@Dana Sacco Is that something I could learn to do in Antigravity course, which I'm considering anyway!

I use Romancing the Beat

My request is cozy mystery because compared to romance and women's fiction, it's much harder to prompt. What to hide from the LLMs so it doesn't reveal clues or red herrings or the killer! I found a system to go chapter by chapter but I can't imagine giving the LLM the entire outline and it not revealing things too early.

@Dana Sacco I've seen it! That's what made me think that maybe it's time to try one!

I don't think a lot of time, probably more than some. I always do a read through of every chapter right away, delete the few phrases I recognize as AI (practiced ease, with precision), usually delete the last few paragraphs b/c it loves closure. Once in a while I have it tweak a chapter and regenerate. In the climax scene I might ask it to analyze the chapter for how it could be improved. But I also create an outline of the chapters and tweak that so I usually know what I'm getting. At the end before putting in Vellum I put the final draft through Prowriting aid for the long 13-15 sentence repetitions, and it only takes about 15 minutes to rephrase or delete them, but I don't get as many as I used to. I definitely don't spend hours rewriting the output. Though, because I'm paranoid, I do a final read through and usually catch inconsistencies but that seems to be less too.