The Role of AI in Non-Fiction Writing

Practical, step-by-step methodology to help you cut writing time, maintain your unique voice, bring joy into your life, and make your expertise shine in any medium.

Hi,

AI has become an indispensable tool in my creative process. As someone who has written extensively about authorship, publishing, and creative careers, I’ve found AI to be a crucial assistant, not so much in generating ideas from scratch, but in refining, expanding, and transforming them.

I have chronic health conditions that limit the amount of time I can spend at a computer. I can’t always sit down and type out an entire book, a sales page, or a Kickstarter campaign in one sitting. But what I can do is generate ideas, outline my arguments, and structure my thoughts. From there, AI helps me shape those raw materials into something polished.

That’s where the real power of AI lies, not as a replacement for the creative process, but as an amplifier of it. The heart of non-fiction is the idea and the framework that only you, the author, can bring. AI then helps to structure, iterate, and expand upon that framework.

This article is about how I use AI to streamline my non-fiction writing p…