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Continue reading →: AI Fingerprints and How to Wipe Them OffThere’s a specific feeling experienced readers get when they’re three pages into an AI-assisted story. Nothing is wrong, exactly. The sentences are clean. The pacing moves. And yet something feels assembled rather than written — like furniture from a flatpack that’s structurally sound but has no particular character. That feeling has…
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Continue reading →: So… How Did You Get On With The Prompt?One of the things I always find interesting about AI writing prompts is that the real magic usually happens after the planning stage. It’s easy to generate outlines. Easy to brainstorm ideas. Easy to produce beat sheets and chapter lists. The harder part is turning all of that into an…
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Continue reading →: Turning the Plan Into an Actual ChapterUp to this point, most of the work has been about building the story. You’ve developed the idea, mapped out the major beats, and worked out who the characters are and how they fit together. At some stage, though, you have to stop planning and actually write the thing. That’s…
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Continue reading →: Why AI Writing Sometimes Feels Soulless (And What You Can Do About It)Let’s get something out of the way first. This isn’t one of those “AI writing is ruining fiction” pieces. I’m not here to panic or preach. Honestly, I use AI in my own writing workflow all the time, and it’s been genuinely useful. But there’s a thing that happens. You…
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Continue reading →: When Should You Actually Change Things?
There’s a moment most writers hit when working with AI. You’re reading through something it’s given you and thinking, this isn’t quite right… And then you leave it. Not because you think it’s good, but because changing it feels like opening a bigger problem. Especially when it looks like the…
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Continue reading →: Choose your own adventure.And you thought that you could let the AI Make all of the decisions for you. Well, hopefully you will have been tweaking prompts, and more importantly, results as you go along. Now is the first time in this process that you need to make a decision in how you…
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Continue reading →: Maximizing AI Writing: Your Role in the ProcessThere’s a habit creeping into the writing space that’s worth calling out.People are starting to treat AI like it’s doing more of the work than it actually is. You write a decent prompt, hit enter, and assume what comes back is more or less ready to go.And to be fair,…
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Continue reading →: NO VACANCY — Novel Beat Map ResultsI decided to start a new story – This is the idea: In a rundown California motel, multiple agencies unknowingly use separate rooms as safe houses, each hiding valuable assets. When armed mercenaries surround the building, paranoia erupts. Forced into uneasy alliances, agents must survive the siege, uncover who betrayed…
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Continue reading →: Getting the Shape of the Story Right – The Beat Map PromptOnce you’ve got your idea in place, and a sense of who your characters are, there’s a moment where things can feel a bit uncertain. You know what the story is about.You know who’s in it. But you don’t yet know how it unfolds. You might have a few key…
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Continue reading →: Character Foundation Document ExampleHere are the results from the Character Foundation prompt. I jsut continued the ridiculous idea about Captain Consuela and the cuddlly kitten, it will give you an idea of the kind of results to expect. Consuela Villanueva — “The Cat Lady” Story Role: Protagonist. The emotional and narrative centre of the…
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