Hi, I'm Miles Trombley and I have been writing for twenty years before AI became big. I am now using Claude to generate my prose and ChatGPT to help me plan my stories. I joined this group to find new skills and useful advices.

Just came here to share that thanks to the great info provided by Jason, I was finally able to get over my burnout and finish my first full-fledged novel. This is just the first step, I know, but I’m really excited to continue exploring the process of working with AI all the way through publishing. For anyone interested, here’s a breakdown of the tools and the models that I used (and also how much I spent): - RaptorWrite: I decided to use a completely free tool as I didn’t want to pay for NovelCrafter or Sudowrite (I know, free trials are a thing, but I didn’t want the time constraint) → Pros: it’s free, it lets you change LLM easily, also has a solid editing feature; Cons: API with Openrouter (so you pay as you write), sometimes I had to generate the answer multiple times before getting something barely decent (but maybe that’s because I write in Italian). - Favorites LLMs: ChatGPT4-latest and Claude Sonnet 3.5 were basically the only ones I used. I experimented a bit with open-source models, but their Italian was quite atrocious, so I just stuck to what worked best for me. - Future Fiction Academy: Raptorwrite providers also offer several courses on their page. I enrolled in the free ones and I recommend them for learning both the tool and the basics of AI. - Scrivener and Notion for backups: Raptorwrite has no cloud memory, it simply stores your writing on your browser, so if you happen to change it, update it, or delete the caches you could potentially lose all of your progress. For this reason, after each session, I made sure to save both to the browser and then onto Scrivener and Notion. - The data: I ended up with a total of 43k words added to my previous 30k already written. Still, I think I probably generated around 70k words total from November 26th to December 12th and that cost me a grand total of 15 euros (so a pizza+supplì+cola). Something interesting I noticed is that for Italian the token count was different compared to English. It was close to 1:2. I really can’t figure out why, but maybe you do and if you do tell me lol, it drove me insane.