by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I’m using three different AIs for various elements of this scifi dramedy I’m working on. But the one that helps the most is Claude. I feed it a scene I’ve written and it gives me really good advice.
I’m really doing everything in my power to remove any “AI speak” from the novel. I want this novel to be as human-written as possible. I have to admit that as I go through this latest version of the novel I realize I got lazy last time and told AI to “gently” edit my copy, only to have it dramatically rewrite my vision of things.
But, this time, I’m doing everything in my power to make sure that if it’s on the page, a human — me — wrote it. I definitely get advice from AI, but the actual writing is done by me.
All of this really is slowing me down.
But there’s a chance that once I actually get into the third act things will speed up dramatically. Maybe? I don’t know yet. But I do hope that within one to two months I will start to assemble beta readers then a month or so after that, I will start to querying process.
It’s possible that I’m just too old and I’m wasting my time. It’s possible that, on the other hand, that it will be the NEXT novel that I work on that I will successfully query. This novel, my expectations are pretty low, given how “spicy” it is. I just want to see how far I can get through the querying process.
If I fail, then I dust myself off and try again with a new novel.
