For a few years now, the Photoshop plugin creator Mediachance has also offered the desktop CQuill Writer 1.x creative writing software, this being an affordable $60 standalone helper / story-organiser / style-prompter. After much development over the winter this has just been renamed NovelForge 3.x and 3.x can link to powerful LLM AIs (aka ‘chatbots’), which work directly in its editor window.
It uses the same user registration as CQuill, and I tested this… and yes… NovelForge picked up my old CQuill registration details. Just download the NovelForge trial installer, and it will automatically pick up your CQuill registration and also import the old project files. The user interface and workflow possibilities are much the same, with only a new AI assistant tab.
There’s a video on How to setup NovelForge with OpenRouter for free, to access remote LLM AIs. As you can see here, it can also work with local desktop AI hosting suites…
Use cases: paraphrasing; condensing; dialogue fixing (e.g. speech of the time period, regional accent and dialect, prevailing courtesy mannerisms etc); coherence and readability; cliche and modern slang avoidance; crafting more believable character responses e.g. emotional / logical / humorous; adding world-building details and names; quick research assistance; potentially also a ‘stylisation makeover’ (‘write it like Lovecraft’) and scene extension (‘suggest three events that might happen next, one of which should be plausible but unlikely’). And so on.
In the past I’ve mentioned that I plan to use my registered CQuill to distill a ‘Lovecraft Style’ module (doing so is only possible in the paid version). This is still planned, and (as with the further novels I hope to write one day) I’ll find the time and energy eventually.