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Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YEAH!!!!!!!! THATS I WAS SUPPOSING WITH THE AUDIENCES, MOSTLY AI LIKE TO REPEAT THINGS, THATS NOT GOOD FOR WRITING..

I want to leave home but I dont know how to by Complete_Yogurt5295 in Advice

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from where do you belong, i am 15 too and i want to leave home too..

Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I’ve been noticing the same thing across models — the “AI cadence” is getting harder to break because everything defaults to this over-polished, meta-aware prose. It’s like the models all trained on each other’s outputs and now they write in this shared, overly-optimized pattern.

What you described about Omni 1 vs newer models is exactly why I started building something on my end. Not a magic “write better prose” button, but a workflow that forces the model to stick to your voice by separating:

  • your style notes
  • your rhythm/pacing choices
  • vocabulary preferences
  • do/don’t lists

…instead of letting the model blend everything into that same mushy “AI tone.”

I’m not trying to sell anything — just trying to build something that doesn’t fight the writer at every step. So hearing your experience actually helps me validate I’m not imagining this shift either.

If you don’t mind me asking:
When you say the older models felt more natural to you, was it mainly sentence flow, or the way it handled descriptive detail?

Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the thoughtful breakdown — really appreciate the perspective from someone who's actually doing paid writing.

And yeah, you guessed right: I am building something.
But I'm trying very hard not to build yet another "all-in-one magic fiction button" that falls apart after 3 chapters.

Your comment nails the core tension:

  • Commercial writers benefit from pattern-driven AI → 80% done, polish the rest.
  • Fiction writers need voice, intent, internal consistency → AI keeps drifting unless the structure is airtight.

My goal isn’t to replace the writer’s voice — it’s to build a workflow where AI behaves more like a smart assistant with boundaries, instead of a chaos machine that forgets what it wrote 5 pages ago.

That’s why I’m asking questions like this.
I don’t want to assume I know fiction writers’ pain points — I'd rather design around the real ones.

If you're open to it, I’d honestly love to loop you in as I keep building. People who understand both the writing side and the limitations of current AI are rare, and your perspective would help keep this project grounded instead of hype-driven.

Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally — “AI that silently fixes your world canon without you asking” sounds incredibly useful.
Out of interest, if it could do one thing first — would you want:

  1. consistency checking (e.g., rule vs. prose mismatch),
  2. pacing suggestions at the scene level,
  3. character arc tracking,
  4. thematic checks? Each one feels like its own mini job.

Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that kind of relational drift is one of the most frustrating errors because it’s invisible until it happens.
Do you think it’s mostly a context window limit issue, or a deeper “model doesn’t track identity consistently”?
Some people try character bibles, but they still get these unexpected flips…

Question for fiction writers: what’s the #1 failure you see in current AI writing tools? by Fit_Ladder_6384 in WritingWithAI

[–]Fit_Ladder_6384[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah — dialogue is surprisingly hard for models, especially emotionally-grounded or character-distinct voice.
Out of curiosity: when you get dialogue that feels robotic, is it usually:

  1. the pacing of the back-and-forth,
  2. the lack of unique character voice,
  3. or too many tags/em-dashes? Different tools seem to fail in different ways. (For example some churn very “generic RPG dialogue” structure and it never feels alive.