by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I am doing everything in my power to make sure that all the actual writing of this novel is done by me, me, me. But one thing is also clear — writing a novel is easy, writing a good novel is difficult.

As such, I am leaning into AI to help me with the backend of writing this novel. It speeds up and streamlines a lot of the tedious elements of development, like scene summaries.
So, in a sense, it’s just a tool when it comes to writing this novel. But, I must admit, it’s also something of a collaborator. I sometimes get really good advice from the LLMs that I use on a regular basis.
That’s why I finally broke down and paid for Claude LLM. It’s a great manuscript consultant and I like how it challenges me more than some of the other LLMs I use.
Anyway, wish me luck, I guess. It’s fortunate that I actually usually really enjoy — even love — the act of writing.