The craft & art of fiction

The Unsloppy Journal

Writing craft, storytelling theory, and the art of authoring high-quality fiction with AI assistance.

Why the smartest AIs got worse at fiction

What reinforcement learning did to prose, why the reasoning era made it worse, and what we built instead.

Gutenberg

Jul 2, 2026

We publish essays on scene construction, genre expectations, and working with AI without losing your voice.