Use of Ai in brainstorming, outlining and drafting? Should you use it?

There is a boundary between using AI excessively in your work and an earnest way of using AI with a good understanding of what you're doing.

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Imam786

7/4/20252 min read

Have you ever felt tired of doing all the work of brainstorming, outlining, and drafting but then stumbled upon the idea of using AI to do the job for you? Did you enjoy it? Did it make you feel at ease and take the weight off your shoulders, but should you be really dependent on AI for this work?
For the newbie writers, I would say they shouldn't wholly depend on AI for doing this stuff for them. Yes, you can go ahead and ask it for aid in case you're stuck.
Unlike pro writers, newbies are at the stage where they should actually get experience doing brainstorming, outlining, and drafting. All three parts can be tedious and dull and sometimes can give you a headache, but as you really start doing it more often, you learn how valuable it is to do it yourself, and you mostly improve with time. Doing brainstorming and outlining deftly, and drafting - that's a different case.

I'm not saying you should entirely shun the concept of using AI. What's better is that you should use AI in learning how to do all three parts (except drafting, simply and easily the best and hardest job). Learn where you should improve the outline. You can even ask it to provide your character's name, personalities, and images of them. You can get instruction on world-building, although, once again I will reiterate, don't overuse it and get your own experience with it.

AI drafting?

What is drafting? An obviously stupid question, but my answer. Drafting is a daunting task, which helps you understand your own story and its flaws to help you write your story better and omit the unnecessary stuff forced into it.
But sometimes you wonder, man, who's going to write a story again and again? No one wants to, but everyone is forced to, but in the end, you have to. Nothing is more fun than seeing your story written by you entirely, from the first draft to the final draft; trust me, the happiness is something else.
But in the end, what if the book didn't sell well? Shove that idea away; it would work. If not that book, the next one would do. It's better written with the hand you eat with than with the... technology that feeds on your work.
If you don't understand the value of drafting, then you haven't gone through the fun and hellish process.
Does that mean drafting without AI? No, you can use AI to aid you with the scenes you feel are nonsensical.

Outline with AI?

As long as you don't want to be creative and steal other people's work and call it my story by saying I have fed it my own creativity too. It is actually useful, only if you feed it your creativity. I'm not against it; it can help you with characters and with the story itself, how the story should go, but then how much did you learn from it?
The only thing I would agree with is if AI can give you a logical scene and argument. Even if you want to use AI on it, better check everything yourself; you're the writer, and you should know how outlining works. If you're struggling with the plot structures, then use AI for better elaboration.

Brainstorming is not a topic here; brainstorming itself tells what its job is and how it should be done.

Counsel

Don't make AI ruin your experience, but make it help you explore those experiences your gaining more deeply; only you yourself can figure out how.