THE NOTEBOOK
Practical guides for fiction writers, with space for the experiments and research that come next.
5 articles
A portable knowledge system that helps your AI understand the work before it starts doing the work. An FFA Spark gives your AI focused knowledge, workflows, decision rules, and quality standards for an author-specific task—without replacing your judgment or your voice.
Read the guide ↗A chat window, a coding agent, somebody else’s app, an editor extension, software I built myself. I have written books in all five — here is what each one is genuinely good at, what it quietly costs, and how to tell which one your work actually needs.
Read the guide ↗A useful fiction brief gives AI a job, a little context, and a clear boundary around your creative decisions.
Read the guide ↗Turn “this seems impressive” into a small, repeatable test of whether a writing workflow actually helps.
Read the guide ↗Build a short listening test that reveals whether an AI narration approach fits your story before committing to a full book.
Read the guide ↗Try a broader search or another topic.