Write Smarter, Not Harder: Assistive AI Tools for Authors

Generative A.I. is not going away. It has been quickly flooding book spaces with stories that were created with just a few prompts in ChatGPT. And sadly, it’s getting only worse. However, as prompters try to change the narrative of what constitutes art and writing?  They are also using the method of Assistive A.I. as a shield for their unethical behavior.

And despite being vocally against A.I. generated books and art, people assume I am completely against the use of A.I. When in truth, I have been using assistive A.I. tools forever, and the gag is YOU PROBABLY DO TOO!

Now, before you get up in your feelings, let me explain why it’s okay to use ASSISTIVE A. I can give a few recommendations on what writing tools you can use to help you can use to make writing easier.

What is Assistive AI

Assistive A.I. are tools when talking about writing are tools that is there to help polish your writing. You still have to write your manuscript yourself, but a good spell check program will highlight grammar and spelling errors and give suggestions.

Another form of Assistive A.I. is old-fashioned generators that are programmed with a specific number of pre-written answers that are thought up by the programmers, and then the algorithm will shift those things around to give you an answer.

Scrivener, the writing app, has a name generator function that works in this way.

Assistive AI vs. Generative AI

While Assistive A.I. is all about giving you the tools to write your manuscript, YOURSELF. Generative A.I. completely takes over the creation part of a story or an artwork. You have to use a prompt, and that prompt takes the information that it gets from scraping other people’s already established creative works to make a “new” artwork or story.

Generative A.I. runs on an LLM or a Learning Model while Assistive A.I. does not. And this is why Assistive A.I. tools are more ethical than using Generative A.I. chatbots to create something.

My Favorite Tools

Seventh Sanctum 

One of my favorite places to get names for my vampires and fantasy creators. I am on this site at least once a week, and I love it.

Fantasy Name Generator 

My second favorite generator. While with Seventh Sanctum, I usually use the quick namer and the vampire name generator for my human characters. The Fantasy Name Generator is great for everything else, like place names.

Vulgar Language 

If you ever see me use a language in a book? It probably came from Vulgar Language. I stumbled on it a few years back and eventually bought a lifetime license. Well, worth the price!

Glossary Generator 

I just found this, and this made my life so much easier when I was coming up with my glossary for My Dark Re-Imagining series.

Name Generator 

I don’t use this as often as the other generators, but it’s still one of my favorite tools. It’s so useful if I want to go in-depth with the names I want to use.

Behind The Name Renamer 

This is also another favorite name generator. This is really good if you are using non-English names, but I warn you to make sure you double-check the names you get with someone who speaks that language. You don’t want to accidentally pick a ridiculous name.

And those are the assistive A.I. tools that I use in my writing. What about you? Do you have any suggestions for writing tools that don’t use generative A.I.? Let me know down in the comments.

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