Today's The Bookseller article "Where We Are Now With AI", by their global AI lead at Pan Macmillan Publishers tries to find the holy grail of publishing’s AI strategy. It's thoughtful. Measured. Sensible. He is obviously trying to not step on a landmine while gingerly stating that yes - they have already adopted AI in a myriad of ways.
And that sensible outlook is great—for publishers.
But if you’re a writer? A human writer trying to wrestle your big, beautiful, chaotic story idea into a finished manuscript without losing your mind, your money, or your copyright control in the process?
Sensible is not going to cut it. Because the game has changed. Creative writers everywhere must be bold and fearless - we have been handed The Golden Pen.
The way we write stories is evolving faster than the publishing industry can hold its stakeholder roundtables.
And if you're still writing the old way—piecing together writing craft from a thousand sources (books, modules, writing workshops), winging it with outlines that collapse halfway through, and praying to the muses that your editor doesn’t gut your voice—then let me lovingly say: you're living in a different timeline.
Welcome to the reality where you can write smarter, faster, and more you-er.
I call it the AI Creative Writing Revolution, and yes—it’s powered by ChatGPT, but more importantly, it’s powered by you.
And to make this real, here’s the side-by-side reality check I created:
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Let’s break this down.
The Old Way: You’re stuck in a cycle of “hope-as-a-strategy,” bleeding cash on editors, rewriting the same draft for two years, and praying you don’t lose your mind before you hit “The End.”
You might technically be using AI, but it feels like chaotic prompt soup. The kind that results in scenes you can’t copyright and don’t even remember writing. (Yikes.)
The New Way: You have a framework. You’re in control. You’re using strategic prompts that pull your story out of your brain and onto the page in your voice—with full copyright control. You’re editing smarter, outlining with clarity, building characters who drive your plot instead of sitting there like cardboard cutouts.
You're finishing books in months, not years.
You’re not sacrificing quality or copyright control—you’re baking it in from the first line.
This isn't hypothetical. It's not some speculative future. This is what writers inside the AI Creative Writing Academy are doing right now.
Creative Writers Don't Need Persmission To Use ChatGPT (From Anyone)
Creative writers need a new system that turns “I’ve been working on this draft for five years” into “I just published my third book this year.”
And most of all, creative writers everywhere are already waking up to the fact that GenAI is no longer the villain in this story.
It’s the sidekick. The Iron Man suit. The light saber you didn’t know you could wield.
You need a new strategy. A better system. One that actually gets you from idea to market-ready manuscript.
And lucky you, we’re already living in it.
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