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Stop Letting The AI Change Story Elements

It’s getting harder and more tedious to make the models listen. I now have over 2,000 words just focused on what the AI should and should not do, but it still isn’t enough, especially in terms of avoiding heterosexual content. If I want that, I tell the AI and don’t have a problem. If I want my characters to be straight and in the same room? Not gonna happen. I’m not the only one who has noticed the models—Excellent, 3.7 direct, and Muse—all forcing characters to become homosexual when it generates sexual content. This is despite me instructing it in 5 different ways (3 different places) to not have characters of the same sex interact in that way. Unfortunately, when it gets called out, other users start yelling “homophobia”. They wouldn’t like it if the AI forced all their gay characters to be straight. Reinforce user instructions in the background prompting so the AI will stop changing our story elements. This is most noticeable in how things that supposedly read style don’t actually follow the style. (Looking at you Scenes.) These forced sexual interactions and not listening to how a scene is laid out are making entire chapters of prose useless. Another instance of the AI not listening to user instructions: I had my scenes explicitly state that the characters were in the shower. What did the AI immediately do? “Let’s get out of the shower.” I then reinforced with more instructions. It took me stating in three different ways in just the scenes box that the characters were to stay in the shower before they did. What happened next? The AI changed all of the positions I said the characters were in. Using the LLMS directly (outside of Sudowrite) do not do this to the extent they do inside of Sudowrite so it is something in the prompting or lack thereof.

Nicole Broussard 26 days ago

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Custom Styles

Feature Request for Style Customization (SudoWrite) Could we please have a way to create and save up to 5–10 custom writing styles within the existing style menu? Ideally, we’d be able to toggle them on or off directly from the same box we already use—no extra tabs or menus needed. This would make it easy to switch between different tone presets for different books or scenes without constantly retyping the same prompts. (Also—40-word limit is tight, but I make it work. Still, an expanded option for power-users would be welcome.)

Tiffany JadeDarkStar 26 days ago

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Muse not following specific instructions.

It doesn’t matter how specific my instructions are or what creativity level I have it set on, when i use Write (Guided) Muse comes back with so much extra prose that has nothing to do with the instructions or story already written. It’s extremeley frustrating when I’m burning through credits and have to delete 90% of what is written.

amendola4849@gmail.com 6 days ago

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Chapter Draft Status

I would like to have a “Status” per chapter. So I can make chapters in various status [Outlined, Early Draft, Draft, Refined, Revised, Copyedited, Reviewed, Complete] There is no need to do anything with the status or force any kind of a workflow. These would just help authors track where they’ve spent their time and effort and how confident/content they are with each chapter. This is a low-effort/high value feature.

Andrew Pearson 30 days ago

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Continue Button Access should always be available

The Draft box continue button only shows up once I’ve drafted some words. I need to be able to start my chapter myself and have Draft finish it off - from scratch without having to first generate prose and then throw that away so I can go back to start it from where I want to start it. Workaround is to NEVER create a new document - just always duplicate an already Continue-able doc or template project that holds one these to start out from.

John Creson 29 days ago

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Bring Back near-infinite current doc readback for the models that can handle it

My longer novel books pipeline has been quashed by the recent continuity upgrade... Essentially - I can't get beyond 40k in a doc on Excellent or Sonnet 3.7 anymore - and I was regularly getting 60k-100k in one pass without any hick-ups except for Claude issues on the backend - but, I'd just restart and they'd continue and finish... So. The problem is we now have a hard 20k limit on the current doc readback - even on Excellent and Sonnet 3.7 which could handle a higher limit fine. How does this interrupt my process? Essentially - both quit working around around scene 6 reliably - then I can restart them and they go until ~40k. Then I can't restart them - they never get to the thinking or writing phase. One work around is to split the file from 40k down to 20k in continuity and 20k in readback - and that is good for another 20k. But, again, beyond that and it won't write. And, I could be summarizing each chapter and reducing it to fit - but I know it can work fine without this labour intensive step AND I don't think I get better prose this way. My dream come true? Give me some way to get Sonnet 3.7 thinking with the unlimited by SW readback (and the continuity, but I could live without the continuity). Pretty Please? Yes, I could vibe code this myself - but I'd rather stay within the SW ecosystem. I have a little bit of an update to this… Essentially - I can get to 90k as long as the model holds out and doesn’t crash. Getting restarted is the kicker. I recently kicked off a 32 chapter (scenes) book in sonnet 3.7. The model died at 30k. I split it and put 20k into a first doc and 10k into the second doc that I then continued. Second doc made it to the end of the book - 70k in the second doc - 90k in total. You can see why this is frustrating. As long as the model holds out, I end up with a pretty coherent draft. If the model crashes and burns, I have to figure out how to restart with as much info as i can give it… If I’m over 40k in, it will be harder to set it up for success.

John Creson About 2 months ago

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Store Guided Write Prompts

It would be nice if, instead of seeing the preceding text in the card with Guided Write’s output, you saw the text you gave it in the Guided Write box. We don’t need the preceding text. We see that in the document. I have however, wanted to use the prompt again but can’t since it disappears after each generation. In this instance, even persistent text wouldn’t be enough because I often want to go back after a few runs and grab recent instructions to try something else with them.

Nicole Broussard About 1 month ago

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Let The User Decide What The AI Looks At—Everywhere

Feature Request A user shouldn’t have to wonder what the AI is looking at, and we should have settings to tell it exactly what to refer to. Everywhere. Other AI programs already utilize this. This feature would nullify it looking at incorrect things, spoilers, or not looking at needed information. And it shouldn’t be decided by someone else what they think the AI should reference for an author’s work. Style has been left out of referencing for entirely too much when it’s arguably THE most important thing and should impact how everything gets written. As it is, extra work is created because the user has to rewrite every single box or risk all of those cliches and AI-wording being brought in, which it will be if not corrected. Another issue this solves is conflicting information when we are told the AI does or doesn’t look at something. More than once, a statement has been casually made about a particular element being looked at to generate something, however, we were never told that or even told the opposite prior. As a teacher, this makes it worse because now I’m passing along faulty information. If the user is deciding, there’s no wondering for anyone. Put it in the hands of the users. A gear icon on each Story Bible box can open up a menu for users to toggle on or off. Want Outline to influence Characters so an arc can be created? Toggle the Characters option on. Want it simple? If a box toggle is on, it influences what you’re generating; if it’s off, the AI doesn’t see it. As a plus, this also lets the AI read backwards and forwards, resulting in the user being able to best utilize each box for their own workflow. And bonus, there could be a toggle by each document to have it read or not, which is helpful for say a large world-building document or glossary. It’s also simpler and quicker than the three dots menu for continuity. Example use: Instead of the user needing to create templates and fill out traits, information could be contained in the document, thus allowing yet more flexibility in the user’s workflow. The icing on the cake would be that if the other tools were hooked up to Story Bible—and for those that currently are—the user would be able to decide what gets looked at. Want Rewrite to see your entire outline so it can foreshadow or callback properly when it rewrites the current scene? Done. Want Quick Edit or Quick Chat to look at certain documents or Story Bible elements? Toggle it on. The bottom line is this puts the user in control, and they can decide how much or how little to give the AI while also making it very flexible and upfront about what is being looked at.

Nicole Broussard 2 months ago

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Let the Story Bible draw from written chapters, not just vice-versa

I have noticed that whenever I make manual changes to a chapter or scene, there is no feature that can draw on said changes to reflect in the Story Bible. Instead I have to manually find every single instance in the character/lore/outline/etc. And manually change it. I would love a function that allowed certain entries in the story bible to draw from written chapters, or at least from each other, since many items in the story bible correlate.

Carlos Toca About 1 month ago

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Deleting multiple duplicate paragraphs

I use 3 types of ai. I am paranoid about losing things, since my computer went down. I now use 2 computers and a laptop. Suddenly I find myself with multiple versions of the same things. I need a program that has enough power to analyze 300 pages, and highlight duplicates so I can delete. I also need something that will delete the two spaces I put after sentences and do it in one stroke. Because I have used different word processors, I also have break out lines I want gone.

Lokiloki Changed 2025 About 4 hours ago

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