Ryan Maloney went from hand-drawing graphic novels over three years to using AI to write books. He was skeptical at first, but found that iterative prompting helped him break down story elements, even though early outputs were unusable. He's still uncertain whether to endorse AI-assisted writing.
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I caved. AI's got me. I've been allergic to all trends for the last year, but this has sucked me in. You can now write books using AI. Do I encourage it or condone it? I, I really don't know at this point, but let me show you how I got sucked in. This graphic novel took me 3 years to write and draw. I wrote the whole story using the hero's journey as the framework and then drew everything in Procreate, blah blah blah. Then I saw some people creating books using AI tools. I was like, nope, I'm good, no thank you. But then I was like, alright, alright, I'll look into it, I'll dabble. And then I understood what was going on. Well, actually, first of all, I put my idea into this system and then just press click and I wanted to see what it would write. And it was really unusable at first. I almost just rejected it. But then I said, wait, let me go back and tweak each little item that I put in there. So I spent time and I realized the AI is breaking down each one of these elements of a story. And all good stories have these ingredients and this just guides you through it to add your ingredients into it.