Control Room: Design Philosophy
Managing a complex creative project often feels like wrestling with chaos. We juggle sprawling plotlines, intricate character arcs, and waves of feedback, all while our digital tools, a fragmented ecosystem of documents, chat apps, and task managers, add to the cognitive load rather than alleviating it. But what if we designed our tools not just…
Writing Apps, AI, and the Future of Creative Tools
Writing has never been easier. We can dictate novels into phones, collaborate across continents, edit anywhere. And yet most aspiring writers never finish a book. Few write a second. Why? Because technology solved the wrong problems. We got spell-check and cloud sync, but the hard parts—staying disciplined, keeping the story straight in your head, the…
Writingway 2 – Now Plug-and-Play
Writingway 2: What’s different? So if you’ve been following my AI writing stuff, you know I’ve been making tools for writers. The first Writingway worked great, but getting it set up was a pain in the ass if you weren’t super tech-savvy. That’s why I’m stoked to finally show you Writingway 2: It’s basically a…
Writingway, another update
First things first:- To install the program, unpack it into any directory and execute setup_writingway.bat- To start it after installation, execute start.bat You only need to set it up once. The setup creates a virtual environment that installs everything the program needs to run. Writingway now has a new options menu and a text analysis…
Writingway, updated
Writingway got a number of updates since I last posted about it here, so I figured I’d write a completely new post about it. It’s noteworthy that Writingway is a work in progress, will get updates every so often, so it’s worth it to check for updates from time to time. There are features I’d…
How do I install Writingway?
Okay, it seems downloading and using a Python file isn’t quite as straightforward for many as I thought. So why not go about it step by step? First things first, you need to download the file. You go to the repository and grab the file as shown in the screenshot: First, you open the file…
Writingway – If Scrivener had AI implementation
You might remember my last project, an attempt to write a program that assists authors when writing a book. It worked. It did the thing. But it wasn’t perfect, and I wanted a complete solution, one that includes a word processor, so I don’t need something like Scrivener to make it work. For some reason,…
So ChatGPT and I made a thing
I took a break from writing for a while. Writing with AI was a bit of a slog, and it was gated behind paywalls – pay for a sub to a site like NovelCrafter or SudoWrite, then pay for model output from OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic and the like. And then, if you’re a writer, you’ll…
Local Models: AI on your PC
Preface Running an AI model on your own machine is great for writers and not even a bit scary, like you might think. I’ve been testing out a few different things, so I figured I’d give you an overview of the topic and assist you with the entire process. There’s so much to cover on…
Prompt Engineering for Fiction Writers
Welcome to the World of Prompt Engineering AI-assisted writing is all about finding that perfect prompt that makes the magic happen. But what does that mean exactly? This guide isn’t just a cookie-cutter template collection. If you’re a writer getting into AI-assisted creativity, you’ve likely asked yourself: Which AI model works for me? What’s the…
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