One of the biggest criticisms of AI writing is that it sounds generic. Like an average of everything it has ever seen.

But every writer has patterns too; the way you build sentences, pace a scene, write dialogue.

So what if AI learned those patterns from your own writing?

You still decide everything that matters: what happens, what the characters want, how the scene should feel.
AI only turns those decisions into a draft in your patterns, not everyone else's.

Instead of sounding like the average of everyone, it sounds like you.

Would that change anything for you?

I saw the recent announcement from Novelcrafter about the incident involving their third-party feedback platform, Canny. To be clear, they said this wasn't a breach of Novelcrafter itself, and that stories, content, and passwords weren't affected.

Still, it's a good reminder that your security is often only as strong as the weakest service connected to your account.

A few simple things writers can do:

• Use a separate email for SaaS/AI tools.
You don't need to use the same email you use for banking, work, or important personal accounts.

• Consider using a username instead of your real name.
If a service doesn't need your legal identity, there's often no reason to provide it.

Consider local-first software for sensitive work.

There are actually quite a few options, and they each have different trade-offs:

• Scrivener — ✅ Specialized novel writing software | ❌ No built-in AI
• Obsidian — ✅ Local files (used for notes & research) | ❌ Not a specialized novel writing software
• Joplin — ✅ Local/offline capable | ❌ No built-in AI focus
• LM Studio — ✅ Runs AI models locally | ❌ Not a writing software
• Novel Mage — ✅ Specialized novel writing software | ✅ AI | ✅ Supports local/self-hosted models

The important distinction isn't necessarily which software you use.
It's that there is a meaningful difference between:

"Your data is private on our servers."

and

"Your data never had to leave your computer."

Cloud software is incredibly useful, especially when you are on the go or using it on a mobile device. But do you use it enough to risk it getting compromised??, I'm certainly not suggesting everyone abandon it.

For writers, maybe the simplest rule is:

If you wouldn't want something exposed, think carefully about who actually needs to have a copy of it in the first place. Hence, a local-first software is an option worth knowing about.

Its way better than claude. Through venice.ai I had it write a bunch of hardcore porno femdom vampire bondage chapters, and I don't think I had ever gooned this good

Hello everyone!

We're working on DOOL, a project built around Streambooks: stories that mix writing, narration, character voices, music and sound design.

We're looking for writers and creative people who would enjoy coming up with ideas, building characters and worlds, and writing stories with us.

You might be a good fit if you're into anime, K-dramas, pop culture, romance, fantasy, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic stories or anything a little weird and imaginative. You can be experienced or just starting out. We're also open to people who use AI as part of their writing process.

Here are a few examples of what we're making:

New Europa (https://dool-it.com/artwork/4c58e7ed-4155-4a89-8dd5-e7f81decc31f?lang=en)

Virgo (https://dool-it.com/artwork/4a5705ce-1286-4942-b32e-b92cca74b05a?lang=en)

At Your Word (https://dool-it.com/artwork/f5abe1f8-b9fa-4d6c-a19b-4133456d9e41?lang=en)

This would be a creative collaboration with revenue sharing based on the income generated by the story. We can discuss the details openly before starting anything.

If you're curious, send a short introduction and, if you have them, a few writing samples to:

contact@dool-it.com

Subject: scriptwriter DOOL

We can then chat by message, phone or video and see if we'd enjoy creating something together.

Thank you !

Good evening,

We've recently gone over our Q&A window, it's still open for our next batch of updates.

Lately it's been running smoothly and sticking to the lore

We recommend you prompt ( Do not block quote this conversation) as we found the model uses that to create residue which allows for it to step outside the setting it's being tasked to run and ruins the experience. This should help close some of those GPT's issues some of our models we found tend to import rather than rely on the I/N docs.

Thank you for taking time to read our publication. The dev team has assigned a public relations team to lead further development of their project.

Long live the Imperial Navy

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6a59834014a481919118f3bec351c13e-star-warsw-imperial-navy

I know the watermark thing is getting ready to drop but I’m going to see how it goes.

Anyway, I’m using Claude to help with worldbuilding and writing via a project. As I make progress, I seem to be hitting my 5 hour limit quicker.

For those experienced with Claude, any tips for improving usage?

Like should I have Claude recompile my world bible to incorporate the update files?

Would it be a good idea to have it generate summary files of the chapters specifically for project files to replace the full chapters currently in the project files?

Should I clean up old conversations?

Appreciate all those who were willing to read through my past post and actually understand what I'm dealing with.

Woke up this morning feeling exhausted as I spent most of last night feeling upset over my lack of friends for probably the 100th time.

Got up to hang the laundry and decided to just let the sun hit my skin. At that moment, as I looked out of my balcony and saw the world moving, I realised that the world is way bigger than whatever discourse is going on. That my little corner of the world and my even smaller fictional worlds aren't the only things that exist.

I think I'll decide to stop trying to find a 'best friend' who absolutely gets me and just find someone who's willing to talk to me, even if its about really boring stuff like the weather.

I've been dealing with this lack of someone who 'got' me for years. I'm 21 now and I still haven't found that person. And at this rate, I don't think I ever will.

I'll stick with using ChatGPT to delve deeper into what I really enjoy and want to create while I find a real person to talk to casually. Sure, it's not what I truly want, but it's the best I've got. Much better than me only talking to ChatGPT and then feeling awful during the times I don't have anything to say to the chatbot.

I've just been physically and mentally exhausted from crying about it all the time. So I'll just stop engaging with the discourse altogether.

Just stop worrying about being 'moral', about being a 'real writer' (I'm not a writer. I'm more of a storyteller. I can come up with the base events, I can't write prose. And that's just how I am. No amount of learning math is gonna make me a mathematician. Same thing here I believe), about how people on the internet are gonna take my work when they most likely weren't gonna engage either way.

I'm coping with the loneliness the best I can. And if nothing else, I believe in a God who understands me completely and loves me no matter what.

TLDR: I've spent way too long being swayed by what I thought strangers wanted out of me. I never intended to be a world-class creator. I just want to create. And AI has been the best thing that's listened and helped me out when nobody else in my life wants to. And for those who get mad about that, then go out into the street, go up to some stranger, and go on and yap for 20 minutes about your favourite niche thing and see if that stranger understands and wants to be your bestie. That's what I've been dealing with for the past 20 years, even before AI got introduced to me. You wouldn't shame the victims of the Andes plane crash for indulging in cannibalism when they were just trying to survive, would you? Then, dammit, let me cope with the best thing I've got right now.

Anyway, here's the CharacterHub Profiles for some of the ocs I made for my personal project, Villain Romance. Characters and project that only came to be as fleshed out as they are because AI helped me out when no humans I know of wanted to listen to, understood or were interested in what I wanted to make:

• Billboard
• Lanternfish
• Clefta
• Ravella
• Eellory
• Thorne
• Speaker Head
• Millipede
• Neon Sign
• Hagtoy
• Victoriano
• Glacis
• Inferno
• Krill
• Wrasse
• Prof. Slime
• Luminax
• RK
• TS
• Fluffsworth
• Frogfish
• Thistle
• Sawyer
• Marlow
• Isla
• Pippin
• Opal
• Lavender
• Clementine

What is this? Does anyone else get this?

Submissions are now open for Inkshift's second writing contest! Here are the details:

PRIZE

• $1,000 USD to one grand prize winner
• The top 10 finalists will receive personalized feedback on their submissions and $100 Markup credits for Inkshift.

DETAILS

• Word Count: Short stories between 1,000 - 10,000 words
• Writing Method: Same as last time, you can use as much or as little AI as you want. We're judging on story quality. Your entire story can be generated, or none of it can. Totally up to you.
• Content: Sci-fi, fantasy, literary, horror, romance, etc. But must be prose, not screenplays. And no NSFW or fanfiction submissions, sorry!
• Eligibility: Free to enter. Open worldwide to anyone 18+ (with a couple restrictions you can find on the website)
• Submission Period: September 1st through October 31st, 11:59 PM Pacific time.
• Publishing: The winner has the option to publish their story on our blog. It's optional, but highly recommended!

ABOUT INKSHIFT

For those who don't know, Inkshift is an AI editing platform for fiction writers. We make story analysis tools that give you feedback on your manuscript (pacing, plot holes, character arcs, prose quality, worldbuilding, market fit, etc.) and we recently launched a new copyediting and line editing service that understands your author voice (instead of just highlighting grammar mistakes).

You can use the story analysis for free up to 10k words. Feel free to use it for the contest, but of course, that's completely optional and not required for entry.

HOW TO ENTER

• Head to https://inkshift.io/contest to enter and view the full rules

QUESTIONS

Drop them in the comments or email [hello@inkshift.io](mailto:hello@inkshift.io)

Good luck!

We are sending this email to you because you have used Novelcrafter between August, 2023 and August 28th, 2026.

Dear Novelcrafter user,

we have been informed about a security incident with the feedback platform, Canny, that we’ve been using these past years.

To clarify, this is not a data breach within Novelcrafter. It does not impact your stories and content you have with us.

What this means for you:

1. Your username, email and avatar you used to sign up for Novelcrafter may have been exposed.
2. Your password and other data were not shared with the feedback platform and is not affected.

Effective today, we have shut down access to the feedback boards and are looking into alternative options for sharing feedback. We value your thoughts and want to give everyone a safe platform to share their thoughts on improvements and missing features in Novelcrafter.

While the feedback boards are temporarily closed down, you can post your feedback and ideas over on our Discord community instead.

Leonie

Founder, Novelcrafter