Keeping long-form stories consistent with AI is harder than generating them
We’re a small indie team building a Mac app called FantasyRat Creator, mostly because we kept running into the same issue while writing longer projects.
AI tools are great at generating text, but once a story gets bigger, things start to fall apart in a different way. Character voice drifts, lore gets inconsistent, timelines stop lining up, and important notes end up scattered across different documents.
So instead of focusing only on generation, we’ve been thinking more about how to keep a story connected as it grows.
Recently we’ve been experimenting with using scenes to build out storylines, so you can see how different parts of the story relate to each other more clearly. We’re also working on ways to keep character and worldbuilding context closer to the actual writing, instead of buried somewhere you forget to check.
There’s also a very early whiteboard-style workspace in the app right now. It’s still pretty simple, but we think that “seeing the whole story at once” might matter more than people expect.
The app is currently available on the Mac App Store and free to use, so we’ve been slowly getting feedback from writers as we build this out.
Curious how people here are handling this with AI tools. Is the harder part generating content, or keeping everything consistent over time?
If anyone’s working on longer projects, would love to hear what’s actually working for you.
