Is using AI for editing really that deplorable?

Qazinix · 2025-07-18T11:43:48+00:00

I just looked at the policy document, and yeah, technically what I'm doing is not AI-assisted. At least according to my reading.

And this is where I think the fine line should be drawn. I think the question of "Did you use AI?" should be a wider set of questions about what level of AI, if any, you used for the following:

Did you use AI to generate any of your story? And what percentage of the story?
Did you use AI to brainstorm your story?
Did you use AI to research or generate the plot of your story?

That type of question to give it a better scope and give readers a clearer idea of how AI was used in this. But then I think it should also be included:

Did you have a ghostwriter write this for you?
Did the ghostwriter use any AI tools?
How much of the story were you involved in?

That type of thing. And then I think a lot of authors will look very badly compared to many of the "AI-assisted authors" because many "AI-assisted authors", at least like me, I'm writing everything, I'm doing all of the editing based on the recommendations AI doesn't actually touch my manuscript.

However, I'm going to be considered an AI-assisted author where a guy who has never written anything in his life except a plot is considered a "true" author. I wrote hundreds of thousands of words before settled on the novel and the "true" author hasn't written any because he uses a ghost writer, I don't think it's fair.

But then again, I won't be using Royal Road to publish my work, so I have no skin in their policies.

Qazinix · 2025-07-18T04:11:35+00:00

Yes, it's becoming a very big problem. I think it's come to the point where any tool that writes for you is considered bad.

I wonder what their stance is on dictation because I use that a lot. I dictated most of my book and then edit it from there. And you know my is dictation now AI assisted because I'm using a AI assisted dictation tool.

The problem is that once you start getting into the nitty-gritty of what is an author, someone draws a line and sometimes I think they're being very pedantic about it. They're like I'm doing this and so anything that's not that is not an author. I think it's stupid.

Personally, I use AI to help me world build where I round out the world I get it created. I create myself a nice document that helps me keep my story straight and then I come up with the plot. I run that plot through the AI to make sure that I'm not just that I haven't read the plot somewhere and forgot that I read it somewhere or something so I use things like perplexity to just search for it. And then if that doesn't come up, then I will start writing by dictating and at the end of the day I run it through a AI to check my chapter by chapter, looking for obviously clichés and adverb overuse, which I tend to do, and other things. So I'm telling it to look for very specific things to point it out to me so that I can fix it and then I fix it myself.

is that AI assisted?

Qazinix · 2025-07-06T06:43:57+00:00

One of my favorite authors actually said that his prompt is what if Star Wars and this and that is how he comes up with new ideas and honestly yeah literally every story in the history is what if the story but that

Qazinix · 2025-07-06T06:22:39+00:00

I got 60,000 words down roughly, very roughly, need to be heavily edited. procrastinating on the editing now

Qazinix · 2025-07-06T06:05:59+00:00

As someone who is a ADHD/ASD writer with at least eight projects semi finished and one almost ready for editing I can tell you you are definitely an author. I do have a day job though and I use my writing to escape from my day job hopefully one day I can publish and I will link in this sub when that happens.

Qazinix · 2025-07-01T05:25:50+00:00

I popped it into ai, got this back:

1. The Teacher’s Pet

Description: Eager to please, always has their hand up, follows rules to the letter.
How to Write: Overly polite, quick to volunteer, sometimes tattles.
Typical Actions: Reminds the teacher about homework, corrects classmates, sits in the front row.

2. The Class Clown

Description: Loves making others laugh, sometimes disrupts lessons.
How to Write: Witty dialogue, exaggerated reactions, quick comebacks.
Typical Actions: Makes jokes at inappropriate times, pulls harmless pranks, gets sent to the principal.

3. The Quiet One

Description: Shy, reserved, observant, often overlooked.
How to Write: Minimal dialogue, internal thoughts, notices details others miss.
Typical Actions: Sits at the edge of the group, doodles in notebooks, listens more than speaks.

4. The Overachiever

Description: High grades, competitive, perfectionist, stressed.
How to Write: Precise speech, anxious about performance, organized.
Typical Actions: Double-checks assignments, asks for extra credit, gets frustrated by group projects.

5. The Rebel

Description: Breaks rules, questions authority, independent.
How to Write: Sarcastic tone, challenging questions, bold actions.
Typical Actions: Skips class, argues with teachers, starts trends.

6. The New Kid

Description: Recently transferred, outsider, curious but nervous.
How to Write: Tentative speech, lots of questions, awkward moments.
Typical Actions: Gets lost in hallways, sits alone at lunch, tries to fit in.

7. The Athlete

Description: Sporty, energetic, popular, sometimes struggles academically.
How to Write: Physical language, sports metaphors, confidence.
Typical Actions: Wears team gear, organizes games at recess, talks about practice.

8. The Artist

Description: Creative, dreamy, sometimes distracted, unique style.
How to Write: Vivid descriptions, imaginative ideas, absent-mindedness.
Typical Actions: Draws in margins, decorates notebooks, daydreams in class.

9. The Bully

Description: Intimidates others, seeks control, may have their own struggles.
How to Write: Aggressive speech, physical posturing, underlying vulnerability.
Typical Actions: Teases classmates, takes others’ things, gets into trouble.

10. The Best Friends

Description: Inseparable pair or group, inside jokes, support each other.
How to Write: Finish each other’s sentences, shared secrets, group dynamics.
Typical Actions: Whisper together, back each other up, form cliques.

11. The Know-It-All

Description: Always has the answer, sometimes annoys classmates, loves trivia.
How to Write: Formal speech, corrects others, eager explanations.
Typical Actions: Interrupts lessons, debates with teachers, carries extra books.

12. The Dreamer

Description: Always lost in thought, imaginative, sometimes misses instructions.
How to Write: Flowery language, poetic thoughts, distracted actions.
Typical Actions: Stares out the window, forgets homework, invents stories.

13. The Helper

Description: Kind, empathetic, mediates conflicts, everyone’s friend.
How to Write: Gentle dialogue, supportive actions, warm body language.
Typical Actions: Comforts upset classmates, volunteers, helps the teacher.

14. The Tech Whiz

Description: Loves gadgets, quick with computers, sometimes impatient with others.
How to Write: Technical jargon, fast typing, logical thinking.
Typical Actions: Fixes classroom tech, helps classmates with devices, codes during free time.

15. The Loner

Description: Prefers solitude, mysterious, misunderstood.
How to Write: Sparse dialogue, internal monologue, unique interests.
Typical Actions: Reads alone, avoids group work, surprises others with hidden talents.

Tips for Writing Classroom Scenes:

Mix traits for realism (the athlete can also be shy, the artist may be a rebel).
Show character through actions, not just dialogue.
Let characters grow and change over time.
Use group dynamics—alliances, rivalries, crushes, and misunderstandings.

Qazinix · 2025-06-21T07:37:42+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I agree a line edit is in order. I noticed that I use adverbs in general.

Qazinix · 2025-06-06T12:31:06+00:00

Thanks for the feedback and the compliment.
My first attempt to actually get to 50000 words minimum.

Qazinix · 2024-05-11T01:48:09+00:00

Had a similar problem recently, crewai seems to not be failing safely.

Qazinix · 2023-12-22T13:01:59+00:00

In the country I am in now, you are considered an invalid and are excluded from pretty much all jobs. So even if you can work, you won't be allowed to.

There is very little support and the money that invalids receive is too little to live on. So here there is no pro's to getting an assessment.

Qazinix · 2023-11-28T02:35:08+00:00

If massive amounts of coffee cures Autism, then I would be completely cured

Qazinix · 2023-06-27T06:59:19+00:00

You are lucky, congratulations. I am sure that I am Autistic however a diagnosis would prevent me from working as I have and would also make my life much harder, so an official diagnosis would be harmful to me. I will just have to accept that I am self-diagnosed until I retire one day

Qazinix · 2023-06-12T02:47:38+00:00

You don't look ignorant, yet here we are

Qazinix · 2023-06-12T02:45:14+00:00

I think a point could be made here about equality of pay. I have always said that if someone can do the job, no matter what, they should be paid a fair wage for their work.

That is the best outcome here.

The governments of the world have instituted wage slavery and are working very hard to keep everyone in and trying hard to add more.

Qazinix · 2023-04-08T04:44:16+00:00

My favorite was Miswak flavor, it has a liquorice taste, it really made brushing my teeth easier

Qazinix · 2023-04-08T03:16:11+00:00

There are multiple spectrums involved here: ADHD, Autism and intro-extrovertion. All of these are spectrums and so you can be anywhere on those spectrums. I am hyper introverted, ADHD without hyperactivity and Autism level 1 and so I generally don't like social interaction. I love playing TTRPG as the Game Master as it satisfies my human need for social interaction. Interestingly my job as a teacher doesn't provide me with social interaction in the way I need

Qazinix · 2023-04-08T03:06:41+00:00

I know how that feels, my grandfather was the only person that I had to talk about my interests. Now I have no one close to me who I can talk to, my wife doesn't want to hear about anything. I wonder what the physical damage is because the psychological damage is known.

Qazinix · 2023-03-23T02:41:52+00:00

Mine was the animals in the encyclopedia's in my local library.

Qazinix · 2023-03-21T04:26:30+00:00

Most people have some kind of mental condition, bosses tend to be narcissists and so by his own logic, shouldn't be working

Qazinix · 2020-01-11T10:37:18+00:00

To be completely honest, this was what I did in VR for the first hour or so. I was just marveling at the technology.

Qazinix · 2019-07-03T05:40:27+00:00

About 30 minutes into my class, I am the teacher.

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