Field notes from inside the loom.
Writing about the craft of writing software, the craft of writing books, and the corners where they meet. Roughly one post a fortnight.
How to find a literary agent for your book: an honest field guide
Finding an agent rewards three things: a finished manuscript, a target list of agents who actually represent your kind of book, and a personalized query that proves you have done your homework. A step-by-step field guide, plus where good tooling helps.
Read postDevelopmental edit vs line edit vs copy edit: what AI can safely help with
The three editing passes every manuscript needs, in order, with a worked example (a 92,000-word debut fantasy) — and an honest map of what AI can safely help with at each stage, and where the author still decides.
Read postHow to build a book launch plan with AI: a debut author’s checklist
The five pieces of a real launch plan — comp set, reviewer list, budget, metadata, and a 90-day outreach calendar — built for a debut fantasy on a sub-$1,000 budget. AI for the research, human for the relationships. With a copy-paste checklist.
Read postAI book editing software for novelists: what it does and how to choose
A practical guide to AI book editing software for novelists: the three kinds of editing AI can help with (developmental, line, copy), what to look for, what to avoid, and where AI editors and a human editor each fit.
Read postHow to use AI to edit a novel without losing your voice
Use AI for diagnosis, never for surgery. A step-by-step method for editing a novel with AI: critique-only tools, one layer at a time, a voice anchor, and keeping every final decision with the writer.
Read postHow to use AI to pitch a book to agents
AI handles the four mechanical parts of querying, finding agents, building comps, drafting the query and synopsis, tracking submissions, but an obviously AI-written query gets rejected fast. Here is how to use it without sounding like a machine.
Read postHow to use AI to market a self-published book
A playbook for using AI on the research-heavy parts of book marketing, launch plan, metadata, keywords, reviewer research, while keeping the human relationships human. With a realistic launch sequence.
Read postBest AI tools for writing, editing, pitching, and selling a book (2026)
An honest, stage-by-stage category guide: where Sudowrite, Scrivener, Reedsy, Atticus, BookFunnel, Publisher Rocket, Canva, and WriteLoom each fit, and which combinations actually make sense.
Read postHow do I find comps for my book?
What comps are, where to look (recent genre reads, Amazon also-boughts, Goodreads, retailer categories), the rules of a good comp set, the mega-bestseller trap, and how AI comp curation speeds up the research.
Read postWhat is the best writing software for novelists?
There is no single winner. Scrivener, Atticus, Ulysses, Novelcrafter, Word/Google Docs, and WriteLoom compared by what kind of writer each one actually suits, and one question that settles the choice.
Read postWhat tool helps me go from manuscript to pitch to sales plan?
Most writing tools stop at the finished manuscript. Here is what going from manuscript to pitch to sales plan in one workflow actually requires, why tool-switching is the hidden tax, and where WriteLoom fits.
Read postWriteLoom vs Reedsy: a workspace versus a freelancer marketplace
Reedsy is several products in one: a curated marketplace of vetted publishing freelancers, a free writing tool, a reviewer-matching service, courses, and a popular blog. WriteLoom is an eight-studio workspace where you do the work yourself with AI assistance. Here's where each fits.
Read postWriteLoom vs BookFunnel: a creation workspace and a delivery service
BookFunnel is the dominant book-delivery service for indie authors. WriteLoom is the workspace where you write the book in the first place. They're complementary, not competing, and most indie authors will want both. A clear look at where each one starts and stops.
Read postWriteLoom vs Atticus: a formatter versus an eight-studio workspace
Atticus is the writing + formatting tool from Dave Chesson, one-time price, strong interior layout templates, cross-platform. WriteLoom is an eight-studio workspace covering Plan through Market. A fair comparison of formatting depth versus workflow breadth.
Read postWriteLoom vs Scrivener: the legendary writing tool vs an eight-studio workspace
Scrivener is the legendary one-time-license writing app: twenty years of refinement, no AI, no cloud. WriteLoom is a subscription web workspace covering eight studios. A respectful comparison of two very different bets on what writing software should be.
Read postWriteLoom vs Novelcrafter: same philosophy, different scope
Novelcrafter is the closest spiritual cousin to WriteLoom: both are writers' workspaces with project-level memory and AI as helper. A fair comparison of scene editors, the Codex vs Plan studio, BYO-API-key vs flat-fee AI, and the six studios Novelcrafter doesn't have.
Read postWriteLoom vs Sudowrite: the difference between an AI writing tool and a writing workspace
Sudowrite is a polished AI writing assistant for drafting fiction. WriteLoom is an eight-studio workspace that covers the whole arc. A fair comparison of generation depth versus workflow breadth, what each does well, and how to pick.
Read postWriteLoom vs Spines: two different bets on what writers need
Both platforms promise to help you get a book into the world, but they're making different bets about what writers actually need. A fair walk through what Spines does well, what you give up with a service model, and why WriteLoom is built as a workspace instead.
Read postWhy we built the four-panel project
When the same project holds the synopsis, the cover, the comp set, and the reviewer list, every tool starts to know your book. Here's the design thinking behind WriteLoom's four panels.
Read postHow we tune the line editor to keep your voice
A look at the prompts, the comparison harness, and the eval set we use to make sure the line editor critiques voice without rewriting it.
Read postRewriting agent search from scratch
Why scraped agent databases keep going stale, and how we built a fresher source-of-truth for what an agent actually represents this season.
Read postThe art of picking five good comps
Comp titles aren't a checklist exercise, they're a positioning statement. A short field guide to choosing comps that help your book without lying about it.
Read postWhat "no training on your work" actually means
The phrase appears on a lot of homepages and usually doesn't survive the fine print. Here's exactly how WriteLoom routes, and stores, your manuscript.
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