What are custom GPTs and projects for writers?
Plan, draft, edit and pitch the same book in one project.
Start free in the Plan studio- Custom assistants save standing instructions and reference documents.
- They remove the re-pasting problem, not the context limit itself.
- Good for a persistent style guide, cast list and rules.
- Still no chapters, versions, word counts or export.
- Worth setting up if you draft in chat regularly.
They are saved configurations: standing instructions plus reference files the tool sees every time, so you stop pasting your premise and cast into every new conversation. That solves the tedium of re-supplying context. It does not give you chapters, version history or a manuscript, so the structural gap remains.
Chapter i·Why it matters
This is the best available fix for chat-based drafting, and most writers never set one up — they keep starting cold conversations and wondering why the tool’s grasp of their book is shallow. Twenty minutes of setup measurably improves everything you get afterwards.
Chapter ii·What to include
- Standing instructions: your voice, tense, POV, what to never do.
- A reference file with premise, cast, rules and timeline.
- A per-chapter summary document, updated as you draft.
- A clear statement of the task the assistant is for — drafting, or critique, not both.
- A refresh habit, since the reference files go stale as the book changes.
Chapter iii·Example
A thriller writer sets up an assistant with her style rules and a two-page bible. Her critique sessions immediately improve, because the tool stops suggesting beats the book already used in act one.
In WriteLoom
Somewhere to actually put the words
A WriteLoom project is this by default: the manuscript, outline, characters and rules are attached to every request without any setup.
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