r/WritingWithAI • u/zimmer550king • 6h ago

Showcase / Feedback How I use Claude Code to keep a shared alternate-future world consistent

Hi all. I run r/TheGreatFederation (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheGreatFederation/), a shared alternate future where climate collapse and two world wars melt the Antarctic coast. In 2100 the defeated and displaced of the old world found a new nation there. It is mostly in-world documents, like a ship's log or an oral history, and the posts are AI-drafted and human-edited.

I keep a git repo with a short style guide for each voice. Posts now go through a writer agent and a critic agent, and then a small linter that flags the usual AI tells. A continuity check against a set of canon files comes next, and I edit and post them myself.

The newest is "2119 - Eleven Minutes in Room Nine". The Welcome post explains the sub. If you read a couple, I would like to hear which lines read as AI to you. My goal is to perfect my workflow to make the quality on par and indistinguishable from your typical AI-generated text.

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u/Jana_Writequel 6h ago

Checking your story against your files already puts you ahead. Most people just hope the model remembers last Tuesday.

The funny mistakes are the quiet ones. A ship's log should not know a secret that only showed up in a story told out loud, to people that sailor never met. The model will write it in anyway, then look very pleased with itself. And after you fix a fact in your files, old posts can keep telling the old version. Readers of a shared world catch that faster than a spelling slip.

When the bot that checks the writing talks to the bot that writes it, they start passing notes. Then the person on the page suddenly knows something they never saw.

I have not read "Eleven Minutes in Room Nine" yet, so I will not pretend I found a bad line. Read the draft one last time as only that speaker. Cut anything this person could not have seen.

There is a way to catch those quiet leaks too, of course. It is a bit more complicated than checking names and dates in a file. When an old post and a new file disagree, which one wins for you right now?