The Best Resources for Using AI as a Writer

Nobody I know is prompting a chatbot to "write a bestseller" and getting anything usable. The writers doing well with AI right now have something much less exciting: a short list of tools they understand and a few people who will tell them when the draft is bad.

At Wild & Irreverent Publishing we treat AI like a fast, tireless, slightly overconfident assistant. It handles the parts of the job that are not writing. Everything below is something we pay for. Some of the links are affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission if you sign up, and you pay the same either way.

Build the business, not just the book

Before you publish anything you need somewhere to send readers. A site with your books on it, a newsletter form, and your name spelled correctly. We used to either pay someone or lose a weekend to a theme that fought us. Now we build author sites with Lovable.

You describe the page you want in plain English, something like "a landing page for my gothic romance series with a newsletter form and a link to my store," and it builds it. Then you keep editing in plain English until it looks right. This site was built that way in an afternoon.

We are also members of Books and Biz for the marketing and money side, which is the part most of us avoid until a tax deadline forces the issue.

Find the readers who are already looking for you

A good book still needs to be findable. We use Publisher Rocket (link coming soon) to check which Amazon categories we can realistically rank in, what phrases readers actually type into the search bar, and whether ads are worth the spend on a given title. It mostly saves us from launching into a category we were never going to win.

Learn from writers who are already doing it

Software is the easy half. The harder half is having people to ask when a scene stalls or a workflow breaks. These three Skool communities are where we go for that.

• AI Writing Easy AF

  Plain AI workflows for people with a manuscript due. If you want prompts that help you finish a chapter rather than brainstorm forever, start here.

• Ideorix — AI for Authors

  Built for novelists who want systems they can reuse on the next book: outlines, character bibles, revision passes.

• Story Hacker

  Structure, beats, revision. AI will happily help you write a bad book faster. This is the counterweight.

How to use AI without losing your voice

Every writer I talk to has the same worry, that the prose will come out sanded down and generic. It will, if you let the machine write the parts that are yours. So don't.

We use it for blurb drafts, research summaries, title lists, clunky sentences that will not untangle, and all the technical scaffolding around the books. We do not use it for the scenes that matter. It can suggest. We decide what stays.

If you are starting out, pick one tool and one community and live with them for a month before adding anything else. The point was never to automate writing. It was to clear out the chores so there is more time for the writing you care about.