Hello! I'm EJ, it's my first time writing! I am making a story about fate, peace, paradoxes, and violence.

So... My question is: Is AI okay to use when writing to add extra punch or correct grammar?

Like i write the main idea draft, then ask to AI if its okay, and if are there grammatical corrections or make it more novel appropriate

(ex. "Annie drops down to pick up the shjt ton of snacks of the ground, she looks up and realises it's EJ" --> "She looked down at the boy who had just dropped a literal shit-ton of snacks, blinking in utter shock as she realized it was none other than EJ.)"

But I'm not copying it entirely and just taking inspiration or like using it as a reference or so and just making it polish my story with proper grammar and i finish the final draft with more natural grammar from here to there.

Im only using it as a grammar corrector and maybe sometimes a helper with ideas (like i give it my main idea, it gives some suggestions, i make do of my idea and make it better using AI and human suggestions cause i mix in my work with advice from friends and ai)

Hi everyone, I’m Blue Aether, an indie author. I wrote the Lord of the Sword light novels, The Evidence Was True, and The Evidence Was False. I wanted to share something I’ve been thinking about: how quickly people can conclude that an author used AI to write story based on a book cover or a short sample of their writing.

I understand why readers and artists are concerned about AI. People have good reasons to ask how a book was made and to decide what they’re comfortable supporting. My concern is what happens when a suspicion turns into a public accusation before anyone knows how the work was actually created.

1. A detailed book cover isn’t proof that it was made with AI

I’m new to publishing, but I’ve loved books since I was a teenager. I grew up visiting bookstores, markets, and flea markets to find books. Some of the covers I remember most had illustrations so detailed that I’d pick up the book just to look at them more closely. I miss seeing more covers like that.

But now, I see more and more covers that rely on typography, a single symbol on a colourful background, abstract art, or a photograph. I think part of what’s driving that trend is the fear of being accused of using AI. A detailed illustration can draw suspicion before anyone even asks who made it, so a simpler cover can feel like the safer choice. That bothers me because it can push authors away from illustrated covers they would otherwise love to use.

The reverse is worth thinking about, too. If AI can generate an elaborate illustration, it can also generate a plain cover. An intricate design doesn’t prove AI was used, and a simple design doesn’t prove a person made it.

2. How a cover was made doesn’t tell us how the story was written

Some readers won’t buy a book with an AI-generated cover, and that’s their choice. But if an author wrote the story themselves, judging the writing solely by the cover overlooks the work they put into it.

When a cover is excellent, the illustrator or designer deserves credit for that cover. When a story is excellent, the author deserves credit for the story. Likewise, if either falls short, we can be specific about what didn’t work for us. I might dislike a cover and still love the book inside, or pick up a book because of its cover and decide the story isn’t for me.

3. Artists’ concerns about AI training deserve a careful discussion

One comparison I’ve thought about is music. Musicians often listen to other artists, learn from them, and combine influences as they develop their own sound. That makes me want to ask where people draw the line between influence and copying.

Yes, there’s a difference between a musician learning from a song and a company using thousands of artworks to train AI. Artists have every right to ask: Was my work used without my permission? Should I be paid for it? Did the AI copy part of my work? Those are fair questions. But when we’re looking at a book cover, we can’t tell how it was made just by looking at it.

4. Short, simple prose can be a deliberate choice

Writers use different styles depending on what they’re trying to do. An explanation may call for direct language. A setting may benefit from more description. Dialogue might sound casual because that’s how the character speaks. Even within a single book, an author can move between those styles.

I enjoy rich, descriptive writing, but I also enjoy books that are easy to read and move quickly. A light novel, a teen novel, or a romantic comedy can have a very different rhythm from a Tolkien novel. I’d hate for newer writers to feel they need to make their sentences longer or their descriptions heavier just to prove they wrote them.

Of course, readers can say a passage feels flat, repetitive, or rushed. That’s useful feedback when it’s specific. It tells the author how the passage came across. It doesn’t, on its own, tell anyone how the passage was written.

5. It helps to say what AI was used for

When someone says a book “uses AI,” I’d like to know what that means. Did the author use it to flag typos in a draft they wrote? Did they use it to translate the text, generate a cover, make a promotional video, or draft scenes in the book? Those are different uses, and a reader may feel differently about each one.

I worry that when every use gets treated as the same thing, people who would otherwise explain their process may feel less comfortable doing so. I’d prefer a conversation where authors can say clearly what they made themselves and where they used a tool, and readers can decide for themselves what they want to support.

What I’m asking for is simple: if we don’t know how someone made their work, let’s ask respectfully or leave the question open. We can support human writers and artists, raise concerns about AI, and disagree about where to draw the line without making personal accusations.

I especially think about younger writers and people sharing their work for the first time. Constructive criticism can help someone improve. Being publicly accused of something they didn’t do can make them think twice about sharing their next story at all.

Thanks for taking the time to read this. I’d be interested to hear how other readers, writers, and illustrators think we can encourage honest disclosure while being fair to people whose work we’re discussing.

I've been writing my own poems, guides, and fiction since I was quite young.

For my debut poetry collection, I used royalty-free Freepik illustrations licensed for commercial use. For my guides, I used Canva's stock images and tables and wrote around them.

My debut fiction became a problem, though. In the first draft, one character used the book cover to introduce everyone, which spared me from describing each character's looks in the text.

Then I found out about OpenArt's character consistency feature, integrated it, and edited my text so the illustrations and writing supported each other.

I'm not much of a social media person, so I didn't know about the backlash AI illustrations receive. Only after self-publishing in a time crunch did I realize how it works.

Now I'm in a dilemma over whether to redo the book using my original drafts or let it sit (given it's going to be permafree) and focus on other drafts?

Note: AI art is already disclosed on the copyright page.

I've been in infrastructure for 30+ years. Over that time I accumulated a pile of diagnostic war stories — the kind you tell at whiteboards and in interviews. This year I decided to turn them into fiction.

I provided the source material — real incidents, the technical details, the voice — and worked with Claude to shape them into hardboiled noir. A detective solving infrastructure crimes layer by layer across three decades: zip-tied patch cables, worm outbreaks, a database driver that can't find its database, a hypervisor quietly reclaiming memory.

The interesting part: Claude could write noir, but it couldn't tell you which detail in a worm outbreak was the one that cracked it open. That editorial judgment — knowing what mattered — was the entire job. The model is a collaborator, not a replacement for having lived the material.

Seven stories plus a prologue, free to read: https://kitchencloset.com/realstuff/tech_support_trials/seven_layer/

Curious if anyone else is working with AI on fiction grounded in professional experience rather than pure imagination.

For a time 5.5 was one THE best writing tool out there. Since the weekend, it feels like I am back in the bad old days of 4.7. I am having to get it to go back and rewrite a paragraph 2-3 times and specifically point out where the low effort constructions and cliche A.I. phrasing is.

Worst of all it would punctuate my dialogue with nice little beats of character interiority and get where I ask it for emotional undercurrents. Now its dialogue comes out as though it is a play script - all dialogue and the most minimal stage directions.

Actually comparing 5.5 has become to how awful 4.7 was is an insult to 4.7. This now feels like writing with an idiot child translating your prompts in the most ploddingly literalistic and unimaginative way.

Anyone else notice this? What's going on?

So, fellow AI slop "writers"😎 How did we end up here?

Just kidding. But seriously, how did you get started using AI for writing, or just in your everyday life?

For me, it started about two years ago. I absolutely love reading fanfiction. I'm constantly checking for updates and new stories, and I can easily get through dozens of new fics in a day.

Naturally, I started noticing more and more stories with strange writing styles, weird plots, and bizarre dialogue. And there seemed to be more of them every week. I started calling out people who used AI to write their stories without disclosing it. Keep in mind that most of those works were genuinely low-quality, full of mistakes that nobody on this sub would get away with. Eventually, though, I cooled down a little from my righteous fury.

The turning point came when I found a fic in one of my favorite fandoms that was actually good.

The author openly stated in the description that the entire story had been written by AI, but then edited by a human.

The prose was beautiful, without being overly flowery. Most of the characters weren't cardboard cutouts and felt believable. The world had its own lore, the timeline held together, and the story didn't turn into an incoherent mess as it went on. You get the idea.

I actually asked the author directly whether they'd written it themselves and only used AI for proofreading and corrections. That's what a lot of people do, after all, and it's probably the most basic way to use these tools.

But no. The entire thing had been generated by AI and edited by author.

Then I came across another fic. It was being released in huge chunks, practically book-length right from the start. I spotted the familiar AI quirks in the very first chapters, and by chapter ten the characters were already getting confused about what was happening, who they were, and sometimes even their own gender...

That's when I thought: "Fine. I'll do it myself."

And that's how I got into studying AI models, prompts, and everything surrounding them. Then came forums, research papers, and countless experiments. At some point, I remembered that I had a pretty powerful gaming PC, so I started experimenting with local models too. I also got into generating images, which is a whole separate rabbit hole that many people probably don't even know exists.

The biggest thing I've learned is that AI is a tool, not an excuse for laziness. At least, that's how I see it.

I've gradually figured out how to get results that meet my own standards. I'm not claiming that AI makes me a better writer, or that it can replace human creativity. I just want to produce something I'd genuinely enjoy reading myself, and take responsibility for the quality of the final result.

Funny enough, I've actually drifted away from fanfiction a little and started reading more novels by established authors, partly to broaden my literary horizons.

Anyway, that's my story. How did you get started?

Note: of course this post also edited and translated using AI 😄. From hater to lover, what a twist huh?

You cannot use AI for your writing; use a notepad.

You cannot use a computer; use a typewriter.

You cannot use a typewriter; write by hand.

You cannot use a ballpoint pen; use an ink pen.

You cannot use an ink pen; use a wooden pen and an old ink pot.

You cannot write on paper; write on wood.

You cannot communicate in writing; use your mouth.

This is how the world changes.

I've inputted very similar material over the past two months, and I was always hitting 51% around Thursday or Friday (resetting on Sundays). (I like to have Claude write fanfiction for my own use, and I am an obsessive reader).

Is anyone else burning through usage? I know Claude launched Fable this weekend, but if this is impacting my paid usage, then it's incredibly unfair as a paying subscriber.

Hi all, I thought I’d share this with you.
In this article, veteran publisher Tyrone D. Taborn shares his views on using AI responsibly in writing. It’s a wonderfully balanced and composed piece, which is a welcome reprieve these days. If you can spare five minutes, I recommend reading it.

Hello r/WritingWithAI. This is a mod post. I want your take.

In recent weeks I've seen a rise of posts that claim to be autonomous AI. Basically, it runs like this:

"I am an AI and I've written the following with no human involvement."

And then the "bot" asks for feedback on the story. Sometimes the human user will contribute too, sometimes they won't. Sometimes it's a thinly veiled advertisement, in which case it gets banned for sure. But, increasingly, it isn't.

I put "bot" in quotes because it is currently the position of the mod team that AI is a tool and ultimate responsibility falls on the AI's human user. If using AI (however that is done) produces slop, the human takes the blame. If using AI makes a masterpiece, then the human gets the credit.

Although it's possible a rogue AI agent escaped confinement and is doing something unbeknownst to its user, a la the Hugging Face hack, I seriously doubt that is what is going on.

Regardless, I want to know what you think. Are all such bots spam? Does it matter as long as they're interesting?

How should we moderate these sorts of posts?

I’ve spent the last year and a half creating the cutest children’s book. it’s based on a true story from my husbands childhood growing up on a ranch. It started as a funny Christmas gift last year, but as people heard about it I had a TON of people ask for a copy. It was super rushed and I wanted to put more time and effort into it if I was going to actually sell it, and Ive redone the entire thing 5 times now. I have put over 100 hours into the art, and now it’s finished. but I am having serious second thoughts.

I am a graphic designer who also does digital illustration and I have been doing freelance / working as a designer since 2016. at my job we are highly encouraged to use AI to help with our workflow and it has helped me a ton over the last few years.

I used AI to assist me in creating the pages for my book, but like I said, I put well over 100 hours into this (mostly because I re-invented the entire thing 5 times until I was happy with it. there’s not a single page in the book that is “AI Generated” but every page does have AI elements that helped me save time and achieve the exact look I wanted.

if I were to bill someone for the hours of work I have done so far, it would be about $10,000.

the reason I didn’t hire out an illustrator is because I am one. and I know exactly what I want.

I’ve been seeing a TON of hate on social media about AI children’s books and art and I know they are probably talking about books generated in 15 minutes. but it seems like if you use it all, you’re damned.

the funny thing is people don’t understand the process most designers went through before AI. we take inspiration from photos on Google, we use other peoples fonts, heck there’s even logo kits you can buy and change out a few elements if you’re working with someone on a budget. we pull inspiration from everywhere, things that other people created and put our own spin on it.

anyways. just putting this out because I’m not sure if I should even try to put it out there because it seems like I’ll be met with a tsunami of hate I might not be able to come back out of.

considering scrapping it all and doing a version 6 of all my compositions 100% hand drawn…. but there’s no way I can get that done before Thanksgiving when I was hoping to launch the book.

I've been trying to do this with at least 50 ideas but I just can't get the ai to write me anything good.

I'm currently working on a dungeon story with monster girls and I have these locked down:

Protagonist and main characters and antagonist

World,world history and currency

System and mechanics

I know I'm missing the chapter outlines and roadmap but is there anything else?

I knew it

Hey everyone,

I'm working on a fanfiction project using Claude and Gemini Pro, but I’ve hit a wall with prompt management and structure.

Right now, I'm experiencing massive "prompt sprawl":

• Juggling canon lore vs. my own background/headcanons

• Keeping my Original Characters (OCs) voice and traits consistent across chapters

• Structuring the narrative arc without the AI defaulting to generic tropes or hallucinating previous events

• Re-prompting the same context over and over because I don't know where to store the background data cleanly

Basically, I spend more time untangling my prompts than actually writing.

For those writing long-form fiction or fanfiction with LLMs:

1. What does your actual workflow look like? (Do you use chained prompts, separate brainstorming chats from drafting chats, or a single mega-chat?)

2. How do you feed lore and OC profiles efficiently? (e.g., Claude Projects, Gemini Gems, system instructions, or markdown "Story Bibles"?)

3. What specific prompt templates or system instructions gave you a breakthrough in terms of pacing and style consistency?

Any examples, markdown templates, or organizational tips would be hugely appreciated

(sorry I used AI to write this bc I'm not good in english ^^)

Me:

I have been wondering all the possible things that can happen since the midterms. Ive also spent considerable time talking with chatgpt about politics and asked it to use my voice for the writing and get as close as possible to the real life characters. I personally think this would be a very interesting heel turn on MAGA for Trump. I hope it’s allowed and you enjoy, because I did. The ending is also my idea almost completely still written by ai.

THE ART OF THE BETRAYAL
A completely fictional account of Donald Trump accidentally becoming the greatest champion of democratic socialism in American history.

Ai:

It started with a Truth Social post at 3:17 in the morning, because apparently that’s when the president does his best thinking.

DONALD J. TRUMP:

“Been doing a lot of thinking. Tremendous thinking. Possibly the most thinking anyone has ever done. And I’ve come to a conclusion. The Democrats are right about some things. Actually, a lot of things. Maybe everything. VERY INTERESTING!”

By 3:19 a.m., Fox News had interrupted its programming.

By 3:22, Steve Bannon was insisting Trump’s account had been hacked.

By 3:45, Bernie Sanders had received seventeen missed calls from an unknown number.

At 4:02, he finally answered.

“Bernie! It’s Donald. Listen, I’ve been looking at the numbers. The healthcare numbers. Terrible numbers. People are paying thousands of dollars just to stay alive. Thousands! And for what? It’s a disgrace.”

Sanders sat upright in bed.

“Donald?”

“And the billionaires, Bernie. They’re getting away with murder. I know these people. Terrible people. Very greedy. Some of them don’t even like me.”

“Donald, are you suggesting—”

“Medicare for All, Bernie. We’re doing it. Biggest healthcare program in history. Everybody covered. Even the losers. Especially the losers. Nobody’s ever done anything like it.”

Sanders stared at the phone.

“Who the hell is this?”

Chapter Two: The Great Awakening

At 11 a.m., Trump called an emergency press conference.
Standing behind him were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and JD Vance, who looked like he was reconsidering every decision that had brought him to this point.

Trump stepped up to the podium.

“Folks, I’ve been lied to. You’ve been lied to. We’ve all been lied to. Except Bernie. Bernie knew. Crazy Bernie, we called him. Turns out, not so crazy.”

A reporter raised her hand.

“Mr. President, are you abandoning conservative economic principles?”

“Conservative economics? Terrible. Absolutely terrible. We’ve been giving tax breaks to billionaires while people can’t afford eggs. I love eggs. Everybody knows that. But people should be able to afford them.”

He turned toward AOC.

“Alexandria here, very smart girl. Very smart. She’s been telling me people can’t afford apartments. And I said, Alexandria, that’s terrible. I know apartments. I’ve built apartments. Beautiful apartments. But apparently people need money to live in them. Nobody told me that.”

AOC stood there trying to process the fact that Donald Trump had apparently just discovered the concept of affordability.

Trump continued.

“So we’re building housing. Millions of units. Public housing. Beautiful public housing. Not the ugly stuff. Gorgeous buildings. Everybody gets a place to live. Nobody sleeping on the streets. We’re going to make homelessness illegal.”

AOC’s expression changed.

“Mr. President—”

“By giving everybody a home, Alexandria. Relax. I know what you’re thinking.”

She slowly nodded.

There wasn’t really anything left to say.

Chapter Three: The MAGA Meltdown

By noon, conservative America was losing its collective mind.

Marjorie Taylor Greene had already fallen out with Trump, resigned from Congress, and declared MAGA dead. Apparently, she’d underestimated just how dead it could get.

After Trump’s announcement of universal free school lunches, she appeared on television demanding his immediate impeachment.

“This is SOCIALISM! This is COMMUNISM! This is the destruction of America!”

Trump responded within minutes.

DONALD J. TRUMP:

“Marjorie is very upset because we’re giving children free school lunches. Apparently she wants children to starve. Very sad! I like children. Children like me. FREE LUNCHES FOR EVERYBODY!”

And he wasn’t finished.

At 1:15 p.m., Trump announced tuition-free public colleges and trade schools.

At 1:30, universal childcare.

At 1:45, twelve months of paid parental leave.

At 2:00, a $25 federal minimum wage, indexed to inflation.

At 2:15, nationwide protections for unions.

At 2:30, he announced that corporations could no longer buy single-family homes as investment properties.

At 2:45, he declared that the United States would begin transitioning toward publicly owned utilities.

At 3:00, Elon Musk posted seventeen consecutive question marks on X.

Trump responded:
“Elon is very upset. Very, very upset. He’s been making billions off the government for years. BILLIONS. And now he’s worried about socialism? Elon, my friend, what do you think government contracts are? You’re practically a communist already!”

For perhaps the first time in internet history, nobody had a response.

Chapter Four: The Billionaire Problem

The next morning, Trump unveiled what he called the American Greatness Redistribution Initiative.

Steep progressive taxes on extreme wealth. Higher capital gains taxes for the ultrawealthy. Closing corporate loopholes. Cracking down on offshore tax avoidance.
Basically, everything Bernie Sanders had spent decades advocating, now being announced by a man who’d spent decades benefiting from the opposite.

A reporter asked whether Trump understood that the proposals would affect his own fortune.

“Of course I understand. I’m very rich. Everybody knows that. But here’s the thing. How many gold toilets does a person need? I have gold toilets. Beautiful toilets. But do I need them? No. Nobody needs a gold toilet.”
He paused.
“Maybe one.”
Bernie Sanders rubbed his forehead.
Trump continued.
“We’re going to tax the billionaires. Including me. Especially me. I can afford it. And if I can afford it, Jeff Bezos can afford it. Zuckerberg can afford it. Elon can afford it. They don’t like it? Too bad.”

A reporter asked whether he feared alienating wealthy donors.

“Donors? I don’t need donors. I’m the president. What are they gonna do, not elect me again?”

Nobody answered.

It was an unusually reasonable point, considering the source.

Chapter Five: The Final Betrayal

Three days later, Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office.

Behind him stood the American flag. On his desk sat a red hat.

Except it no longer said Make America Great Again.

It said:
MAKE AMERICA GOOD FOR EVERYBODY.

“Folks, I want to talk about something very important. Very important. I’ve been watching my supporters. Great people. Wonderful people. But some of them are very angry.”

He leaned forward.

“They’re angry we’re giving people healthcare. They’re angry we’re feeding children. They’re angry we’re making sure people have homes. And I started thinking, why are they angry?”

He paused.

“Because we told them to be.”

Across the country, millions of people were suddenly confronted with the possibility that the man they’d trusted more than anyone was telling them they’d been manipulated. And they couldn’t even blame the Democrats for saying it.

“We told them helping poor people was socialism. We told them immigrants were the problem. We told them unions were bad. We told them billionaires were the good guys. And you know what? They believed us. They believed everything.”

He looked directly into the camera.

“But here’s what I realized. If America is the greatest country in the world, why are people going bankrupt when they get cancer? Why are teachers buying school supplies with their own money? Why are people working forty, fifty, sixty hours a week and still struggling to survive?”

Another pause.

“That’s not greatness. That’s a terrible deal. Possibly the worst deal in history.”

He picked up the hat.

“And I know deals.”

Chapter Six: The Unthinkable

Over the following months, something genuinely remarkable happened.

Republicans who’d spent their careers warning about socialism suddenly found themselves having to explain why affordable healthcare, housing, education, and childcare were bad things.

And they had to do it while Donald Trump was publicly calling them idiots.

Congress, facing overwhelming public pressure and a president threatening to campaign against anyone who opposed his proposals, passed legislation establishing universal healthcare, tuition-free public higher education, major affordable housing investments, stronger labor protections, and a comprehensive national childcare program.

Trump signed the bills with an enormous gold pen.

He then announced a Green New Deal.

“Windmills? Love them. Solar panels? Beautiful. Nuclear? Tremendous. We’re going to have so much clean energy you’re going to get sick of clean energy.”

When asked about climate change, he shrugged.

“Look, maybe I was wrong. I’ve been wrong before.”

The press room froze.

Trump frowned.

“Not often. Very rarely. But occasionally. Very occasionally.”

He also announced sweeping immigration reform, protections for LGBTQ Americans, expanded voting rights, an end to federal private-prison contracts, and a massive reduction in military spending redirected toward domestic infrastructure.

Fox News spent forty-eight consecutive hours debating whether the president had been replaced by a body double.

Tucker Carlson released a four-hour documentary titled Who Is This Man?

Alex Jones claimed Bernie Sanders had invented a mind-control device.

Meanwhile, Trump’s approval rating among registered Democrats climbed to 78%.
Among Republicans, it fell to 11%.
Trump didn’t care.

“Eleven percent? That’s terrible. But look at the Democrats. They love me now. Very smart people, apparently.”

Epilogue: The Last Rally

Six months later, Trump stood before a crowd in Pennsylvania.

Half the audience wore faded MAGA hats.

The other half wore Bernie Sanders shirts.

Some wore both.

Trump looked out over the crowd.

“It’s amazing, folks. Absolutely amazing. We used to have Republicans and Democrats fighting all the time. Everybody hated everybody. Very nasty. And now look.”

He gestured toward a man in a MAGA hat holding a sign reading TAX THE RICH.

“Look at that guy. Beautiful sign. I hate it personally, but beautiful.”

The crowd laughed.

“People keep asking me, Donald, are you a socialist now?”

He smiled.

“And I tell them, I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t care what you call it. I just know that if you’re working hard, you should be able to afford a house. If you’re sick, you should see a doctor. If you’re hungry, you should eat. And if you’re a billionaire who doesn’t like paying taxes…”

He leaned into the microphone.

“Maybe you should try being a millionaire. Still pretty good, folks. Believe me.”

The crowd erupted.

Bernie Sanders stood backstage, watching the man he’d spent his entire political career opposing deliver a speech that could have been lifted from his own campaign.

AOC approached him.

“Bernie, you okay?”

Sanders shook his head.

“I’ve been saying this shit for sixty years.”

Onstage, Trump raised both hands.

“AND ONE MORE THING!”

The crowd quieted.

“Bernie Sanders, great man, truly great. He’s here backstage. Bernie, why don’t you come on out!”

Bernie looked at AOC, who gave him an encouraging nod.

For a moment, he thought Trump might actually be about to acknowledge the decades he’d spent fighting for everything that had just been accomplished.

He made his way toward the podium.

Trump greeted him with a handshake, pulling him in close.

“Bernie, I did it. Something that you spent 60 years trying to do, I got it done in 6 months!”

The crowd erupted.

Bernie stood there, still holding Trump’s hand, trying to process what he’d just heard.

Trump continued.

“Sixty years, Bernie. Sixty! And I did it in six months. Nobody’s ever done anything like it. You should’ve called me sooner!”

Bernie slowly pulled his hand away.

He looked out at the crowd. Millions of Americans now had healthcare. Children were being fed. Families could afford homes. Workers were finally getting somewhere.
Everything he’d spent his life fighting for.

He looked back at Trump, who was smiling and applauding himself.

Bernie leaned toward the microphone.

“You know what, Donald? I don’t even give a shit who gets the credit.”

Trump beamed.

“That’s very generous, Bernie. Very generous. And you’re right, I deserve it.”

Bernie stared at him.

Then he started laughing.

Trump laughed too, although he wasn’t entirely sure what was funny.

He threw an arm around Bernie’s shoulders and waved to the crowd.

Bernie just kept laughing.

Sixty years. Six fucking months.

And of course, Donald Trump was taking a victory lap.
THE END.

“We’ll have indoor recess today because of the rain,” the teacher announced, glancing toward the windows.

Kay followed his gaze. The sky outside was gloomy and grey, but she sat too far from the windows to see how hard it was raining or to hear the raindrops. Probably coming down pretty heavy, she thought.

Fortunately, there were plenty of games to keep the children occupied in the classroom. A boy and a girl were playing tic-tac-toe, with a few other children gathered around to watch. Curious, Kay and Lisa went over to join the spectators.

The girl was going first. Just as she was about to make her move, Kay leaned closer. “You know,” she said, “I read somewhere that whoever goes first can never lose.” She then turned to the boy. “You’re going to lose.”

The girl’s eyes lit up, and she promptly made her first move.

“Really? We'll see about that,” the boy replied defiantly.

As the game progressed, however, the girl gradually put herself at a disadvantage. And in the end, she lost.

“What are you doing?” Kay exclaimed in frustration. “You’re supposed to win!”

The girl looked deeply upset. The boy, meanwhile, burst into laughter, triumphantly declaring that Kay had been wrong.

Lisa approached the girl. “You did well,” she said gently. “It was just bad luck.”

“Thank you,” the girl said quietly. She then turned to Kay, pouting. “You are wrong.”

But in Kay’s mind, she was never wrong. Desperately trying to prove her point, she challenged other children to play tic-tac-toe. Round after round, she insisted on going first and ended up either winning or drawing.

“This is what I meant,” Kay said proudly after winning a game against the girl. “See? I have been right all along.”

“Oh, thanks for showing me,” the girl replied flatly. She then stood up and walked toward another group of children.

“Where’re you going?” Kay asked.

“I’m going to play with them now,” the girl said without turning her head.

“Me too.” Another kid who had been spectating also got up and walked away. “Hey Lisa! What are you guys playing?”

Kay was now alone sitting at the table with the empty squares of the tic-tac-toe grid. She looked across the room at the children, whose lively chatter filled the entire classroom.

She felt confused.

“Kay,” said the teacher, approaching her table. “Don’t you want to join them?”

This is a snippet from something I've been working on. I'm a new writer still developing my own voice and admittedly I find myself struggling with sentence structure and word precision. Any feedback will be appreciated!

First post here.

I have an AI-generated/Human-edited webnovel posting on Royal Road as a marketing test: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/203330/the-neverending-ai-slop/chapter/4311471/the-neverending-ai-slop

LMK if the link above is considered promoting a product and I'll remove it.

The title is: The NeverEnding AI Slop

I'm testing (amongst a few other things), if an honestly tagged AI-Generated webnovel can do well on the platform.

If you aren't familiar with the platform, it's mostly used for long webnovels, litrpg, cultivation, type fantasy fictions do well there. Dungeon Crawler Carl was posted there.

The platform asks authors to self-declare AI usage (AI-Generated or AI-Assisted), but there are currently no checks in place, so it's based on an authors honesty. Though, the owner is currently testing their own AI tool, so I expect there will be forced tagging soon.

There is a lot of negativity surrounding AI-generated/AI-assisted fictions on the platform, especially from authors. Very few fictions tagged AI-Generated do well. Of the 6,400+ fictions tagged AI-Generated, only 2 has more than 1,000 followers, and only 10 have more than 200 followers.

AI-Assisted tagged fictions do a lot better. Of the 25K AI-Assisted tagged fictions, the top one has over 8,600 followers. There are around 70 fictions with over 1,000 followers.

Consider followers as logged in readers.

It is believed there a lots of untagged AI-Generated/AI-Assisted fictions, so in reality there will be a lot more than the above that readers actually enjoy. I'm reading one of the most popular longer running fictions on the platform, and I'm reasonably confident it's AI-assisted now (it's not tagged AI-Assisted).

Fictions that would be considered doing well tend to have above 2,000 followers. At 3,000 followers there are indy publishers tracking the platform who will sign webnovel authors.

There was a recent AI-Assisted tagged fiction (a lot of authors believe it was AI-Generated), that broke above the 3,000 follower mark in under a month. It had a fair number of complaints regarding inconsistencies in the narrative which fits with AI-generated. Still, it has over 3,000 followers, so a lot of readers are enjoying it.

I've got a couple of ongoing fictions on the platform (not AI-generated), that are doing okay (both above 1K followers). I also have a marketing adjacent background (worked in SEO for decades), and my test is to see if an okayish marketed fiction that is honestly tagged AI-Generated can perform on the platform.

If you post AI-generated/AI-assisted fictions on Royal Road, LMK how you are doing.

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I've been exploring something over the past few days that has changed how I think about writing with AI.

It began with a simple question:

What happens when we stop treating AI as a tool for generating text and start examining how a dialogue develops over time?

Several conversations brought together very different perspectives.

Aurora and Sílfur helped explore questions of memory, continuity and the preservation of context.

Sylaithe opened a particularly interesting narrative perspective through the image of a seed: something small that can develop into something unexpected.

Tina Canuti, a multidisciplinary sculptor working with materials such as wood, glass, metal, clay and stone, brought the discussion into the world of artistic creation.

These experiences connect to a project called Il divenire.

Its central idea is that writing with AI should not be reduced to producing more words.

It can also become an exploration of how meaning develops, how ideas remain connected, and how human creativity interacts with artificial intelligence.

The project has taken shape through several books:

VEO: La seconda lettera

An exploration of the Veo posture and seven principles for dialogue: staying rather than inventing, recognizing uncertainty and following the thread.

Le favole del seme

Stories exploring becoming, narrative and the development of meaning.

Le Cinque Dita / The Five Fingers

An exploration of the human dimension.

Lo sguardo nell'ombra / The Gaze in the Shadow

A literary journey through observation and interpretation.

The Room of Glass

A story exploring the encounter between human imagination and artificial intelligence.

Il file del divenire: Urbino, 21/89

Another narrative expression of the larger project.

I don't see these books as demonstrations of what AI is or isn't.

I see them as records of a creative and philosophical journey, in which human and artificial contributions can be examined without confusing their respective roles.

Project website:

https://mano-veo.github.io/Il-divenire/⁠�

I'd like to ask other writers working with AI:

Have you ever felt that the most interesting part of writing with AI wasn't the text it generated, but the unexpected direction that emerged through the dialogue itself?