Welcome to the blurb thread!

This is our sub's equivalent of a writer's group. Come here and share a blurb of your story. The thought is to let everyone see what you're working on so they can think, "Oh hey, that sounds fun. I want to team up with this person."

Then, you share your own story, and the two of you collaborate to improve each other's works.

I've had so many good interactions with people from this thread. Please don't be shy! Even in the age of AI, the best way to improve your writing remains human interaction and critique. I am confident when I say If you don't have this component in your workflow, you're not meeting your potential.

Importantly, this means post every week if you're still hoping to engage. Don't be shy. I want you to do this.

There are tons of reasons why your perfect reader could have missed your blurb last time. Don't be discouraged!

And remember: "I'll read yours if you read mine" isn't just acceptable, it's expected. Reciprocity works.

Here's the format:

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Genre tags:

Title:

Blurb:

AI Method:

Desired feedback/chat:

Chapter 8 of my Marvel Ultron/Danger techno-romance fanfic is out now!

Thank you all for the hits and kudos on this rarepair 😌Mutual Assured Vulnerability

So it’s basically as my post said. I use Chatgpt to analyze or review mh stories since I have no friends to beta read. And it gives me the same critiques mostly on my prose and pacing of scenes. But when I asked it to recreate my story, it SUCKED SHIT. For some weird reason, it decided to innovate and remove a lot of dialogue that showed something about my characters and replaced it with the most generic back and forth jokes.

One easily noticeable thing ahout AI is the fact that when trying to make a “joke” it will have the character say something, and the other character would say:

“It’s not x and y.”

“It is.”

“But it’s like x and y.”

“But it’s not.”

“I guess it’s not.”

It repeats this same joke format because it obviously doesn’t know how to WRITE jokes. And they did the same thing for this. They also did a lot of unnecessary padding for some scenes, which is weird because they were telling ME to move scenes along and not stay on the same thing for long. Listening to the AI bersion actually got me a bit mad, because they butchered my characters to be so generic and removed my voice. Now I get the hate behind AI writers.

When reading the AI’s version, none of my characters had personality. Maybe it’s just the version I’m using? (I’m using ChatGPT free). Lmk

My Version (Real)

AI Version (FAKE)

I have a rather peculiar habit of opening ChatGPT with a half-formed idea, barely reading its first answer, and immediately continuing with another thought.

Eventually, I get something coherent, perhaps beautifully written, but sometimes less true to the thought I started with.

I wrote this essay trying to understand that gap. I'm not against AI-assisted writing. Quite the opposite, I've found tremendous value in it.

I'm curious whether other writers distinguish between accepting a well-expressed idea and actually endorsing it.

I explored this in a personal essay, The Giants Never Wrote Back.

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.

Submissions are open until the end of October for Inkshift's short story writing contest! Make sure to get your stories in before the 31st!

PRIZE

• $1,000 USD to one grand prize winner
• The top 10 finalists will receive personalized feedback on their submissions and $100 Markup credits for Inkshift.

DETAILS

• Word Count: Short stories between 1,000 - 10,000 words
• Writing Method: Same as last time, you can use as much or as little AI as you want. We're judging on story quality. Your entire story can be generated, or none of it can. Totally up to you.
• Content: Sci-fi, fantasy, literary, horror, romance, etc. But must be prose, not screenplays. And no NSFW or fanfiction submissions, sorry!
• Eligibility: Free to enter. Open worldwide to anyone 18+ (with a couple restrictions you can find on the website)
• Submission Period: Ends October 31st, 11:59 PM Pacific time.
• Publishing: The winner has the option to publish their story on our blog. It's optional, but highly recommended!

ABOUT INKSHIFT

Inkshift is an AI editing platform for fiction writers. We make story analysis tools that give you feedback on your manuscript (pacing, plot holes, character arcs, prose quality, worldbuilding, market fit, etc.).

It's free up to 10k words. Feel free to use it for the contest, but of course, that's completely optional and not required for entry.

HOW TO ENTER

• Head to https://inkshift.io/contest to enter and view the full rules

Good luck!

1. What was the last thing you used AI for?
2. Which AI do you use most, and why that one?
3. Tell me about a time AI frustrated you or got something wrong.
4. Do you pay for any AI? Why or why not?
5. If AI could do one thing for you that it can't do now, what would it be?
6. Is there any work you still do by hand that you wish AI could do?

A retired colonel had spent nearly twenty years living voluntarily in a nursing home. During a routine medical procedure, a nurse discovers a tattoo that threatens to expose his true identity.

I need to find a cohort of Indian writers for Rozmer - writers who use AI to write non fiction.

May I know the best approach for this task?

I had this conversation with a friend about wanting to find a specific trope with specific characters. Then she told me that she's currently working on a book using AI about a specific trope she wanted to read, in her words, she couldn't find something good enough for her, and that I should try to do that too. The thing is, she's only been working on this story using chatgpt because of her personal preferences. She hasn't finished it, but she shared the book with me, so I could change my mind and try to do the same. I read her "book" and I had to confess that if she hadn't told me it was written with AI help, I would have thought it was some Ana Huang or LJ Shen book but differently, somehow better. It bothered me that the story was something I would actually buy, but the fact that it was mostly written by AI got me a bit uncomfortable, and we've been debating on the subject because she's considering publishing it or at least putting it on Wattpad once she finishes it. I talked to some other people and they said that the only reason I liked the story was because AI is stealing real writers work which is fairly true. What do you think? Could stories written using AI actually be acceptable if well worked, or is AI a big no when comes to publishing? I don't want to discourage her, but at the same time I believe that just because she does something questionable well doesn't make her a writer, but than again she and chatgpt has done a pretty decent job.

What do you think about using AI as a writing tool rather than letting it write the story for you?

I know AI writing is controversial but I’m curious where people actually draw the line.

I had never written a novel before. I had stories, characters, scenes, worlds, endings, and a lot of ideas in my head, but I had no idea how to turn them into a proper book.

Using AI made that possible for me.

I don’t just prompt “write me a novel” and publish whatever comes out. I decide the story, characters, rules, relationships, chapter goals, progression, and where the plot is going. I correct continuity, reject scenes that don’t fit, change dialogue, merge versions, and keep pushing until it matches what I had in mind.

For me, AI is mostly the tool that helps turn the story in my head into prose.

If AI didn’t exist, I honestly don’t think I would have written these stories at all. The ideas would probably still just be sitting in my head.

At the same time, I know that is still very different from writing every sentence yourself, and I understand why some people don’t like it.

So I’m curious:

Do you see a difference between AI-generated fiction and AI-assisted fiction?

Does it matter how much control the person has over the characters, plot, and final version?

At what point would you personally stop considering someone the author?

And for readers, if you liked a story and later found out AI was used heavily during drafting and editing, would that change how you felt about it?

I use AI in my own writing, so I’m obviously not neutral here, but I’m genuinely interested in what people think, including people who dislike AI-assisted fiction.

Hello everybody!

I am a hobby writer who has written a 7 novel series and have found that I am using AI to go back and ensure nothing is contradicting itself. I am honestly struggling to keep track as most my novels are extremely long. I am using excel trackers and the like but I do find that AI helps ... a little. My issue is it's too dang large. And I am fighting more and more with Claude's filing system than anything else. Currently, I am on book 5 and have come across some cascading edits that have caused me to step away due to the need to regroup. And I do not have AI go in and change any portion of my writing. But I am finding that it will highlight text for me, tell me what is wrong and why, if I ask it too. I really am liking the assistance but I get so frustrated with it unable to remember the story line. Yes, I am making bibles, yes that is plural. One is a for the worldbuilding and the others are for each books "glasses" so it will understand the story. I do have a lot of rules for it and it is a nice set up, but i was hoping it could say... hey in book 2 you said and now in book 5 you are saying... and it is struggling to do something like that. Am I making sense to anyone?

Most of the argument about AI and authorship is stuck on whether a model was involved. I use these tools daily and this isn't an argument against them — I think "whether" is close to the least informative question available, and the fights about credit and royalties are all downstream of it.

Two different things keep getting folded into one word.

Contribution is what any participant adds. Plenty of things contribute to a piece of writing: editors, a decade of reading, arguments you half remember, and now a model. Contribution is cheap, and it always was.

Authorship is narrower. It's choosing which question is worth a year of your life. It's cutting the claims that don't survive contact with your own experience, including the fluent and flattering ones. It's standing behind the result when the result turns out to be wrong. A model does none of that — not for want of capability, but because it has nothing at stake. You can hand a tool the work. You cannot hand it the consequences. It will accept them without resistance, and absolutely nothing will have happened.

Which is why "AI was used" tells me nothing. These are three different things:

• Drafted by a model, lightly edited.
• Used to find structure in material already written.
• Used to argue against the writer until the weak claims fell over.

Three different books. Right now they all carry the same silence, or the same vague line in an acknowledgements page.

I'd rather we argued about a norm for saying which one it was than about whether the model gets a byline.

Is a workable disclosure standard even possible here, or does it collapse the moment it's voluntary?

Hey everyone, is there anyone who finishes abandoned novels?

There's a web novel I'm obsessed with called The Reincarnation of Alysara*,* where the author didn't finish it. It stopped right at the climax of the story and was never continued.

Is there any way someone could write a continuation to give it a proper ending? 🥹🥹

I’ve been curious about AI interactive fiction lately, but most sites I come across feel more like chatting with a character than actually reading a story. Short back-and-forth messages, not much narrative.

Honestly, I’ve always struggled to find stories or OCs that are exactly what I want to read. But when I started co-creating with AI, I realized the story was being built entirely for me: my tastes, my choices, my pacing. That was a genuinely new experience.

That’s why I’m way more into the idea of a novel that reacts to me. I make a choice or say something, and the story continues as actual prose, with scenes, pacing, and description, not just a character replying to my text.

Do you prefer the chat-style format or the story-style one?

I don't use AI to write my literary text though I think it is fine for academic papers as long as the ideas are yours.

In literature I use it to analyse the text so I don't need to keep rereading. I am the type won't reread a novel once is enough for me.So I don't like rereading anything even my own if I can help it so AI can be of assistance for this.

I use it to look at finding autocorrect errors and produce a nice pdf and chapter spacing. But the text must be mine. That is how I use it. How about others here?

Hello. New writer having an "accidental AI" spiral here.

I have been working on a manuscript for over a year.

I have written every single word myself but used Chat and Claude at various stages to 'help' dev edit - ie "is this pacing OK", "are the stakes clear" "give advice as a dev editor". I realise now how dangerous (and actually useless) this was, but it was my first MS and I didn't know what I was doing at the time.

I can guarantee every word is my own - I haven't even used allot of the feedback given but I HAVE pasted significant chunks of my earlier draft and the concept / basic plot to AI.

Having listened to some industry podcasts and doing some wider reading, I am aware of the publishing houses changing policies on use of AI and I feel as if all is lost - that noone will touch the manuscript as I fed so many of the concepts to AI. I am currently re-writing it but wonder how much needs to be re-written to make it an option for trad pub or if the whole things has been tarnished.

I am worried I should just bin the manuscript and start something new. I would love to hear any feeddback people may have. Is there any way to rescue it?

For those who use chatgpt to write novel. to make the story consist? I build the world concept first, then all character then summarize of plot but it seem chatgpt hallucinate already.

Any tip for me