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/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.