I feel like I am failing the group. There I've said it. I was tied up last night and most of today with worky bits and more I really should be doing right now instead of finishing a book or fixing the series counting bug I found in the Binder. And I couldn't stop myself from doing some more research on an upcoming feature because it was hot on my mind and I had to get it out. (Anyone want 3d printable figures of your characters?--bad michael no cookies) This pic below is the parts of all of this I carry with me every day to work on wherever I may be. My own personal every day carry of guilt and despair. It is so much! So tonight I'm going to bring order to the Chaos. Instead of reading and final edits I'm working on the new roadmap and schedule (that is workable) to start getting out regular training, workflows and feature by feature for WCP and BW. This may take me a day or two. Tomorrow nights office hours will be as usual any questions you may have, anything I can share and some discussion over what we're going to do together in the next few months. I know many will be busy with BIAM this month But I need help with priorities. First priority in my mind is a quickstart and onboard video and adding screenshots to the update online manual, fix the hypertext links within it to be more useful. Document every feature, written and video. I'm going to release these to the chats and the classroom. Second or simultaneously cleanup the classroom and make it make more sense and be more useful. Third is to publish a few more skills at the premium and VIP level and bring more value there for the folks at that level. You are appreciated. Right now if someone reports a bug I'm fixing it asap. If I know of a bug that doesn't affect function or quality I've been leaving it alone for now and dealing with them in batches. Let me know your thoughts. I have the list of everything published here so far but might have missed something. We are at over 450 posts now!

Welcome all new folks!! So a big welcome for: @Amber Bailey @Sara Balanis @Jessie James @Emma Wratten @Lydia Wilmsen @Himanshu Sethi @Eugene Seva @Alex Nova @Doug Talbott Welcome to the Room!! This is a site to help all authors, but especially those who want to write with AI help and not create Crap! This is also the support Channel for two online writing apps WordCrafter.Pro and BookWeaver.pro! BookWeaver.Pro is a fully automated writing tool that creates books for you but you stay in control, being able to edit along the way. BookWeaver also includes PlotCrafter a tool to generate plot ideas when you don't know what to write. Never have writers block again! Wordcrafter.Pro has a unique system that allows you to work with a virtual AI team of personas rather than just tell claude"Write this". you do not have to figure out prompts just talk to them and they will help guide you through the process with a full editing suite of tools to write with you and not for you. BookWeaver and PlotCrafter are both included in WordCrafter as options so you do not need both tools. If you are reading this and not here for WordCRafter.Pro that's cool too. We are a community of writers who use AI to help write stories that are meaningful and real (or so we hope). My goal for everyone here is to be productive, successful, and prolific in your writing. No matter how you want to write. We are here to help! Just ask

Show Your Work Saturday I preach the four-pass system and the skillroom teams. I want to tell you I follow it perfectly. I don't. Here's what my self-editing process actually looks like, including the parts that make me wince. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗗𝗼 The first thing I do is read the whole draft and run through the editorial room. I accept or reject their fixes and read it again doing the line level edits I see and ignore the structural problems I see. The teams are good but they don't now my story or what I want. They're based on sets of rules. Sigh... Remember I'm a tangential speaker? I just remembered I promised two book son story structure that are stuck in the editing and adding graphics. The reason for the thought is the second book is all about breaking the rules of structure in WCP. This is the wrong order. I know it's the wrong order. I do it anyway because the line-level problems are visible and fixable and the structural problems are large and scary. So I polish sentences in a chapter I'm going to restructure later and feel productive while avoiding the actual work. I've started setting a timer for this phase. This is why we have a pomodoro writing timer! Twenty minutes of line-level impulse editing, then I force myself to stop and do the structural read instead. I let the draft rest longer than I should. The guidance is usually a week to two weeks before your first editorial pass. I tend to go longer. Partly because I need more distance than most people to see the manuscript clearly. Partly because I'm avoiding it. And partly because building something new and shiny for yo is more fun than line edits. The draft that's been sitting for three months (or two years) is not better for having sat there. It's the same draft. The distance helps, but there's a diminishing return past about three weeks. I do the continuity check in my notebook while I'm doing the line pass. Again the skill rooms are probably better at this than I am most of the time. But they slip up. In the Poroit story i posted here the other day they got the Female protaganist confused with the antagonist in the first Chapter. It's a quick find/replace fix but I have left it in to see if anyone first reads it, and second catches the gaff. (He's tricksy sometimes).

So, You know i didn't really take Sunday off right? Nor did I get to IKEA, decided to order what i needed and pay the ridiculous delivery charge. Four hours of time and $50 in gas to get $130 shelf vs ordering and paying $70 in shipping and getting it in 10 days. Spent most of the day on the couch, various sons coming and going dealing with 4th of July party aftermath. Worked on my phone for half the day and finally went downstairs to grab a laptop because long copy/paste of sql code was getting frustrating. Had to get second laptop because that's where my curren fable project was running (Bookweaver in WCP and review and updates of non-fiction creation--getting better but still not really happy with it. And was actually doing serious writing efforts on a book idea I'm truly in love with, but do not think I can pull off. Subtle subplots, two different timelines, Pacing in one is long at the beginning and pacing in the other is short. Midway in Act II this reverses and the primary timeline gets shorter, and the secondary takes over and gets longer. I spent a lot of time in the story development room going back and forth and weaving this tale together until it is exactly what I want. Cool. And in the process sucked down over $100 in openrouter time because I was on OPUS 4.8, not Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini Flash 2.5 where I started with it. Somehow in going back and forth and using Opus and fable for the coding side I left it too high. Crap! And then on top of it, In trying to get all the details just right Story Development was almost 90,000 words. My Outline worked out to 65,000 words. I do not expect BookWeaver to do very well with this, nor would it even import it from the binder. Back to coding...After several hours my friend Fable tells me we may have finally gotten it right. in the mean time I've manually revised more of my story, worked on a second one that is tattered. Looked at my backlog as to what is close enough to go ahead and publish (TWO!!) and tested the updates to the Nonfiction room creating a how to in making Faux stained glass with a 3d printer. The hardest part of this kind of book is putting to gether the catalog of images you need to put together and then create them, either camera shots of the real deal or AI images where possible. MOs of this will be actually doing a couple of projects and shooting every step to add to the text.

Below there are 3 versions of Chapter 1 in a new story each done a different way. I need to know which is liked more. After I get a few votes on it I will reveal the difference