Thanks for the great feedback!
As @grandmastergoofball mentions, it must have been mind-numbing to go through so many drafts. I guess that the story begins to overwhelm the context window; so that AI looses track of what it has written before and/or looses track of the overall plot. So it unravels.
I agree that human creativity is needed to enable stories to be written and AI can be used an assistant to aid the process.
However from the perspective of someone who is new to the writing space (say my pre-teen nieces), it might be better for the AI to guide them at first. In that context, it is important for the AI to provide some outlines at first and attune them to the act of writing. As they become full blown writers, then they can begin to tune to more taking the initiative to write (and use something like raptorwriter).
Having every piece of configuration generated by the AI being configurable so that it can produce the story; but guided the user; is the goal for me. As a part of doing that, I have introduced a concept called “Ignore Message”. The concept is that certain messages in the conversation (aka specialized theads) can be ignored at chat completion time. Of course this will extend beyond just the “Ignore Message”
The video link (https://youtu.be/PZzKJLk5uP4) illustrates this concept. Sorry; my mic was muted at the time of the recording; but it shows the principle.
I will be adding additional aspects into the conversation thread (such as summaries) so as to not overwhelm the LLMs with the all the details.
It is really mind blowing, when I think about it, how much information do we as writers, keep in mind while writing a novel.