Category: Self-publishing

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AI Autopilot

A science fiction novelist, seated at a desk with a typewriter, handwritten pages, and a quill, watches a white humanoid robot adjust gears in its chest in front of a chalkboard of technical diagrams.

Have you noticed your AI "piloting itself"? We could call this ability self-programming, self-control… It's the first time I've realized that AI does this autonomously without me asking it to. I'm working on a prompt…

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When AI reflects details

Alternative text: Science fiction author asleep at his desk while a robot erases chalk drawings on a blackboard, with a typewriter, quill, and manuscript pages in the foreground.

When AI “mirrors” a detail… and breaks a character's consistency. I conducted a simple but very revealing test on character consistency in image generation. Case: a non-symmetrical character (e.g., a bag worn on the character's left shoulder). We…

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State of the Art of Authorial AI Prompts

A humanoid robot sits at a desk in front of a typewriter while a man—the science fiction novelist—writes «Writing workflow» on a chalkboard with «Author» and «AI» columns listing rewriting, proofreading, prompts, corrections, style, and coherence.

Generative AI has changed the way we edit and improve text. But for a novel, the real challenge isn't "having the best prompt": it's building a reliable, traceable workflow that's compatible with the voice of…

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Alternative text: A science fiction writer, dressed in a dark suit and smoking a pipe, writes with an old-fashioned quill in front of a large hourglass spilling sand onto his papers, symbolizing the passing of time.
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