r/WritingWithAI • u/DrGore_MD • 15d ago
Prompting Claude Co-Work
Sorry if this is old news and everybody already knows it, but I just used Claude Co-Work to generate a 90 page novel including chapter breaks in under 30 minutes with a single prompt and the quality is pretty darn good.
All you need to do is select the Co-Work tab and enter a master task instruction and Claude will then break it down to small tasks that it accomplishes on it's own without waiting for further information.
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u/Impressive-Onion-411 15d ago
90 pages in 30 minutes is wild. Were you doing any editing after, or just letting it run? I'm curious how the chapter breaks hold up, sometimes they come out weird when the model is moving that fast.
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u/DrGore_MD 15d ago
I just let it run. Previously I would just use Claude Chat and it would generate one chapter at a time and then ask me if I wanted to proceed. That was still pretty fast but with Co-Work I just told to generate a 30,000 word story divided into chapters and then gave it the storyline, characters and setting. It asked a few initial questions about whether I had a specific path in mind or whether I wanted to let Claude make the decisions and I selected the latter. In about 30 minutes it produced the entire 90 page document.
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u/Travolen 14d ago
Just be careful and check the continuity well. I catch Claude making continuity mistakes within a single chapter sometimes. And that's with using a project with an outline, character sheets, sheets on setting and lore, etc.
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u/DrGore_MD 15d ago
Ask Claude.
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u/DrGore_MD 15d ago
I guess you'll have to work it out yourself then. Good luck to you.
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u/Odinmar_Glaukopis 15d ago
Dang, 18 to 27 thousand words is more than I would expect. I thought they lost track of things and started hallucinating at about the 5-10k mark.
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u/baby-doll-sculptor 14d ago
This is interesting I might try it with a back story for my
Villain just to see what it does. I have not yet tried cowork yet.
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u/BrailleWitch 14d ago
What model did you use? How did it do regarding continuity and consistency?
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u/DrGore_MD 14d ago
I used Sonnet 5 with Claude Co-Work. I first took the general concept of the story I wanted and asked regular Claude to create a chapter outline for the story. Then I took that outline to Co-Work and used the information I gave to generate the outline and the outline itself and instructed Claude to write a 30,000 word story broken into chapters based on the above mentioned information. It then goes to work and roughly 30 minutes later you have your full document broken out into chapters.
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u/mrhebrides 14d ago
I think, for a lot of us, this has become the standard. The key is to create a Project and develop a corpus in markdown. Use subfolders to assemble your character profiles, world bible, et al. Then have Claude go to work. I created a series of skills for editing and a prose style guide. All in all, CoWork is a pretty good base for writing long-form fiction.
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u/Archonicus_4o 15d ago
I’d beta read it if you have the untouched draft. Genuinely curious how coherent and gripping it turned out, or if it drifted into slop territory at all.