Michael Stewart of Sudowrite – How to Write your Book with Sudowrite

About this episode

Michael Stewart discusses how Sudowrite aids writers in overcoming perfectionism and enhancing their creative process.

Michael Stewart is the Community Lead at Sudowrite, an AI creative writing partner designed primarily for fiction writers. His background is in journalism and nonfiction writing, but he discovered his struggle with fiction perfectionism early on—unable to finish first chapters because everything needed to be perfect from the start. Sudowrite helped him accelerate past the "shitty first draft" phase to get to the editing work he loves. Michael works with a community of 16,000+ authors on Sudow...

People in this episode

Host: Teddy Smith

Guest: Michael Stewart

Topics covered

• AI writing tools
• fiction writing
• creative writing
• author community
• overcoming perfectionism

Keywords

• Sudowrite
• fiction writing
• creative writing
• perfectionism
• writing community
• AI tools
• editing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sudowrite

Books & works: shitty first draft

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