Stop Pasting Your Novel Into ChatGPT
ChatGPT is one of the best writing tutors ever built. It is one of the worst hard drives for a novel. US, UK, India writers making the same mistake.
Hot take that will annoy someone in every timezone:
ChatGPT is one of the best writing tutors ever built.
It is also one of the worst places to store a novel.
Holding both ideas is adulthood.
The sad global workflow (I've seen it in LA, Lagos WhatsApp forwards, and Bangalore Slack):
Write in Docs until the scrollbar cries.
Copy three chapters into chat.
"Continue in my voice."
Paste back.
Lose track of what you wrote.
Repeat until the villain has three spellings.
The blank page is lonely. The model is warm. The dopamine is real.
Month four: you do not have a book. You have a scrapbook of vibes with a chatbot as co-parent.
Spiky idea you can text a friend:
AI should be a power-up, not the hard drive.
Brainstorm in chat. Research riffs in chat. Ten bad titles until you hate your way into a good one.
Canon lives in a manuscript with chapters. Continuity lives in a bible. Changes are proposals you accept or reject.
The second the model writes as the page, you cannot point at a sentence and say "mine."
That is why "ChatGPT projects" still fail serious fiction. Close enough is not a binder. Close enough is not a relationship map. Close enough is not power-ups when you self-publish on KDP.
Typewriter is the desk version of the rule. Core free. Writer $5. Pro $10. Propose only.
ChatGPT Plus is a chat plan. Different job. Stop making it do both.
Brainstorm in the chat.
Put the chat next to the book.
