What does Royal Road actually require for AI?
Disclosure. If AI-written prose goes into your chapters, tag the serial AI-Assisted or AI-Generated. Back-office help such as memory, consistency checks and planning writes no story text (check the current wording on Royal Road). Failing to disclose is the real offense. Quality is judged by readers, not moderators. PlotWrite summarises the policy at /royal-road-ai-policy.
What do readers detect in AI writing?
Not AI itself. Prose markers. The top 10 tells: em-dash overuse, 'realm/tapestry/delve/embark' vocabulary, three consecutive sentences of similar length, 'eyes widened/breath caught' clichés, filter words ('she felt that', 'he noticed that'), stage-direction blocking, emotional labeling ('he was angry'), AI punctuation rhythm, repetitive paragraph structure, and predictable sentence openings.
How do you keep your prose from getting flagged?
Write the chapter yourself and use AI where it stays invisible to readers. PlotWrite is built that way: it reads your story, remembers every stat, rank and promise, and catches the slip before your readers do. If you do use a drafting tool, Style DNA steers the model toward your own voice, nothing enters a chapter until you accept it, and an optional polish pass strips 'AI-sounding' phrases. Generic ChatGPT output tends to hit many of the tells above, so edit it and tag the serial.
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Why does the trust contract matter?
Readers trust authors who disclose. They distrust authors caught hiding it. Tag your work when AI wrote the prose, write well, and the AI itself is not the problem.