Writing a book with AI seems like a quick and easy fix that will get your ideas out there without needing much time, money, or effort. But the problem is that the drafts spat out by AI often tend to sound the same as each other, contain hallucinations and inconsistencies, and ultimately do nothing at all for the reader.
So, your next step in fixing your draft, if you have one, should be to enlist professional help. If you don’t, you’re likely to end up with a book that was a complete waste of your time and hope. Low ratings, customer complaints, and low sales are all awaiting you – unless you take the step of hiring a ghostwriter to help you.
Make your work copyrightable
One of the first and most important things a ghostwriter can do for you is to rewrite your manuscript into a form that you can actually own. AI work is not currently eligible for copyright protection, which means that you don’t own the rights to your book at all. Unless, that is, significant changes are made to the text by human hands.
Your ghostwriter can rework the text – and even if they weren’t to improve it at all, but only to rewrite and tweak it to exactly the same level, your work will now be eligible for copyright protection. But that won’t happen. Your ghostwriter can make your book so much better, because they can…
Remove inconsistencies and giveaways
The ghostwriter will know what to look for when it comes to AI slop. The garbage generated by these models usually ends up full of inconsistencies, plot holes, redundancies, hallucinations, things you explicitly told it not to put in with your prompts, and telltale phrases or constructions that easily mark it out as AI to those in the know.
When your professional reputation is on the line, the last thing you want to do is put out a book that is riddled with errors and obviously generated by a bot, not a human. It will destroy your credibility, especially with those people closest to you who would want to support your endeavours from the off. Those first buyers will realise what you’ve done and will feel so disenchanted that, even if you spend money and time on creating your own book next time without AI help, they still won’t trust you enough to buy it.
Goodwill is important and irreplaceable. Catch errors before the book goes out with a ghostwriter who knows what to look for – we’re all being sent so much AI slop to work with these days that we’ve become exasperated and all too familiar with the common mistakes to watch for.
Write a better book
This is the key one, really. All AI can do is base your book on books that have been written before: copying themes, ideas, structure, tricks, and even voice.
A real human? They have the one thing AI lacks: creativity.
AI might look at a case study of a successful book in your genre and say X book did this, so we’ll do that, too. On the other hand, a human ghostwriter will say X book did this, which is effective in this way. If we do that, we’ll get a similar effect from a brand new approach, and readers will love the novel feel of the book or praise your creativity. Do you see the difference?
Ultimately, AI can’t write good books. There’s so much lacking from them that only you can provide: your unique voice, human creativity, human warmth and emotion. A ghostwriter can provide those things for you – even reproducing your unique voice on the page so it really does sound like you wrote the book yourself. That’s part of the key skill set of a top-level ghostwriter.
If you’re unsure of what to do to save your AI draft, don’t wait any longer. Get in touch with me for an initial meeting, where you can share your draft and get my professional opinion on how to fix it. We can get your draft into a place where it’s ready to be a proper published book – but only if you take that first step of reaching out today.
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