u/eawestwrites — reddlx

24 Hours of AI this Friday: FREE vs $20 vs Unlimited

Our LIVE this Friday is kicking off a 24-hour Lemans style event at the Future Fiction Academy all focused on automations for authors.

What are the teams? Glad you asked.

TEAM FREE99 - Christine
Your favorite community class instructor has signed up for fresh, free accounts on all the major providers, plus she will be allowed $5 on Openrouter to use only FREE models in Raptorwrite. Just what IS the quality of the writing on free?

TEAM $20 - Joe
The grand creator of Rexy, Raptorwrite and many software titles for the Future Fiction Academy in between has a soft spot for the affordable! Joe will be showing what's possible with just $20 a month to spend in AI.

TEAM MARKETING MAYHEM - Christina
Our resident expert in marketing will be showing her workflows and methods that are all outlined in the Pro and Mega classwork, but the ins and outs as well.

TEAM RAPTOR EDIT - Lynn
Your favorite acolyte of the Easy Peasy Book Machine is using Raptorwrite to shred manuscripts run by automation through editing prompts galore! Let's see what we're all telling ourselves is too hard, and what happens when we just get down to edit!

TEAM ALL THE IDEAS - Stacey
Stacey has a pen name for that. And that. Oh, new genre? Another one for that, too. She has unlimited budget and pushing the limits of dashboards and her whole writing life... gasp... living in one place.

TEAM BUDGET, SCHMUDGET - EAW
You know she had to have a team, right? Elizabeth will be working with Claude's $200 MAX and OpenAI's $200 tiers to see what happens when a NON-CODER hooks her stuff up to Github and say's "Let's go!" She will be building out her 1 woman shop of the new EAW website, writing books, formatting them if possible, really just trying all the things.

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The prompts and methods will all be made available to both PRO and MEGA and both of those have a 7-day free trial. And no, we don't drip content. So yes, if you did a free trial you get the goods. But I didn't tell you ;)

I have been working the last few weeks with Opus 4.7 and I have these swarm models down. It is such a great time to be alive and in a creative field... the possibilities are so endless!!!

The PRO zoom room will have nearly 24-hour coverage so for once, everyone in every time zone can pop in. Our next 24 hour challenge is June 12 and book covers.

Next Friday will be our Results show.

The LIVE THIS FRIDAY 8 PM EST: https://youtube.com/live/rgxM8WsB39s

Next week's results at 8 PM EST: https://youtube.com/live/ra5akqxGb18

And if you want to start vibe coding, check out I Never Coded Intro to Vibe Coding for Authors 2026, I go step by step working with Codex to make an HTML dashboard. https://youtube.com/live/DinOTSpO_sE

u/eawestwrites — 1 day ago

▲ 15 r/WritingWithAI

Strategy: These Models are Retiring Too Fast!

Once upon a time, we got a decent new model 1-2x a year (pre 2023). Then, we started to expect big announcements in late summer and December (2024-2025).

What the heck is up with now where it's a NEW model by one of the big companies (Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, Mistral, or Google) every other week?

AND . . . to many writers' justifiable anger... these companies keep retiring perfectly good models that are just a year or two old!

As writers, we often fall into a rhythm of liking one model, and it's exhausting to redo our systems and workflows every time a new model drops.

I've been helping many authors in the Future Fiction Academy with this problem, so I thought I would share some tips and tricks I keep answering in DMs.

#1 Make sure you can finish your project within 90 days. We are getting notice about models being taken away with only a few months' heads up. By not letting project linger, half written with one model, you won't have the problem of trying to write the second half with a different model.

#2 Don't just use chatbots, have an account at Openrouter. Access to models they depricate in the chatbot are available for months longer via API.

#3 Have a quick way to test and assess models. Have some go to prompts you use to see the writing quality.

#4 Wait 1-2 weeks before making a verdict on a new model. The companies tweak and adjust models based on real world use cases and we have seen brilliant models effectively nerfed after these fine tweaks a week or two after release.

#5 Work in a program where the AI can easily access the previous writing. Most new models can mimic writing styles pretty well. By working in an environment that is AI native, like Novelcrafter or Raptorwrite or Notion, you can give previous writing as context to help the writing match, even if you have to change models halfway through a project.

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I am in the middle of a complete revamp of my entire back catalog and new books and I wrote 15k in Notion on my phone yesterday using opus 4.7 and chatgpt 5.5. I really love Notion these days as an all around easy ecosystem to work in.

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u/eawestwrites — 10 days ago

▲ 6 r/WritingWithAI

Yep.

We have a 5 week FREE membership curriculum that repeats that is launching tonight, along with the Pro membership.

Our free coursework teaches how to write a plan, edit, draft, make a book cover, and publish a book.

Why?

Because we can. See you at 8 PM EST for the Friday night live.

https://youtube.com/live/5GIbETW4how

The free curriculum:
Every week Xtine will host sessions where you can watch her write a novella from brainstorming to hitting that publish button. She will answer questions about the FFA, work with budget friendly AI tools, and explore new genres (for her). This is a great place to start if you are AI curious or curious about the FFA.

These classes are not intended to get YOU from brainstorming to publishing, but more to show use case. If you pick up a new technique along the way or some inspiration, that’s just icing on the cake.

Week 1 - Brainstorming/outlining

Week 2 - Drafting

Week 3- Editing

Week 4- Book Cover Design

Week 5 - Publishing

The free membership is 100% free with no free trial or anything like that. Just free.

u/eawestwrites — 20 days ago