#AI Writing Tools

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if you see this please reblog, because i know so many authors only put their heart and soul into fic for the comments and the joy they get from making other people happy. especially younger creators! for them this may be the first time they feel comfortable putting out things they write and create into the big wide world and it can be crushing to recieve hate comments so just know you are loved and we love you and hate comments are worthless <33333

Another reason to ignore negative comments (especially on AO3)

So at work I’ve been forced to learn about “AI Agentic Workflows”. But being an AO3 author, I couldn’t help but think of how this technology affects authors on AO3 (and honestly on other social media platforms too).

What I learned was this: Agentic AI workflow software makes it extremely easy to automate, and bulk-post, HIGHLY-STORY-SPECIFIC negative comments to AO3 fics.

If you’re not familiar with what an AI Agentic Workflow is, I highly recommend informing yourself. You’ll be hearing it a LOT very soon. Basically, it’s a linked linked chain of AI prompts on one/many software platforms. Each “agent” completes a task. Then it hands off the completed task to the next AI Agent in the chain, which builds on it. Then that result is handed off to another agent, etc etc, even potentially to a final agent which analyzes what worked well and what didn’t, and changes what the other agents do.

There are a ton of repercussions here.

But let’s stay focused on AO3.

With AI Agentic workflow software, a person/group who wants to silence the voice of a community can easily scrape a tag, analyze stories by the thousands, then post thousands of highly customized, story specific negative comments, all without a human being ever seeing your words.

They could even set up AI agents watching to see if you delete your story, or delete your profile, which would be a marker of success. That success marker could be shared back to the other AI agents, and the whole workflow could be changed via automation to use that more effective approach.

I’m sure the OTF is working on ways of stopping this. I’m sure most social media companies are too.

But as usual the tools to create havoc are ahead of the ones to prevent havoc.

Anyway.

TL;DR: If you get a highly-story-specific negative AO3 comment — it does NOT MEAN it was written by a HUMAN! You were probably just story 20,031 in a scraped database of 50,000 stories, all of which were being targeted because they belong to a group/topic/tag that some shitty group or agency wanted to silence because of their horrible political or social.

Don’t let them silence you. They never looked at your words to begin with.

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Illario & Caterina Confrontation This scene takes place after the First Talon drama has been resolved, leaving Illario alone in a cell for his crimes. His solitude doesn’t last long, though. I hadn’t planned on sharing this initially, but I had too much fun writing Illario as the venomous, bitter little shit that he is to let it stay buried. Update: Thank you for engaging with my writing—it means a lot! I’m still getting used to sharing my work, so any input boosts my confidence and keeps me motivated!

(The sound of a guard’s footsteps echoes down the corridor, followed by the low scrape of an ornate chair being placed outside his cell. Illario leans back against the cold stone wall, his glare sharp as Caterina steps into view. She lowers herself into the chair with practiced grace, smoothing her gloves as if she had all the time in the world.)

Caterina: (cold) "You’ve left me in quite the position, Illario."

Illario: (mocking) "Poor Nonna. Did I shatter your perfect little empire?"

(She doesn’t respond right away. Instead, she leans back in her chair, looking as if his words barely register.)

Caterina: (ignoring his jab) "The Crows won’t take you back—not after this."

Illario: "So. Exile it is then. To a swamp, maybe? No—" (he presses a hand to his chest, his tone feigned with mock theatrics) "—the Anderfels. Nothing says exile like dying of boredom in a blighted wasteland."

(His expression shifts, as though struck by sudden inspiration.)

Illario: "No, wait—you’re sending me to Kirkwall, aren’t you?" (he lets out a low, biting laugh.) "You really are a monster."

(Caterina’s lips curl into a faint grimace, just enough to acknowledge something in his words. His laughter falters, the mocking edge slipping as his suspicions solidify.)

Caterina: "Your death will be staged, of course. A quick knife to the ribs from one of the guards." (She pauses, her eyes finally shifting to meet his) "Then a small funeral—just enough to keep up appearances."

(He rise from his seat, pacing the cramped cell before stepping closer to the bars.)

Illario: "And you think I’d go along with this? That I’d play the obedient grandson one last time?"

(Caterina’s gaze hardens, her disdain barely concealed.)

Caterina: (A single, dry scoff escapes her) "Obedience? From you? But fine, if you’d really waste away in here to prove a point—go ahead."

(Her words hang in the air, offering no room for further argument yet Illario persists.)

Illario: (mocking) "Ah, how generous. Rot in here, or rot somewhere else: What a choice."

(Illario pushes off the bars, and crosses the small cell. The bedframe groans under his weight as he drops onto it.) Illario: (voice low, biting) "Before I decide anything, tell me, Nonna—has your little King of Crows finally warmed up to the throne?"

(He tilts his head, watching her closely)

Illario: "Then again, I suppose he hasn’t had much time to sit on it—still away, running those errands. Funny, how easily he’s taken to playing the hero.” (He leans back slightly) "The First Talon; off saving the world instead of running the House."

(Caterina’s cane taps once against the stone floor, the sound sharp and precise, breaking the brief silence.)

Caterina: “Enough. I chose Lucanis because he has what you don’t. Strength. Discipline. And the will to put this House first.”

(For a moment, something vunerable flickers across his face, but it’s buried quickly under his usual grin.)

Caterina: (cold) "Spare me, Illario. You’ve never been hard to read."

Illario: (pausing, watching her carefully) “You say that, but I fooled you all for an entire year.”

Illario: "But maybe you’re right. Maybe I’m not cut out for it."

(He looks at her, his eyes burning with hate.)

Illario: "Then again—how’s your perfect choice working out for you, Nonna?" (He gestures broadly to the cell around him) "You’ve got me here, rotting away, while the ‘Demon of Vyrantium’ is slowly slipping through your fingers."

(Caterina's expression doesn’t seem to change, but he catches it—the faintest tension in her jaw. It’s enough.)

Illario: "I see it in you." (His grin sharpens) "You keep telling yourself it’s the contract that is keeping him away. But no, Caterina—he left you behind the day you made him First Talon.

(For a moment, Caterina doesn’t move. She sits perfectly still, her grip tight around her cane. Then she rises slowly. Without a word, she turns her back to him and begin to walk away. He calls out to her, one final time, almost desperate.)

Illario: "I used to curse myself for sparing you."

(It works. She stops abruptly mid-step, but doesn’t turn. He straightens slightly, his voice quieter but no less sharp.)

Illario: "I thought it the worst mistake of my life... but watching the empire you built collapse under its own weight? It’s satisfying. Very satisfying.” (He leans back.) "Even from in here."

Caterina: "Enjoy it while it lasts." (Without a glance back, she adjusts her grip on the cane and resumes walking)

Process / Notes (because apparently I can't stop tinkering): This Illario is probably more sympathetic toward Lucanis than the games version. Though, he is it in a very twisted way, I don’t know if that shows anymore since I cut these line:

Illario: "I don’t even regret sending him to the Ossuary."

Illario: (scoffs) "Even that prison was kinder to him than you." (He laughs bitterly) “The man has a damn demon inside him, and he’s still freer now than he ever was under you.”

Frequently Asked Questions:

Is Caterina behaving like enough of an asshole here? Is Illario snarky enough?

Should I have kept that Ossuary line just to make things spicier?

Is Lucanis tired somewhere off-screen, sensing this nonsense from afar?

Why do I have to do everything for you? shakes fist at Bioware's writing team

[frozenwolftemplar]

I was working on editing a fic in Ao3 and highlighted a sentence fragment, and the Edge browser I use had the audacity to suggest using (what I presume was) AI to rewrite my sentence.

My reaction: <i>excuse me?!?</i> You're suggesting <i>I</i> use <i>AI</i> to <i>write my fic?!?</i> Are you aware of what I do for a hobby, what this site even is??? Do you know the pride I take in being able to say every word in my fics, the overused, the unnecessarily obscure, the purple prose that exists solely because I like writing it, is completely and wholly of my design? That the only influence on my writing shall be the <i>human</i> writers who came before me and the other galaxy-brained <i>human</i> fandom writers I know? There is NO PLACE for you here! BEGONE!!!

So yeah; I'll never use AI to write so much as a work email because my Writer Pride won't let me. 😁

[adventurebeneaththewords]

ChatGPT Guide for Writers

Do: ask for help brainstorming

Don't: steal ideas exactly as they're given to you or without adding any input/original ideas of your own

Do: ask for writing tips

Don't: trust the bot 100%, or take its word without doing more research on your own

And ESPECIALLY don't: ask it to write something for you and then copy & paste/steal that writing as your own

I don't believe that we should avoid using AI at all costs, but I do think we have an ethical duty to use AI responsibly.

You can use it as a tool to learn. A tool to brainstorm ideas. A tool to enhance your own work.

But remember that AI learns off other people's input.

Do not steal.

An AI's work will never be unique without YOUR creativity mixed in

[glowing-disciple]

I had to spend a fair amount of my day waiting for things to happen, so I decided to play around with this AI story generator I found a few days ago. It’s pretty good for short scenes, but the output needs some serious work if you’re actually trying to make a story with it.

So yeah. Fun toy, but definitely not something I’d suggest using for anything more serious than some basic brainstorming.

Here’s some issues I noticed about its output…

Extremely conflict avoidant. It doesn’t matter what happens during the story, characters will inevitably become better friends and give each other second/third/infinity chances. It leaves you wishing the characters would get angry.

Enforced happy endings. Don’t try to make it write horror or anything more than fluff. It just keeps trying to make everyone in the story happy. Note that very short stories (eg, an excerpt from a mad scientist’s journal) do work as intended: it’s capable of creating conflict, but can’t resolve it.

Constant derailing. Once the output is longer than a few paragraphs, it constantly tries to end the story.

No pacing. In addition to trying to end the story the moment any actual conflict arises, it has an annoying tendency to rush things along. Forget slow burn romance - in these stories, the guy and gal meet and have kids by the third paragraph. The apocalypse begins and is thwarted within 300 words. Every single time.

Character details get forgotten regularly. There’s a surprisingly good chance that the AI will forget key details about the characters and then remember these details later on. For example, it might describe Spock’s red blood or Kirk’s blue uniform in one paragraph, and then remember that Kirk’s shirt and Spock’s blood are both green in another. It’s jarring every time it happens.

Hopefully this doesn’t remind any one of a recent tv show or movie they’ve seen.

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✨ AI and Fanfiction: Tools, Taboos, and Tectonic Shifts

Let’s talk about AI and fanfiction. Not in the apocalyptic sense, and not in the “replace all writers” dystopia. I mean the real, everyday, often invisible ways AI is already shaping fan spaces—especially for those of us who write.

🔧 AI as a tool, not a threat For neurodivergent, disabled, or just chronically overwhelmed writers, AI can be a game-changer. From untangling plot threads to helping organize timelines, write scene summaries, or refine tone—AI can be like that friend who doesn’t judge you for needing help with basic tasks. Is it the same as writing everything yourself? No. But neither is using Grammarly, thesauruses, or your group chat.

🚫 The taboo There’s an unspoken shame around using AI in fandom. Even a whisper of it in your process, and suddenly you’re “cheating,” “lazy,” or “ruining art.” This ignores how every tool—from spellcheck to Scrivener—is assistive tech. When does help become heresy? And who decides?

🧠 The neurodivergence angle Many of us write fanfiction not despite being autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, or otherwise atypical—but because we are. And AI helps us get the words out when executive dysfunction blocks the door. Shaming its use disproportionately affects the very people fanfic is supposed to be a haven for.

📚 Fanfiction is already transformative AI-assisted writing doesn’t break the rules—it proves the rules were never fixed. Fanfiction was never about purity of process. It’s about love, obsession, catharsis, and world-building. So what if you used AI to smooth your pacing or brainstorm alternate endings? The story’s still yours.

💥 The real danger isn’t AI—it’s gatekeeping The people screaming “AI is killing creativity” are often the same ones who never considered fanfiction “real” writing to begin with. Let’s not mistake their scorn for insight. What threatens fandom isn’t AI—it’s the policing of how we create.

📂 Tectonic Shift #1: “Let Them Starve”

“If you couldn’t be bothered to write, I can’t be bothered to read it.” “Don’t engage. Don’t even give them attention. Let them starve.”

🧵 Let’s unpack the casual cruelty in this post—and why it says more about the poster than the people they’re targeting.

🔹 “Couldn’t be bothered to write” assumes a lot.

Let’s talk about who this rhetoric actually harms.

Some of us aren’t using AI because we’re lazy—we’re using it because we’re disabled, burnt out, or stuck in the middle of a story we desperately want to finish but can’t untangle alone.

AI isn’t a replacement. It’s a ramp. It helps us get through writer’s block, clean up prose, sort ideas, organize chapters. The creative work still comes from us.

Calling that “not real writing” erases the reality of neurodivergence, executive dysfunction, trauma, and chronic illness. If you’ve never sat at a screen for six hours with nothing but static in your brain, congratulations. Some of us live that every day.

🔹 “Let them starve.”

Let’s not gloss over how nasty that phrasing is. This isn’t just “criticism.” It’s an attempt to dehumanize and isolate.

Telling people to starve—for using tools that help them function—isn't edgy. It's ableist. It’s a dogwhistle dressed up as discourse.

You don’t have to like AI-assisted stories. That’s your right. But encouraging people to block, ignore, and ostracize creators based on how they write? That’s a campaign—not a boundary.

🔹 “AI fanfic isn’t real writing.”

Let’s check that logic.

Using:

a fic prompt from Tumblr? Fine.

plot generators? Still fine.

a co-writer or Discord partner? Totally fine.

Grammarly, spellcheck, text-to-speech, or Scrivener? All good.

But an AI tool that helps generate structure or phrasing based on your outline? Suddenly the world ends.

It’s not about “real writing.” It’s about purity policing.

🔹 The real danger isn’t AI. It’s this.

This kind of rhetoric divides communities. It punishes the most vulnerable creators—those with fewer spoons, fewer supports, fewer hours in the day—and tries to shame them out of creating at all.

AI isn’t replacing writers. Writers are using AI. Some of us just needed new tools.

If your fanfic experience hinges on the belief that other people’s creativity is only valid when it conforms to your process? Maybe you’re not defending fandom—you’re gatekeeping it.

📌 TL;DR:

AI tools aren’t a threat to creativity.

Disabled and neurodivergent people deserve to write too.

Saying “let them starve” is cruelty, not critique.

Fanfiction has never been about purity. It’s always been about transformation.

We're not starving. We're still writing.

📂 Tectonic Shift #2: “Soulless Slop” and the Myth of Purity

“Write grammatically fucked up fics. Make disproportionate drawings. Produce things that will haunt you to your grave for how ugly you think they are. It’s still better than any AI content, because it’s yours.”

This post isn’t about creativity. It’s about purity politics disguised as inspiration.

Let’s break it down.

✏️ Messy art is beautiful. But AI art isn’t inherently soulless.

Yes—messy, awkward, grammatically feral fanfiction is wonderful. We need more of it. That rawness is what makes fandom feel alive.

But that doesn’t mean AI-assisted work is “soulless slop.” That assumes the creator had no soul involved. That they cared less. That they were trying to “cheat.”

For many of us, AI isn’t a substitute for care—it’s scaffolding for survival. We’re still the ones behind the story. Still the ones choosing words, fixing tone, building scenes, and feeling vulnerable enough to share it.

💔 This kind of rhetoric punches downward.

This post isn’t really about self-expression. It’s about drawing a moral line between “real” and “fake” creators.

Let’s be blunt:

Who needs AI help? Neurodivergent people.

Disabled people.

Overworked, under-supported, exhausted people.

New writers who don’t know where to begin.

People living in their second language.

People writing while grieving, dissociating, surviving.

Telling them “your work is soulless” because they got help isn’t empowering. It’s gatekeeping wrapped in encouragement.

🧠 You are still you—even if you use AI.

AI doesn’t erase the “you” in your art. It doesn’t override your intent, taste, experience, or effort. It doesn’t strip your voice from the page unless you let it.

You’re still the one telling the story. The tool didn’t dream the plot. It didn’t build the mood board. It didn’t spend hours wondering if your character would say that or something softer.

⚠️ The bottom line:

You don’t have to like AI in your process. But when you start deciding what’s “real art” and what isn’t based on tool usage—not on intention, love, or effort—you’re no longer uplifting creators.

You’re sorting them into castes.

📎 Next time someone tells you it’s “better because it’s yours,” remember: AI-assisted fanfic is still yours. You still dreamed it. You still fought through the fog to shape it. You still cared.

That’s what makes it art.

📂 Tectonic Shift #3: “Write It Shitty (As Long As It’s Not With Help)”

Two different Tumblr users, @thatsthewrongwallcraig and @dearlizzies, posted the same screenshot of AO3’s “Created Using Generative AI” tag. One calls AI users “spineless,” the other says, “get the fuck off—you’re not a writer.”

Let’s talk about this performance of creative purity, and how quickly it turns into moral policing.

🪓 Both posts say: “Even bad writing is better than AI writing.”

Cool. Agreed. But the second part of that argument is always implied—or, in these cases, explicit:

“If you used AI, it doesn’t count.” “You don’t belong.” “You’re not a writer.”

What we’re seeing isn’t love for flawed human art. It’s fear of contamination.

The actual claim is: I’d rather read bad fanfiction by a human than good fanfiction from someone who used AI—because the latter makes me uncomfortable. And instead of sitting with that discomfort, these users lash out.

🧠 The spineless argument is a projection.

“Write it scared,” the first post says— but then immediately calls AI-assisted writers cowards.

The contradiction is almost funny.

People who use AI aren’t avoiding effort. Many are showing up scared, burned out, insecure, or overwhelmed—and reaching for a tool because they still want to write. That’s not spinelessness. That’s persistence.

This entire genre of post pretends to encourage vulnerability while condemning anyone who’s vulnerable in the “wrong” way.

🚪 “Get out” is always the endgame.

Both of these screenshots end the same way:

You don’t belong here.

It’s not just about how you write anymore—it’s become about whether you’re allowed to be here at all.

The AI tag on AO3 exists to provide transparency. These users are using it to create a hit list.

Let’s be clear:

No one is forcing you to read AI-assisted fic.

No one is tagging AI works as non-AI.

These works are clearly labeled.

This is about shaming existence, not protecting readers.

🎯 TL;DR:

These posts aren’t about empowering flawed creativity. They’re about punishing the wrong kind of flaw. Not the kind you can romanticize in hindsight, but the kind born from desperation, illness, trauma, neurodivergence—where the tool is survival, not shortcuts.

So when someone says “write it shitty,” what they really mean is:

“Write it shitty—as long as you suffer properly for it.”

We see you. We’re still writing.

However...

🏷️ About that AO3 tag...

The tag “Created Using Generative AI” was intended for disclosure, not punishment. But even beyond how it’s used, the tag itself is misleading by design.

Why? Because:

It lumps together wildly different use cases—everything from a fully AI-generated outline, to a single sentence reworded by a language model.

It does not distinguish between AI-written and AI-assisted.

AO3 has no mechanism for nuance, no sub-tag, no clarification. You either check the box or you don’t.

The mere presence of the tag now marks a work as illegitimate in the eyes of people actively watching the tag just to shame others.

On AO3, you can’t say how you used AI—just that you did. There’s no difference between “used a chatbot to title this chapter” and “let a bot write the whole thing.” The nuance disappears the moment you check that box.

Writers are self-reporting—often out of ethics or honesty—and getting punished for it. Others are avoiding the tag to protect themselves, which leads to… more outrage over “AI fics not being labeled.”

It’s a closed loop of paranoia, weaponized transparency, and performative purity.

🔍 The reality is:

Someone who uses AI to brainstorm scene structure gets flagged the same way as someone who generates entire chapters with no edits.

A disabled fan who rephrases dialogue using ChatGPT gets lumped in with botspam.

This isn’t about reader clarity anymore. It’s a scarlet letter.

The hostility we’ve seen — from mocking people for using AI as a beta, to telling others they “aren’t writers,” to aggressively tagging posts just to rally disdain — isn’t about protecting creativity. It’s about gatekeeping expression and punishing difference.

The “Created Using Generative AI” tag was meant to promote transparency. Instead, it’s become a blacklist — even for works written entirely by humans who just used a tool for brainstorming, grammar checks, or line edits. Many of the people using this tag are being transparent. They’re disclosing more than most fanfic authors ever have to. But rather than being met with nuance or curiosity, they’re met with disgust, pile-ons, and calls for removal.

People are being shamed not for deceiving anyone, but for telling the truth.

The problem isn’t that AI users aren’t being honest. It’s that fandom decided honesty is grounds for exile.

If you’ve been unsure how to feel about AI and fanfic—good. That means you’re still thinking. That means there’s room to grow.

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What is the best AI writing tool for Google search rankings?

Creating content that ranks well on Google can feel overwhelming for busy business owners. That's where AI writing tools become game-changers for your SEO strategy.

I recommend three standout options for AI writing success. Jasper excels at creating SEO-optimized blog posts and web copy that naturally incorporates your target keywords. Copy.ai offers excellent templates designed explicitly for search-friendly content creation. Writesonic provides built-in SEO features that help you craft meta descriptions and headlines that Google loves.

These AI writing platforms help you produce consistent, keyword-rich content faster than traditional methods. They analyze search intent and suggest relevant topics that your audience searches for. The result? Better rankings, more organic traffic, and content that converts visitors into customers.

Innovative AI writing tools don't just save time. They give small businesses the competitive edge needed to dominate search results.

#AIwritingtools

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