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So I'm curious, for those folks who are using AI to actually write their books... what's the point? I.e. are you doing it with the intention of selfpub / profit? For the prestige of having a book in your name? Some other reason?

I'm not asking to judge, just trying to understand.

Not talking about those of us who use AI as an editor / brainstormer / critique partner. That use case I entirely understand. I'm specifically thinking of folks who wholesale copy/paste AI-generated text, or even entire scenes/chapters/manuscripts. What's the rationale?

I'm not sure what the point is of having AI generate prose. The whole fun in writing is creating your own worlds, your own characters, giving them life... delegating that to a machine seems counterproductive. Writing goes from a flight of imagination to drudgework. If the goal truly is to create a living out of AI-generated content, there are easier ways to do this than novels, and ones that are far more likely to work, given the flood of AI slop on selfpub platforms.

That said, I think that there IS room for AI within the writing profession. I've gotten MUCH better editorial feedback from ChatGPT on my scenes than I got from an editor I paid over 3k to edit my book. And ChatGPT will interact with me for as long as I want to, not until it gets too busy with another client. Provided I prompt it correctly, I've gotten better brainstorming sessions out of it than I have with friends and friend writers. And, finally, it is a very efficient mechanism to keep track of information in my novel and help me maintain character and world continuity... provided it's used correctly.

Which brings me to Deepquill. This is an app I've been developing to help me with my own writing. The intent is to organize information -- the characters, locations, reveals, story structure, and then present it in such a way as to make it easily available when I'm writing a scene and forget what color eyes Jane had, or whether I'd already mentioned that Bob was an assassin two scenes ago, without having to leave my scene to check, breaking my flow. It scans my scene with a local or a remote LLM, and auto-generates the scene beats, so I can focus on the actual writing. It helps me map my scenes into a structure template (like Hero's Journey, Freytag's Pyramid, Save The Cat, and so on), automatically analyzing scene tension so I can see where the manuscript is flagging. I think THIS is where AI can be most useful -- not to generate my prose for me, but to take away all the other drudgery so I can focus on it exclusively.

I'm trying to build it as a complete end to end writing environment -- a replacement for Scrivener, DabbleWriter, Ulysses, Word, and so on. I've built in import/export from the start, so people are never locked into its ecosystem. I've taken it to Beta recently. If anyone's interested, check it out or DM me.