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I'm doing some experiments in LLM (historical) fiction writing. I feel like we can get pretty good writing out of an LLM (especially Sonnet) with enough prompting, reasoning, and guided thinking. Still with a human as producer and guidance.

I'm trying to use this to create stories that would be somewhat unreasonable to write otherwise. Branching stories (i.e., CYOA), multiperspective stories, some multimedia. I'm still trying to figure out the narrative structures that might work well.

LLMs can overproduce and write in different directions than is reasonable for a regular author. Though even then I'm finding branching hard to handle.

The big challenges are rhythm, pacing, following an arc. Those have been hard for LLMs all along.