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when I generate longer fiction with LLMs, the hardest part is continuity / remembering who's alive, what happened when, how relationships shifted, and the overall timeline, so chapter 30 doesn't contradict chapter 3.

How do you keep track of this during generation? a spreadsheet? a running "story bible" you feed back into context? A wiki (Obsidian / World Anvil)? Raw notes/JSON you paste in? Some timeline or graph tool?

Really curious what actually works for you and what you tried that flopped. Trying to figure out if there's a method I'm missing. Thanks you!

I’m currently deep in the trenches of a long-form project and hitting that classic wall where the model starts to drift. You know that feeling, the story is going great but then suddenly the AI forgets a major character detail or loses the plot thread entirely.

I’m really interested in how people here actually hack their way around this. Whether it’s manual summary logs, some specific lorebook setups, or just raw stubbornness? how do you keep the train on the tracks?

I’m documenting the "messy" real-world techniques we use to make these stories work. If you’ve got a horror story or a "eureka" moment, I’d love to hear it