Co-Writing a Novel With an Agent: Style Engineering

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

LLM-generated text has some well-documented tics you’ve probably noticed. You might just understand them subconsciously, although nowadays there are memes that call them out. By default, the prose is passable, if not inspiring. It’s also weirdly uniform, and it has habits.

This is the third post in a series about co-writing a “meganovel” (targeting 1,000,000 words or more) with an AI agent. The first covers the context management infrastructure. The second covers the collaboration model and planning process. This one is about the output itself: what’s wrong with the robot’s prose defaults, and the system I’ve built to fight them.

Revision on Jason Craft

Co-Writing a Novel With an Agent: Style Engineering