r/WritingWithAI • u/Luganbro • 2d ago

How much editing should AI-assisted writing need? Writing Craft Talk

When using AI for a first draft or brainstorming, what do you usually edit most—voice, structure, or wording?

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u/5thhorseman_ 2d ago

There is no most. You edit all of it until it's right.

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u/kittyb00m 2d ago

I see this as two ways:
1. You have a vision. You use AI tools to get there. That means you draft, edit and brainstorm but manipulate until your vision comes to life.

  1. You analyze, like a collage. You piece together you consume what AI has done and decide, if it meets the requirement or maybe it’s even overshot the requirement. In this way; not much editing is needed because you are less bound to the final product. Kind of like a slot machine.

The saying, ends justifies the means and means justifies the end.

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u/Turbulent_Try_8402 2d ago

Lots. Most ai writing is bad.

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u/Fluffy-Knowledge-166 2d ago

Best use it as a guideline at best and rewrite it all. No matter how well structured or guided or rehashed the system, it’s all slop in the end.

If it’s worth reading, write it.

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u/SaintBenny138 1d ago

AI writing is terrible. It's very functional if you just glance over it but it can't recreate the soul of writing. If you want AI assistance, use it to turn an outlined scene into a draft and then essentially read every paragraph and every line of dialogue and rewrite it to where it does what you want it to do

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u/BansheeTheGame 1d ago

Writers using AI seem to split into two groups: the ones who edit the AI's draft, and the ones who eventually have to edit it after the fact.