When you make your codex and outline, the ones you use for yourself, do you manually go through them afterward or check them by running them through a different LLM.

I love em dashes. I hate what has become of them thanks to the anti AI crowd. Must I get rid of them? Gemini 3 said no. Claude also told me no. But those two have an obvious bias toward em dashes...

So usually I wouldn't share something like this - but I'm still testing so it's rewriting it. Yesterday I shared a premise of a story that I was putting into my N8N "First Draft from Premise/Form. Here it is again: A rule-obsessed HOA president dies unexpectedly… and is accidentally resurrected by a well-meaning but incompetent neighborhood necromancer. His soul splits: the fussy, hypercritical ghost version of him still tries to enforce the bylaws, while his zombie body rampages through the cul-de-sac breaking every rule he ever wrote. Now the necromancer and the ghost must team up to wrangle the zombie, restore order, and keep the HOA from imploding—all while discovering that sometimes chaos is exactly what a tightly wound spirit needs. Here is the output. It's not perfect - I hate POV switched in the same chapter (hopefully fixed the prompt so that won't happen) and I'm rewriting to make sure it's more "my style" https://docs.google.com/document/d/18LEb3GfCXvUfLtqzky17aYnTf_SANZMER6GubIRU-Ek/edit?usp=sharing Now the question is - would I release this? Not yet - but it's damn close. The main issues I have are the POV switching - it annoys me and makes it hard to do audiobooks with it for YouTube. We'll see what version 2 does after I go do stuff this morning (see? It's writing while I go somewhere else!) PS - this will be the workflow walk-through we do in an Advanced N8N class because it loops and parses information and all sorts of things.

What are some confessions you have about writing with AI that you're willing to share amongst friends in this safe space? I'll start - I have released several books I've never read. I have more but I'll jump in as this goes on, I don't want to be the only one. 😂