Ep 04 — Talking to Claude with Alice Author
A conversation about writing fiction with an AI partner — what works, what doesn't, and what changes when the collaborator is a model.
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Show notes
This was a long one. Alice has been quietly writing with an LLM as a collaborator for about eighteen months and has thought more carefully about the dynamic than anyone I’ve talked to.
Topics that came up:
- How an AI is and isn’t like a human co-author
- The “blank page” problem at scale
- What gets worse with an AI partner (we agreed: pacing)
- Whether the workflow generalises beyond fiction
The full transcript is below.