Posts about using AI in real writing work, where it helps, where it fails, and how to keep your voice intact. These cover the practical side of writing with machines, not the hype. Read these before you let a chatbot near your book.
AIPublishers can now pay to stamp a human-written mark on their books. Readers want a good read, the writers and artists who care are the ones paying, and a label that ends up on everything will mean as little as…
AI WritingIn 1969 a Gulf station handed me a cardboard Apollo lunar module. Here's how American giveaways rose and died with the 1973 oil embargo and the extraction era, and why AI and 3D printing are handing the tools back to…
AI vs Human GhostwritingThe survey of 1,481 working writers found two forecasts for the same weather. Heavy AI users report more work and income, nonusers report losses, and fiction authors split into camps that barely overlap.
AI WritingA Florida woman typed threats into an AI chatbot and the company sent them to the police. On the surface it's an easy call. Underneath, private companies are deciding which of your private words get reported, and liability pushes them…
AIAnthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained and needless cruelty toward Claude, starting November 12, 2026. Frustration, pushback and dark fiction are all exempt. Here's what the rule covers, why Anthropic made it, and what else changed.
AI WritingThe old story says the river at Sligachan on the Isle of Skye gives wisdom. Google's AI Overview says eternal beauty. Kenny Boyle called it out, and he's right about the folklore, but tourists were hearing the beauty version from…
AI TransparencyWIRED reports that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff use AI for publicity copy, back-cover text, emails to agents and cover art without telling authors, the same year publishers canceled books over suspected AI use. The tool isn't the…
AI WritingMost plot holes in a novel are character holes: someone does something only because the author needed them to. Here's how I check finished drafts, using the methods from my Plot Handbook with AI as the checker, not the writer.
AIPlatforms now stamp AI labels on posts automatically, and they're catching human artwork, sofa pillows and writing. Here's why the labels misfire, why the appeals seem to be decided by machines, and what authors can do about it.
AI vs Human GhostwritingThe favorite argument against AI writing is that it has no soul. A one-prompt book has none, but plenty of human writing doesn't either. The soul in writing is the little human parts the author puts on the page.
AI vs Human GhostwritingAsking whether AI has a soul misses the point, because art itself has no soul. The soul lives in the mind that made the work and the mind receiving it, and Game of Thrones showed how fast an audience feels…
AI WritingEverything after the last chapter serves a reader who already bought your book, and the back cover sells it to one who hasn't. I cover indexes, author bios, acknowledgments and back cover copy, and what I recommend for each one.
Professional ghostwriting for executives, founders, coaches, and authors who want to get the book done right. 113+ books authored. 54+ ghostwritten for clients.
Ready to discuss your book?
BOOK YOUR PRIVATE CONSULTATIONNo pitch. No pressure.
© 2026 Richard Lowe. The Writing King. All rights reserved.
