Writing Books in the Age of AI

Author Laura Brooke Robson breaks down the turbulence of writing books in the age of AI and proposes the answer may be to write weirder.
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Writing a Debut Novel—Expectation Vs. Reality

Author Georgia McVeigh shares her experience of writing a debut novel and breaks down her expectations versus reality.
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https://medium.com/the-writers-reach/edit-your-novel-like-a-pro-the-7-things-you-must-do-66d746a4cbe9

You finish a draft. Something feels loose. Scenes drift. Dialogue stretches. The pacing slows. You know the story needs editing, but you’re not sure where to begin.

Editing isn’t fixing typos. It’s where you rebuild the story so it works. A story becomes readable when the structure is solid, the scenes have purpose, and the emotional beats make sense.

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Switching to first person was the most radical change I ever did halfway through. Now everything falls right into place, and the witching novel is making sense!

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https://medium.com/@clnichols/list/the-storyangles-40-framework-a4a488744f60

A 5-part series: The StoryAngles 40 Framework.

In the 4-Act Novel, each act is one quarter of the book and has a distinct job. There are 40 story functions, grouped 10 per act, designed specifically for long‑form fiction.

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I was chatting to a friend over coffee recently and they mentioned they'd been to a writing course and the instructor told them always to write by hand because it freed up creativity.

I'm sure that's true for some people. In fact I'm sure it's true for many people and I even expect there's research out there to back it up. And obviously helping people develop their writing is in part about helping them with their writing process. But for me the problem comes when a process suggestion becomes a rule.

I used to write longhand, in pencil. (Using a pen paralysed me, it felt as if ink made the words unalterable.) But it turns out I have terrible fine motor skills so my hand could never keep up with the stream of thought running through my arm. Not to mention I can't spell at speed, so looking back on what I'd written was enough to throw me into despair.

Now I can't really type either and I'm still not going to win any spelling bees, but my two fingers can put enough on the screen that I know what I meant and I can go back and fix it up when the flow stops. When I discovered the word processor (I'm that old!) it let me be creative in a way paper and pen just couldn't. I can type anything because with a click it disappears. No one but me will ever know what a shockingly bad sentence I'm capable of.

For me, writing is all in the editing. I used to tell my coding son he needed to write me a program that put random junk on the page so I'd have something to edit. (Careful what you wish for!)

Even in my first draft, I'm editing as I go. I'll write a sentence, a paragraph, a scene and then realise the idea and most of the words are right but whole isn't. I'll reverse sentences, change tense, reorder paragraphs and voila, clumsy, unsubtle text develops flow and depth. (Well, I think so anyway.) I need to shore up the foundations before I can build on them. With pen and paper, I'd have a scrawl of crossings out and intersecting arrows to insertions all covered with a smear of hand-heel ink that even I couldn't read.

Some people (I suspect) use pen and paper because it guides them forward. (It's not called the puke draft for nothing!) They may well be trying to avoid exactly what I'm trying to do. And that's a good way to write, if it's right for you. But it's not the only way, because our brains are all different and each has a different key to unlock it.

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Starting the day rereading last nights rewrite! What a witching morning!

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The novel has been in planning, research, and writing for the past 5 years, and I feel as if I finally found the voice. 

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http://mistresswitchwrites.com/2026/02/10/witching-novel-progress-and-the-thrill-of-being-read/