Tried to write a book with ai for a year - honest breakdown!!!

Started this experiment curious, ending it with some actual opinions Month 1-3: Using AI to generate text and paste it in. Word count went up, quality went down, nothing sounded like me. Month 3-5: Realised generation was the wrong use case. started using it to interrogate my own writing instead and results smh got interesting. Month 5-8: Figured out that output quality depends almost entirely on how much context the AI has. Same prompt, different context, completely different result. Month 8-12: Found a setup where the AI reads my actual manuscript rather than a chat window.