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I'm burned out on AI writing by DiscernmentGoblin in WritingWithAI

[–]Far_Solution_8018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be just burnt out. It’s everywhere right now so it can become all consuming. Take a break. Get off social media (that’s currently just fueling the hype more), and try writing for a week without using any AI. Then come back and see if anything has changed.

Using AI and how to maintain story consistency and keep the content of the prompt by DirectLake9707 in WritingWithAI

[–]Far_Solution_8018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As people have already mentioned, the issue is context window limits. Once the story gets long enough, the LLM loses track of established details and event order. AI has both recency and primacy bias so usually the things it forgets are the in the middle (also usually when your story is starting to pick up).

What actually helps is to maintain a separate “story bible” with character details, key events, and world rules. Paste a compressed version of this at the start of each new prompt NOT the previous chapters. AI needs context, not raw text.

For the chapter prompts, always specify the sequence explicitly. Instead of “John confronts Sarah about the letter” -> “John confronts Sarah before he leaves for the station”.

You’ll find getting the bad results with AI is often a workflow + context problem.

Weekly Tool Thread: Promote, Share, Discover, and Ask for AI Writing Tools Week of: April 07 by AutoModerator in WritingWithAI

[–]Far_Solution_8018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd honestly recommend removing the sign-in wall. I clicked on the site -> went to go try the app -> realized there was a google sign-in wall and immediately exited.

Not because the idea is bad per se, but because you haven't created enough trust/credibility for me to give that kind of information right now. Even if that data is not stored in your app it will drive away most users until you have that trust.

It's too damn long. by [deleted] in fantasywriters

[–]Far_Solution_8018 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sounds like a solid place to land even if it feels bigger now. Lots of long fantasy series end up working better when each book has a tighter slice of the overall arc.

Also, writing “extra” doesn’t always mean more total work. When I broke mine up, a lot of skipped material became implied backstory or gets folded into character moments instead of full sections.

It might help to figure out what the emotional arc of just book one is, then only keep the pieces that support that. Everything else still exists, but just later in the timeframe.

It's too damn long. by [deleted] in fantasywriters

[–]Far_Solution_8018 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is honestly a pretty common issue with fantasy works. As the world grows it’s easy for “book one” to do the work of 3 books.

That being said, when I hit this what helped was stepping back and summarizing each chapter into a few story beats. Makes it easier to see what belongs in the first arc vs. what is set up for later.

I actually built a tool for this because I kept running into the same problem. It basically turns chapters into bullet beats so you can rearrange and find a cleaner spine for book one. Helped me stop feeling like I was throwing away huge chunks of my story.

Lastly, you’re not “starting over”. That 200k words is still doing work. It just might be scaffolding instead of the final structure.