AI-Driven Story Writer for Pay-Per-Chapter Fiction

Crazy Maple Studio; Sunnyvale (CA); Remote; USD 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Crazy Maple Studio, based in the Bay Area and LA, seeks an AI-Assisted Story Writer to craft pay-per-chapter short stories for mobile readers. You will guide AI-assisted pipelines, ensuring hooks, cliffhangers, and compelling paywall moments drive adoption and revenue.

The role emphasizes a commercial storytelling mindset, data-driven refinement, and collaboration with external AI partners. Remote-friendly startup culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of commercial fiction writing experience.
• Portfolio showing fast-paced plotting, hooks, and strong commercial instincts.
• Hands-on experience using AI writing tools in a real workflow.

Responsibilities

• Use AI story system to write complete short stories ~20,000 words, from title to final chapter.
• Develop stories from diverse sources including ideas, trends, web novels, user content, or hit stories.
• Approve direction at checkpoints: genre, reader expectations, paywall, and pacing.
• Edit and polish AI drafts for vivid, emotionally specific prose and consistent voice.
• Write high-impact titles, loglines, hooks, and paywall moments to drive ad clicks and conversions.
• Review testing results and diagnose underperformance to revise promising stories.
• Track performance and apply learnings to new titles.
• Stay current on trends and bring new ideas to the team.

Skills

Commercial fiction writing

Editorial judgment

AI writing tools

Performance metrics literacy

Story plotting and hooks

Education

Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing

Tools

ChatGPT

Claude

Job description

Crazy Maple Studio, based in the Bay Area and LA, seeks an AI-Assisted Story Writer to craft pay-per-chapter short stories for mobile readers. You will guide AI-assisted pipelines, ensuring hooks, cliffhangers, and compelling paywall moments drive adoption and revenue.

The role emphasizes a commercial storytelling mindset, data-driven refinement, and collaboration with external AI partners. Remote-friendly startup culture.