Edgard Maidou Stop pasting I know the ritual. You open your AI tool. You open a separate document — the character sheet, the “previously on” summary, the world-building notes you’ve been maintaining in a Google Doc or Notion page. You select all, copy, paste into the prompt box, then write your actual request below the wall of context you just injected. By chapter fifteen, that pasted context is three pages long. You’ve been maintaining it by hand — updating it after every session, adding new characters, fixing t
Edgard Maidou AI forgets characters' traits You’re on chapter twelve. Your protagonist’s mother died in chapter four — it was the scene you sweated over, the one that changed everything. And then the AI brings her back. Alive. Asking about dinner. It’s not a bug. It’s not your prompt. It’s the fundamental architecture of every general-purpose AI writing tool: they don’t remember. Each session starts clean. Each generation is stateless. The tool that helped you write a devastating funeral scene on Tuesday has no idea that scene ex
Edgard Maidou Why your AI keeps forgetting your story I want to tell you about the morning I almost gave up on the book. It was a Saturday, the good kind — coffee made, house quiet, three hours that belonged to no one but the story. I’d been carrying this novel for the better part of a year. I knew my characters the way you know people you’ve lived with. I sat down to write chapter twelve, and I asked the AI I’d been drafting with to help me pick up where I’d left off. It asked me who the protagonist was. Not in a cruel way — it didn’t