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NovelCrafter

AI-assisted fiction workshop with codex and prompts you control

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NovelCrafter is a paid AI writing workshop for fiction: you keep a codex of characters and lore, and drive prompts yourself. It is aimed at authors who want AI help without giving up structure.

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