How I Use AI

I use AI in my writing process. This is how.

What AI Does

• Drafts structural prose based on story bibles and frameworks I create
• Handles mechanical execution of plot beats, scene transitions, world-building details I specify
• Generates options for concepts, conflicts, or solutions I evaluate and often reject
• Identifies patterns (pacing issues, emotional flat spots, continuity problems) that I assess and decide whether to fix

What I Do

• Create the vision: premise, POV, tone, genre rules, story constraints
• Make all creative decisions: what works, what doesn’t, what direction we’re heading
• Revise for voice: Every published sentence is me tearing through AI drafts and making them mine. This is where the story becomes distinctively mine: compressed, rhythmically precise, carrying the weight of intentional craft.
• Take responsibility: Every story published here is under my name. I own it completely.

Why This Works for Me

My brain works best in bursts of creative energy and voice work. Mechanical phases – detailed outlining, structuring scenes, managing continuity across chapters – are where I stall out. Without tools to move through them, I abandon projects.

AI lets me move through the various phases at a pace that sustains momentum, reaching the revision work (voice, emotional truth, craft decisions) with energy and focus intact.

Result: Stories are better structured, more distinctively voiced, and actually finished. The work gets done instead of trapped in my own friction.

The Craft Foundation

I’ve spent decades practicing and publishing my craft without AI. That foundation – understanding story structure, recognizing what works and what doesn’t, the muscle memory of revision – is what allows me to strategically use AI tools and maintain human authorship. Not make slop.

AI doesn’t give me taste or judgment. It gives me velocity. The taste and judgment are mine, built over years of work.

The Work You Read

Every word reflects my authorial decisions. The distinctive voice, the emotional moments that land, the choices about what to show and what to leave unsaid. Those are mine.

The scaffolding that makes those choices possible? That’s collaborative. And that’s fine.

The Bottom Line

I’m not using AI to avoid the hard parts of writing. I’m using it to reach the hard parts without losing momentum.

You’re reading the result. Judge accordingly.