Author-driven
Plot, structure, characters, voice — mine. AI helped me draft faster. I decided what stayed.
Process Note
On Writing With AI
How I wrote Nora and the Genius in the LLM with AI, audio, and revision by ear.
I wrote this book with AI. I want to tell you about the process because the tools changed the pace, not the job: I still had to choose every line.
The novel treats AI as unreliable oracle: it gives her company at 3 AM, order from chaos, and the relief of being heard. Then it makes her doubt what's real.
Authorship
How I actually wrote it
I am a neurodivergent writer. My mind does not always move through language in a straight line. I can feel tone, structure, and rhythm long before I can produce the clean sentences publishing tends to treat as the real work.
For me, the work was returning to the draft until the sentence said exactly what it needed to say and nothing easier.
AI made that drafting process faster, stranger, and more iterative. Most of what it generated, I cut.
Sentence-level craft
Most generated sentences got cut. The ones that stayed had to justify themselves.
Tested by ear
I listened to the audio hundreds of times. A line stayed because it sounded right out loud.
Technical Process
The software engineer in the room
Prompting as craft
Prompting, versioning, iteration, pattern recognition — the engineering was part of the drafting.
Literary standard
The workflow was technical, but the test was simple: did the sentence sound right, carry pressure, and belong to this book?
Uncanny lines
Some sentences kept a slight strangeness people may associate with AI. If they were exact and doing real work, I kept them.
Voice first
Most of this book started as voice-to-text — spoken first, typed later.
Inner Experience
Intensity and hyperfocus
Intensity is part of how I write, not a side effect I clean up later.
I write about wanting someone you can see clearly and staying anyway — the loop, not the lesson.
Hyperfocus was part of this. Long stretches of revision, following cadence and pattern until the paragraph locked.
After enough passes, I could hear when one wrong word threw the whole paragraph off.
The poetry is in the choosing.
Personal Note
What this made possible
I come from a family of writers, and for years I quietly believed I might be the one who could not do it.
AI did not make me a writer. It made it possible for me to write in the way my mind actually works.
If you are dyslexic, neurodivergent, hyperfixated, nonlinear, or someone whose imagination outruns your ability to draft on command, these tools may let you work closer to the speed of your own mind.
I am still the author. This book is still mine.
Full Disclosure
What AI was used for
I want to be clear about every part of this project — not just the writing.
The novel
Drafted and revised with AI in the loop — prompting, expanding, cutting, and choosing sentence by sentence. The full process is described above.
The audiobook
Voiced using ElevenLabs — a multi-voice AI production with atmospheric sound design, about nine hours across fifty-six chapters (final runtime still being measured). This is not a human narrator. Right now we sell streaming access in your library after purchase, not a downloadable full-book audio file. Directed and assembled by me.
The chapter images
Each of the 53 chapter illustrations was generated with AI image tools and selected for tone, atmosphere, and fit with the specific chapter. Curated, not automated.
The book cover
The cover illustration was generated with AI and chosen because it held the book's split palette: California gold on one side, grey coastal dread on the other.
The models
Written and revised in Cursor with Claude Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Grok 4 — different models for different passes. Some were better at structure, some at compression, some at humor, some at catching when a sentence had gone mushy.
I am not hiding any of this. The tools were part of the work. You can judge from the pages and the audio whether the result holds.
FAQ
Common questions
Did AI write the book?
I wrote it with AI as part of my process — prompting, iterating, choosing. The full story is above.
What did AI help with?
Momentum, expansion, phrasing, and speed. It helped me draft faster, test more options, and keep pace with how my mind actually moves.
What stayed fully mine?
The final sentences, structure, scenes, cuts, and voice. I kept revising until the prose sounded like me and not like a draft.
Is the audiobook voiced by a human?
No. The audiobook uses ElevenLabs AI voices — a multi-voice production with sound design, directed and assembled by me. This is disclosed clearly on the purchase page.
Why talk about this openly?
Because readers deserve to know how the book was made. And because this workflow may matter to other neurodivergent writers.
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