This page collects posts about my ongoing project of using Claude.ai to draft fanfiction: stories I want to read but don’t want to spend my own creative energy writing. For more on how AI fits into my broader writing process, see the AI & Writing Tools page. For my Jane Austen content more broadly, see Jane Austen & the Regency World.

The Project

• Fanficcing With Claude AI — the original post explaining the project, why I do it, and how the process works
• At Bertram’s Hotel: Review plus More AI Fanficcing — an Agatha Christie review that turns into further reflections on AI-assisted fanfic
• Fanficcing With Claude.ai: Bollywood Edition — revisiting a long-ago Bollywood heist film obsession, with notes on what Claude did well and what needed work

Finished Series

Sense and Sensibility and Placage

A retelling of Sense and Sensibility set in New Orleans, 1813–1814, with the female leads as placées. New scenes were posted as they are scheduled. All posts in this series →

In Progress

The Rector’s Other Business

In which Mr. Collins turns out to be smarter than he looks…and the leader of one of Kent’s many smuggling networks. All posts in this series →

Coming Soon…ish

Set in Stone

1900s gothic retelling of P&P, in which the amnesiac Elizabeth Bennet finds herself and her family living in a house full of mirrors outside Prague. Their host is an English medical researcher named Dr. Darcy. His manners are painfully correct and not at all endearing, but the muttonchop sideburns he wears to make himself look older never cease to amuse…