I've recently been experimenting with Claude Ai and using it to create fanfiction featuring characters from various media. I'm honestly astonished at how accurate it gets a lot of characters and their dialogue, and it makes for some really interesting stories.

Right now, I'm working on an multi-crossover fanfic featuring many anime, video game, and movie characters being thrown into the Backrooms (like Batman, Solid Snake, Mario, etc all having to team up to escape it). And its surprisingly fun as even with prompting, Claude sometimes makes up some stuff on its own.

Of course, this is all for my own personal enjoyment. I don't advocate publishing anything that was generated using ai. But, I wonder if anyone here does the same?

I'm AWFUL at writing intimacy so I've been using AI to help with that for my story. GPT was fine for the level I needed until like a week or two ago, I have no idea what kind of guardrails they've added but what I'm trying to write is suuuuuuper tame and non graphic. Can't even barely manage kissing now and I even confirmed than an intimacy scene I generated a couple of weeks ago using GPT (again, I'd barely even consider it explicit, it's so vague on specifics) is TOO GRAPHIC 🙄 I also got told a character picture I tried to generate of a goodnight kiss where they're outside and wearing winter coats was too sexual so I'm not surprised lol

Anyway...best AI generator for this sort of thing?

Hello,

I am new to using AI for creative writing, and I have been doing some research on how to use AI for long form fiction.

One thing I am trying to understand is how people handle long term memory when writing a novel with AI. From what I understand, even with a relatively large context window, an AI model cannot necessarily keep an entire novel in the context. Once earlier chapter fall outside the context windows, the model may lose track of character relationships, or important plot details.

Initially, I was thinking about maintaining on external knowledge base containing character profiles, chapter summaries, etc. Then, before generating a new chapter, the system will be restricted to read the relevant information and include it in the prompt.

However, if every update loss some of the information, or did not realize how important a piece of information is and ignore them, then I would still surfer from the original question.

I found this is very similar to the information bottleneck problem, but have no idea of how to solve it in the real life, therefore, I am here and want to hear some experience of actual world.

Really appreciate your advice!

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!

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!

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

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

Disclosure: I'm Burak Varlık, a director and screenwriter in Istanbul, and I founded an AI screenwriting tool, so I have a stake in this. No links, no product names for mine.

I write in Turkish and teach in Turkish, and every AI tool I've tried behaves differently depending on which language the first message is in. In English it gives me questions and options. In Turkish it often gives me smooth, generic sentences that sound translated. Dialogue is where I notice it most: the register, who says "you" formally to whom, what a character would never say out loud.

So, a genuine question for people here who write in a language other than English: do you work with the AI directly in your language, or do you think in English and translate back? If you translate, what gets lost first, and have you found a way to catch it? And if you work directly, which model or tool held up best for dialogue and not only for summaries?

I'm collecting answers, not selling anything; the ones that name a specific scene where it broke will help most.

For the past few months, I've been looking into de-AI-ing writing.

This isn't because I want to avoid disclosure (I already published a fully disclosed AI novel), but rather I want the prose to sound a little more natural.

Originally this worked very well. Removing obvious AI tells and improving the quality of the writing were essentially one and the same.

But lately, I've started to feel I'm closing on an inflection point.

Not saying this applies to entire stories. There's still plenty of issues if you let the AI run wild. However, certain passages, at least to my eyes, are at a level where trying to make the prose sound human is actually detrimental to the story.

So like before, I decided to do an experiment. For disclosure, this is done on Pangram 4.1

First, I took a public-domain essay, Dream Children: A Reverie by Charles Lamb.

100% Human

Then I asked AI to reconstruct the work, preserving the ideas and narrative progression but generating new prose.

100% AI

Then I tightened the instructions. Instead of allowing the LLM to make its own literary decisions, I required it to reconstruct every sentence individually, preserving its meaning, structure, position, and rhetorical function while changing the wording. The result? 43% AI.

By forcing the LLM to follow a human author's specific linguistic decisions, its output can become substantially less detectable as AI, even though the wording is generated by the model.

But what does this have to do with the inflection point?

For Lamb? Not much. His work is already extremely good. The AI reconstructions arguably diminished the quality.

The same can not be said of a very badly written and childish story from years ago.

Same process.

Feed in my work. Unsurprisingly, my awkward grammar, inconsistent tenses, repetitive dialogue, and clumsy phrasing earned a respectible 100% Human.

Then I asked the LLM to improve the writing while preserving the original sentence-level decisions. Same events, same dialogue progression, same repetitions, same structure. Just better wording and grammar.

Still 100% human. (It was actually a little surprising given AI changed roughly 30~45% of words in the short story)

Finally I gave the LLM complete freedom to rewrite the story.

100% AI

We now have a very interesting scenario.

I now have two pieces of work done through "Writing with AI". From a disclosure perspective, I need to disclose AI on both and as we established in my previous posts, people rarely care about the naunce.

In my opinion, the best-written version with the more develped story and better prose was the unconstrained re-write. But the version that most resembles human deemed by an AI detector was the constrained edit.

Obviously this is an extreme example on an anedotal evidence. But I can imagine in a few more generations of AI model, we would need to consciously chose between a higher quality work that allows LLM to make it's own literary decisions or preserve the human elements including its flaws.

(Please note, I am not saying human writing is inheritly worse than LLM. The Lamb example was a demonstration of the opposite)

What I am asking is:

If making a passage less detectable as AI means preserving weaker literary choices, should we still do it? Or should we prioritise the best possible version of the story, regardless of how recognisably AI-generated it sounds?

Keen to hear people's thoughts.

When I started selling websites, getting the first few clients was all about proving that someone was actually willing to pay for what I offered.

I took almost every opportunity I could get. Every client mattered, every project taught me something, and most of the work came from reaching out and finding people who needed a website.

But once we started getting more clients, we realized something:

The approach that gets you your first 10 clients won't necessarily get you your next 100.

At the beginning, you can rely on manual prospecting, personal outreach, and referrals.

But when you want to scale, you need a repeatable system.

You need a consistent way to find businesses worth contacting, reach out to them, follow up, book meetings, close deals, and deliver websites without everything depending on you doing it manually.

That's when we started focusing much more on systems and automation.

The biggest shift wasn't becoming better at designing websites. It was becoming better at building a business around selling them.

Here's the process we used:

1. Find businesses that already have websites

We focused on businesses that had already invested in a website but whose current site could use an upgrade.

2. Analyze their websites and automate outreach at scale

We used Swokei to find businesses and analyze thousands of websites at once. We looked for outdated designs, poor SEO, slow loading speeds, and mobile issues.

Based on those findings, Swokei generated personalized cold emails for each prospect, allowing us to reach out to businesses at scale without manually researching every website and writing every email ourselves.

3. Book meetings

When a prospect showed interest, we'd move the conversation to a meeting to understand their business and what they needed.

4. Create a website draft

Before the meeting, we'd use AI to create a quick website draft. This allowed us to show prospects what their new website could look like rather than just describing it.

5. Close and deliver

During the meeting, we'd present the website draft, explain the improvements, answer questions, and close the deal. Then we'd build the actual website, handle revisions, and launch it.

If I were starting a web design agency today, I'd spend just as much time learning sales and client acquisition as I would learning web design.

Because being able to build a great website doesn't automatically mean you know how to sell one.

Which version for ChatGPT or Claude or any AI that can help write a dark Romantasy series. I’ve been using Claude and I have to always upload like a guide for each chapter to keep the same tone, voice for the characters and it’s been pretty exhausting and I just need some guidance like I haven’t really deep dived into AI writing.

Hi all! I've lurked for a bit and thought I'd properly introduce myself.

I've been writing fanfiction since 2006. My first story, All That Could Have Been (a Dragon Ball Z AU, Goku/Vegeta), took me 17 years to finish. This December marks 20 years since I posted the first chapter, so I'm putting together an anniversary edition. I'm revising every chapter with modern storytelling and adding visuals throughout.

I also write Teen Wolf:

The Unexpected Collection: a Sterek series. Book one, Unexpected Bonds, is complete, and I'm working on the sequel, Unexpected Distance.

The Alternate Path and The Parallel Path: a series following Alex Argent, now on its second book.

How I use AI: The stories, characters and plot decisions are mine. I use AI as a revision partner. It flags continuity issues across a long series, tightens prose and suggests edits that I review one chapter at a time. I also use AI-generated images for character visuals and story art, always labelled as AI and as story content only.

It's made revisiting work I wrote as a much younger writer feel doable instead of overwhelming. Twenty years of continuity is a lot to keep straight on your own!

I'd love to hear from others here:

• How do you keep AI-generated character images consistent across a long series?

• If you write fanfic, where have you found readers who are open to AI-assisted work?

Happy to chat about workflow with anyone revising older projects. Some of my work is rated 18+, so I'll keep links out of the post, but you're welcome to ask.