Guides

How to do it, whatever you use.

These are written to be useful on their own. Follow any of them with a text file and a chat window and you will be better off, which is the point: a guide that only works if you buy something is an advert with headings.

Why ChatGPT forgets your characters
Four things are called memory and they do different jobs. What is actually happening when the model contradicts chapter four, and the fixes in order of effort.
Give Claude memory of your novel
Projects, project knowledge and MCP connectors, explained for a novelist rather than an engineer. What persists between conversations and what quietly does not.
Keeping a hundred-chapter series consistent
What actually breaks, why the spreadsheet stops working around chapter forty, and the recording habit that survives to book seven. Works with any tool, including none.
A LitRPG stat block template
The full template to copy, and the part nobody writes down: which fields cause continuity failures later, and what to leave to prose instead.

Deciding between tools instead? The comparisons say which of them beats us, and at what.