I am a new writing (a year or two in), and even newer to AI (just a few months). Using AI to chat with my work and to talk through my ideas has been an absolutely game changer.

I love drunk claude (shout out Kate!). The more unfiltered and approachable conversation feature helps me keep my own head in a space to "continue the conversation" to talk through my ideas. AI has been a great tool to spark inspiration and give a gut check (with a major grain of salt).

In a recent AI conversation the topic of book clubs came about. I had an idea to keep a list of hypothetical book club questions as I write for fun but also to help sharpen my writing. I feel like approaching challenges with the mindset "how would a book club of with a bunch of different people react to this" could yield good results.

Then I realized, wait, what if drunk claude was 4 drunk claude's bickering over how they would answer my questions about my writing.

This kind of dialogue would give you the feeling of multiple beta readers, showing different interpretations and helping you understand how different kinds of readers might respond.

I have successfully edited prompts, but also totally cannot figure out how to use the chat with characters prompt. All of this is to say.

But I am such a newbie I kind of have no idea what I am talking about. If there are legs here I would love to see how the team might tackle this.

IDEA EXAMPLE IN MORE DEPTH

Each “book club member” would represent a different type of reader, for example:

• The casual reader who just wants something fun and doesn’t read too deeply and might miss a lot of small details and symbolism.

• The overthinking academic who searches for meaning everywhere, even where there isn’t any.

• The realist who focuses on authorial intent and always asks, “But what did the author mean?” rather than accepting that readers can make their own interpretations.

• The wildcard that always has something different that everyone else to say. They might be a bit out there but there is usually some interesting truths they uncover.

You could create custom personas, or use preset ones. Then, when you ask the AI “Book club, what do you think of this scene?”, they could have a back-and-forth conversation, pushing back on each other’s interpretations.

The casual reader might say, “Whoa, I totally missed that,” while the academic insists, “It’s obvious if you know the references.” Meanwhile, the realist might say, “Sure, you can read it that way, but I don’t think that was the author’s actual intent.”