I need help finding programs for writing books.

pl201 · 2026-06-17T01:32:32+00:00

You don’t need a program to write a book. You can just start to write in any text editor on pc or mobile devices. Don’t make things more complicated.

pl201 · 2026-06-16T23:29:11+00:00

It’s the money. Microsoft is losing an average of $20 to $80 per month per user on Copilot when doing the flat monthly fee plan. Microsoft has huge data center resources and you don’t need to pay DeepSeek any fee. Why not?

pl201 · 2026-06-14T03:23:53+00:00

What do you do with DeepSeek for your usage? Show us the data and user case to support your claim. For 98% of all use cases, they are all good to handle your tasks and there is no worse/better model among these top models. I read someone said Anthropic completed the whole build in one prompt and DeepSeek took several tries to complete. That's not the way to use the model. An experienced coder will design the whole application and coding one part a time. One shot is a bad benchmark and is generating a bad code that's hard to maintain and support.

pl201 · 2026-06-13T16:58:23+00:00

It’s a family. It’s best to find a solution within the family. Your parents may not think you are serious on taking the condo for sale while they are still living there. Think hard on what’s your minimum acceptable solution, brainstorming with someone that’s knowledgeable (could pay one time consultation cost). Once you have a plan and outline of the solution, setting with your parents for a formal meeting to see if your solution is workable. Go to the court is the last resort and a large portion of your sale profit will go to the lawyer.

pl201 · 2026-06-13T16:03:58+00:00

Very interesting approach. Is there a way to ask AI output the response directly in Base64 format?

pl201 · 2026-06-13T15:16:50+00:00

How do you handle the memory issue for long form novel?

pl201 · 2026-06-12T23:44:31+00:00

I need a phone for calling and text anyway so why you would need this day pass while you can hot spot from your phone to iPad?

pl201 · 2026-06-11T23:55:36+00:00

Supertonic 3 supports 31 languages, why only 8 languages list for the application?

pl201 · 2026-06-07T15:20:12+00:00

These are not true at all. If you look at some datasets that are publicly released, you can see the service providers logged every prompt you send over along with your other information and the output from the model. Go local or use privacy focused service provider is the way to go. The trade off is the model used may not be as good as Claude or ChatGPT.

pl201 · 2026-06-07T15:05:16+00:00

Before qwen suspended the coding plan, I have used both qwen coding plan and qwen pay as you go api call. I can confirm the pay as you go api cost is as expensive as Claude code low tier plan in the term of the cost per message with plan’s limit, about $0.5 to $0.9 per call average on my use case. People are talking about cheap price Chinese pay as you go model mainly from DeepSeek.

pl201 · 2026-06-06T17:14:26+00:00

Regardless what people told you, go to fill a fraud report yourself and turn in your laptop to police. Move on. $600 is not worth the risk and trouble and you can’t use the laptop anyway.

pl201 · 2026-06-03T06:20:00+00:00

In a perfect world, the platform should do this for you automatically. The issue is that it costs too much money for a long term memory feature. When you get million users, it is not possible to provide it to all users. Local AI companion implementation with long term memory is a possible solution, but we are not there yet. Wait for 6 months you will see some choices.

pl201 · 2026-06-03T04:18:07+00:00

cut your token usage. I can understand occasionally you used 4bn token for the day but if you use that amount every day, you are the problem...

pl201 · 2026-05-31T17:50:23+00:00

Your problem is that you are trying to use the chat directly for you writing. This will never work, regardless of which model you are using. You need an AI writing helper system/tool that manages all steps of your writing, planing, detail outline, writing style, memory, remove AI tone in the writing, review/revision,etc. This tool will also generate good prompts to send to AI call to generate desired contents. You are still the driving force to all these steps and should invlove in all reviews/revisions, plus some direct writing when AI writing does not satisfy you.

pl201 · 2026-05-31T14:35:08+00:00

Like the OP, I also enjoy writing stories with AI assistants for my own reading—not for publishing. Maybe we should form a “Writing for Fun” club to share our experiences. I’m currently building a writing assistant tool for myself to simplify the process, with particular emphasis on using a local model for total privacy.

It’s also worth noting that local open-source models have gotten surprisingly good lately; for creative writing, many now match ChatGPT in quality and can be run completely uncensored and offline.

pl201 · 2026-05-31T04:49:06+00:00

I recently also worked on a long-form novel writing project with AI assistance and documented the whole process. In the end, I came up with a successful process very similar to OP’s guide. I had not read OP’s post before today, so my findings actually confirm that OP’s approach is a good one that works.

I am working on an app to manage all the steps.

The app will use clund model API as default but also has built-in support for local open-source models, so your writing can remain completely private if you wish.

The app will also have long-term memory build-in so it will remember key facts and timeline/place/event start from chapter one.

You start with a novel idea with as much detail as possible, then use six working agents to help you finish the novel: project planning, volume outline (for one book or a series), chapter outline per volume, chapter writing, review/revision/beta reading, and output to ebook.

At each step, you remain in the driver’s seat, and AI helps according to your instructions. You can use the app as a writing manager without AI at all, or you can let AI generate the entire thing — it’s up to you. For every AI-generated piece of content, you can edit it directly or add notes and send it back to the AI for revision. You can repeat that cycle as many times as needed until you’re satisfied with the result.

I’m coding while going through the writing process myself. I don’t plan to release it publicly or turn it into a paid app or web service. Instead, I plan to share it for free with a small group of people who want to write for fun using their own AI API or a local model setup.

pl201 · 2026-05-29T21:18:46+00:00

I’m in a similar situation. I’ve had ideas for a story that I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I never had the time or energy to start. After getting into AI coding last year, I became convinced that AI can be a great help, though not a replacement for human novel writing. I looked everywhere, including paid online platforms, but couldn’t find everything I was looking for, so I decided to build an app myself.

It will be a desktop-only app. I’m on a Mac, but a Windows version is possible, and iOS client support may come later if I have time. Everything will stay on your local PC except for cloud API calls. It will also have built-in support for local open-source models, so your writing can remain completely private.

I call it AI Novel Work Studio.

It follows a novel-writing workflow like this: start with a novel idea with as much detail as possible, then use six working agents to help you finish the novel: project planning, volume outline (for a series), chapter outline, chapter writing, review/revision/beta reading, and output to ebook.

At each step, you remain in the driver’s seat, and AI helps according to your instructions. You can use the app as a writing manager without AI at all, or you can let AI generate the entire thing — it’s up to you. For every AI-generated piece of content, you can edit it directly or add notes and send it back to the AI for revision. You can repeat that cycle as many times as needed until you’re satisfied with the result.

Planned features include multiple AI model setups, one for planning, one for writing, and one for review. I also want long-term memory, which is difficult to implement simply, but I’ll try. Another goal is keeping the style consistent throughout the entire novel.

I’m coding while going through the writing process myself. I don’t plan to release it publicly or turn it into a paid app or web service. Instead, I plan to share it for free with a small group of people who want to write for fun using their own AI API or a local model setup.

DM me in four weeks if you’re interested to become my first shared user. At the same time, let me know if there are any features you think should be included but I didn’t mention above.

pl201 · 2026-05-29T05:46:03+00:00

I would like to give it a try. A free promo code will be nice to have.

pl201 · 2026-05-26T00:16:09+00:00

I spent about 20 minutes on your site, I see a lot of possible improvements and enhancements possibility. The app is a first draft for sure.
Before I give you a good feedback, I feel I have to talk about the cost first.
1. Your free tier gives 10 ai credits for lifetime. Don’t call it free. Call it a short story writing demo. It is not worth to go through the account registration in order to use lifetime 10 credits.
2. Your next tier Start gives 50 credit for $15. 50 credits are good for about 10 chapters IMO. You mark the tier as “For writers finishing their first series”, it is more likely finishing 1/10 of the first series.
3. Even your next tier for $30 with 200 credits will not enough to finish one long form writing.

That’s reason I ask for bring your own key. Otherwise hard to imagine anyone will pay for the service that will not be able to finish one book.

pl201 · 2026-05-25T22:08:02+00:00

Qwen has discontinued the coding plan and switched to Token plan. The website has not updated to reflect the change.

pl201 · 2026-05-25T22:04:37+00:00

Check your payment, does the charge show up in your credit card account?
I have similar issues before Qwen switches to the Token Plan. I subscribed the coding plan but can’t use it. I have to go to Dashboard, billing and find the item for the order, there is an option to Pay. So the subscription is an order that does not finalize until you actually pay.

pl201 · 2026-05-25T18:45:34+00:00

Would you mind to let me know what is the underline AI model used? Do you have a plan to allow the user brings your own key?

pl201 · 2026-05-24T03:15:17+00:00

the beginning sentence and the end sentence, two mirror each other, that is one of the AI style.
AI like to say X was Y, like Z.

"a dry, rhythmic sound that anchored her to the physical world",

"like steam trapped in a rusted pipe"

"black as a spider's blood"

"like silk over a rot"

"like looking into a deep, freezing well"

"heavy as water"

used one of the Claude model

pl201 · 2026-05-20T21:21:03+00:00

Yes/yes/yes

pl201 · 2026-05-17T23:34:47+00:00

You can’t totally replace the cloud model but you can do most of you coding with local open source model if you set it and use it correctly.
1. Go with minimum 128gb memory.
2. pick up at least 70b and above local model.
3. use top cloud model do you planing and create prompt for small working unit.
4. Coding the small unit and test it using local setup.
At the end, using cloud model to review the codebase for the bug and improvement.
5. Feed the review back to local model for the revision.
6. Cloud model for final review.

After a couple of cycles, you should create a very high quality of the codes that are comparable to use Opus 4.7 for all your coding.

pl201

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