Staff Writer, FeelyWrite
Leila writes about working with an AI partner without losing your voice: what to hand over, what to keep, and how to tell the difference.
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Read the guideThe question I get asked is "can AI write my book." The useful question is narrower: which parts of writing a novel can you hand over? And which ones break if you do?
Read the guideMy first one was forty pages. I built it over a long weekend, felt enormously organized, then never opened it again. The second was two pages. I used that one every single day for eight months.
Read the guideThis is not legal advice. Amazon's policy has also changed more than once. Read the current KDP content guidelines before you upload. What follows is the shape of the rule as it stands, in plainer language than the help page uses.
Read the guideMy protagonist's eyes changed color twice. Once in chapter nine, once in chapter thirty-one. I did not notice either time. A beta reader did, in the polite way people tell you your book has a hole in it.
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