Fix Your Draft

Dialogue, exposition, scenes, character and revision: how to find what is wrong with a draft and what to do about it.

• I Gave AI a Bad Chapter. Here's What It Found and What It Got Wrong

  We gave Gemini a deliberately flawed fiction chapter, challenged its critique and compared its feedback with a human edit. Here's where AI helped and where judgment still mattered.

• The Best AI Prompts Aren't Prompts. They're Conversations.

  Stop asking AI to solve your novel for you. Learn how to use AI as a thinking tool to question ideas, diagnose problems and make better writing decisions.

• Stop Telling Me Everyone's Backstory

  Too much backstory can kill a novel's momentum. Learn when readers need character history, when to hold it back and how to make them want it.

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