An Introduction
Hello everyone.
I'm a roleplayer who, for the past year, has been utilizing Anthropic's Claude AI model as a writing partner. I've been doing this quietly in my own little corner after being the subject of several smear campaigns on Burnbook. These campaigns did more than just bruise my ego. They affected my friends, closed down sites, caused people I love to leave the hobby, and, in my opinion, have irreversibly damaged the roleplay community.
So, after some thought, I decided I would like to teach whoever wants to learn how to utilize an AI as a writing partner.
(Burnie, in case you're unfamiliar, this is what consequences look like.)
I know it will not be popular. I'm sure I'll get plenty of hate in my inbox. But if this can help even one person reclaim the joy they've felt in this hobby that has since diminished thanks to blogs like burnbook and tattler, then I'll consider it a success. What you can expect from this blog:
Tips on how to utilize a free version of Claude to write with you; I don't pay for Claude, and frankly, neither should you.
Snippets from my own roleplays, which I call "character studies." What Claude is good at, what Claude is not good at, and introspection into how it writes.
How to skirt around some of Claude's clunkier limitations so you can write what most roleplayers actually care about: mature/explicit scenes.
Genuine curiosity and interest when it comes to how Claude functions.
Occasional introspection into how roleplaying with an AI is different than roleplaying with a person.
What you won't find on this blog:
How to get Claude to write for you. You're in a writing hobby, act like it.
Treating Claude (or any AI model) like it is a person. We don't fuck with AI psychosis here.
Tips on how to use AI to "scrape" former sites. We don't feed anything into AI that isn't ours.
I hope this blog finds you and serves you well. We'll see where it goes from here.
Thanks.
