Introduction
This post is part of Editing Novels Faster, a series documenting an experiment in using AI as an editorial aid rather than a writing tool. The aim is not automated prose generation, but reducing the cognitive drag of large-scale revision, especially the structural and developmental work that becomes difficult once a manuscript outgrows working memory.
This episode is about preparing the tools, and explaining why each is a necessary part of the process. What follows is not an optimal workflow. It is the workflow I actually built, as a novice programmer and tool user, with the explicit intention of learning where it breaks and how it might be improved.
This series documents what I did, not what is ideal. One of its goals is to expose the friction points clearly enough that they can be improved, either by me over time or by others approaching the same problem with deeper technical skill. If this process feels manual in places, that is because it was.
