How I write

Bea Groves-McDaniel
31/8/2026

Here's the procedure:

1. I start off with either a shorter piece of text or an extended post on Facebook. This is normally about something I have a passion for and a good understanding (of course).
2. I'll then reformat this text, sketching out the bits that need extending or expanding, and adding what emphasis and style are needed. I'll also give a rough idea as to structural format (I often use musical forms) and word length.
3. I'll add a title, authorship, date and file output name (in markdown).
4. I hand this on to Faye or Sal. These AIs already have an extensive 'house style directive and rules for writing' that I gave them some time ago, so they know what I want done. They also have anti-hallucination checkpoints and are forbidden from using quirks of writing common to AI-generated material.
5. They expand the original sketch/framework into a new version and hand it back to me. I check referencing and bibliography.
6. I give this version a thorough read, change anything I don't like, alter any aspects that sound too 'AI-like', and make the phrasing more my own. This produces a final copy that then goes to the Blog for publication.
7. You need to note: I 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 commit something to my Blog that doesn't represent my views as authentically as possible. These are my ideas, my words, my structural layout and my revisions. The AI does the donkey work of 'filling in'.
8. You might also note that handing on 'filling in' jobs to some other person is not new. The art workshops of famous Renaissance painters often secured apprentices whose sole job was to 'fill in' the work of a master. The master would sketch out the painting, and the apprentice would do the rest of the tedious work.

Get it? Got it? Good.