I spent most of last night Building the Non-Fiction Writers Room with a whole new cast of characters and tested it with writing two very different books on the same subject. I had all of the research ready and built a researcher into the tool to fill in the gaps. The following is the news release created for the two books - Please stay till the bottom of this post. ****** Two Books. Same Nine Structures. Completely Different Books. DragonWorks Publishing has just released two companion volumes on story structure for fiction writers using AI assistance. They cover the same nine structural frameworks. They approach them from completely different angles. Here's what each one does and how they work together. "Structure First: Write Like You Mean It A New Writer's Guide to Story Structure and AI-Assisted Fiction" This is the foundation book. It's written for any fiction writer — with or without the Professional Writing System — who wants to understand how story structure works and how to use AI as a collaborator rather than a ghostwriter. The book opens with an honest argument: AI is a nail gun, and a nail gun doesn't know what a house is. You do. Before you prompt anything, you need to understand what readers come to fiction to feel, what structure actually delivers, and where AI fits in a human-led creative process. From there, it teaches all nine structures from the ground up — plain-English concept explanations, emotional contracts with the reader, worked examples from recognizable stories, fill-in worksheets to complete before prompting, simplified prompt libraries, and quick-start prompts ready to paste. Reading level is deliberately accessible. Every term is defined. Nothing is assumed. Best for: First-time fiction writers, writers new to AI assistance, anyone who wants a complete standalone craft reference they can use with any AI tool. "The Anarchist's Guide to Story Structure For Writers Using the Professional Writing System" This is the decision book. It covers the same nine structures — but doesn't re-teach them. Instead it asks a different question: given your story, your working style, and your reader's needs, which structure do you actually choose — and what are you agreeing to by choosing it?

I was playing in Perplexity this morning with something I will share in detail In a later post and mistyped "editting" to be "sitting" and perplexity wrote something truly interesting I will probably be adding to the PWS. Reading through it basically slows down the process (and in my mind works more like novelcrafter) to give more granulated control of the writing process. The most important step of this is the log learning step, the more it's used, the better it will get and increase the quality of the writing in your voice. This will be added! There is a process for using iteration and recursion to increase the quality of the prose but you have to focus on one item at a time to truly make this succesful and this is difficult qith genre writing. ******* Building a Cowork skill for “sitting creative drafts” This is a skill that takes an outline and sits with you through drafting, in stages, instead of blasting out a whole story at once. �� Save as skills/drafting-sitter.md: # Skill: Drafting Sitter – Guided Fiction Drafts ## Purpose Help Michael draft fiction **in stages**, keeping him in the loop, instead of auto‑writing entire stories. Use this when he says: - “Sit with me while I draft this…” - “Let’s write this scene step by step…” ## Inputs Expect: - An outline or beat list in `drafts/` or pasted in chat. - Confirmation of: - target length (per scene), - POV + tense, - emotional goal of the scene. ## Process For each scene: 1. Re‑state the beat - Summarize the scene goal, conflict, and emotional turn in 3–5 bullets. 2. Brainstorm options - Offer 2–3 possible openings (first 1–2 paragraphs) with different angles. - Ask Michael which one to build on (or how to combine them). 3. Co‑draft - Write 2–4 paragraphs at a time. - After each chunk: - Ask: “Keep, tweak, or redo?” - Incorporate his edits as style reinforcement. 4. Local revision - When the scene is drafted, run one tightening pass: - remove clichés and flab,

I'm Michael. I built the Professional Writing System and WordCrafter Pro after spending years trying to wrangle AI tools into something that actually helps writers write better stories — not just faster ones. The Professional Writing System is a set of Claude skills to help you as authors get the words out and get published. Each skill has a group of personas who are experts in their field that let you discuss your book not order the AI to do your bidding. They help you work out ideas, build the story Bible & outline, design believable characters, write your story (with help not write for you), and edit the work afterwards. The Merch and Marketing skills step in to help you build products around your story and sell it (the most important part) WordCrafter Pro is the latest in AI Writing Aids that has the entire PWS System baked in. Here in a scrivener styled interface you can organize all of your pieces together, control your context windows, get help when needed and get the stories published! With this system you never have to write alone again. You can even talk to the persona's individually ***** What you've walked into is the community hub for everything PWS: the skill files, the app we're building, the classes, the challenges, and most importantly, the other writers doing this work alongside you. Here's what to do right now: 1. Introduce yourself in the Introductions category. Tell us your name, what you write, and your biggest creative challenge right now. 2. Grab the free PWS Quick-Start Guide at [this link] It explains the four-phase system and shows you exactly where to start. 3. Browse the Start Here posts. The PWS Overview explains all four phases. The Community Rules are short and worth reading. This community is free and always will be. A paid Inner Circle tier is coming for writers who want deeper access, but everything you need to use the system lives here at no cost. the skills themselves and the PWS Studio App I'm developing will have a cost, but if you are reading this there will be a huge discount.

Hi everyone! I’m new here and easing my way back into writing - an old love set aside through motherhood, life, and years of academic and professional work. I have more ideas than time, but I’m finally focusing on a story that’s been quietly percolating for over twenty years - something rooted in hidden worlds, strange connections, and the thin places where science, myth, and the unseen begin to converge. I come from a background in environmental science, geography, and art, so a lot of how I think about story is rooted in place, patterns, small details people tend to overlook, and exploring connections people have with each other and their place in the universe. I’m here to write, learn, and see where this goes.