Different LLMs write 9and “think” differently. I use Novelcrafter so I’ll often generate the first chapter of a book using the big three (Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT) to see which best gives me the style of prose I want. But you often see those three just regurgitating the same idea when you’re brainstorming. Last week both GPT and Gemini literally gave me the same novel idea, which makes you wonder how many other people they delivered that idea to as well. So for brainstorming, I often go to the lesser used models like Deepseek, KIMI, Le Chat (Mistral), Longcat, Grok, etc.

My personal approach to pen names is to only create a new one if none of the current names would have written the book. So right now, I write screenplays and a novella series under my own name, and have an adult novel pen name, a YA/New Adult name (which is my primary writing persona), and one for erotic novels just to keep them in their own lane. I’ve only got so much time and energy, and every new pen name is just one more thing I have to manage. But if I were using AI to wrote a book or more a week, then I’d probably have a hundred pen names just to avoid the wroth of the anti-AI crowd. But you wouldn’t be doing much marketing for each of those names. If I got to that point, I’d probably create a “publishing company”, bundle all the names under that umbrella, and then promote the various authors through the one channel. Not sure how well that will work but the side of me that wants to spend more time sitting in the sun with a good book and a glass of wine thinks it’s a good idea.

Do you mean everything ran into a single long paragraph or that there wasn’t a blank line between paragraphs? If it’s the latter then that’s normal. Novels use an indent to indicate a new paragraph and an extra blank line to represent a new scene.

And I’ve never used Word but I assume it has the same features as Apple’s Pages app, so if you want a space between paragraphs, you’d adjust the formatting options to increase the paragraph spacing rather than adding a line. None of the book formatting tools I use (primarily Vellum) would format the book properly if you gave them a file with a blank line between paragraphs.

This is just something I came across through the week. The reason I don’t use Antigravity is that I’m locked into their choice of AI, and I’ve got to build writing workflows from scratch. This solves both of those issues for me. I’m not sure I’d use it over antigravity if they start charging for it, but then I’m not using Antigravity at all unless I can find a way to link it to my OpenRouter account, so I’m happy to play with this while it’s free.

@Kris Groth If you want to start right in the action, add "begin in medias res" to the start. if you haven't come across it, it's Latin for "In the middle of things" and in narrative terms means skip the lead-up and jump right in on that first beat.

@Dana Sacco If you trawl the Novelcrafter Discord, there are a couple of prompts that jeailbreak Claude (actually any LLM except ChatGPT) to write at whatever heat level you like. There's also a prompt that lets you take a more conservative scene and rewrite to your specified heat level and word count.