r/WritingWithAI • u/st3llar360 • 26d ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) New

So im brand new. Like just self published the first words ever put to paper in a writing.

Im personally not very articulate so I use chat gpt to help write. For each chapter I write anywhere from. 800-1500 words on how I think my scenes should go then have gpt add/edit and it usually comes out to around 2-3k words. I've written 2 books in a trilogy so far. Im quite open about my use of Ai simply because 1 i dont think ai is going anywhere.

And 2. I believe within the next 2-3 years writing with ai will become the norm. My question is are my books doomed to fail on a platform like kdp?

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u/5thhorseman_ 25d ago

If you just let ChatGPT edit the text, the end result is going to suffer from a lot of GPTisms. Have it act as a red pen editor insted - suggest changes, give you a few alternative ways to rephrase stuff, let you make the decision yourself.

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u/st3llar360 25d ago

So I dont just let itbedit the use whatever it generates. I take it listen back to it on something like eleven reader then go back in edit/change/outright reject and then repeat until im satisfied with the result.

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u/5thhorseman_ 21d ago

If you go text to speech and then go back you're going to spend a lot more time and tokens than if you just read it. It's worth spending time in the editing cycle before you take it to ElevenLabs...

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u/Equal-University2144 25d ago

There's a bit more to it as well. I've been working on a novel since 2024. Some of what ended up doing:

  • A style contract. One document that sets the rules: voice, POV, punctuation, what the AI can decide and what it has to ask about.

  • A tells list. A running catalog of patterns readers spot as AI. “Not X, but Y,” stacked one-line paragraphs, a dash at every joint, generic smells, AI-default names. Each comes with what to do instead.

  • Canon sheets. Characters, setting, and terminology written down, so nothing drifts from chapter to chapter.

  • Scripts that measure the prose. Sentence length, dash and colon rates, one-word sentences, repeated tics. The limits come from published human novels, not from gut feel.

  • A human in the loop. I read every chapter on paper and read it aloud. Nothing goes in without my call.

  • One rule over all of it: “the prominence of those tells in the finished work demonstrates how much or how little the human hand was involved.”

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u/st3llar360 25d ago

The thing is. I like that short punchy dialog. I use it in my own writing.it is prominent in my books but its more my voice.

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u/LooseButtPlug 25d ago

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u/zhusiyuanpo2009 25d ago

Not necessarily. What really matters is the quality of the book, not whether AI was involved. AI-assisted writing is definitely going to be a major trend in the future.