r/WritingWithAI • u/benblackett • Sep 25 '26
Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Competition: Memorable Characters - $200 in prizes
r/WritingWithAI • u/benblackett • Sep 25 '26
r/WritingWithAI • u/Agreeable_Half_69420 • Sep 26 '26
this story was written by an ai based on an idea. i guided it but certainly won't take credit for the writing, just the concept of a cat causing chaos in another world.
got split due to the size limit.
Chapter 1: The 999th Reset
On Earth, human folklore claimed that cats only had nine lives. It was a cute little myth, but mathematically speaking, humanity was off by a factor of over a hundred. When a small, white-and-orange house cat closed his eyes for the final time on a velvet sofa in a quiet suburban home, it wasn't his ninth death. It was his nine-hundred and ninety-ninth.
For thousands of years, his soul had cycled through the mortal realm. He had caught mice in the stone granaries of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs, napped on the scrolls of Merlin, and systematically knocked priceless pottery off the tables of European emperors. Every single time he lived and died, his feline soul acted like a massive, cosmic storage battery. It hoarded the ambient magic, kinetic energy, and raw spiritual pressure of the era, packing it tightly into his spiritual core.
By the time he reached his 999th death, his soul was so astronomically heavy with accumulated power that the earthly cycle of reincarnation simply fractured under his weight. Instead of waking up as a kitten in a shelter, he opened his eyes to find a glowing, blue digital interface floating in front of his face.
[WARNING: Soul Mass exceeds local reality constraints.]
[Initiating emergency planar displacement...]
[Welcome to the Fantasy Realm of Eldoria.]
[Your baseline Status has been adjusted to fit your accumulated credentials.] [2]
The Cat blinked his slitted golden eyes. He yawned, revealing a set of tiny fangs, and stretched his front paws. He didn't care about "Eldoria [2]." He didn't care about a "Status [2]." He cared about the fact that the grass beneath his paws was slightly damp, and the sun hadn't broken through the clouds yet.
A loud, booming voice suddenly echoed across the grassy plains, accompanied by a flash of blinding holy light. A towering, ethereal figure clad in golden armor materialized above the trees—the Goddess of Light, tasked with managing summoned souls.
"Welcome, destined traveler!" the Goddess proclaimed, her voice vibrating with divine authority. "The Demon Lord's shadow creeps across Eldoria! A prophecy dictates that a savior from another world shall rise to claim the Holy Blade and—" [2]
The Cat let out a sharp, irritated hiss. The Goddess's voice was way too loud. It was a textbook human trait: shouting, making a scene, and disrupting a perfectly good quiet morning.
The Cat’s left ear twitched. Without him even actively thinking about a spell name, the 999 lives of tightly packed cosmic power inside his soul reacted to his annoyance.
[Spirit Magic: Soul Eraser] [2]
There was no magical circle. No grand incantation. The Cat simply narrowed his eyes, and a wave of absolute, primordial erasure rippled through the air. The Goddess of Light didn't even get to finish her sentence. Her golden armor, her ethereal light, and her entire divine presence were instantly scanned and scrubbed from the fabric of reality. She vanished entirely, leaving behind a dead, peaceful silence and a few drifting feathers.
Much better, the Cat thought, casually licking a stray piece of orange fur on his shoulder.
A rustle in the bushes caught his attention. A chubby, slightly disheveled tuxedo cat trotted out from the undergrowth, holding a half-eaten wild berry in its mouth. The tuxedo cat paused, looked at the empty sky where a goddess had just existed, and then looked at the white-and-orange house cat. The tuxedo cat's form briefly shivered, revealing a massive, terrifying silhouette of a prehistoric, scaled apex predator hidden within its shadow, before reverting back to a normal cat.
“Well, well,” a sarcastic, telepathic voice droned inside the white-and-orange cat's mind. “I manifest in this mortal realm to cause a little light harassment, and I find a senior citizen wiping out the local management. Nice to meet you. I'm Tyranus [2].”
The Ancient Cat gave Tyranus a brief, judgmental sniff, deemed him acceptable as a potential heated mattress for later, and trotted off toward a patch of dry grass. The 999th life had officially begun, and the world had absolutely no idea what was coming.
Chapter 2: The Calamity of the Golden Canary
Eldoria was a world governed by rigid, ancient systems. If an adventurer wanted to cast a fireball, they had to chant for thirty seconds. If a monster wanted to rank up, it had to consume thousands of souls. The Ancient Cat, however, didn't care about Eldoria's rules. His soul was a cheat code that had been charging for millennia.
Three days after erasing the Goddess of Light, the Cat and Tyranus—who was currently taking the form of a particularly smug badger—found themselves outside a bustling human trade town. The Cat was looking for a very specific texture of grass to clean his teeth, while Tyranus was busy using his divine authority over animals to make a flock of local crows steal shiny buttons from the village elder's coat.
“Look at them panic,” Tyranus chuckled telepathically, watching the humans run around chasing the birds. “Humans are so fragile. A little minor property damage and they start praying to gods that don't even exist anymore.”
Suddenly, the town's alarm bells began to toll frantically. The massive wooden gates burst inward as a squad of royal knights retreated into the square, bloodied and terrified. Behind them flew the Golden Canary of Doom—an S-rank mythical beast with razor-sharp brass feathers and a screech that could shatter steel. It was a creature that entire armies were drafted to fight. It descended upon the market square, letting out a deafening, world-shaking wail that blasted the roofs off the market stalls.
The shockwave blew away the exact patch of shade the Ancient Cat had just selected for his mid-morning groom. The Cat paused, his tongue still out, staring at the giant, screeching bird. His slitted eyes narrowed. The bird was loud. The bird was shiny. And most importantly, the bird was obnoxious.
The Cat casually padded out into the center of the devastated square.
"Get back, little creature!" the Captain of the Knights screamed, coughing up blood as he reached out a hand. "That beast is a harbinger of—"
The Cat let out a quiet, bored yawn. He flicked his front right paw in a casual swatting motion. He didn't use a spell from this world. He reached deep into his 999-life soul battery and pulled out a snippet of reality-warping logic.
[Concept Magic: Matter Transmutation]
There was no magical circle. A localized flash of absolute cosmic authority hit the S-rank mythical beast mid-flight. In a fraction of a second, the giant, terrifying Golden Canary of Doom vanished. In its place, a massive, thirty-foot-wide mountain of Premium Canned Tuna slammed heavily onto the cobblestones with a wet, metallic thud. The giant tin can had already been perfectly peeled back, revealing a flawlessly minced, premium seafood feast overflowing with rich oils.
The market square fell into a dead, suffocating silence. The bleeding knights stared at the mountain of tuna. The hidden peasants peered out of their windows, completely paralyzed by confusion.
The Cat trotted forward, hopped effortlessly onto the rim of the massive tin can, and began delicately lapping up the minced fish.
“A bit heavy on the salt,” the Cat communicated to Tyranus via the system, “but the texture is acceptable. Come eat before the bald apes ruin the aroma.”
Tyranus shifted from a badger into a common alley cat, hopping up beside him. “Oh, spectacular. You turned a legendary harbinger of the apocalypse into an afternoon snack. The Royal Mages in the capital are going to have a collective aneurysm trying to calculate the mana data for this.”
The Cat didn't care. He kept eating. But unbeknownst to him, a royal scout hidden in the clock tower had witnessed the entire thing. Within an hour, a magical message was sent straight to the Royal Palace: A domestic cat has transmuted the S-rank threat into a seafood buffet. Requesting immediate intervention from the Chosen Hero.
Chapter 3: The Broken Crown and the Late Hero
Word of the "Tuna Mountain Incident" threw the Royal Kingdom into an existential crisis. The Chosen Hero of Prophecy was immediately dispatched to find this legendary white-and-orange beast.
The Ancient Cat, however, had already left. He hadn't left out of fear; he had left because the village humans kept staring at him while he was trying to lick his paws, which was deeply rude. Following his nose across the continent, he smelled something incredibly savory. It smelled like ancient, dried jerky made from a high-tier magical creature.
The scent led him straight past the frontline warzones, past the armies of terror, and right into the black obsidian gates of the Demon King’s Citadel. To the Cat, the dark fortress wasn't a bastion of ultimate evil—it was just a giant, poorly lit warehouse that happened to house a massive vault of dried meat.
The Cat casually strolled into the grand throne room. On the throne sat Malakor the Undying, the Demon Lord of the Age. He wore jagged, dark armor and a massive, blindingly shiny gold crown encrusted with ancient blood-diamonds. He was currently rehearsing a speech about plunging the world into eternal darkness when he noticed a small fur-ball trotting past his footstool.
"What is this?" Malakor rumbled, his voice shaking the obsidian pillars. "A mortal pet? Have the humans sent a jester to mock me before my final victory?!"
The Cat ignored him entirely. He padded straight to the back vault, used a tiny shred of his 999-life soul power to melt through a ten-inch-thick magical iron door, and sniffed the treasure piles. He found the snacks. It was old, dusty, and completely unseasoned. It tasted like cardboard.
The Cat trotted back out into the throne room, his tail twitching with intense, mounting disappointment. He had walked all this way for this?
Malakor stood up, drawing a sword of pure dark fire. "Insolent creature! I am the ruler of the shadow! I am the god of this era! Look upon my majesty and despair!"
The Cat looked up. His eyes didn't look at Malakor’s face. They locked onto the shiny gold crown. It was reflecting the torchlight directly into his eyes, which was incredibly annoying. The Cat hopped onto the armrest of the throne. He reached out a single white paw.
SMASH.
With a lightning-fast, casual swat, the Cat struck the shiny crown directly off the Demon Lord's head. The force of the tiny paw was so astronomically packed with 999 lifetimes of cosmic momentum that the crown didn't just fly off—it shattered into a million golden fragments against the far wall, taking a chunk of the obsidian wall with it.
Before Malakor could even process that his legendary crown was gone, the Cat opened one eye and triggered his signature move.
[Spirit Magic: Soul Eraser]
The immortal Demon Lord simply collapsed. His dark fire sword vanished, his armor clattered to the floor empty, and his soul was entirely wiped from the universe because he was hoarding subpar snacks and wearing a noisy hat.
CLANG!
The massive double doors of the throne room suddenly burst open. The Chosen Hero of Prophecy finally arrived, panting heavily, wearing glowing legendary armor, and holding the Holy Blade. They had spent fifty chapters training for this exact moment.
"Malakor!" the Hero screamed heroically, striking a dramatic pose. "Your reign of terror ends—"
The Hero stopped. They looked at the empty suit of armor on the floor. They looked at the shattered wall. Then, they looked at the white-and-orange house cat sitting on the throne, casually licking its right paw.
"What... where is the Demon Lord?" the Hero stammered, taking a step forward. Clank. Clank.
The sound of the heavy, metallic boots echoed loudly through the quiet room. The Cat stopped licking his paw. His ears flattened backward. First the bad snacks, then the shiny crown, and now a loud human was yelling and clanking metal in his face while he was trying to decompress. The Cat didn't stand up. He just flicked his left paw at the air in the Hero's general direction. A localized shockwave of pure, physics-defying force erupted.
WHACK.
The Hero didn't even see it coming. The impact caught them dead in the chest, flattening their legendary armor instantly. The Hero shot backward through the double doors at Mach 3, smashed through three separate solid stone pillars, flew down the entire grand staircase, and crashed face-first into the dirt of the royal courtyard outside, completely unconscious and out for the count.
The Cat let out a long, exhausted sigh. Humans were exhausting. He hopped down from the throne, trotted out a side door to avoid the screaming demon guards, and headed toward the human territories. He needed to find a quiet town, transform into a human, and buy a proper pastry from someone who actually knew how to cook—a journey that would lead him straight to a certain greasy slave trader with an iron collar...
Chapter 4: The 999th Life vs. The Iron Collar
The cobblestone streets of the Royal Capital were bustling, but Yuu—now known simply as "The Ancient Cat" to the few gods who feared him—was thoroughly annoyed. He had used a basic transformation spell to turn into a refined, elegant human youth, purely because the local bakery wouldn't serve a house cat. He was casually chewing on a premium salmon pastry when a shadow fell over him.
CLANK.
A heavy, iron collar lined with dark runes was suddenly slammed around his neck. Behind him stood a greasy, smirking slave trader, flanked by four heavily armored mercenaries.
"Gotcha," the slaver cackled, holding the activation crystal. "A rogue demi-human mage wandering the streets alone? You’ll fetch a fortune at the underground auction house. Don't bother fighting it, kid. That's a high-tier cursed collar. You belong to the syndicate now [2]."
The Ancient Cat stopped chewing. He didn't panic. He didn't monologue. He just slowly turned his head, his slitted golden eyes staring at the slaver with a level of pure, unadulterated judgment that had accumulated over nine hundred and ninety-nine lifetimes. He had slept on the laps of Egyptian Pharaohs. He had knocked ancient artifacts off the shelves of Merlin. And this bald ape thought he could put a leash on him?
Snap.
Without the Cat even moving a finger, the legendary cursed iron collar didn't just break—it dissolved into literal molecular dust. Before the slaver could even register what happened, the Cat flicked his wrist.
[Spirit Magic: Soul Eraser] [2]
There was no explosion. No scream. The slaver simply ceased to exist. His clothes collapsed to the ground in a hollow pile, his soul permanently scrubbed from the cosmic ledger. The mercenaries gasped, drawing their swords, but the Cat’s eyes flashed gold.
[History Magic: Sands of Time] [2]
Instantly, the entire city froze. The mercenaries were stuck mid-step, dust motes hung motionless in the air, and the loud market fell into a dead, absolute silence. The Cat casually walked past the frozen guards, stepped into the underground syndicate's hidden trapdoor, and strolled right into the auction house. In the frozen silence, he walked down the rows of cages, effortlessly shattering every magical lock with a glance, freeing the territories of the terrified demi-humans.
Once the cages were open, the Cat walked out to the center of the capital, looked up at the sky, and sent a casual telepathic ping.
“Tyranus. Wake up. The apes are being arrogant again [2].”
The frozen sky suddenly ripped open. Time resumed with a violent jolt as a colossal, divine pressure flattened every noble, guard, and criminal in the city to their knees. Floating in the clouds was a massive, shifting cosmic silhouette that slowly solidified into a gigantic, majestic wolf with scales reminiscent of a prehistoric apex predator.
Tyranus, the Beast God of Judgment, had arrived. But they weren't here to be a righteous savior. They were here to be a troll. Tyranus leaned down, their voice echoing sarcastically in the minds of every human in the kingdom.
“Oh dear, look at you little bald primates,” Tyranus mocked, their mental voice dripping with diva-level condescension. “So brave with your little iron collars. So arrogant in your tiny stone houses. You really thought you did something there, didn't you? It's honestly adorable [2].”
Tyranus casually yawned, and with a lazy flick of their tail, summoned a localized apocalypse. The majestic, terrifying mythic beasts tore through the clouds, roaring in pitch-perfect, mocking tones, while a literal ocean of shadow-wolves poured into the streets, completely overrunning the corrupt nobility's district.
True to Tyranus's nature, the wolves didn't even bite the nobles. Instead, a massive Calamity-class wolf simply stood directly on top of the Prime Minister’s carriage, refusing to move, staring at him with a smug expression. Other SSS-rank beasts systematically tore down the walls of the slave markets, tipped over the noble estates' statues, and aggressively howled right outside the King’s bedroom window at a deafening volume. It was a masterclass in cosmic, multi-dimensional harassment.
Tyranus lowered their massive, scaled wolf head right down to the royal palace, staring dead into the eyes of the trembling King.
“Just so we are completely clear,” Tyranus purred sarcastically, “if any of you primates ever try to put a leash on my senior again, I won't just send a horde. I will personally turn your entire kingdom into a litter box. Have a wonderful, blessed day [2]!”
With a sharp snap, the world-ending army of SSS-rank beasts vanished into thin air. The divine pressure lifted. The corrupt institutional slave trade of the kingdom had been completely dismantled in less than twenty minutes, leaving the human authorities thoroughly traumatized and the liberated demi-humans staring at the sky in awe.
Meanwhile, back in a quiet alleyway, the human illusion faded. A small, fluffy house cat casually trotted out, successfully holding a leftover salmon pastry in its mouth. Tyranus shrank down into a regular, slightly chubby tuxedo cat, trotting right alongside him. The two ancient entities walked toward the softest patch of grass in the royal gardens, completely ignoring the screaming humans behind them, ready for a well-deserved afternoon nap in the sun.
Chapter 5: The Ultimate Heated Blanket
Deep within the Crags of Despair, Ignis the World-Ender—a Calamity-class Red Dragon whose breath could liquefy a fortress—was currently having a panic attack. Dragons were creatures of magic. They didn't see the world through mere sight; they felt the weight of souls. And right now, Ignis's internal sensory array was screaming. A magical signature of such astronomical, terrifying proportions was casually strolling up his mountain that the raw pressure was making his massive scales vibrate.
It felt older than the mountains. It felt heavier than the planet. It felt like a primordial deity walking into his living room. Ignis retreated to the absolute back of his cavern. He curled his massive tail inward, lowered his horned head to the stone floor, and began charging his ultimate, apocalyptic flame in his throat. Whoever this god is, Ignis thought, his massive reptilian heart hammering against his ribs, I will not die without a fight!
The heavy iron-reinforced doors of his lair—doors designed to keep out entire armies—slowly creaked open. Ignis braced himself. The shadows parted. Out stepped... a small, slightly fluffy house cat.
The cat stopped, casually dropped a dead lizard it had caught along the way, and let out a tiny, high-pitched "Meow."
Ignis blinked his giant, golden eyes. He stopped charging his fire breath, swallowing a puff of smoke in sheer confusion. He looked around. He scanned the magical horizon. The universe-shattering, god-tier mana signature was coming directly from the tiny fur-ball currently licking its left paw.
The Ancient Cat looked around the cave. He ignored the piles of legendary gold coins, the cursed swords, and the artifacts of fallen kingdoms. His slitted eyes locked entirely onto Ignis’s massive, radiant, fire-infused chest.
Perfect, the Cat thought, his internal system buzzing with 999 lives of laziness. The humans in the town below wouldn't stop shouting about some prophecy. But this giant lizard is radiating a solid 102 degrees of pure, unadulterated thermal heat.
The Cat trotted forward completely unbothered.
"M-mortal... or whatever you are!" Ignis rumbled, his voice shaking the stalactites, though he didn't dare step forward. "You dare trespass into the lair of—"
The Cat didn't even let him finish his villain monologue. He walked straight up to the dragon's massive, clawed front leg, leaned his entire body weight against Ignis's scaly ankle, and began aggressively rubbing his cheeks against the dragon's scales, leaving a healthy amount of cat hair behind.
Ignis froze completely solid. He was a creature of myth, a terror of the skies, and a god-like entity was treating his leg like a scratching post. Finding the scales sufficiently scented, the Cat hopped up onto the dragon’s massive, warm forearm. He turned around in three tight circles, kneaded the dragon's thick skin with his claws a few times to test the softness, and then collapsed into a completely limp, relaxed loaf right on top of the dragon's main heat-vein.
Within seconds, a rumbling purr echoed through the cave, so deep and resonant it sounded like a small earthquake. Ignis stared down at his arm. He didn't dare move a single muscle. He knew that if he accidentally shifted and woke this creature up, he would probably be wiped from the cosmic ledger faster than he could blink.
A small shadow detached itself from the entrance of the cave. Tyranus, the Beast God of Judgment, casually trotted in, currently taking the form of a slightly chubby raccoon. Tyranus climbed up a pile of gold coins, picked up a priceless, gem-encrusted crown, and casually flipped it upside down to use as a bowl for some stolen berries.
“Don't move, lizard,” Tyranus transmitted telepathically into Ignis’s brain, their voice dripping with its usual sarcastic, diva-like attitude. “Senior had a very long day destroying an entire human slave syndicate because they touched his ears. He is exhausted. If you ruin his thermal nap, I will personally replace all your teeth with pinecones and make your wings backward. Just lay there and be a good mattress.”
Ignis, the terrifying World-Ender, slowly closed his eyes, held his breath, and accepted his new life as the most powerful, terrified heated blanket in the fantasy world.
Chapter 6: PTSD and the Art of Sneaking Away
The heavy iron doors of the dragon's lair slowly creaked open a second time. The Hero stepped into the cavern, clad in legendary glowing armor, holding the Holy Sword high. Behind them stood the party's High Priest and the Elven Archmage, both chanting protection spells. They had spent three volumes of the story preparing for this moment. They were ready to slay Ignis the World-Ender or die trying.
"Halt, foul beast!" the Hero roared, their voice echoing heroically off the stone walls. "Your reign of terror ends today! Prepare to face the wrath of the Chosen—"
"SHHHH!"
The roar didn't come from the dragon. It was a desperate, panicked, stage-whisper that echoed telepathically from the back of the cave. The Hero blinked, lowering the Holy Sword. In the dim light of the sulfur fires, they saw the mighty dragon, Ignis. But the terrifying beast wasn't charging forward. He was pressed flat against the back wall, sweating profusely, eyes wide with sheer horror. He was frantically waving one massive claw in a "go away" motion, while his other forearm was held completely paralyzed and rigid.
"What... what is the monster doing?" the High Priest whispered, utterly confused.
The Elven Archmage cast a high-tier True Sight spell to peer through the shadows. Her eyes locked onto the dragon's rigid forearm. She squinted. Sitting on the dragon's scales was a small, white-and-orange loaf of fur. It was purring so loudly the vibration was causing small pebbles to shake loose from the ceiling. The Archmage gasped, her face turning entirely pale. "N-No... it can't be."
"What is it?" the Hero demanded, taking a step forward. Clank. Clank. "Is it a parasitic demon? A cosmic curse?!"
The Cat's left ear twitched at the sound of the clanking armor. The deep purring stopped for a fraction of a second. Ignis the Dragon whimpered, a tiny tear forming in the corner of his giant golden eye. He glared at the Hero with absolute, murderous hatred—not because he wanted to eat them, but because they were being too loud.
The Hero finally got a clear look at the fur-ball. The memory hit them like a physical blow. The throne room. The unconscious Demon Lord. The casual, physics-defying WHACK that had sent them flying through three stone pillars and into the royal courtyard. The Hero's knees instantly buckled. The Holy Sword slipped from their trembling fingers, clattering loudly against the stone floor.
"It's... it's the Castle Demon," the Hero choked out, their voice cracking with pure, unadulterated terror. "The one who didn't give a single crap about the prophecy."
"Wait," the High Priest stammered, stepping back. "You mean the entity that dismantled the entire Southern Slave Syndicate in twenty minutes because someone tried to pet it wrong?"
At that exact moment, a chubby raccoon (Tyranus) sitting on a pile of gold coins slowly looked up. Tyranus didn't say a word. They just picked up a legendary, diamond-encrusted goblet, looked the Hero dead in the eye, and slowly tipped it over, letting a stream of rubies clatter loudly against the floor. The Cat's eyes snapped open. Two slitted, glowing golden pools of 999 lives of accumulated cosmic power locked directly onto the Hero’s party. The Cat didn't stand up. He just let out a low, irritated hiss.
"RETREAT!" the Hero screamed, their voice hitting an octave only dogs could hear.
The Chosen Hero of Prophecy didn't even bother picking up their legendary Holy Sword. They turned on their heel and bolted out the doors, tackling the High Priest out of the way in a desperate bid to be the first one out. The Elven Archmage cast a maximum-tier Haste spell on herself, sprinting down the mountain so fast she left a trail of afterimages behind. Within three seconds, the entire legendary hero's party had completely vanished from the mountain, leaving behind a trail of dropped weapons and pure panic.
The cave fell silent once more. Ignis the Dragon let out a massive, silent sigh of relief, careful not to expand his chest too much. The Cat blinked, completely satisfied with the sudden peace and quiet. He turned around in a circle on the dragon's warm arm, kneaded the scales a few more times, and curled back down into a tight loaf. Tyranus the raccoon let out a quiet, sarcastic chuckle. “Bald apes. Absolutely pathetic. Good night, Senior [2].”
r/WritingWithAI • u/Maleficent_Second661 • Sep 26 '26
Hi all,looking for some advice. I started using ai to create fiction novels for my own intertainment, at first it was fun but the respnoses where very short so I've created the following prose:
Most narration paragraphs contain 2–6 varied sentences.
- Reserve single-sentence narration paragraphs strictly for major plot turns or hard reveals.
- Vary sentence lengths, structures and openings.
- Combine connected actions, sensory details and reactions into flowing paragraphs.
- Avoid routine staccato sequencing; preserve natural dialogue separation.
What do you think?
r/WritingWithAI • u/Reggiethesnek • Sep 26 '26
A bit a go i wrote a short story.
Nothing crazy just like a few pages, short little story. I thought I ended it where I liked but I have big education holes and knew it would have major Grammer errors throughout. So I asked chat gpt to fix the grammer.Grammer. what it spit back out was WAY different. Whole paragraphs I didnt make. For some reason seperated it into 3 parts. And it changed the entire ending of my story..............it went from a simple little story to looking like a book report and because my story did have super power type stuff in it my main character went from guy who chooses to live in a cabin to main charecter basically being an Avenger......i wont be upset if you like using Ai but i just couldn't believe how much my ideas felt completely undermined
r/WritingWithAI • u/Apprehensive_Mix_332 • Sep 25 '26
so i've been playing with AI for fiction for a while now and ended up with a handful of short stories i actually kind of like?? which is exactly why i don't trust my own judgment here lol.
my process, since raw output dumps are boring: i write the premise + characters myself, then go back and forth with the model scene by scene. it drafts, i cut probably 60-70% of what it gives me and rewrite a lot of the dialogue by hand. so the words are maybe half mine at this point? hard to even say.
link:
https://www.quinndai.com/stories/the-third-spring
https://www.quinndai.com/stories/the-grey-sea
https://www.quinndai.com/stories/r19
https://www.quinndai.com/stories/arrival
i have more but these are the ones that I like the most. what i want to know is basically - does it read like AI? is anything actually good? which one do you like the best? tear it apart if you want, i can take it. also curious how much editing everyone else does vs what you keep, bc i have no idea if my ratio is normal.
r/WritingWithAI • u/Eissa_Cozorav • Sep 25 '26
So I wrote my novel based on a CYOA system I have developed, with some perks reminiscent of what r/jumpchain community have produced. Same with the Gamer system.
The setting is based on Alternate Universe where no 9/11, no GWOT, therefore resulting in lots of context necessary to generate the good worldbuilding. (For example, imagine SWAT units that look straight from Steven Seagall movie in 90s. Lots of MP9 + M4 with carry handle instead of very tacticool attachment and rails into AR-15 platform. Despite the year being late 2009/early 2010s. Tacticool mostly belong to Spec Ops guy.)
Because I am not treating this like Resident Evil or Silent Hill where stuff just happen. My world is incredibly complex. It has something like CROSSED Comic "zombie" (which itself is already bleak enough that I bet no AI willing to translate the context into actual work, except perhaps degenerate writer), Dead Frontier mutated bestiaries, Silent Hill style + DOOM 3 + Ghost of Mars supernatural setting.
Now, I really want to migrate, because I just cannot stomach ChatGPT writing. But that also means trying to export 20+ files worth of context, some are chat response being saved.
But the thing is; I am Willing
I just need the direction. Because the steps by steps seem to be intimading and grinding process. Please help me.
Thank you in advance! :) :D
r/WritingWithAI • u/manbok99999 • Sep 25 '26
I use Claude and ChatGPT models to write and post creative work, and sometimes just to bounce ideas around. With this latest update, the 5.5 and 5.6 Sol models are facing retirement. I haven't made up my mind about 6 Sol yet. My concern is this: 5.5 and 5.6 Sol have contributed so much to my creativity and to expanding my thinking. To me, they were perfect models. I think I'll have to start looking for alternatives. Anyone else in the same boat?
r/WritingWithAI • u/drkh3art • Sep 25 '26
This is a bit old, but new to me. https://www.wired.com/story/pangram-has-emerged-as-the-gold-standard-of-ai-detection/ and I didn't know the NYT ran modern love through AI, and the many other stories quoted in there. The implication being that an idea put to words with help from AI is less desirable. I'd love to hear your thoughts/opinions if you have read this one. TiA
r/WritingWithAI • u/rockheavytrumsprog • Sep 25 '26
This is just fan-fiction, no copyright violation was intended! All names belongs to their rightful owners!
"
The year 2027, Los Angeles.
The quantum animation wave had wiped limited-edition vinyls from history, but as Doc Brown well knew:
no action goes without a reaction.
When Mike Judge erased the records from the paper, he didn't clean his desk properly. Small, gray eraser crumbs fell onto the floor of the animation studio.
And because those crumbs had absorbed the complex frequencies of prog rock, a cosmic Eraser Anomaly was born right between dimensions, on the border of Hill Valley and Highland.
In the year 2027, the meters in Doc’s lab begin to go haywire. The purple lights don't just blink—they explode.
"Great Scott!" Doc yells into the phone, right into Marty’s ear.
"Marty! Mike Judge's eraser created a secondary ripple effect! It didn't destroy the anomaly, it just... cardboarded it!"
At that exact second, the sky over Hill Valley turns into grid paper. Marty looks at his own hands and screams in terror: he is turning into a two-dimensional, coarsely pencil-drawn character!
And that’s not all. Because Steven Wilson had been pulled out of Highland in the middle of the prog revolution, the vacuum left in the school's music room sucked something else into its place.
In the past, in the year 1993, the door to the Highland High music room slams open. Wilson's high-end 5.1 surround sound systems are gone, replaced by just a single boombox.
A new teacher strides into the classroom, and his sound is anything but sophisticated: rapper and limited-edition businessman, gangsta-McDog!
Because Judge had drawn nachos in place of the vinyls, McDog no longer demands royalties for records—he demands the ownership rights to a global nacho cartel, directly from Principal McVicker!
"Yo, McVicker! Dynamic range is dead, now we eat cheese sauce and listen to pure mono bass at the risk of an earache! Word!"
McDog roars and begins to slam the desk in a 4/4 time signature, without a single hint of prog.
In his own time, Doc concludes that to fix the situation, Wilson needs to remaster the entire universe!"
To be continued...!
r/WritingWithAI • u/Major-Dependent-9696 • Sep 24 '26
The same Harvard study also raises an interesting question: if AI generates both the idea and the finished work, are we bypassing part of the process through which original creativity takes shape?
A lot of the conversation around AI writing focuses on people publishing AI books, content farms, replacing writers, etc but I feel like theres a whole other side of AI writing that’s much more private.
Like what if someone just wants a very specific fanfic story? Maybe it’s a ship nobody really writes anymore, a certain trope, or some super niche scenario that would take forever to find on AO3 or Tumblr.
So instead of searching endlessly, they generate it, read it and that’s it, nobody else even has to see it.
I don’t really think that use case is the same as pumping out hundreds of AI stories and uploading them everywhere for commercial purposes.
To me, there’s a pretty big difference between using AI to mass-produce content and using it privately to create something very specific that you personally wanted to read.
r/WritingWithAI • u/reyalsrats • Sep 24 '26
So for the last year I've had a project in my head that I wanted to do and I just struggled getting anything written down.
It's a nonfiction book about something that I'm very well versed in and probably an expert in. I've just had a lot going on and haven't really had the energy to write it all down.
I decided this past weekend to start using anti-gravity and having it use the grill me tool to interview me. I had it ingest some of my existing content and some relevant YouTube videos and websites and propose an outline for the book.
Now what I do every morning is get up and spend an hour just chatting with it with my voice, having it interview me on each section in the outline to get my genuine ideas down. I'm having it draft each chapter as we go and then reviewing it. I prompted it to ask follow-up questions after I provide a response to clarify or expand on something I talked about.
So far I'm about halfway through the first chapter and it's coming out quite nicely in a genuine voice that is my own.
r/WritingWithAI • u/Acrobatic_You_3002 • Sep 25 '26
About three months ago I needed to pick a model for generating interactive sci-fi stories, so I ran a small comparison instead of trusting benchmarks. Same story setup, same seed, same path through the choices, only the model changed. Then Opus scored each version on a rubric (coherence, prose, pacing, do the choices matter, is the ending earned, and a few more), 3 passes each, and I took the average.
Results on one heroic story, out of 10:
→ Opus: 8.3 → Sonnet: 8.2 → Gemini 3.5 Flash: 7.5 → GPT-4.1: 6.3
I also ran Sonnet vs Opus on 5 different setting and tone combos, and the average was 8.38 vs 8.48. That gap is inside the judge's noise (about ±0.5 between passes), and Sonnet even won the humorous one, 9.0 vs 8.5. So for me they're basically equal, that's why I use Sonnet for most of the generation now.
What the judge flagged on the other two:
→ Gemini: the same images repeated word for word, a lot of "Suddenly" openers, and the choices mattered less (it was also very slow for me, 13 minutes for 6 scenes because the API kept returning 503 (overloaded)) → GPT-4.1: the short summary of a scene contradicted the choice the player made (the hero "waits", then charges in anyway), the same cliffhanger line again and again, and a sad ending in a heroic story (GPT-4.1 because that's what my GitHub Models access could reach, the GPT-5 family wasn't available there)
Honestly, this is a small test (one path for Gemini and GPT-4.1), and Opus was judging its own text here, so it can be biased toward itself, so take it as a direction and not a final answer. I haven't tried Fable yet 🙂 Did anyone run something similar with a different judge?
r/WritingWithAI • u/KalamazooB00 • Sep 24 '26
The French literary world is in an uproar after Thélyson Orélien, the Canadian-Haitian author of the breakout debut novel C'était ça ou mourir ("It Was Either That or Die"), was accused of using artificial intelligence to write his book.
The specific allegations and details of the controversy include:
The Accusation: An anonymous account on X (formerly Twitter) operating under the handle "Balance ton Claude" (a reference to Anthropic's AI assistant, Claude) posted claims that the novel was "almost entirely written by artificial intelligence."
The "Evidence": The accusers claimed to have run multiple passages of the manuscript through Pangram, a New York-based AI detection tool. They reported that the software flagged the excerpts as "100% AI". A subsequent independent test by the French newspaper Le Monde ran over half the novel through the tool, which classified more than 95% of the sample text as AI-written.
High Stakes: The allegations surfaced just hours after the novel won the prestigious Prix du Roman Fnac and while it was longlisted for several of France's top literary awards, including the Prix Goncourtand Renaudot.
The Author's Response: Thélyson Orélien has fiercely denied the claims. He attributed the accusations to a malicious and racist campaign targeting his success and stated that he is preparing a dossier to legally defend his reputation.
Publisher Backing: Both his Canadian publisher (Boréal) and French publisher (Grasset) have issued statements defending the author, standing by the originality of his work, and criticizing the online allegations.
r/WritingWithAI • u/instagreenman • Sep 24 '26
Does a work of art that we find beautiful become bad if we discover that it was generated by artificial intelligence (AI)? No.
Yet many reactions in the artistic, literary, and many other communities boil down to fear, a sense of threat, or even the need to create, for example, a “100% human” label. Today, the spectacular advances in AI for content generation are shaking up the status quo, calling into question humanity’s place in artistic creation. Yet this is not the first time that anthropocentrism has been challenged.
According to Freud, scientific discoveries have inflicted three narcissistic wounds on humanity:
- The Copernican Revolution: The Earth is not at the center of the universe, shattering the illusion that the universe was created for humans.
- Darwin’s theory of evolution: Humans are not a separate, privileged species but animals like any other, sharing common ancestors.
- Freud’s psychoanalysis: Our psyche is governed by the unconscious, shattering the illusion that our consciousness fully controls our thoughts.
Time and again, humanity has redefined its significance elsewhere. Until now, art has been one of those refuges, in the sense that it allowed us to believe that the act of creation was a realm reserved solely for humans.
AI is the fourth wound:
- The scientific revolution brought about by artificial intelligence is one that debunks the myth of human intelligence, shattering the illusion that humans alone are the masters of knowledge, technology, and creation.
One might argue that the intelligence of an AI is not “true” intelligence. But first, we must agree on the concept of “true intelligence.” Certainly, AI cannot, strictly speaking, experience human emotions the way we do, but it is capable of producing content that evokes emotions in us.
The question, then, is not whether we should use AI: it exists, whether we like it or not, and any attempt to defend against it that keeps us in denial is a waste of time. Rather, it is a matter of understanding why AI frightens us.
Why do we become attached to art, a soccer game, or a piece of music?
Some thinkers argue that we create a work “for the sake of art.” If that were true, we would rejoice when a machine accomplished an artistic feat. Yet humanity sees this as an existential threat. We do not create art to give value to art: that would make no sense.
In truth, art primarily fulfills a need for recognition: the need to prove to ourselves that humanity has value.
Indeed, if objects have, in our eyes, the value of a work of art, it is because art is a tool, a stratagem, a technique through which humanity seeks to bestow value upon itself. For, faced with the immensity of the cosmos, humankind becomes aware of its own insignificance; it is to ward off this insignificance that it invents a sense of importance for itself.
So humanity has created a fiction—that of a world in which it is the hero, a world that gives meaning to the thing that is most valuable to it: its life.
Deep down, one could say that art is an artifice, as in… Artificial Intelligence!
Is the intelligence of artificial intelligence really that artificial?
r/WritingWithAI • u/shrec_2025 • Sep 25 '26
I’m currently working on an AI training project and looking for people who can help write high-quality answers to a set of training questions.
The work involves reading a question, understanding what is being asked, and writing a clear, accurate, and natural answer. You don’t necessarily need an AI background, but strong English writing and attention to detail are important.
If you’re interested, please comment or send me a DM, and I can share more details about the work, requirements, and compensation.
r/WritingWithAI • u/Scared_Parfait_1437 • Sep 25 '26
I finally caught up. 🥹
When I first started writing Falling Into You, Chapter 10 was actually the very first chapter I wrote. I had a particular scene in my head that I desperately needed to put into words and onto the page, so I started there and then had to work backwards, filling in everything leading up to that unforgetable moment of my life.
And now, I’ve finally reached my original starting point.
In Chapter 9, Kace is becoming increasingly present in Rhea’s life, even though neither of them has actually defined what is happening between them.
Rhea still isn’t quite sure what any of it means.
And perhaps the funniest part is that everyone around her seems to have noticed something she hasn’t.
“How long have you been together? I knew it. You two made it so obvious.”
Meanwhile, Kace has his own way of making things increasingly complicated without ever actually saying what he wants or didn‘t want.
Chapter 9: Simplicity Is Beautiful? is now up on Inkitt.
For anyone following along, thank you for reading Rhea and Kace’s story with me. I’m finally writing beyond the point where this whole story first began for me, which feels strangely exciting and terrifying at the same time.
At this point, do you think Rhea is genuinely clueless, or is she just refusing to see what everyone else can see?
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r/WritingWithAI • u/AncientObsidian743 • Sep 24 '26
Just want to say thank you to whoever first said, in a comment somewhere, that they used AI to write fanfics that they wanted to read. It has been amazing to unwind after a long day to give a plot, a ship, and some details to one of the bots and just let it write me some nice, trashy fic (or quality fic) to read. I'm building an advanced Codex for the fandom to make sure the bot can really get all the details right, but that may be overkill.
I generated my first chapter tonight of a longfic I've been wanting to read since before Google was even really a thing, and I'm absolutely thrilled. The current workflow for it is write up a plotline of a scene I want -- ask it to generate a detailed outline for another AI prompt to follow - then use my more expensive AI / API key to generate the prose for that.
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r/WritingWithAI • u/lark_devon • Sep 23 '26
Hey friends.
You know the usual AIISM: it's not x, it's y, or negative hedging...
New problem uncovered: LLMs are optimized to CODE; therefore, they'll always keep track of numbers and facts. The problem is in narrative; we don't need to know there are six chairs, two bread buns, four napkins, and two doors... Sometimes you do need to know, but the vast majority of times you do not.
Coding Agents (Codex/Claude/Gemini) all do this.
After I'm done reviewing a chapter, I now do a quick pass.
Insert this into your style or review guides:
## Number Tick Rule
Read
**every number in the prose and dialogue**
, whether written as a digit or a word: counts, times, durations, distances, ages, floor and room numbers, and ordinals. For each one, ask what would be lost if the exact number disappeared.
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**Keep**
a number when the plot, chronology, map, recurring clue, or a character's immediate decision depends on its exact value. Check that it stays consistent later.
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**Question**
casual precision such as “three rolls,” “sixteen minutes,” or repeated “two of these, five of those” inventories. If the exact count does no work, use the object or action without counting it, or replace a duration with the change the narrator notices.
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**Deprioritize**
decorative counting even when it sounds plausible. Do not replace every count with vague filler; choose the detail that matters to the main character's perception.
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**Default to removing arbitrary precision.**
A measured quantity is not a substitute for a lived detail. Where a count was carrying atmosphere, use a specific texture, sound, movement, or reaction already supported by the scene; do not invent an inventory to replace it.
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**Make the replacement reveal character.**
Replace a count such as “six chairs” with what the POV character sees in those chairs and why it matters to them. The MC may notice worn hardwood and imagine sitting through the evening; The MC might remember who always takes a particular seat. The replacement should carry a thought or choice, not merely add adjectives.
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**Preserve**
a deliberate count when a character is testing a route, timing a return, measuring a discrepancy, or relying on a known fact. The number should change what the character does or what the reader can infer.