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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
Did you use AI to write it? PM me a link? Let's not share it with King Mark though  |
I did all the sketches for the cover design and then uploaded the sketches to have it refined... works great!
Also, how I write a book is, I blaze through it as fast as possible and then paste it, chapter by chapter into the AI and ask it to spot plot holes or things I missed. Then I refine it by asking it to re-flow the sentences to be better read as a speech. I think that is one of my secrets of how to use the AI to refine your work as an author. It makes a bunch of errors that I have to go back and fix, but the re-flowing helps in place of an actual human editor. Last time I hired an editor, they charged me $1000 dollars and I STILL got a manuscript back with spelling mistakes and tense errors. AI does not make those mistakes, but the AI will occasionally double up a sentence. Human editors, from the 3 I've worked with, really do help, but they come with their own mistakes. The AI, while not as helpful, spots mistakes like an eagle and fixes them, but the AI doesn't know how a story works, so it is a trade-off.
AI strengths:
-spelling
-tense
-sentence reflow
AI weakness:
-doesn't know jack shit about stories
-doesn't know what you're trying to say
Human editor strengths:
-knows storytelling
-can figure out the hidden messages you're trying to convey
Human editor weakness:
-fucks up spelling as much as you do, if not more
-sloppy with the tense
-hit and miss with sentence reflow. I find, the secret to good writing, is being able to read your work aloud and have it flow nicely.
Flowing in your mind is deceiving, because your brain processes words differently, imo, than your ears. If you can read something AND hear it and it sounds smooth, then that's good writing. The AI and human editors can reflow things in ways you didn't think about, but the AI is much faster and much cheaper.
2/3 editors I hired felt like major ripoffs as I still had to go back through my old books and edit them for spelling mistakes. The first editor I hired from recommendations off some writing forum, she charged me $600 and barely did any work. Total ripoff. Lots of editors made massive bank back in the day by doing sloppy editing and then getting people who didn't really care to be writers to give them good reviews. Lots of one-and-done self-published authors who want to be writers but they only have 1 book in them. That's fine, because some people only have 1 story to tell, but an editor that works with those one-and-done'rs can get tons of positive reviews from people who aren't serious about a writing career, so they don't even check if their editor did a good job. Their priority was just getting their one book done while they have a totally different career.