Sudowrite is not perfect, so if you\u2019d like to learn more of my thoughts on this program, continue reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- What I look for in an AI writing program<\/li>\n
- The list of Sudowrite\u2019s many<\/em> features and how they can benefit authors<\/li>\n
- What I liked and didn\u2019t like about Sudowrite<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
Table of contents<\/h2>
- A Note on Reviewing AI Tools<\/a>
- What AI Is Really Good At<\/a><\/li>
- Things AI Is Not Good At\u2026Yet<\/a><\/li>
- What I Look For<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Pricing: How Much Does Sudowrite Cost?<\/a>
- Is there a free version of Sudowrite?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- How to Use Sudowrite<\/a>
- The Writing Tools<\/a><\/li>
- Revision Tools<\/a><\/li>
- Brainstorming Tools<\/a><\/li>
- Other Tools<\/a><\/li>
- Canvas<\/a>
- Outlining<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li>
- Pros: What I Liked About Sudowrite<\/a><\/li>
- Cons: What I Didn\u2019t Like About Sudowrite<\/a><\/li>
- The Bottom Line: Is Sudowrite Worth It?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>Sudowrite is great, but there are other ways to get the most out of AI. One of the best ways to increase your AI-prompting skills is to use a series of pre-written prompts. I've put together a list of prompts that you can use for just that purpose!
Check them out here:
Get the PDF Here<\/a><\/center><\/div>\n\n\n\n A Note on Reviewing AI Tools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There is a misconception at large, especially among many writers, that AI writing tools will simply do the writing for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is, thankfully, not true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are still a long way away from being able to push a button and an AI will automatically produce a genuinely good story. I think that is unlikely to ever happen in our lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instead, AI writing tools are not meant to replace human writers, but rather serve as helpful assistants. They can't do all the writing for you, but they're great for tasks like brainstorming ideas, fixing typos, or suggesting better word choices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best way I've ever heard it described is this: <\/strong>AI does for writing what calculators did for math. They let us have an easy way to deal with simple calculations so we can save time and achieve results that we could never have reached otherwise.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n
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Here\u2019s what I love about it and what I want in a tool: AI can handle some of the basics that you might find yourself spending too much brain power on, like fixing typos, suggesting better word choices, or even generating ideas when you're stuck in a rut. This means you can focus your energy on the more important aspects of your writing, like developing characters or story development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just so we\u2019re on the same page, here\u2019s a quick reality check on what AI is realistically able to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What AI Is Really Good At<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
AI has made some incredible leaps forward in recent years, and it is almost hard for me to picture what I did before I had some of these tools at my fingertips because they have severely lessened the amount of creative headaches I get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Brainstorming: <\/strong>AI is currently really good at helping with brainstorming. I personally prefer ChatGPT<\/a> for a lot of this, but as we will see, Sudowrite is busting at the seams with brainstorming power. Sometimes just seeing a few ideas on the page, even if they are really basic, is enough to get the creative juices flowing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Outlining: <\/strong>Since outlining involves structure<\/a>, and AI is really good at understanding structure, it makes sense that AI is also really good at creating outlines. Most tools can pull off decent outlines from a simple synopsis as your prompt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Improving Your Writing: <\/strong>AI has actually been in use in proofreading programs like ProWritingAid <\/a>or Grammarly<\/a> for years, but AI is also becoming really good at more complex tasks, like improve the Flesch reading ease score, or changing the tense of your story with a simple prompt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Descriptions: <\/strong>Speaking from personal experience, I\u2019m really bad at descriptions<\/a>, and could really use more of them in my books. This is something AI is great for. You can give it a little context and it\u2019s relatively easy to get some additional descriptions that you can layer into your prose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Things AI Is Not Good At\u2026Yet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
As of this writing, there are a few things that AI is still not great at, though the world of AI is constantly changing and improving, so this may not be the case for long:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- Long-form Writing:<\/strong> AI still struggles with Long-form writing, although it's getting a lot better, as Sudowrite's Story Engine shows us. Otherwise, if you want a long-form document, it usually needs to be assembled in much smaller pieces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Consistent Styles:<\/strong> It\u2019s difficult for most AI to be consistent in the style you use. This is especially true if you have multiple characters with different speech patterns and personalities, requiring them to be written differently. With advanced prompting skills, you can mitigate this, but it requires a skilled prompt engineer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Research: <\/strong>AI can\u2019t do good research, and even the models that have crawled the Internet often get things wrong.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Staying On Task: <\/strong>AI will often get distracted and stray from the outline\/prompt without a LOT of human guidance. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
What I Look For<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Some of the things I look for in a tool include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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- The User Experience: <\/strong>does it easily guide you through the AI-creation process<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Accuracy:<\/strong> while not always perfect, I like to compare the actual output for every AI tool. How well does it match what I wanted it to do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Peace of Mind: <\/strong>As I mentioned earlier, so far AI hasn\u2019t actually saved me a ton of time in my experimentation (that may change as I get more experience). But what a good AI tool does is free up my mental headache. Creative writing is an intense experience, and for some (myself included) it can be creatively draining. Using AI almost always leaves me feeling less drained and I end up writing more and longer as a result. This is also why AI is a really good option for those with certain disabilities and mental illnesses.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
So with all that in mind, let\u2019s dive into this review of Sudowrite. Does it satisfy my requirements and leave me with less creative drain than I would otherwise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What is Sudowrite?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudowrite is primarily an AI writing and editing software. And this alone is nothing big. There are tons of AI tools out there, but this is one of the only ones that is specifically geared for fiction authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sudowrite has various features, from Story Engine which helps you write the novel, to a bunch of brainstorming features, and a lot of other tools that let you edit the manuscript as you go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, it's kind of packed with features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On my own personal YouTube channel (a side-project not affiliated with Kindlepreneur but posted here with permission), I did a complete walkthrough of the software and how it works. See here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- Accuracy:<\/strong> while not always perfect, I like to compare the actual output for every AI tool. How well does it match what I wanted it to do?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Consistent Styles:<\/strong> It\u2019s difficult for most AI to be consistent in the style you use. This is especially true if you have multiple characters with different speech patterns and personalities, requiring them to be written differently. With advanced prompting skills, you can mitigate this, but it requires a skilled prompt engineer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Outlining: <\/strong>Since outlining involves structure<\/a>, and AI is really good at understanding structure, it makes sense that AI is also really good at creating outlines. Most tools can pull off decent outlines from a simple synopsis as your prompt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Pros: What I Liked About Sudowrite<\/a><\/li>
- Revision Tools<\/a><\/li>
- How to Use Sudowrite<\/a>
- Things AI Is Not Good At\u2026Yet<\/a><\/li>
- What AI Is Really Good At<\/a><\/li>
- What I liked and didn\u2019t like about Sudowrite<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n