It‘s a Pucca fanfiction, I know some of y’all are gonna make fun of me, go ahead. But please at least read it I promise its at least somewhat interesting.
also, I’m sorry if Im misusing this subreddit
also this story isn’t finished
I've been working on Manurio, a local-first tool for creating complete books with LLMs.
It started as an experiment.
I wanted to see if I could actually write a good, coherent book with an LLM — not just generate chapters, but create a story that holds together from beginning to end.
Before building any software, I spent time figuring out two things:
I then went through the whole process manually.
I developed the premise, characters, locations, plot, chapter plans and eventually the actual manuscript, feeding the right information back into the LLM at each stage.
And the result was much better than I expected.
The story actually held together.
That manual workflow eventually became the foundation for Manurio.
Instead of trying to generate a whole book from a single prompt, Manurio takes you through the same kind of structured process:
You can go through the process yourself and approve the steps along the way, or use an autonomous run where the agents continue working through the book and review their own work.
A big goal for me is also to make it local-first.
Manurio can run in Docker and connect to an OpenAI-compatible endpoint such as LM Studio, so you can create a book using a model running entirely on your own machine. There are instructions on the project page for getting it up and running with Docker if you want to try it yourself.
I've recently been testing it with google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-qat, and I've been getting really good results from it. The book shown in the screenshot was generated with that model through an autonomous run.
The source code is publicly available under the PolyForm Perimeter License 1.0.1. Manurio is free to use and modify under that license, and anything you generate with it belongs to you.
Project page:
https://grunna.gitlab.io/manurio/
Source:
https://gitlab.com/grunna/manurio
This is the first time I'm sharing the project here, and I'd really like to hear what people think.
Especially if you've experimented with local LLMs or long-form generation:
What part of the book-writing process would you want the AI to handle, and what parts would you want to stay in control of yourself?
I’m really nervous to begin with 😃 because this is the first novel/book I’ve written and actually publish, but would anyone actually try my story and let me know what they think about it? It’s called reincarnated as an OP peasant. Even if you try it for 10 minutes and let me know what flaws they are or if you would recommend it that would help tremendously!
Hey guys! I’m thinking of creating a original fictional universe, similar to the Marvel Universe, centered around Murim or Hunter-world themes (like Solo Leveling) or superhero universe.
I think it would be awesome if we, as AI novel creators, came together to build this from scratch because it could be a lot of fun. What do you think about the idea? If you’re interested, feel free to send me a DM!
For the last month I have been trying to come up with a system that will help with my Fiction Novel that I have trying to write with the help of AI. I have been using ChatGPT to help brainstorm Ideas about a book and asking it questions on how it can help me stay organized while writing if this one Novel becomes a series. We have talking about saving information in files and I can look back at it when I am not actively writing or developing with My AI. What I would like to only use free AIs at this point because I really can be spending money month subscriptions. I am trying to use the ChatGPT to brainstorm the Ideas and Copilot as a Record keeping and Document storage. I would like to integrate using Libreoffice for the Writing the Documents, OneDrive to store the documents to look at on my laptop and my Phone when I would like to look over information. When I ask to pull up information that is from just a day or two ago from either it does not pull up all the discussed and approved content. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this using these apps/programs with the AIs assisting doing either part of this. I don't want to lose the Notes on Characters, World, plot, timeline, developments or any other documents I would need. Thanks for any help you can provide. I am also not opposed to using a different AI as well.
I have a finished manuscript for a novel that is approximately 86,550 words and I'm trying to figure out the best way to approach the editing stage. My next step would be to hire a professional developmental editor followed by a line/copy editor but unfortunately I don't currently have the money to hire professional editors for both stages so I'm considering using AI. I'm specifically looking for an AI that can do more than basic proofreading. I want something that can help with:
-Developmental editing: plot structure, pacing, character development, consistency, scene effectiveness, unnecessary sections, etc.
-Line editing: prose quality, sentence structure, dialogue, word choice, flow, repetition, awkward phrasing, etc.
-Copy editing: grammar, punctuation, spelling, consistency, and factual/technical errors.
-Maintaining consistency and context across a manuscript of around 86,550 words.
Does it do a good job at making sure that text doesn't appear AI generated or am I better off hiring a human editor? Grammarly is the option I'm looking at right now because I don't have the budget to hire a humanizer.
I’m working on a startup idea called MyYearMovie.
The core idea is simple:
For 365 days, an AI Director follows your life, remembers the important people and events, and turns your year into a personal book and a short movie.
The user can speak or type.
The AI should remember:
people and relationships
important events
changes in your life
unfinished stories
recurring themes
personal turning points
So if you mention someone in January, something happens with them in May, and they appear again in October, the AI understands that this is one continuing storyline.
At the end of the year, the user gets:
📖 A personal book about their year
🎬 A cinematic short movie based on their real life
Users could upload photos of important people as visual references. If they don’t want to upload photos, they could describe the person and the AI would create a consistent visual character for the movie.
For the MVP, I want to start much smaller:
voice/text entries → AI memory → character tracking → monthly story recaps → short cinematic trailer
I don’t think the main innovation is AI video generation.
The main product is the combination of:
AI memory + personal storytelling + real life + generative media
I’m currently looking for:
a technical co-founder
AI / LLM / memory-system developers
mobile app developers
people experienced with generative video
early-stage angel investors interested in consumer AI
I’d also really appreciate honest feedback.
Would you use something like this for a full year?
And what would be the biggest reason you would stop using it?
If you’re interested in building, investing, or discussing the idea, feel free to DM me.
Hey everyone! Back with another feature update to NOVELLA: AI Novel Forge.
Links:
Primary Link: https://perchance.org/novella-ai
Mirror Link: https://perchance.org/vwavfhduae
🔒 Privacy & Community (No Accounts Needed)
100% Browser-Based Storage: Everything you create, write, or import stays entirely in your browser. No stories, bibles, or files are sent to any external server.
No-Login Comments Section: The built-in Comments tab serves as a public gathering space to share suggestions, feedback, or story ideas—no account, login, or sign-up required to post.
🔥 What’s New in This Update?
Expanded 8-Source Plot Lab Engine: Updated the source library to 8 platforms. It now samples tropes, genres, and metadata across MangaDex, Royal Road, Toonily, ComicK, NovelUpdates, Webnovel, WeebCentral, and MangaHere to forge original novel bibles and premise hooks.
Volume Management (Manual & Auto):
Manual: Click the ⊕ Make Volume button above the timeline to manually structure and package chapters into volumes.
Automatic: Completing a Full-Story Marathon automatically groups and compiles finished chapters into complete volumes.
Export: Export individual volumes directly as .txt files from the Export dropdown (e.g., Volume 1 (.txt - 180,748 words)).
Append More Source: Added an + Append More Source button inside the Composer workflow to seamlessly merge additional plot notes or source material mid-generation.
🌟 Key Features Overview
8-Source Plot Lab Engine: Synthesize tropes and metadata across 8 major web novel, manga, and manhwa platforms.
Vision & Text Translation Pipeline: Import raw webtoon/manhwa chapter pages or text directly for English translation.
Style Profile Extraction: Captures author cadence, tone, and POV rules to maintain consistent narration across long runs.
Full-Story Marathon Mode: Hands-free multi-chapter writing runs across custom runtimes (4h to 12h) tuned to your target reading speed.
YouTube Script Import: Tools to import YouTube transcripts or .m4a audio files directly into your workspace.
🚀 How to Use It
Visit perchance.org/novella-ai.
Click Forge New Story at the top.
Choose Plot Lab - Inspired (to mix tropes across all 8 libraries) or select From a novel / manhwa.
Use Make Volume or Append More Source in the Composer workspace to organize your build!
Drop your feedback or suggestions in the comments section—no sign-up needed!
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Basically, I have a bunch of ideas, but no time to write them.
Which Al can help me turn, for example, a 3000 word summary/ideas/settings into a 100,000 word full story?
I'm not planning on monetizing it, by the way. I just want to read it for my own amusement.
I tried chatgpt and copilot but always got stuck in small niche details that it got wrong which would have been important in the story later on.
And should I post my ideas here so someone can turn them into story?
Aight, thanks.
This was made with Git Hub Spec Kit Fiction Book Writing preset:
I always love a good old Reddit tool thread.
So what is the best ai tool to write full books (end-to-end, prompt-to-book)?
- Romance
- Biographies
- Non-Fiction
- Children books
- ...
I have been happily using ImagineYourBook a lot lately but I guess it doesn't harm to keep looking around.
You opened ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, and you started writing a story - something that's been rattling around in your head for a while and you discovered using AI suddenly makes it accessible and within reach. It begins beautifully. It always does. The spark, the momentum, a character who suddenly felt real, a few chapters that genuinely sang. For the first time, the blank page wasn't blank; there was a brilliant mind in the room, building with you.
And then... you know how it goes. Because you've been down this road before.
The story starts to unravel. The structure never quite arrives. It forgets your main character, the plot line loses its place, and the brilliant conversation becomes an endless scroll you can't navigate or untangle. And somewhere around chapter 8 the whole thing quietly gets abandoned in a tab you just stop opening.
The thing is... that wasn't your failure. You didn't run out of story. The LLM chat window was simply never built to go the distance. A general-purpose chatbot is a phenomenal place to start a novel and a terrible place to finish one, and no amount of clever prompting changes what it fundamentally is. You can pour enormous effort into wrestling it the rest of the way. Most people, sensibly, don't.
That's where we come in.
Minty is Novelmint's writing partner - a developmental editor who works inside your book. And she feels like the thing you already know - the chat window. You talk. She talks back. You think out loud, you argue, you chase a tangent about your villain's childhood. That part - the part you loved - we kept entirely. That's the part that Novelmint brings back to you.
What's different is everything wrapped around it.
When you talk to Minty, your story doesn't vanish into a transcript. It lands on a real timeline with chapters, beats, characters, plot threads, the works. It takes shape on a canvas beside the conversation in real-time as you chat. She holds the whole book in view at once. She has the craft of a developmental editor and the opinions to match. And she's built for the part of the journey your everyday tools abandon you in: the long middle, the structural work, the finish. Novelmint is your canvas, Minty is your paint, and you are the master craftsman with a story to bring to life.
Novelmint doesn't take you a few exciting miles in and stop. We take you the finish line and celebrate as you level up.
Start with one line: a lighthouse keeper realises the ship she's guiding in is her own, from twenty years ago, and Minty does what a chatbot can't: she turns it into a structure you can see, manipulate, and build upon.
She asks the questions that matter: whose story is this, what do the characters want, how does the environment change the outcome, where is the plot twist. As you answer, the story forms itself down on the canvas, editable and changeable and every word of it yours. From "I don't know where to begin" to something very real and tangible, all done through conversation.
Then, deeper in, when a normal chat would be losing the plot, Minty is just getting started. Switch her into Review and scope her to chapters 8–14, and she reads them the way an editor would — pacing, arc health, which threads are alive and which have gone quiet — citing the exact beats, not handing you vague encouragement.
Switch to Continuity and she hunts the whole book for contradictions. Switch to World building and you describe a city, a home, or an entire magic system, and she drafts it into structured canon so every chapter from every book in your series can stay true without drift or error. Same partner through it all, wearing different hats, resulting in one seamless chat experience. And the best part? She learns how you work and learns to adapt to your writing style the further you go.
This is the stretch of road the usual chat tools simply can't travel with you. It's the entire reason Novelmint exists.
One thing I want to be completely clear about, because the internet is loud about it.
Minty is not here to write your novel for you. Every word is yours. Every call is yours. She confirms before she writes or spends anything - so nothing changes in your book without your explicit yes. What she brings is what a great developmental editor brings: she reads the whole thing, she tells you the truth, and she won't let you ship something broken.
You stay the author. You just stop walking the road alone.
Honestly? no. A smarter model makes Minty smarter for free: sharper instincts, better prose, and no extra work on your part. We pin the model on purpose, so every frontier leap is a built in boost for your writing.
But a better model still won't take you the rest of the way on its own. It won't hold your novel's structure across forty chapters, catch its dropped threads, or hand you a finished, publishable manuscript. That's not a "better LLM" problem - it's a product, and it's the part we built. The frontier model gives Minty her intelligence; Novelmint takes you the rest of the way.
This time - start the same way, and let Minty take you the rest of the way.
I'm getting ready to write a futuristic sci-fi novel, but I've already done a huge amount of the planning. At this point I have a detailed Story Bible with the history of my world, lore, technology, characters, locations, timelines, governments, etc and a chapter-by-chapter outline covering the entire novel. My ideal workflow would be to upload both documents into an AI writing program and then have it help me write the novel one chapter at a time while consistently remembering the established lore, character personalities, worldbuilding, and previous events.
I just have a few questions for the community here: Which AI writing software is best for this kind of workflow? Are there any platforms that simply let you upload your Story Bible and outline, then use those as persistent context while writing each chapter? Which AI has the best memory and is least likely to forget details from a large Story Bible? Which AI produces the highest-quality prose for fiction? Is it better to stick with one AI throughout the project, or is it wise to use multiple AI tools (for example, one for drafting, another for editing, and another for brainstorming)?
For reference, the novel is 27 chapters, and I estimated that the finished manuscript will be around 100,000 to 120,000 words.
I have written short stories most of my life. I am not, nor do I want to be a writer. It is simply a hobby. I have finally started putting one down. I have built the world, the history, and the characters, now I'm focusing on the story itself. I am using 4 different AI apps for "ASSISTANCE ONLY." I use 1 strictly for research, 1 strictly for images, 1 to assist in the editing, grammar, spelling, continuity, etc., and 1 to do assist in writing. I always go back over the section multiple times both read and audio, and correct issues I catch.
The story is 100% mine. The characters are 100% mine. The equipment is 100% mine. The technology is 100% mine, although I do not blame any credit for the actual science underlying them. The dialog is 99% mine, sometimes AI comes up with a good line.
I am not ashamed to say i use AI. I keep it on a leash and use it as a tool. I want this to be mine. If something is in it that is identical or too close to something else, I try to catch it.
What i would like is a place I can post it, knowing I have used AI like this, that won't permanently ban me, and I can get real human input, feedback, and honest respectable criticism.
Is there a place on reddit I can do that?
Currently several sections are posted on my account, but no where else because I've been banned in a couple of subs. Admittedly, my fault for not checking their rules first.
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Okay, hear me out- I was on Cai and there was one story like- MY EX BOYFRIEND IS MY NEW ROOMMATE. I was chatting with a bot and then Ive gotten an idea in the story from MY head and realized it would be a good book. And basically, everything is from my head EXCEPT the base (ex boyfriend and roommate stuff). Is it okay or no? I mean i dont want to use ai to write it and the idea of that ai story was still created by a human
Been prototyping something and want a gut-check before I go further.
The idea: an author gives a rough, half-formed book idea, and it comes back as a structured chapter outline — story arc tagged (setup, rising action, midpoint, climax, resolution) — then gets routed to their coach for review before they start writing.
Genuinely asking: is “turning a vague idea into a workable outline” a real bottleneck for people who coach authors or run self-pub services? Or is the actual friction somewhere else (motivation, editing, finishing)?
Hello everyone. I have a somewhat good of a story I want to write. It would probably be a novel if it's finished. It'd be really really long too. I have already written around a few thousand words of it.
I think my writing is good on its own too. But I still sometimes ask chatgpt to make it sound better. And it would just change the sentences or wording or help with grammar. But I still wanted to ask if it's alright to do that. I have no idea so please. I may even publish it of I get to finish it. And, of course I will have a human editor to check it all when I am finished. But I started to ask chatgpt a few times so it could improve my weak points.
Now, I have scrolled about it a little bit here and there. And many people say they don't want AI at all and I should be true to my own words. And I feel like that's right perhaps.
If it's so, I will stop using AI early on and just continue on with the whole story myself. It may not look like it was written by a professional but I think it'd be good enough for a young first time writer.
P.S it was originally supposed to be a script for animation or anime of sorts. Even if the novel doesn't do well, I am hoping to turn it into an adaptation where I might do better.
Every single time I see a books and AI related thread i cringe. The herd conscience seems to be pretty clear: "If you wrote AI to write your book.. you're done, I am never opening your book."
I want to talk about and get your opinion on the following use cases:
For Text
I feel like a lot of the nuance is required in this discussion...to me the extent to which or more so the use case for which the AI was used matters a lot more than the binary between if the author used ai or not. A book written with AI is completely different from a book where AI is used for editing, fact-checking, research, and so on.
Every time someone reduces it down like that I cringe.
For Audiobooks: AI vs Production Studios
A majority of authors on amazon use the inbuilt kdp narration for their audiobooks. Although these may sound alright on the surface they have a deeper flaw.. they don't understand the context of the scene, the emotions involved, the nuance of the scene, may mispronounce a word or two and are unable to deliver the dialogues as intended by the Authors.
You may also argue that these take away jobs from traditional narrators; but using production studios can get EXPENSIVE very fast; most charge like 70-100$ an hour.
To fix these I have been doing research for the past 5 months and have started Mimesa (see samples) which uses multiple distinct voices for each character and is the best in the market for emotional delivery and engagement; we use a hybrid ai/human pipeline to achieve this result (DISCLOSER: this is my agency; the intention of this post is NOT to advertise.)
Anyways that shouldn't change the fact that AI narration might be disrupting the current industry; I am curious to know tho, is that a bad thing in of itself? To me newer authors use AI narration as a free method and wouldn't purchase the services of a production studio regardless due to the out-of-budget costs? If you are an Author who has audiobooks, I wanna know your experience with both.
For Covers / Blurbs (worst use case imo)
I have seen SO MANY covers of books that SCREAM AI. The characters on the book themselves have that signature ai lighting. I personally am not against using AI but when the very cover is very obviously AI it makes me question the commitment and effort the author put into the work... If the covers gonna be AI please make sure it is still well done and not low effort.
The blurb being AI is another red flag for me for the same reason
tl;dr: To me AI is like fire. It is a good Servant but a bad Master. Do not let it overrun your work.
Stlll curious to know what everyone thinks, I am sure the majority agrees with me.
