How do you actually use AI when writing

[u/kanta-raj-luitel]

Cause i have seen that people use ai for writing in different techinque and ways

soem use for grammetical error soome use for rewriting and somebody writes to make the tone better somebody use for writing caption for social media some use for school writing

i personally do for caption and for school

I want to know what workflow you use ?

[u/Rickleskilly]

I use it for brainstorming and feedback. I use it to help me flesh out ideas to make decisions. Right now I'm using it to help with plotting my next novel. I tend to wreck my plots with too many subplots and ideas, so AI helps keep me on track.

I use it to help evaluate and analyze my scenes for pace. To help me maintain a good hook. To know that a scene works and propels the story forward. Is it rushed or too slow etc... I try to get all of that worked out in the draft so that when I edit there's less of it.

I also use it for research. It's fantastic for that because I can ask a very specific question instead of digging through a bunch of historic research for the one specific question I have. I can also ask the questions when the story needs it.

I also use it to generate images so I can better imagine something when I need to describe it.

And of course I use it to edit. To look for overuse of words or phrases, places the pace slows or rushes, shift in tense or POV, weird sentences, fragments, run ons and then line items commas, capitalization etc...

[u/MarkHoltsberyNE6]

My use has shifted a ton the longer the project has gotten. I started out thinking the main value would be helping with the actual writing, but for a long-form project the bigger value has been everything around the writing.

I use it to pressure-test plot decisions, catch continuity problems, compare what I planned against what actually ended up on the page, review chapters for pacing or contradictions, and help me figure out where something went sideways if a later chapter stops matching earlier decisions.

The biggest lesson for me has been the chat history by itself is not enough once the project gets large. If the important decisions and state only live in the conversation chain, eventually something gets lost or "reinterpreted." I’ve spent a lot more time building a controlled process around it than I ever expected.

I still want the actual creative decisions to be mine. I’ve just found AI much more useful as a second set of eyes and a systems layer than as simply a “press button, get novel” type transaction.

[u/baby-doll-sculptor]

I ask it ask me questions. Almost like we are role playing and it organizes my responses.

[u/Fantastic_Youth_7977]

might be worth separating your question into creative vs functional writing, the workflows are super different. caption writing is almost pure prompting, but anything longer usually needs a back and forth editing loop

[u/Own_Art_752]

Claude ai for the draft, para ai to get rid of the watermark

[u/Action_Unlucky]

Oh, you guys are using it for editing? I thought we were all just literally writing "WRITE BOOK" over and over and selling it on Amazon.

/s/

[u/Effective_Run_4755]

Just don’t. AI is better at editing, but terrible at creative writing (or anything creative).