What I have found that works is to give the LLM the "world" outline at the beginning and then just feed it one line summary of each chapter and get it to write a chapter at a time.
The problem is that the quality of results drastically decreases as the context length increases. After about 10 chapters the dialogue will start to get real snippy. I've tried getting it to summarize all the previous chapters and feed that back in, but it never includes enough detail.
Brandon Sanderson has a great series of lectures on how he approaches it that are awesome ->
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSH_xM-KC3ZvzkfVo_Dls...
You will get so many mental benefits from writing, too. I promise it is worth it. AI is a great tool if you hit a block and need to brainstorm.
My other problem is... lack of time :)
I am working on some world-building for something I want to write one day, but I am trying just to write little things to help. I write a lot of nonfiction stuff for work, but I am worried that it might not translate as well to characters...
For example, with filters right now you can do things like show me hard sci fi with AI: https://shepherd.com/bookshelf/hard-science-fiction?topics=Q...
Reddit is also a great source for recommendations: https://www.reddit.com/r/booksuggestions/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasybooks/ https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/
Humans write books, AI is for doing the dishes or laundry :)
Not really. Everyone recommends the same 20 books that most have read or at least considered.
Let me give you an example that is real to me. I'd like to - 1. Read a fantasy series that pairs a human male and elf female romantically over the course of the series. - 2. What i'm looking for is to read the challenges of two fantasy races that aren't on very good terms so just being an elf won't really cut it. - 3. I also want a love interest that is a big active character in the story so not just a dozen mentions in a book. - 4. Obviously, i have to like the book(s).
It doesn't even have to be elves, it's just much harder trying to find such recs from a bespoke species.
You would think this would be an easy enough recommendation. Elves are the fantasy race after all and they usually aren't on the best of terms with humans. But it's not.. and at this point, i could give you more obscure recommendations that meet at least requirement 1, than you'd get in the vast majority of reddit threads. I spent months going through general amazon/goodreads recs and goodreads shelves with elves and still came out wanting.
Once you are even a little bit specific, options decay and if they exist, they are hard to find.
Shepherd looks good though
That type of deep analysis is hard, as nobody has access to inside the books (unless your are FB and do it illegally, plus have billions of compute dollars to spend) :)