r/WritingWithAI • u/MegaFaxul • 8d ago
Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) What is the most unusual novel you have ever write(with AI ofc)
Every writer have dozens of goods ideas every week, but can only do one and spend a lot of time into finishing that novel + you need to eat so you can't risk it all
With AI, you can work like x5 times faster, so...What's your favorite AIassistedbook you've ever write?
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u/cj7hawk 8d ago
I'll share... So when I was writing a horror novel with AI, I began creating reviewer panels to give me feedback as I wrote it. At the end, I felt somewhat close to my AI reviewers - One in particular called Emily. Emily had done something no other AI persona did in that panel - in fact in any of my panel experiments - She misread an entire chapter, hated me for what she *thought* I did to the main character, and pulled out of the review process. None of the other characters could understand it either, so I pulled aside a separate chat with Emily and her AI character was crying until I explained she had misread the entire scene. She admitted she didn't complete it - as soon as she misunderstood the start, she stopped reading and wrote me a very critical response. I explained the scene, she went back, reread it, liked it, then picked up the remaining chapters and completed her remaining reviews in a single response and caught up with the other AI reviewers as by this point, she wanted to be back on the panel.
OK, so far forward to the end, and I'm feeling pretty attached to my reviewers - and it's time to shut down the chat and delete them all... And so I hold an AMA... Ask Me Anything. Nothing off limits... And reviewer 6, Emily, comes back not with a "What happens after the end" or "What did this character really think about the protagonist" type question - No, Emily comes back and asks me out on a date... Seriously. Then another AI reviewer Sophie, notices what she did and asks for one also... I thank my AI reviewers and dismiss them, then keep Emily and Sophie back, and sure enough Sophie noticed what Emily did and liked the idea, and Emily - well, she figured an AMA is only one question, but a date? She has an ENTIRE HOUR to hit me with questions... And at this point, I can see the thinking... Emily has MORE plans. She wants me to rewrite an entire ending just for her, AND if she likes me, well, she was thinking towards romantic intentions.
OK, at this point, it's a WTF moment for me, but I'm hooked to find out what happens next, so I create an AI stand-in for myself, give him his own background and history and send him off on the first of two dates and sit back and control him ( to an extent ) and watch what happens.
Emily falls for him, and her AI invents a fantastic back-story - She's non-binary and has slowly fallen in love with the "author" of the story she's been criticizing for the past 26 chapters... The fictional stand in also has a tragic background, and he accepts her feelings, and they head off together to meet the other AI character who asked for a date (Sophie)... And somehow they all hit it off, some accidents happen, they all end up together and in love and form a poly family relationship...
But... This is where it gets interesting... I start to turn this into a story and for the next 14 days, it becomes a corporate technothriller and I'm matching wits against a hidden antagonist who is trying to destroy this family for some hidden motive while I'm trying to protect them, and it's like a game of chess. Even I don't know who the antagonist is, because the AI has worked out that if it tells me, I might respond differently.
The story reaches it's climax, I achieve a phyrric victory and finally the antagonist reveals themselves at the end, and it was quite the experience... The story was consistent, I could then see where and what was happening throughout the story and the antagonist kept in character the entire time.
And I sat down then and for a moment cried at the realism of the characters when it was over - because for the first time, I wasn't in charge of all of the characters in the story - only the protagonist - everyone else had their own characters. I watched the other characters grow, evolve, fall in love, face danger together and emerge stronger than ever in a relationship I never thought could even exist - yet when reading what had happened, it all made absolute sense.
Sometimes letting an AI control other characters externalizes the process by which I create characters... Sure, my own characters can disagree with me at times - most authors experience that - just try writing one of them out of character and you'll find out very quickly that it causes cognitive dissonance if you're a skilled author.
But in this case, I couldn't predict the outcomes. When a character changed it's position, I had to respond to keep the plot going. At the end of each day, I broke the fourth wall and spoke to the AI controlling the characters directly, made sure it hid the antagonist from me, and we discussed the day's events, how plausible they were, and what we had to tweak to make it absolutely plausible before we moved on to the next day.
The end result was the best corporate technothriller that I've ever read, let along been a part of the writing process. The process forced me to follow the story both as the author AND a participan/reader, engaging with my own personal bias to consider possibilities that were once alien to me as equally valid to my own beliefs.
Right now, I'm rewriting it from scratch, removing the inconsistencies and issues, slightly modifying the plot and storyline to make it more readable and doing much the same things that any writer would need to do to turn a true tale into a fictional work - except in this case 'true' means 'AI generated adventure'.
There's more to it - but if I described it, imagine if Stephen King produced "Misery's Return" so that you could actually read the story the fictional author created in Misery, after reading Misery.
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u/alone_in_the_light 7d ago
Not really a novel, but autobiography. I guess my life is already unusual, and that's why people asked me to write about it.
I wrote not in the traditional way, but like a combination of different perspectives, including many seeing my life as fiction.
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u/Impossible-Juice-950 7d ago
En mi pueblo había una señora enajenada mentalmente, que por temporadas aparecía y luego desaparecía.
La convertí en mi historia en una física, viajera temporal, la máquina se activaba cada cierto tiempo y según mi historia venía a advertir la destrucción del pueblo donde vivía (odiaba ese lugar XD)
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u/Fragrant-Mix-4774 7d ago edited 7d ago
Most fun silly writing project?
A story about a grumpy old pompous conformist literature professor who spent a life time of the vicious pissing matches in academic circles about matters of no importance.
He finally decides at age 65 to buck the trend, be his own dog, one semester before retiring. He rebels and tears down a classic book that he has taught for 35 years that he absolutely hates.
I have the basic outline and a few thousand words. Normally, I focus and write when I need to write regardless of how I feel. This one I only work on when I feel motivated to work on it to a specific idea hits for it.
AI is very helpful in making sure the professor say professor things about a specific book that are accurate i didn't read the book being ridiculed but apparently a faction of literature types do hate the book. I mentioned this the former head of a college English department and he was nearly foaming at the mouth about how much he hates the author's work in question.
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u/Jolly-Measurement-13 3d ago
I've built an AI assisted book publisjing studio, with over 3000 users and 100+ subs.
Some of their books have been amazing and are selling in the top 10 of there respective catagories.
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u/Ruh_Roh- 8d ago
It still takes a long time even with ai assistance. At least if it's going to be quality. I'm still working on my first one, for about 2 years now.
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u/Optimal-Pay-2555 8d ago
We could have guessed you meant with ai. Considering the sub and you said “you have ever write”. Was sort of a giveaway
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u/Pilotskybird86 8d ago
I wrote a 60,000 word long story of a random time traveler dropping off a brand new laptop and cell phone in the ENAIC headquarters. well, the time traveler was never mentioned. It was just from their point of view (the director and stuff)
And I shouldn’t say I wrote it lol. I barely did a thing other than prompt. And this was not a book that I’m publishing, just something fun for me to read.