Building the World, a Lore Dictionary
How TypeTak's World came to be: starting from AI forgetting what came earlier in a novel, and ending with a lore dictionary that people read and the agent writes.
Write a long novel with AI, and the lore you set up early gets blurry later on. This series is a record, in order, of what I weighed, the failures I actually ran into, and the answers I chose while building TypeTak's World to fix that. Each post answers one question.
- 1Part 1 · Memory · 7 min
Why Does AI Forget the Earlier Parts of Your Novel?
Why AI loses track of story details in a long novel, and how the two ways of looking earlier material back up (RAG and files) differ.
- 2Part 2 · Structure · 8 min
A Story Bible Template, and What a Wiki Taught Me
I was looking for a story bible template that's easy for people to read and that AI can fill in on its own. I found my lead in the character pages of Namuwiki, a Korean community wiki.
- 3Part 3 · Duplicates · 5 min
Same Character, Different Names: Preventing Duplicate Lore
In novels where one character goes by a surname, a given name, and a nickname, here's what I did to keep AI from creating the same lore twice.
- 4Part 4 · Three kinds · 6 min
Three Kinds of Worldbuilding Lore: Graph, Document, Board
Why things like characters and places, a backdrop like eras and principles, and the story itself like events and scenes ended up stored in three different shapes.
- 5Part 5 · Time · 7 min
Stories Move: Lore That Knows When It's True
In a novel where a seven-year-old grows up and secrets come out, how should a story bible record lore that changes? Here's how I worked through it.
- 6Part 6 · Screens · 5 min
What Does a Story Bible You Actually Want to Open Look Like?
Even a well-organized story bible goes unused if it's a pain to open. This is about borrowing familiar screens and building new ones only for new ideas.