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Edit Your Novel With AI

A Novel Revision Workbook

$13

A practical system for using AI to edit your novel without letting AI write it for you.

AI is a tool. Not a savant.

Printed to order, coil-bound so the pages lie flat, and shipped free to US addresses in about two to three weeks. The PDFs come with it: download them right after checkout. Buying it as a gift? Ship it straight to them. The QR code on the last page gets them the PDFs too.

You finished the draft.

Now you have to figure out what the hell is wrong with it.

Maybe the middle drags. A character disappears for fifty pages. The ending works, but you haven’t earned it. You keep fixing dialogue in a scene that might not belong in the book at all.

AI can help. But only if you stop asking it to make your writing better.

Edit Your Novel With AI gives you a system for using AI to figure out where the problem actually lives: the line, the scene, the chapter, the character, or the book itself. Then you decide what to do about it.

What's inside

  • Diagnose before you rewrite

    Give AI a weak scene and ask it to rewrite it, and you’ll probably get cleaner prose. You’ll still have a weak scene.

  • Make AI prove it

    Push back, ask for evidence from your manuscript, test competing ideas, and make AI argue against you instead of agreeing with everything you say.

  • The book stays yours

    Not a system for generating chapters or replacing your voice. Another set of eyes you can question, challenge, ignore, and occasionally tell it’s completely full of S%$T.

Look inside

  • The Running Book Brief: current structure, main characters and relationships, major plot events, what each character knows, changes made during the edit, decisions already made, and things AI needs to remember.
    Running Book Brief
  • The book map you fill in before AI reads anything: what the book is about, who the protagonist is, what they want, what stands in the way, where the story really begins and ends.
    What Book Do You Think You Wrote?
  • Diagnose Before You Fix, with a worksheet for where a problem shows up and where it might actually begin.
    Diagnose Before You Fix
  • The Make It Prove It page: an AI claim, the question that sends it back to the manuscript, and a Check a Claim form for the claim, the evidence and your own judgment.
    Make It Prove It
  • The Revision Plan table: the problem, where it is, what you’re changing, what else it affects, and a done column.
    Revision Plan
  • Prompts Worth Keeping: prompts for when something feels wrong, for character, for a scene and for structure.
    Prompts Worth Keeping

Inside the workbook

  • Set AI up as your editor, on your terms
  • Keep a running book brief it can work from
  • Write down the book you think you wrote before it reads a page
  • Run the same page two ways: rewrite it, then diagnose it
  • Find where a problem starts: line, scene, chapter, character or book
  • Test half-formed ideas and push back when it agrees too easily
  • Check every claim it makes against the manuscript
  • Turn a running list of problems into a revision plan
  • Prompts worth keeping and a one-page quick reference
  • Copy-paste prompts as a text file
  • Printable PDF
  • Fillable PDF

Purchase includes a printable PDF, a fillable PDF and a text file of copy-paste prompts. Print the workbook and mark it up by hand, or use the fillable version while you work through your manuscript on screen.

Printed to order, coil-bound so the pages lie flat, and shipped free to US addresses in about two to three weeks. The PDFs come with it: download them right after checkout. Buying it as a gift? Ship it straight to them. The QR code on the last page gets them the PDFs too.

Download right after checkout, and we email you the links too — they work for 30 days. Lose them? Email [email protected] and we'll send more. Not what you expected? Reply to your receipt within 30 days and we'll refund it.