Do I use Nested Codex Entries in NovelCrafter?

[@jaybe8877]

Thanks. I never used nesting, but I'm also pretty new to novelcrafter. Heard about it, but never understood the appeal. I would probably only use nesting on novels that I am using cheap to free models with. If I just want to see my idea in words, I'd write up my full outline, chapter and scene beats, and then just let a free/cheap AI go through it. For

[@HariPrasad-wj7lz]

Thanks a lot for your effort. It was me who had asked for it. Now I realize that it is useful only in special cases. I write from beat to beat and happy with prorucing 500 to 800 words everyday. So I do exactly what you say - pull in the codex name in the description to generate prose. But yeah thanks a lot. Hope to see more videos from you. Are there any prompts that you use which you have designed yourself?

[@CotySchwabe]

Thank you so much! Are you asking for the chat, NovelCrafter itself, or ChatGPT?

[@HariPrasad-wj7lz]

Asking for the chat in NovelCrafter itself. I do use. I just wondered whether some more detail may help. No pressure.but like your presentation.

[@nikolashernandez7128]

Your videos are very useful. I'm new to NovelCrafter but there's just one thing I wish I knew how to do. Let's say I give novelcrafter a scene beat. "Write x scene." Then, for whatever reason, part of the scene beat is nonsensical and doesn't take into account some context. If I were on Claude or ChatGPT, I'd say "Hey, for this scene, you wrote X, but that doesnt make sense because ABC. Can you rewrite taking that into account." I don't know how to do that on Novelcrafter without either asking for an entirely new scene beat or using the Chat function, but it never outputs what I'm trying to get.

[@CotySchwabe]

So I find this is mostly dependent on the LLM you use. But if it’s a complex scene, I’d recommend chatting in a new thread or with the scene, then using either 4o mini (since it’s cheap) or some other cheaper model, and tell it what you’re trying to do. I do sometimes talk with the chat on coming up with a scene and asking it to outline the scene based on what I want to do. Once I’m happy with the outline I will ask it for scene beats. If I like those, then I will either ask the chatbot to write it or take those scene beats into the scene. You can always copy what you have and demand that the ai chat takes it into consideration.