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Show HN: Novel Novel Generator. Recursive Gemini pl wrote 97p coherent nerdy pdf

https://github.com/mike-cramblett/novel-novel-generator
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mcramblett•2h ago
Hi HN! My name is Mike Cramblett. I made a one-prompt novel generator using Gemini 3 for you to try.

This is an early beta (v0.4), but I’m releasing it as a public repo because the results are surprisingly fun. There's a sample novel in the examples/ folder ("GitHub-Man Saves the Universe!") that I generated from just a title.

The Architecture

Instead of a single long context window, I built a recursive pipeline: Initial Prompt -> Story Bible Generator -> Outline Maker -> Chapter Writer -> Continuity Auditor -> Repeat.

The "Secret Sauce" (SCI) I noticed standard LLM characters sound the same. So I created a linguistic fingerprinting technique called SCI (Stylistic Compression Induction). I prompt the Story Planner to assign a "voice anchor" to each character (e.g., "Responds in apocalyptic revelations of cryptic brevity"). It forces the model to filter dialogue through that specific stylistic lens.

Anti-Slop Measures I added a rolling "banned phrases" list. The Summarizer Agent reads the new chapter, identifies "AI-isms" (like "The air was thick with..."), and adds them to a negative constraint list for the next chapter. The final list of banned phrases is hilarious. It's basically a map of the model's own clichés.

Meta-Note I have a CS degree (Harvey Mudd '02) but I didn't write the React/TypeScript code by hand. I prompted Gemini's code assistant to build the whole stack in "free developer mode" while I acted as the PM/Debugger. It was a wild way to build software. I can read the code to debug it, but the AI wrote the syntax. Repo is open source (MIT). Would love to hear if the SCI technique works for your prompts.

(URGENT) War With Venesuela and what to do

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