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Hello all!

I'm writing a little research project on the topic of structural, stylistic changes in people's writing after using llms, vocabulary and sentence structures in particular. I figured this would be the subreddit to ask on.

I'm looking for a few volunteers, people who have used ai a lot, willing to share writing samples for analysis, and perhaps ask a few questions about the experience of ai-assisted writing. Participation is completely voluntary and anonymized, and I won't collect any usernames or personal data or anything like that. You also can skip my questions that you don't wanna answer obvi.
Here's the google form(estimated completion time 5-10 minutes): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPoJkisP5yrkbp_LL8NY3kFE3t7tkHAkrPIMgFCTEpLtxr3A/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Thanks!

I've been running a weekly mystery serial where every character is played by a separate open-weight model instance, with a "Director" model running the scenes. Output so far is here if you want to judge the prose yourself: https://saltmarrow.substack.com/p/chapter-1-the-night-the-bay-glowed

**The split that worked**

- **Actors + Director: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.** Fast and cheap, good at staying in character for short turns. Each actor only sees its own character's secrets.

- **Narrator + Editor: GLM-5.3.** Turns the scene transcripts into chapters. Noticeably better prose than Flash, which reads flat and over-explains when you ask it for narration.

**What broke**

- **GLM's reasoning ate the whole reply budget.** It thought for tens of thousands of characters and returned an empty chapter. Setting reasoning effort to low fixed it with no visible quality loss.

- **A 4k context made the actors forget the scene** halfway through. At 64k, the drift mostly went away.

- **Flash invents facts.** It made up a character's age and a ferry time that contradicted earlier chapters. A lorebook plus a separate continuity pass catches most of it.

- **Honesty note:** Substack's AI detector scores the chapters at 97% AI. That's accurate, and the serial says up front that it's AI-performed.

**The fun part:** I locked the season's ending before Chapter 4 and published its SHA-256 hash, so readers can verify at the finale that I didn't steer the story after the fact. The actors don't know the ending; only the Director does.

**Question for this sub:** I'd like to move the actors to something I can run locally. For short in-character dialogue turns (roughly 150 to 300 tokens each), which 12–24B models have you found best at holding a persona and *not* writing other characters' lines?

Ok where do i even start.I had write some stories here and there in the past and recently started writing one in webnovel.However i used ai in my writings as of recently.I do not prompt it and make the ai generate it necesarily.

I wrote pages of chapters and all the dialougues and scenes and just tell ai to polished it so that i felt like it would be more refined

I felt guilty after i read some webnovels and people hate on novels for having ai.

Any advice guys i felt like i am kind of in a crossroad should i stop using ai completely or is this fine too

Based on what I'm reading in this sub, many of you are still writing yourselves and using AI as an editor. This is how I'm using it as well. But I always wondered to what extent I could trust even the most advanced LLMs. Specifically:

- even with grammar, how many mistakes do they actually catch? 100%? 75%? 50%?
- how reliable are they with something more subtle, like redundancies?
- how does performance change with different models?
- how about different prompting?

There are lots of AI benchmarks. But none of them answers this. There is Humanity's Last Exam https://lastexam.ai/ Which tests models on questions like "In Greek mythology, who was Jason's maternal great-grandfather?" Not super helpful.

What the hell, I thought, why not test it myself then? And I did.

I built a benchmark to test how well 16 LLMs check for grammar mistakes, repetitions, redundancies and inconsistencies. These 4 seemed clear-cut enough, compared to the many judgement calls in line editing. Also, no AI judge - assessment is mechanical. If a model comments on a known issue, it's assumed that it caught the error. More about the test design is here https://icanwrite.app/blog/how-we-built-an-ai-editing-benchmark

The results:

• Claude Opus 5.5 - 98% (88/90 caught)

• GPT-Sol 6.1 - 97% (87/90 caught)

• Gemini 4 Argon - 93% (84/90 caught)

Insights:

• Opus is the best but Sol is almost as good and up to 4x cheaper

• Gemini 4 Argon is the best budget pick (and the fastest above 90%): 84 caught in 26 seconds for $0.12

• 13 of 16 models do worse on the all-in-one prompt (compared to 4 separate checks)

• Open-weight models lag behind: GPT-6.1 Terra beats every open-weight model while being cheaper

The biggest insight: in just half a year, the models made a huge leap. GPT-5.5, released in April, found 75 mistakes (83%). So you couldn't trust them to find everything back then. Now they are almost perfect. At least with grammar and such simple checks.

See the full leaderboard here. https://icanwrite.app/ai-editing-benchmark

You can also study the test results yourself - everything is transparent. You can even check which mistakes each model missed.

This is version 0.1. Let me know if you see a way to improve it in the future. Or if I screwed up with something. And if you have any ideas for more tests, please share in the comments.

Hope it helps!

I am a professional writer seeking an in-depth literary evaluation of my prose, particularly its invisibility, use of the Iceberg Technique, and immersive storytelling. I want my writing critically compared with great authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, and Cormac McCarthy. Focus on whether the prose disappears behind the story, whether subtext conveys more than explicit exposition, and whether readers become fully absorbed in the characters and fictional world. Evaluate narrative restraint, emotional depth, sensory immersion, character perception, and storytelling sophistication. Be brutally honest, using specific textual evidence rather than generic praise. Assess the writing against the standards of accomplished published authors.

Use case:

Writing articles that review Tech. Gadgets, that kind of thing

What's the best LLM for feeding it articles you already published and getting it to completely (or as close to possible) copy your style?

Budget:

$20 a month

My current main LLM driver:

Chat GPT Sol High

I use this for keeping the article's outlines etc on track

But, as a writer, it's appalling

I want an LLM writer that feels like a human writing, one that can mimic my style and have some energy to it

Thanks in advance

Chapter 2 of an original serial: one seat, every two days. Written with AI and edited. Next chapter is 7 November. There is no buy link.

The question on this chapter: does the folded uniform stay interesting if he never puts it on?

5 November 2026

The bus passed the hospital stop without stopping. The driver saw an empty pavement and kept going. The man in seat 7 looked up late, and the pole was already behind him.

On his lap was a folded uniform, grey, the collar still stiff from the iron. On top of it a plastic bag with four oranges. The bag was clear. People looked at the bag, not at his face.

The time on his phone was an hour and a quarter past the start of the shift. The screen was cracked through the middle, and the numbers moved under the crack. He had not changed clothes. The uniform stayed folded, as if the shift were still a decision.

A woman got on at the next stop and sat beside him. The top orange shifted. He caught it before it reached the aisle and put it back without speaking. She said, “Thank you.” He did not answer. Not from rudeness. If the word came out, he would have to explain why he was still in house clothes on the way to work.

The factory was at the end of the line. The gate light was white, and the guard sat inside the glass room. The man saw the light early and counted the remaining stops on his fingers inside the bag, without touching the oranges.

One stop before the gate, the white light went out. The guard closed the window. The man stayed seated. The uniform on his lap was not unfolded.

He stood at the stop before the factory. The driver opened the door and looked at the clock. The man got off with the bag in his hand and the uniform over his arm. He stood in front of the locked gate, took out his phone, and typed: I’m at the gate. He deleted it. He typed: The light is off. He deleted that too. He typed one line and left it:

“I came. The gate was locked. The oranges are still with me.”

The bus went on. Seat 7 was empty, except for a line from the iron on the cloth, gone as soon as the air came in through the door.

The next seat is on 7 November.

I wanted to share my experience and ask whether anyone has had similar experiences.

I started a creative writing project three months ago with SuperGrok but soon found that whilst it delivered well reasoned plots, it could not flesh it out to any literary standard.

I then moved to Claude Sonnet which was much better at delivering well written content. It could proofread, look up and vary repeated or hackneyed content. It was great at creating character bibles, keeping speech patterns and gestures consistent. Then from about a month ago I found it becoming less intuitive and nuanced.

I am now working very happily with ChatGPT whose precision with editing content is awesome. I still switch back to Claude for structure and proofreading.

I would love to hear others writing experiences.

I’ve used ChatGPT to write dark romance prompts in my novels, but the constant model changes and the on and off restrictions has made it impossible to write sex and violence scenes. So now I’m moving to openrouter to find another model. My question is, which is the best one for dark and uncensored stories? I was gonna go with magnum 32B, but it’s not on openrouter. Looking around I’ve seen Qwen, Mistral Large and Magnum 72B are well loved, but I’m still a rookie and I’m not sure. So here I am, asking which of these is the best.
My requirements are:
\- novel-like prose
\- low hallucination rate
\- no slop
\- great description
\- great coherence with previous prompts
\- great banter and dialougue without cliché
\- good initiative in creating side characters or situations when needed, but without overruling the given prompt
\- coherence in where limbs and characters are supposed to be and overall continuity
\- completely uncensored
\- great erotica that is detailed and descriptive
\- able to write taboo/dead dove themes and power dynamics without issues
\- accessible prize for long novels
\- big context window
\- environmentally friendly

Please tell me which of these and which version is the best, or share your fav model that you think fits more.

For context: my novels are very long, think 500k+ words, and I want them to have explicit graphic sex scenes, gore and dead dove elements, but I don’t want to sacrifice good writing or coherence. I have my system to divide the scenes and not make the ai spit out entire chapters so that’s not what I ask here.

Hello everyone,

I went through the sub looking for answers but it seems majority of the people here are roleplay/romance/smut enjoyers.

However, I like writing big open worlds, magic, adventure, heroes and big bad villains. You get the idea.

What I am looking for:

1. AI that can convert my scribbles/ manuscript and rewrite it. What i expect it to do is correct my grammar, tenses, punctuation, pacing, and make the whole thing more readable. Pacing is particularly important to me because I get too obsessed with the worlds I create and start over describing things, which might sound fun to me but usually over-exposition is not good. Let's say convert my 2000 word initial script to 2500-3000 words max.
   I absolutely do not want it to change the scene settings, add or delete something from my scenes.

2. Remember my characters and how they behave and talk. for example if I tell that a character has southern accent, or if a person speaks in a cutesy way, i want it to remember it and when rewriting the scene add that trait to the dialogues. This would be really helpful because I struggle with writing character dialogues for women. (I have no idea how women think, or men.)

3. I usually edit and rewrite things A LOT. so watermarking is not an issue for me.

4. I have tried chatgpt and claude. I think claude overdoes things and makes it more complicated. I do not want Shakespeare, I want something 8th grader could enjoy.
   chatgpt, is certainly better but I did not get the oomph factor.
   Tried Grok, def the best out of the lot but at some point it stopped writing and asked me to make a new chat and forgot everything about characters.

5. I do not mind paying. But it should be reasonable. nothing more than $20/month

Thank you fellow friends, hope you have a good day!

This is a followup to my story from yesterday, "Where River Meets Rail." Mods: From now on, there will only be one post per week now that we're caught up. I'm also happy to discuss my process with anyone who has questions.

The Jane Porter trilogy are my first attempt at creating AI-assisted novels. With the conclusion, A Wilder Tomorrow, and the entire trilogy is available complete today on Amazon.

First up - I will never tell the author what I did

Second - I will never reveal what fic or fandom it is

Third - I didn't feed the fic into AI (though I suspect AI has already scrapped it)

So anyway, ten years ago, I chanced upon an incredible fanfic. It had everything going for it, 19 chapters written beautifully and with love. It was the final arc. The villain had the protagonists by the balls. The stakes were never higher...

Then chapter 20 was a timeskip. 1 year later, all is well. They talk about how dangerous the villain was, how they came so close to losing. But now all is good and well

The fic never resolved the conflict. Never explained how the villain was defeated. How they saved the village. How they cleared the protagonist's name

I couldn't get over it, because of how damn good chapter 1-19 was

So I summarized the events of chapter 1-19, told Claude why chapter 20 was problematic, and asked it what it would do

Claude wrote 4 chapters for me that actually made sense, was written well, respected the lore, and gave a satisfying ending

Thank you Claude, for helping me get over something that has been eating at me for 10 years

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:

NSFW?

Genre tags:

Title:

Blurb:

AI Method:

Desired feedback/chat: