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How can we make Sudowrite better?

Please tell us how we improve Sudowrite for you.

Skill Leveling

HI! I think Suduwrite is a great tool for people who want to write, people who do write and for people who are learning to write. However, I think that the level of skill differs from person to person, so I think the level of creative freedom for the AI should also vary. I am a writer, I generally use Sudo because sometimes it's hard for me to articulate my ideas cohesively. A few times I’ve gotten frustrated with generations. For example, I basically tell every single conversation/dialogue, interaction, setting, emotions of the characters in the outline summary of a chapter. When I click generate scenes, I expect, especially since the scenes are how the story is being told, for the scenes to be more detailed if not as detailed and not generalized or generic. However, I have to edit heavily and put back specific details that I already shared in the chapter outline summary section. I understand that there are people who have Sudo create the story for them, but I am an author who brings my already concepted WIPS here and I was just hoping that there could be something to aid in that? I don’t know if I am explaining this correctly. But I’ll post anyway, just in case someone understands what I mean. Thank you XOXO

R. Menezes about 19 hours ago

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💡 Feature Request

A better ”stream of thought” to prose workflow

I use sudowrite to turn stream-of-thought into almost finished prose. I don’t exactly write drafts, but more like something inbetween a draft and finished prose. When I put these in the draft creator and ask to generate them into prose, I often get a prompt that it’s ”already finished prose”, but it still works as I wish it to if I continue anyway. Using sudowrite this way is a bit wonky with the current work flow. I need to be conscious of where I do the scene splits in order to not have sudowrite cut any of the material, or start inventing stuff on its own to fill out the 1-1.5k words per scene. It’s also a bit annoying to have to work in single-paragraph chunks to create appropriate length scenes within the draft. My suggestion is to have a type of document called ”stream of thought” that works like a normal document, but has the prose generator functions at the bottom; ie without the use of scenes or the confines of ”how a draft should be written”. That way you can write very crude stream-of-thought style prose, making use of paragraphs, etc, to keep things organized and easy to overview, and then when you’re done, get to press the ”generate prose” (with the extra instructions), just like in the draft tool, but without having to worry about sudowrite inventing extra stuff to fill out pre-set word amounts for scenes, or cutting away material because it’s too much.

Kristoffer Lindgren 7 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Credit Refunds

I suggest that you provide some way for users to recover wasted credits due to issues with the app. As you are aware, even when a writer provides clear directions via the story bible and scene descriptions the draft will sometimes go off on its own. I’ve had this happen where adjustments in the creativity level or a change in the AI is necessary. When I’ve done everything correct but the app doesn’t follow directions resulting in the use of additional credits for write attempts, there should be a way to receive at least a partial credit refund. .

Karen Johnson-Will 9 days ago

🗳️ Feedback

I need a list of my characters for each separate book. I have a series and your program mashed all 3 books characters together. I need this corrected. It would work IF it actually listed the characters in each book but it randomly didn't list some characters in the books. One example is book 1 the protanganist for the 1st book isn't even specified. Not some minor character

Sarah Olson 10 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Series Page Improved

When entering the series page, Sudowrite shows the SERIES TIMELINE and below the PROJECTS that are usually sorted by last access. Would be much useful to have the following improvement in that interface: Clicking the PROJECTS title in the TIMELINE should directly open the PROJECT (faster then scroll down to look for the right PROJECT for long series with several PROJECTS in it). Near each PROJECT of the Series you can add a button that will create a summary of that PROJECT that will appear in a special section below sorted following the TIMELINE sequence. This summary will contain a short summary of the document story and a short summary of the actual situation of each Series Characters (The list of the Series Characters will be shown below and they can be selected in the Story Bible) Below you can add a “Whole Series Story Bible” that will show Brainstorms, Notes, A series synopsis, and the Summaries of each PROJECT of the series sorted by Timeline and the Characters Evolution through the Serie (generated with the procedure explained above). The Whole Series Story Bible can be used by AI or not (a trigger will enable or disable this) The option to add an image cover for the Series and for each Document of the Series Another great improvement would be to have a esteemed toke use near each filed that will actually used by AI when generating text, this way the user can choose if to enable or disable parts of the Story Bible from being used by AI. And When choosing Write or Extend or something that will actively use the AI, you can show a Confirmation prompt showing how many token we are using (esteemed).

Techno Dominium 12 days ago

💡 Feature Request

Worldbuilding Changes Needed

I recently came over from an outdated platform to this solution and found that the main component of Sudowrite is amazing and light years ahead of your competition, especially when I tested out several other options writing just under 100,000 words in 3 different programs. However I am hesitant to move my current character information over. There seems to be a lack of functionality in your worldbuilding component. Even an antiquated system such as Scrivener provides more organization context within the worldbuilding format. Don’t get me wrong, comparing Sudowrite to Scrivener is similar to comparing night and day. Sudowrite is superior for writing in every way 1990’s vs 2020 technology. I would ask that some attention is given to the worldbuilding before you fall behind to another competitor as I have sampled some better worldbuilding management features from other programs. Your worldbuilding component has a great foundation with the ability to shut off visibility in each field from the AI. Its also easy to change field names or add traits. But compared to your competition that is the extent of your superiority. Once I started adding new characters and spell skills and their tiers, I found myself scrolling endlessly down a list of names and fields. What I am looking for is an organizational process to manage both the world and the characters. I have 2 books as old school fantasy novels and 2 books as LITRpg as their sequel. And here lies the problem, with one of my LITRpg characters. I have 18+ field boxes. 6 for current spells 6 non-visible fields for spell progression, background, behavior, family (No tie in option in sudowrite), Growth field for life altering events, field for plot exposed both visible and non visible, tie in boxes from the prequel books. So 19-20 fields? What Sudowrite’s needs is more organization within characters and worldbuilding. The suggestions I am mentioning are because I was unable to find fixes in your help and through you tube tutorial videos which most are outdated by a year. If I could suggest a few fixes. Adding in filters, If I want to look up historical events or LITRpg messages that I created a worldbuilding box for. I can select the custom name in the filter and it will bring up all those option. In the fantasy books in Scrivener, I have 221 characters with less than 30 that are ongoing characters. Scrolling in the current sudowrite aspect would be difficult. There I just select a drop down arrow and I pull up the characters while I am writing. Click on that character and I have more drop down options. and so forth. A multiple filtering option for LITRpg if possible. For example LITRpg, filter that category and then subcategory system messages, achievements, warnings from spell misfires for example. Characters need to be easier to manage. I don’t need to see a character that is part of a plot line from book 1 not appearing until book 5. Even though I am adding references to that character mentioned as I write. That character doesn’t need to be scrolled through every time I look for a supporting character. In Sudowrite in 109,000 words I currently have 14 characters that I don’t need to see for another book or 2. I have 21 worldbuilding events that are hints at future events. 11 LITRpg events, 6 cities I mentioned with characters referenced in them, 4 academies that are at this time only as references with professors who came from those schools and talks infrequently about them. These are things I don’t need to constantly fill my list and I should have a process to move them to avoid them from cluttering my field of my main story plot characters but easily accessible to add notes into as they are referenced. In Squibler I had a drop down option to pull cities down, then I have buildings, people, events, misc characters (incase I need a name of someone later on) and I can drop those fields down to find who or what I am looking for add the notes and done. In Sudowrite, I have to scroll through all the characters or fields to find it. Maybe an option to put it into future events so it removes it to another field like worldbuilding, characters, outline, synopsis Spell management- Killer option in Sudowrite. I think Dabble and Squibler were made by the same guy as I tested them as they are very similar but Dabble had a plot management tool which is similar to Sudowrites but A lot more easier to use and build. With every character having spells in my books (for the most part) Having to scroll through the fields is painful. In dabbler I click on the plots window and then the characters, click on the character and one of the blocks or sticky notes is the the spell fields. I open it. I have a blocks with the current spells, horizontally 1-6 and below them I have a block (closed or a single sticky note) with the spells future progression. In Squibler, I click the character name, go to the spell, click the spell and it moves me from the writing window to the spell information. Then I click on the chapter I was writing and I have my information but its not always fluid in the supposed process. In Sudowrite, I open another window on PC, scroll to the spell (I have it in both character and worldbuilding because 20 fields were too much to scroll through to get that one spell information. And I open it up and get the information. When I update it in Sudowrite I update both the character and the worldbuilding spell. Maybe drop down fields under the character to choose what I am looking for?

christopher morin about 1 month ago

💡 Feature Request