I'm still very hesitant to mention using AI, and have found my own writing style has shifted and gotten skewed since using AI. As a result I have started pulling back from using AI for writing and try to only use it for Outlining, Brainstorming, and helping to get out of writers block. The thing that's really hard with AI is how fast you can complete your work if you are liberal in your use of it... I could easily write a week and sometimes one or two chapters over a weekend when using AI. Now that I have pulled back I'm lucky to get a chapter done a week, and that creative speed is addictive and I constantly feel the pull to say "Who cares, let er' rip tatter chip" and go back to full speed AI writing. For now, with the stigma against AI, I am trying to keep it on the organization, outlining, and brainstorming periphery of my writing.

@Eddie Monroe I will use AI to generate text, but only if I am stuck, need help figuring out how the flow of a conversation should go, especially if it has multiple characters jumping in to make comments. Writer's block is another good time...when I have been starting at a scene and can't figure out where to go with it, I will hand it to the AI just to see what it does with it....sometimes it tosses out some ideas that I won't use, but gets me thinking about how I might proceed. The other time I will use AI to write is if I have two seperate scenes and I need them to flow into a single scene, but can't figure out how to do it. I will hand both sections to the AI and ask it to bridge that gap. In almost every case I will go back over everything and make significant changes.

I might be missing some steps in your process here, but in my experience you will never get great results from AI if you just hand it an outline and tell it to write. If you have been watching Jason's videos then presumably you have a few prompts you are using, including a guide for it to follow a writing style you are happy with? And even assuming all of that is true, you will want to have it do smaller sections at a time, one page or so, then go through and make edits as you go. I will often include one or two paragraph summaries of characters that are in the scene that I will add into my promps so the AI remembers to use those characters correctly. I could keep going but without more information I might be telling you things you already know. I hope this helps at least some.

Welcome @Rachel Davison , Good luck on your first book.

Very cool @James Burwash , my first book was 1920s historical horror with the characters traveling all over the world. It was really fascinating doing all the research on how travel was done, and how it was both easy to do back then, but also so much more time consuming.

I have a lot of ideas, across several genres....too many to be honest. The first book I finished was a historical adventure/horror grounded very much in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror setting. Don't recall the word count off hand but I think it was in the 120,000 range. My second book is a post apocalyptic tale of vengeance. But I got distracted and that story got shelved for my next story. Finished a 20,000+ word Horror Comedy Novella. Cant really do anything with it since its very much in the realm of Fan Fiction, where Freddy Kreger hosts a poker night with a bunch of other famous slashers, and the party gets crashed by a non-slasher. An actor who ends up at the poker game by mistake thinking he is there for a method acting social mixer. My current book is robot apocalypse with a twist. I'll keep the twist to myself for now, but I'm a little over half way done. And waiting in the wings, I have about 10 book ideas in various stages of development, from outlining to world building in multiple genres including several sequels to my current stories, as well as sci-fi, super natural horror, and urban fantasy.

@Adrian Deasley I just mentioned this in another comment, but I have a folder of future story ideas, story arcs, characters, and outlines. When ever I think of something, i write it down, toss it into a folder and know some day I will get back to it. Sometimes I even toss the idea into an AI Prompt to see if it can expand the idea if its just a vague thought to see if there is something more there worth exploring in the future. Fighting that ADHD brain jump is a daily struggle for me. So I get it. The important part is to save it for later and get back to your current focus.