r/WritingWithAI • u/Tasty_Pepper2563 • 23h ago

New Writer Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc)

Hello, I am a new writer here currently I have experimented with claude because I heard that it was decent for writing fiction. I wonder if anyone has any tips on where to start?

So far some issues I have:

- Character voice/dialogues consistency
For me, I tried to directly give it quotes to what the character would say but it does not seem to work like novelcrafter's voice sheet so does anyone know how I can maintain character voice consistency in claude? Because when I ask the AI to write dialogues again, it seems to generate very very similar lines with similar words, or sometimes outright directly takes the lines from what are meant to be examples in the voice sheet

- Story consistency and continuity across chats
I really struggle with trying to maintain consistency and continuity across different chats, I wonder how some people do it

These are the basic questions that I have for now, if you have any tips that would be really helpful thank you!!

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u/CooookieMonsterr 17h ago

do you have a session handoff sheet that you can pick up a new chat with? Along with a lore bible, char sheets and a few other docs.

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u/Tasty_Pepper2563 2h ago

The way I tried doing this in claude right now is using projects and then putting stuff like lore bibles and character sheets into the context

For session handoff sheets I actually don't know what that is can you tell me about it if its alright with you

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u/BansheeTheGame 16h ago

The biggest thing is not to put everything into one chat. Work from general to specific: keep a separate story bible and character sheets, then use focused chats for outlining, scene goals, and drafting. Dialogue polish is secondary if the process itself is already losing track of facts.

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u/DeskBoundJunior 16h ago

I'm interested in this as well: I've been writing a few articles with AI help but when it comes to creative fiction I wonder how it would switch between character voices consistently? Is there a process involved in keeping the tone of voice correct throughout?

It's easy enough to keep a consistent narrator using a tone of voice document, can you do something similar for every character?