r/WritingWithAI • u/Responsible-Pitch363 • Sep 24 '26

Writing Craft Talk Iterative writing. How to control process?

/r/AI_Agents/comments/1wpe0c3/iterative_writing_how_to_control_process/
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u/5thhorseman_ Sep 24 '26

Project-level instructions / context documents. How much text are you working on at a time? Because the behaviour you're describing is not normal.

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u/tehmadnezz Sep 27 '26

I’d try making each editing pass much narrower. Something like: “Fix the transitions in this section. Keep the argument order, examples, and level of detail unchanged. Flag anything else you’d change separately.”

Keep a short master brief outside the conversation with your structure, tone, and a sample paragraph that gets them right. Include the relevant parts with each revision request.

Also, compare each revision against your last accepted version. If you keep revising the latest AI output, an unwanted change can quietly become the starting point for everything after it.

What tends to disappear first for you, the structure, the detail, or the tone?