Storycraft - AI-assisted story writing

[tribal jay]

Check it out at: https://storycraft.pro/

It's a writing tool that serves a certain writing process where you can structure and break the story down from top to bottom, similar to the snowflake method. The app makes it easy to create and navigate your story structure - acts, chapters and scenes. It allows you to create notes that you attach to these sections, and keep them separate from the text.

[brave cedar]

in the tutorial, if I add the tag for the name of my book by pressing tab instead of clicking on the list it's not happy

[tribal jay]

Thanks for the feedback Alexandre 🙂

[brave cedar]

and it's weird that you can delete the little waiting animation in the text

[tribal jay]

Yeah, I'll add that to the list of issues

[brave cedar]

How does it work ? A problem I have had while trying to setup a story telling GPT was that after some time he forgot characters, some of my actions etc ... If I make a story go on and on for 5000 tokens or more, will it ever get lost ?

[tribal jay]

It's a work in progress but that is an issue I'm aiming to solve with the app. The way it works is that it uses the notes you add as context to the prompts to GPT. So if an act, chapter, or scene involves certain important characters you attach those to the sections to provide the proper context. I honestly can't say if it will get lost, as I haven't tested it with long stories yet. But it's something I'll keep working on improving.

It's not implemented yet but another way I plan to address this problem is having the AI summarize acts, chapters, etc. to condense the amount of tokens required in order to provide the proper context.

[brave cedar]

good idea ! 🙂

what is the best way to change its way to write text to follow a certain style ?

[tribal jay]

The best way is add notes with names such as "Style" that you attach to the book title heading, where you specify details of the style you want. That way the AI will be given those directions every time it's prompted.

[brave cedar]

which GPT model do you use ?

[tribal jay]

I'm using text-davinci-003

[wraith spruce]

Nice - I am also building AI book writer (initially for kids books)
Like your approach.
Some of the bigger challenges I have run into:

• story cohesion
• auto image generation with consistent characters
• API availability (lots of outages lately)

[midnight crown]

is it can write another languages?

[rugged quail]

Good Idea

[tribal jay]

Yes you can write in other languages

[tribal jay]

Nice to hear, good luck with your project :). Rather than achieve full story cohesion at all times, which would be nice, I think the first step is just to guide the user to provide the AI with good context and instructions to advance the story step by step. At least personally that works fine for my writing process, but yeah if the AI could do more of that work it would be nice.

[wraith spruce]

Thanks - currently I am first generating the chapters and outline for each, then using those as prompts for the content. Works OK.
For the characters I am passing the character attributes when needed as part of the prompt.
Finally, I provide the user the opportunity to edit the content and regenerate images.