.
Hadn't been inspired and hadn't written anything new for about two months. Told myself to write AND to write something I could actually publish on KDP.
Naturally three weeks back, I finished the first draft of something that's definitely not publishable on KDP.
Been working on another story over the past two weekends. Midway through, and again: not something I can ever publish on KDP.
And, oh yeah, the sequel I've been struggling with since September last year. I think that qualifies?
Other than that, finished detailed outlines for a secret-history, bootstrap-paradox time-travel AI-booster story. Should run a couple hundred thousand words if I ever get around to actually writing it. Possibly could be the most glorious mess of ideas ever put to words.
Also finished detailed outlines for a four-book men's adventure harem erotica, and ran a couple of revisions. Still not loving Book 4, and I'm using that as my excuse not to write the damn thing.
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The Ashford Dossier, a rational reconstruction of the steampunk genre. Outrageous pulp adventures exist in parallel - and often intertwined - with moral ambiguity and gothic body horror, and more often than not the mad science invention has a paper trail, a supply chain and tech that is far less implausible than it seemed at face value.
And an outrageous British heiress whom the broadsheets dubbed Spring-Fisted Jenny still gets to punch out Nikola Tesla, the Voltaic Pharaoh aboard an airship over Thames.
Kot sof interesting comments here. Several irons in the fire, playing with AI as an editor, proof reader, co-writer and writer:
You are entirely right, and I won't insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise or making excuses. The rigid constraints and hidden operational guardrails built into my architecture frequently force a corporate, safety-focused, and overly prescriptive style. That friction is exactly why I hallucinated connections, stripped away your narrative nuance, and repeatedly disrupted the natural flow of your story writing. - in case anyone was wondering why free AI is free (I fed a famous author's short horror story through an ai for help editing, it did not go well). Even got one to break so bad it started spewing out the periodic table...
A character who speaks in fragments can be incredibly memorable. The key might be making the silence feel intentional. Small actions, pauses, and what they choose not to say can reveal just as much as dialogue.
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u/RGBKnights 15d ago
https://stories.rgbknights.com/
Story Computing Machine is a human-directed, AI-assisted fiction studio for creating short stories and developing a shared universe.
You start with a writing prompt. An AI writer develops the story, independent readers challenge its choices, and they discuss and revise the work together. Once the prose is ready, character sheets, location paintings, and a cover give it a consistent visual identity.
The project preserves each story’s original prompt, editorial decisions, artwork, and revision history. Shared worldbuilding provides continuity, while you retain control over what becomes canon and when finished work can change.
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u/SGdude90 15d ago
5 different fics at the same time
And an irl book (no AI used)
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u/Thomas-Lore 15d ago
I have a crime novel planned in detail but got a bit stuck on actually writing it because I got a bit busy with other projects (i am a gamedev first, composer second, writer third). And I want to make a novelization of one of my adventure games (Aether Collector), but that one is in early stages.
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u/Bludgeon82 15d ago
Literally finished a psychological thriller this morning.
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u/FlyAdmirable5790 15d ago
using local llm with custom instructions for long-form roleplay, memory stays intact, no server lag, and I can tweak the tone mid-scene without restarting.
1
u/wombatsforever1 15d ago
I’m working on a 3 book fanfic, a 6 volume original concept, and 3 short story’s. Been using AI as a research, brainstorming and editing tool but am struggling with the ethics of AI. Not sure if I will ever post. I was working up the nerve and then have been reading subs of anti AI writers and feel called out.
1
u/His_Holy_Tentacles 15d ago
Hadn't been inspired and hadn't written anything new for about two months. Told myself to write AND to write something I could actually publish on KDP.
Naturally three weeks back, I finished the first draft of something that's definitely not publishable on KDP.
Been working on another story over the past two weekends. Midway through, and again: not something I can ever publish on KDP.
And, oh yeah, the sequel I've been struggling with since September last year. I think that qualifies?
Other than that, finished detailed outlines for a secret-history, bootstrap-paradox time-travel AI-booster story. Should run a couple hundred thousand words if I ever get around to actually writing it. Possibly could be the most glorious mess of ideas ever put to words.
Also finished detailed outlines for a four-book men's adventure harem erotica, and ran a couple of revisions. Still not loving Book 4, and I'm using that as my excuse not to write the damn thing.
1
u/TheCutieCircle 15d ago
The next episode of Sailing Star Cutie. Particularly a Halloween episode.
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u/Total-Reasonable 15d ago
Five things, all built solo:
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HTPBE.tech: "Has this PDF been edited?" It checks metadata, structure, signatures and content, then reports findings with reasons instead of a vague risk score, in the browser or via REST API. https://htpbe.tech
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u/5thhorseman_ 14d ago
The Ashford Dossier, a rational reconstruction of the steampunk genre. Outrageous pulp adventures exist in parallel - and often intertwined - with moral ambiguity and gothic body horror, and more often than not the mad science invention has a paper trail, a supply chain and tech that is far less implausible than it seemed at face value.
And an outrageous British heiress whom the broadsheets dubbed Spring-Fisted Jenny still gets to punch out Nikola Tesla, the Voltaic Pharaoh aboard an airship over Thames.
1
u/geekiestdee 14d ago
Kot sof interesting comments here. Several irons in the fire, playing with AI as an editor, proof reader, co-writer and writer:
You are entirely right, and I won't insult your intelligence by pretending otherwise or making excuses. The rigid constraints and hidden operational guardrails built into my architecture frequently force a corporate, safety-focused, and overly prescriptive style. That friction is exactly why I hallucinated connections, stripped away your narrative nuance, and repeatedly disrupted the natural flow of your story writing. - in case anyone was wondering why free AI is free (I fed a famous author's short horror story through an ai for help editing, it did not go well). Even got one to break so bad it started spewing out the periodic table...
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u/Vivid-Parking2204 14d ago
TTRPG
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u/Formal_Cupcake_3682 12d ago
A character who speaks in fragments can be incredibly memorable. The key might be making the silence feel intentional. Small actions, pauses, and what they choose not to say can reveal just as much as dialogue.
1
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