ProselonWriting with AI
Evergreen answers to the questions writers ask about working alongside a machine, whether the manuscript in hand is a novel, a work of nonfiction or an essay. Dated, and kept current.
Fiction
5 guidesWhere to begin
How to write a novel with AI and remain its author
AI can occupy five distinct positions at a novelist's desk, from corrector of sentences to content generator. The craft lies in assigning the position deliberately and remaining the one who decides.
Can ChatGPT write a novel? Scenes, yes. Books, no.
A chat window has forgotten chapter three by chapter thirty, and a cleverer model will not repair it. What happens to novelists who try, why the obstacles are structural, and what succeeds instead.
Can an AI book generator write a book worth reading?
A machine will produce a whole manuscript from a sentence of premise, and several tools sell exactly that. Whether the result is worth a reader's evening depends on what the writer brings to it, and on a way of working that keeps the author in the chair.
Engines & cost
Rights & privacy
General
5 guidesMemory & voice
Why AI forgets your story: the context window, explained for novelists
The assistant that helped you plan chapter three has never heard of it by chapter thirty. One mechanism accounts for this, and every AI writing tool on the market is a different answer to it.
How to keep your own voice when writing with AI
Left unsupervised, every model drifts toward the same polished chatbot cadence. Describing your voice will not arrest it. Showing the model real passages of your prose will. What we learned building a voice system, and how to run one in any tool.
Engines & cost
Rights & privacy
Does AI writing belong to you? Copyright for AI-assisted novels
Yes, in most circumstances, despite a good deal of misinformation to the contrary. Copyright follows what a human contributed, which leaves an ordinary writing process protected and only unedited machine output outside it. What qualifies in the United States and the EU, and what you could prove. Not legal advice.
AI writing tools that don't train on your writing
Will the AI learn from your manuscript? The answer has three layers, being the tool, the engine and your own settings. The strongest guarantees come from architecture rather than from a privacy policy's promises.
Questions about running Proselon itself, from setting up an engine to starting a book, are answered in the help pages. Comparisons with the other software novelists write in live under Compare.