I use Claude for prose (though I have been switching sometimes using Opus instead of Sonnet, and sometimes using 3.7 instead of 4.5 via Openrouter with Rapter Write). I was using Gemini for planning and editing, but I accidently had ChatGPT turned on for one of those (I use Perplexity for this step) and thought the results were better for the point where I am now in my rom com, so that's what I'm going to continue using. Because even when I give them the same task of giving me feedback on the same prose, their responses now are wildly different.

I plan and outline and edit with Gemini Write prose with Claude.

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This is a manual process for me, especially when I have a 'ticking clock' to the end, like the whole book is three or four weeks leading up to a holiday. So once I have my outline, I work backwards, and then keep a separate hand-written timeline when I draft chapters, so I know how many days have elapsed, depending on which chapter we are on. So I can direct the AI when it's drafting chapters, as I do chapters one a a time, read and do some edits before I direct the AI to write the next one. I do have one book that actually shows the date for each chapter. I did write that with Claude Projects. And I think I put it in there after the fact, to make it clear as well as add tension, since that was a higher stakes ticking clock than some of my other books were more logistics ticking clocks. But it's been a while, so it's possible Claude did that on it's own. But even if I don't have a ticking clock, it is helpful for me to keep track of time as it passes in the plot. Because, yeah, Claude likes to write what sounds good rather than what makes the most sense timewise. I don't know if that's all that helpful or not.

I saw a book that had the disclaimer in it (even though it was copyright year 2020 so of course it predates LLMs being widely available to the public for writers to work with). It said: "This book was written by a human and not Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)." Wanna know what Gemini said (via Perplexity)? "This is becoming common in indie circles, but ironically, putting it on the copyright page often makes the book feel *lower* quality or defensive." I mean, maybe my LLM was telling me what I wanted to hear, but I thought you'd appreciate seeing it too.