The House with a Million Windows (HWAMW) is an LLM-based interactive fiction system that lets users narrate a story and then view it through a series of AI-generated "windows" that reframe the narrative in various literary styles. The system is grounded in the psychological restorying intervention, aiming to deepen users' exploration of meaning in their personal stories. Empirical results indicate that HWAMW enhances users' sense of narrative identity, and expert reviews suggest it achieves this by facilitating restorying rather than simply generating new content.
arXiv:2601.15295v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interactive narrative (IN) authors craft spaces of divergent narrative possibilities for players to explore, with the player's input determin...
arXiv:2607. 00009v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable proficiency of large language models (LLMs) in basic writing assistance, their utility in creative writing is fundamentally hindered by a persistent binary failure.
arXiv:2606. 22748v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing.
The paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) construct fictional worlds, specifically examining setting as a measurable aspect of storyworld creation. By generating 1,000 AI stories per model in English and German and comparing them to human-authored fiction from Project Gutenberg, the authors classify narrative space into five categories—action, perceived, visual, descriptive, and no space—using fine‑tuned BERT classifiers. Results show that human texts mainly use action space, grounding narratives in character-environment interaction, while LLMs consistently overproduce perceived space, focusing on atmosphere and affect, with this pattern varying by model and language.
CoWriter is a proactive agentic system that adapts expert human co‑authoring methodologies from cognitive science to guide the entire writing workflow and actively encourage user engagement. In an exploratory user study, authors using CoWriter expressed their perspectives more clearly, felt greater ownership of the document, and engaged with the agent 2.2× more often than a standard LLM baseline. External reader judges also rated CoWriter‑generated texts higher in human‑touch qualities such as storytelling and personal experience integration.
arXiv:2602. 15851v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Applications of narrative theories using large language models (LLMs) deliver promising methods in automatic story generation and understanding tasks.
arXiv:2608. 10337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce narrative keyframing, an interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing that lets writers specify different types of narrative constraints at selected moments in a story, then use AI to generate intervening prose.
arXiv:2609.14677v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have changed the way people engage with stories. Drawing on public chatbot logs, we can see that when users generate stori...
The paper investigates how large language models (LLMs) engage with long-form narratives by comparing their generated novel summaries to human-authored ones. Researchers align sentences from 150 human-written summaries to specific chapters, highlighting the challenge of this alignment task and the complexity of summarization. They find stylistic differences and that LLMs tend to focus more on the ends of texts, suggesting insights into why models may struggle with narrative comprehension.
The paper investigates how characters in large language model (LLM)-generated stories compare to those in human-written stories. Using narratological definitions, it analyzes eight complex character dimensions—including stylization and wholeness—to automatically categorize characters in both LLM and human texts. The study then contrasts these categories to answer whether LLMs produce similar and varied character portrayals as human authors.
arXiv:2609.39333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous AI agents can turn authors' goals into interactive narratives by independently organizing and carrying out generation and revision. As age...
arXiv:2607. 00918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive creative fiction generation, they struggle to maintain narrative consistency and coherent plot lines in long-form stories.