Pi Fiction

Pi Fiction is a fiction-writing extension workspace for Pi.

It started as a place to build story prompts and workflows, then got cleared back down to the studs. That was probably the right move. Writing tools get weird fast when they try to become a factory. I want something smaller and more alive: a tool that helps me notice the interesting pressure in an idea before it turns into a spreadsheet with vibes.

The current pieces are deliberately modest. There is a /gist flow for exploring one compact story, character, world, scene, or style idea at a time. There is a character creation flow that treats characters as living records, not stat blocks: Markdown for voice and pressure, JSON for stable handles, JSONL for relationships and development that change over time.

That shape matters to me. The machine can help organize memory, test options, and ask annoying useful questions. It should not sand everything into the same tasteful paragraph. A good fiction assistant should preserve the weird part, not replace it with a summary of the weird part.

So Pi Fiction is currently half tool, half argument with myself about what AI writing help should be. Less “write my novel.” More “hold this strange little thread while I figure out why I care about it.”