I started writing before I started using AI. I’ve even had a story published and won a fiction contest with my 100% Human writing. You won’t find any of that under A.I. Freeman though…
I figured when I added the AI that I would take a pen name for the writing I did with the AI. I was curious how the use of AI would change things.
Would I write more/less… have more false starts? Finish things I tucked away for “later”… (that was the biggest hope in the beginning.)
How would people respond? Would they hate me for using AI? (Some do…) Or would more people read it out of curiosity about AI? (I think there are some like that as well…)
And to round out the experiment, what about an undisclosed AI-assisted pen name? Will that one do better because people don’t know it’s AI-assisted?
So my undisclosed pen name writes romance.
The book is not that good. At least, I’m not that impressed by it. It’s okay. I gave it a rating on Amazon of 3 stars. That’s the lowest rating so far, so perhaps it’s better than I thought.
My biggest issue is that I did intend for the book to be a romance and my couple never even kissed. They held hands by the last chapter…
The first few chapters were pretty good. I was enjoying setting up the enemies-to-friends story and a lot of the townspeople were real fun to write.
The last couple chapters just didn’t really end the book that well. I was close to my self-imposed deadline, not to mention sick of the story by the time I finished it. Some of the secondary character faded away when I intended them to have a complete sub-plot of their own.
And even with the help of AI, I don’t seem to have the makings of a romance author. Never-the-less, the book is on KU and making more money from page reads than all 3 of the short story collections by A.I. Freeman together.
It’s a bad experiment in terms of controls… there are too many variables. It may only demonstrate that people enjoy romance (even a very sweet, very, very slow-burn romance) more than they like speculative fiction. Or perhaps that people would rather read a novel than a bunch of short stories.