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Cage Match: AutoCrit vs. ProWritingAid Chapter Analysis
(Beth Turnage Blog) Analysis of Two Industry Giants (And a Nod to Hand Analysis) What happens when you pit two of the biggest names in AI manuscript analysis against each other? I put Chapter 4 of my manuscript through both AutoCrit and ProWritingAid to see how they’d evaluate the same content. The results were illuminating.…
Shocking Results From AI Manuscript Analysis : AutoCrit Vs ProWriting Aid
(Beth Turnage Blog) The Rejections That Started an AI Experiment After receiving some puzzling rejections for my manuscript Hanging By A Thread—a neo-noir thriller with MM romantic suspense elements—I found myself genuinely confused. As someone who’s been ghostwriting for 11 years and has helped clients achieve numerous bestsellers, I know my craft connects with readers.…
Interview With The Ghostwriter
(Beth Turnage Blog) I’m typing this from my bed at 2 a.m. with a deadline looming. By morning, I’ll have turned someone else’s rough idea into 5,000 words of polished prose they’ll publish under their name. And that’s exactly how I want it. For many, ghostwriters are shadowy figures who spin words for cash. You…
Update: The Scribe’s Progress (Or Lack Thereof)
The scribe is burning through the “trash that pays the mortgage.” This is good because, this, theoretically will leave her more time to work on my story. But I’m dismayed that she’s not writing about me. (Whatever happened to finishing what you start, Scribe?) Scribe: Look, if you weren’t so cagey about what you actually…
Is The California AI Fair Use’ Ruling A New Bright Line?
(Beth Turnage Blog) We Now Have a Legal Definition A federal judge in California has handed down a ruling that reshapes our understanding of AI and writing. In Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup declared that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its AI model, Claude, was “fair use”—essentially giving AI companies the green…
Is Publishing Utilizing AI To Weed Out Your Manuscript?
(Beth Turnage) Is AI Reading Your Manuscript Before Your Agent Does? There’s a quiet shift happening in publishing—and many authors don’t know about it yet. We’ve been warned not to AI to write your novels. Don’t taint your creative work with any whiff of AI. And sure, that’s solid advice if we’re talking about 100%…
Multi-Genre Author: Liability or Secret Weapon?
(Beth Turnage) Is Being a Multi-Genre Author A Sales Pitch Gone Wrong or A Secret Weapon? So I sent you a query, and you decided to check out my socials, and you landed on my page and you go, what’s this? Why is there all this science fiction here? Well, I’m a multi-genre writer. Eleven…
Arekan’s Blog: Not Another Feline Overlord
(Arekan’s Blog) Arekan: Scribe, what is THAT doing here? Beth: (Innocently): What? Arekan: Don’t give me “what.” After three years of blissful peace, the brown cat returned. What? It couldn’t find another sucker to feed it, so it came back to you? Beth: You are confused. Arekan: I have never been, or ever, especially now,…
The Craft of Writing: Creativity, Neurochemistry, and the Writing Journey.
What Makes a Writer? The making of a writer involves both nature and nurture. Scientists have found highly creative people’s brains are structured differently from those of less creative individuals. The building blocks of creativity in writers are often hardwired, influenced by how their brains process neurochemicals even before birth. Dopamine and Creativity: Neurological Mechanisms…
An Author Interview With Kelleen Rynin
(Beth Turnage) I recently took a writer’s workshop, Young Adult Novel Writing with Emily Colin at Authors Publish. One of the exercises was to write an interview with your character. Since I’m working on Master’s License, I chose 14-year-old Kelleen Rynin, the protagonist of the story, which was very brave of me. I’d never attempt…
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