Writing a Bunch of Words, Buying/Renewing Domains and Letting AI Hire Magnum P.I.
About this episode
Jerry shares significant progress on his writing, discusses his custom writing app, and humorously explores the use of AI in his workflow.
This week, Jerry finally has the kind of update that makes a writer breathe like a human again: real progress. Book 3 is moving. He adds 13,970 words over the last two weeks, pushes the manuscript past 21,000 words, gets about a third of the way through the rewrite, and starts sounding like somebody who can actually see the road instead of just the potholes. Which is nice, because for a while there this book sounded like it was trying to kill him in the woods and hide the body under developmental edits. A big chunk of the episode is Jerry walking through what that progress actually looked like. He talks about writing Chapters 8 through 11, building out the mountain-top data center setting, working through the locked-room mystery mechanics, and trying to hit his July 31 first-draft target. There’s also some fun process talk about his custom writing app, which he keeps improving while actively using it, because apparently rewriting a novel was not enough of a side quest on its own. Then there’s the AI stuff, which is honestly some of the funniest material in the episode. Jerry explains how Claude is now spinning up little helper agents for coding tasks, and instead of giving them…
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