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Handbook + articles for fiction authors using AI

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This library is written for fiction authors who use AI as a drafting partner — not as a replacement for judgment. Each published article is a full craft piece: copy-paste prompts, revision checklists, genre-specific failure modes, and links to free writing tools. Thin stubs stay unpublished, and the beginner handbook lives on a separate page so this hub is not a duplicate of /writing-tips. Start with a topic below, or search for a workflow you can use in the next writing session.

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Use AI to Find Where Your Verbs Are Doing Nothing

Nov 10, 2026 Updated Nov 10, 2026 9 min read

Want to know how to use AI to find where your verbs are doing nothing? Learn why AI drafts default to empty verbs like was and had, and how to hunt them down...

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How to Use AI to Find Scenes That Tell Us Twice

Oct 12, 2026 Updated Oct 12, 2026 10 min read

AI drafts often show a character's emotion through action, then explain the same emotion in the next sentence anyway. Here's how to use AI itself to hunt dow...

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How to Use AI to Find Paragraphs That Tell Time Wrong

Sep 22, 2026 Updated Sep 22, 2026 10 min read

Struggling with pacing notes you can't quite fix? Learn how to use AI to spot the exact paragraphs where prose time and story time fall out of sync.

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Opening Hooks for AI Drafts: Fix the First Page Fast

Aug 16, 2026 Updated Aug 22, 2026 3 min read

Readers decide in paragraphs. AI openings default to weather and waking up—here is a rewrite checklist and prompts for in medias res starts.

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Beta Reader Workflow for AI-Assisted Manuscripts

Aug 16, 2026 Updated Aug 22, 2026 3 min read

How to recruit beta readers, what questions to ask, and when in your revision cycle to send an AI-assisted draft without wasting their time.

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Use AI to Find Where Scenes Overstay Their Welcome

Aug 11, 2026 Updated Sep 17, 2026 9 min read

The Scene You Can't See Clearly Because You Wrote It You know the feeling. You finish a scene, read it back, and it feels fine. Every sentence seems necessa...

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The Five-Pass Revision Order for AI-Assisted Novels

Aug 8, 2026 Updated Sep 17, 2026 3 min read

A practical revision sequence for AI drafts: structure first, then voice, then line-level polish. Run each pass separately so you do not rewrite the same par...

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KDP Upload Checklist After an AI-Assisted First Draft

Aug 8, 2026 Updated Aug 22, 2026 3 min read

From finished manuscript to live Kindle listing: formatting, metadata, ISBN choices, and quality gates specific to AI-assisted fiction.

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How to Use AI to Diagnose and Fix Sentence-Level Monotony

Jul 23, 2026 Updated Sep 17, 2026 10 min read

Struggling with flat, repetitive prose? Learn how to use AI to spot sentence-level monotony your own eyes skip right past, then fix it with targeted rhythm e...

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Using AI to Fix Flat Scenes by Layering Sensory Debt

May 2, 2026 Updated Aug 10, 2026 9 min read

Flat scenes aren't broken—they're sensory-bankrupt. Learn how AI can help you identify and repay sensory debt to pull readers fully inside your story.

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