My favorite self-publishing expert is all over AI as the way ahead to accelerating her writing process and publishing more books faster. I am catching up as fast as I can and you should, too.

But remember one thing as you experiment with AI tools and get them to help you write more books faster. AI is a robot. You are the human. Training yourself as a robot master may be a great way to expand your product line and become the publishing mogul your partner wants you to be, but in the rush to moguldom, don’t forget who’s in charge. To borrow a term from the avant garde movement in filmmaking, you are the auteur, the main artist. The one with the vision for the story, the mission, the final product. You are the Orson Welles, the Da Vinci, the Richard Wagner of your very own art form. The AIs are your helpers. A new way to be more productive, keep control of costs, make more at the end of the day.

That said, AI is fast becoming too many things to many different people and situations. Is it a productivity tool for enterprise workers? Is it a conceptualizer for the graphic artist? Is it an automated ghost writer? Yes. Yes. And yes. How you use AI depends on what you prompt it to produce and how good your prompting. For self-publishers, get your feet, then your knees, then your whole self wet as fast as you can. Your readers are waiting.