How to write a story with AI and keep it yours
An AI partner can draft fast, but the story still needs you. These steps cover the choices that matter most, from the first line to the tenth chapter, in any genre you like.
An AI story partner for every genre
SpicyLores is built around one idea: you bring the story, and the AI does the heavy lifting with you. Type a line about what you picture. It can be a romance, a dark fantasy, a fanfic set in a world you already love, or a scene where you play one character and the AI plays the rest. The AI asks up to three questions about what your line leaves open, such as whose eyes we see through or how the first chapter should end, and you can skip any of them.
Then you choose the heat and the chapter length, from about 500 words for a quick read to several thousand when a scene needs room, and pick a writer persona or none. The writing itself happens in the full writing app with a free account, and every chapter remembers the names, secrets and promises of the one before it.
Start with a person who wants something
A setting alone gives the AI very little to do. A person who wants something, and a reason they cannot simply have it, gives it a whole story. "A lighthouse" is a picture. "A lighthouse keeper who finds a letter addressed to her, dated tomorrow" is a first chapter.
Pick the genre before the details
Romance, fantasy, fanfic, role-play, thriller or something quieter: the funnel asks this first because it changes everything after it. A romance needs two people and something in their way. A thriller needs a clock. A role-play needs a part for you to play and someone worth talking to.
Answer the questions that matter to you
The follow-up questions are written from your own line, so they ask about the gaps in it. Answer the ones you care about and skip the rest. A skipped question is not a mistake; it simply leaves that choice to the writer.
Match the heat and the length to the story
Heat runs from no romance at all to the highest levels for readers 18 and over, and this site only shows the gentle end. A short chapter of about 500 words suits a quick scene, while a slow-building romance or a mystery with clues to plant reads better at a few thousand words.
Choose a voice, or none
Spicy writes boldly and keeps the pace up. Pyra lets tension build one glance at a time. Onyx leans darker and likes a dangerous turn. No Writer gives you a plain voice to shape yourself. Any of them can write any genre; the persona only changes how it sounds.
Keep it going
- End each chapter one beat before the payoff, so the next one has something to deliver.
- Ask for a rewrite of a single scene when the tone drifts, rather than starting over.
- Keep a short list of names and promises; the writer remembers them, and it helps you too.
- Switch to role-play mode when you want to speak as a character instead of narrating.
Three openings, three genres
A fantasy road, a role-play in the fog and a quiet literary one. Your idea gets its own.
Sample opening
The road to Varn
The idea: A court mage is sent to guard the exiled princess she once failed to protect.
The princess did not look up when Maren rode into the yard. She was sharpening a knife she was not supposed to own, and she kept at it while the escort dismounted around her. "They sent you," she said at last. "Of all of them." Five years ago Maren had been nineteen days into the post of royal guard when the palace burned, and she had carried the wrong sister out. Everyone in the kingdom knew it. Nobody had ever said it to her face. "The road to Varn is long," Maren said. "You can hate me the whole way, Highness. Just do it on horseback." The princess tested the blade against her thumb. Then she stood, slid the knife into her boot and walked to the second horse without a word. At the gate she turned in the saddle. "If you fail me twice," she said quietly, "I will not be the one who forgives you."
Sample opening
The customs house
The idea: I play a smuggler on one last run, and the customs officer who caught me last time is waiting.
The fog has come in thick over the harbor, which should be good luck. You tie the boat off below the customs house and keep your hat low. Three crates, one buyer and a pocket of forged papers. Then a lamp lifts on the dock above you. "Evening," says Inspector Adaeze Obi, as if the two of you had planned to meet. She caught you once before, two winters ago, and let you go for reasons she never explained. You have thought about those reasons more than you would admit. She comes down the steps slowly, her coat dark with rain, and stops a single pace away. Her eyes go to the crates, then back to you. "I could open those," she says. "Or you could tell me why you came back to my harbor, when there are a hundred others on this coast." The lamp hisses between you. She is waiting, and she is in no hurry.
Sample opening
Footnote seventeen
The idea: A translator falls for the author she is translating, one footnote at a time.
The first email from Tomas Varga was four lines long and ended with an apology for the length of his sentences. Ines had been translating his novel for a month by then, and she already knew he never apologized on the page. His narrator was cruel and funny and never sorry about anything. She wrote back with a question about chapter three. He answered with two pages. By April their emails had their own footnotes, numbered, because neither of them could stop adding things. Footnote seventeen was about the café in the book, the one with the cracked mirror, and whether it was real. It was, he wrote. He went there most evenings. She read that line four times. Then she opened the manuscript and found the sentence she had been avoiding for a week, the one where his narrator finally says what he wants, and she translated it so carefully that it took her the rest of the night.