This is an interesting take on an over discussed topic. The transcript argues that traditional publishing has a double standard around AI: industry insiders may use AI in their own writing while discouraging authors from doing the same. It challenges the idea that AI-assisted writing is inherently illegitimate. Key points: - Authorship is about creative authority, not generating every word. Authors have long used editors, researchers, ghostwriters, and collaborators without losing authorship. - AI training is not the same as piracy. Courts distinguish between building libraries from pirated books and using lawfully acquired books for transformative fair use. Learning from existing works is also how human writers develop. - AI can support legitimate authorship, including for people with disabilities or those facing barriers to polished prose. Wealthy authors have long used human assistance; AI democratizes access to similar help. - Institutional definitions of authorship are problematic. Redefining authorship to require a certain amount of human-generated text gives publishers, agents, and organizations power to police creative processes. - Secrecy and compliance distort behavior. Many authors hide AI use due to backlash, while conscientious beginners may avoid AI unnecessarily. Publishers and agents may use AI themselves while enforcing strict bans on authors. - Distinguish creative authority from contractual authority. Publishers can set submission rules, but those rules should not define legitimate authorship universally. Authors should set their own ethical standards. - Copyright and authorship are separate. The U.S. Copyright Office distinguishes human-authored expression from AI-generated content, which creates practical problems for collaborative works, but copyright frameworks should not define who qualifies as an author. - Authors should retain creative control, use AI only when it serves the project, investigate contract clauses, and avoid letting fear of judgment hinder their development.

Last Day to get WCP EVERYTHING for $22 a month / $200/Year Start your 14 day trial at WordCrafter.pro and check it out and lock in the current rate. I'm happy to give help as needed. ****** More new stuff rolling out shortly built i the last few days all built but not tested and once tested will be included into WCP. More to come but I was binging and do need to slow down. These came from my work in two other tools and just needed to get out, there;s a much longer list. BookCrafter, BookWeaver, the StoryDB in Narrativecrafter, genres, tropes, prose quality ALL have been updated. Currently 52 books have been created with BookWeaver.pro (Separate App--equivalent to Bookcrafter in WCP). New skills - Adaptation Room: turns a novel into a screenplay or stage play, chapter by chapter, against a page or runtime budget. Optional shot lists and blocking. - Hook Forge: mines hooks from the manuscript, writes new ones, builds teasers, fits hooks to each channel, and repairs weak ones. Keeps a Hook Bank. - Revision Planner: turns every source of feedback into one ordered, tracked revision plan with work orders. - LEXA Naming Studio: names checked against real US birth records by birth decade, cast collision checks, invented-language names, pen names, and a Name Registry. Replaces the old banned-names list with tiered flags; rolling that out to the seven skills that carry the old list is still your call. - Author Brand Profile: one saved brand profile per pen name, with a tool that checks copy against it. Existing skills upgraded - Story Development Room: Premise Review with an Engine Test for length fit, and motifs planned as arcs. - Prose Doctor: every edit can be kept or rejected individually, with a protect list and Word tracked-changes export. Also fixes your two incomplete installed copies. - Book Marketing Team: reads the brand profile, and turns tropes into KDP keywords, categories, and ad angles. - Hook Forge v1.1: uses the brand profile. - Book Merch Team: A+ Content planning and special editions (edges, foil, endpapers, costing). -

Time for accountability and what everyone has been working on this week. Let us know where you are, if you have blockers we can help with, had a rough go with personal life, made a win, started something new, or anything else. This doesn't have to do with books could be anything...

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.