# Category 14 — Creative Writing and Storytelling

This category covers humanization research as it applies to fiction, long-form narrative, and character-driven creative writing. That spans co-writing interfaces and interaction datasets, long-form story-generation pipelines, creativity-psychology-derived evaluation frameworks, open-source fiction frontends and community models, commercial voice-preservation tools, slop detectors, and the practitioner community's evolving playbook. Out of scope: SEO content, marketing copy, and academic prose (other categories). Adjacent categories include style transfer (06), persona/roleplay (15+), and detector-evasion as a vertical (01–02).

## Angle files

- [A-academic.md](A-academic.md) — 31+ papers spanning co-writing interfaces (Wordcraft, CoAuthor, Dramatron, TaleBrush, Storium, CAFES), long-form story-generation pipelines (Fan → Re3 → DOC → Weaver → CritiCS → StoryWriter → DOME), creativity-psychology evaluation (TTCW, CAT, AUT), LLM-specific benchmarks (BooookScore, LongLaMP, NoveltyBench, EQ-Bench, lechmazur/writing V4), homogenization studies (Doshi & Hauser, Anderson et al., Reinhart et al., CHI 2025 Western-styles, PNAS Echoes in AI, 2026 diverse-personas mitigation), and HCI design (Lee et al. CHI 2024 design-space survey, Thomas-Mitchell agency study, HAMLET ICLR 2026, Rethinking Creativity Evaluation EACL 2026). **Updated April 2026.**
- [B-industry.md](B-industry.md) — Vendor blogs from Sudowrite (Story Engine 3.0, Muse 1.5 pricing), NovelCrafter (GPT-5 evaluation), AI Dungeon, Character.AI PipSqueak 2 / DeepSqueak 2 roadmap, Replika, and Inworld, plus lab essays from Anthropic and Google LaMDA, and author essayists Max Read (F.O.B. voice), Robin Sloan, Vauhini Vara, Matt Webb, Sam Kriss, and Nathan Lambert. EQ-Bench standings (Claude Sonnet 4.6 #1) and GPT-5.1/5.4 updates added. **Updated April 2026.**
- [C-opensource.md](C-opensource.md) — Fiction frontends (KoboldAI, KoboldCpp, SillyTavern 1.15.0, text-generation-webui Preset Arena), community fiction LLMs (MythoMax, MythoMist, Goliath, Midnight-Miqu, Sao10K/L3.3-70B-Euryale-v2.3, NovelAI Xialong), long-form pipeline systems (Dramatron, Re3/DOC, autonovel, StoryDaemon, StoryWriter CIKM 2025, DOME NAACL 2025), datasets (CoAuthor, WritingPrompts, GPT-WritingPrompts, StoryWriter LongStory), benchmarks (slop-score, EQ-Bench v3, Judgemark-v2, WritingBench, LongGenBench, Prometheus/BiGGen, lechmazur/writing V4), and new indexes (yingpengma/Awesome-Story-Generation). **Updated April 2026.**
- [D-commercial.md](D-commercial.md) — 17 commercial products with updated pricing and features: Sudowrite (Story Engine 3.0, Muse 1.5 pricing tiers), NovelAI (Xialong GLM-4.6 model), NovelCrafter, AI Dungeon, Character.AI (PipSqueak 2, DeepSqueak 2 roadmap), Replika, Inworld, DoppelWriter, AutoCrit, Squibler, Plottr, LivingWriter, Scrivener, Reedsy Studio, Campfire, Laika (shut down), and ShortlyAI/Jasper, plus Kimi K2 (cost-competitive entrant) and notes on Cordecho, StorySmith. **Updated April 2026.**
- [E-practical.md](E-practical.md) — Reddit practitioner forums (r/WritingWithAI, r/NovelAi, r/SillyTavernAI, r/CharacterAI, r/WritingPrompts), Hacker News creative-writing debates, Substack voice essayists (Pajonas, Hassid, Toncheva, Martinez, Balthrop, Dugas, Quick), YouTube author-creators (Nerdy Novelist, Joanna Penn), and viral prompts (Min Choi). SillyTavern 1.15.0 practitioner stack, PNAS Echoes in AI corroboration, Cornell triple-threat study added. **Updated April 2026.**

## Synthesis and legacy summary

- [SYNTHESIS.md](SYNTHESIS.md) — The distilled synthesis across all five angles
- [INDEX.md](INDEX.md) — Legacy category summary, superseded by SYNTHESIS.md, preserved for traceability
