Reddit screenwriter experience: using Sol for line-by-line discussion, not ghostwriting

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A screenwriter shares their experience using Sol to discuss a second screenplay draft line by line, work through character psychology, subtext, pacing, and clue checks, emphasizing that it questions choices that weaken a scene instead of simply agreeing.

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Jump to main content GPT-5.6 Sol is the first AI that has actually felt useful to me as a screenwriter : r/WritingWithAI Advertise on Reddit Open chat Create Create a post Open inbox Expand user menu Share Go to “WritingWithAI” r/WritingWithAI • 13 days ago Puzzleheaded-Mood544 GPT-5.6 Sol is the first AI that has actually felt useful to me as a screenwriter Showcase / Feedback

I’ve been writing screenplays for years, and today I spent several hours using GPT-5.6 Sol while working through the second draft of my short film.

Honestly, it kind of blew me away.

I don’t use AI to say, “Write me a screenplay,” or to randomly generate scenes. That usually produces generic writing, and it doesn’t really interest me.

What I’ve been doing is using it to question and pressure-test my own choices.

Today, we went through a scene line by line. We talked about whether each line actually changed something between the characters. If I removed a line, would the relationship and the scene remain exactly the same? If so, why was it there?

We also worked through character psychology, subtext, turning points, pacing and what the audience should know, believe or misunderstand at different points in the story.

My film has a twist, so something I’m thinking about constantly is whether the clues are actually present. I don’t want the audience to feel like information was hidden from them. I want them to see the truth on a second viewing and realize they interpreted the clues incorrectly the first time.

Sol was able to follow that larger goal while we were discussing very small choices inside individual scenes.

The biggest difference for me was that it didn’t just agree with everything I said. If an idea weakened the scene, it would explain why. Sometimes I disagreed with its suggestion, pushed back and explained what I was trying to protect. Then we would keep working through it.

That back-and-forth was probably the most useful part.

It didn’t feel like I was asking a machine for “the answer.” It felt more like I had someone there helping me interrogate the screenplay and forcing me to be clearer about why I was making each choice.

I do think the writer still needs to understand story.

You need taste. You need a point of view. You need to understand structure, character and what you’re trying to make the audience feel. You also need to recognize when the AI gives you something weak.

Generic questions will still get generic answers.

But when you come into the conversation with some knowledge of the craft and ask specific questions, GPT-5.6 Sol can go surprisingly deep.

Voice mode is also crazy.

I could just talk through the scene naturally, change my mind halfway through a thought, argue with a suggestion and keep developing the idea without stopping to carefully type out every prompt. Because it remembered the larger context of the screenplay, the conversation didn’t constantly reset.

It didn’t write my film for me, and I wouldn’t want it to.

It helped me think more seriously about the film I’m trying to write.

I understand why AI is controversial among writers, especially when it comes to replacing writers or training on creative work. Those are valid conversations. I’m only speaking about my personal experience using it privately as a development and rewriting tool.

For that purpose, GPT-5.6 Sol is the best AI experience I’ve had so far.

Sam Altman and the OpenAI team genuinely did a phenomenal job with this model.

Has anyone else here used it to actually develop and rewrite their own material—not just generate screenplay pages? I’d be interested to know whether your experience was similar.

TL;DR: I used GPT-5.6 Sol to work through my short-film rewrite scene by scene. It tracked character psychology, subtext, structure and audience misdirection, challenged weak choices and didn’t take over my voice. You still need story knowledge and taste, but as a creative sounding board—especially in voice mode—it’s kind of incredible.

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I do think the writer still needs to understand story.

You need taste. You need a point of view. You need to understand structure, character and what you’re trying to make the audience feel. You also need to recognize when the AI gives you something weak.

Generic questions will still get generic answers.

Correct.

Brakiros • 13 days ago

I've been using ChatGPT since 4 for analysis and Sol is the first model that actually felt alive. The way it handles its output has cut out the overt model language and now talks to you like a person would instead of how a machine does so it really helps understanding it's output as well

Frosin • 13 days ago

Sol truly turn my opinion of gpt around not just writing it have similar level of orcastructor role in my debate chat as fable but much cheaper

jbasuka_ • 12 days ago

I used chatgpt since 2023 for writings here and there, but the overall output was just okay.

Now fast forward a week ago and I'm deep in writings, rewrites ans conversation about my story and why it tends to include its own characters into my book.

I'm speechless as how well 5.6 sol works.

unknowntoman-1 • 12 days ago

I really appreciate you share this experience. I get often annoyed with people who think Ai is a one button process. Having a bookclub with your proofreading secretary is how I would explain a creative use with good outcomes. Working with a local llm deploy might reduce “world knowledge”, but also give you the option to alter “the secretary” emotionally for an even more interesting exchange.

CrazyinLull • 13 days ago

So it's better than 5.5 Highest one? Hmm...

Odinmar_Glaukopis • 13 days ago

Have you compared GPT 5.6 Sol to other LLM’s for this task? I was wondering if one of the Claude’s compares to it.

Puzzleheaded-Mood544 • 10 days ago

Yes claude and gemini

Healthy-Country-44 • 11 days ago

May I ask how much a month you’re paying for GPT 5.6 sol?

Puzzleheaded-Mood544 • 11 days ago

$28

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