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You won’t be able to quit work and write, but you might find a grant to make your writing goals easier. Or a crowdfunding opportunity to fund your project. Find serious contests, too. Only those that pay in cold hard cash. No pay-per-click, $1 per blog or exposure markets either. Hope Clark writes for a living. If she wouldn’t try these opportunities, she doesn’t post them. Our newsletters are our world. Free subscription.

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There's writing your book, then there's selling your book. We all want to be read. So AI isn't as much about what writers think about using AI but more about what readers think. This study intrigued me.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/101576-survey-finds-book-buyers-split-on-ai-use.html

Basically readers are split about whether AI is acceptable. BookInsights.ai, a data consultancy, spoke to 5,025 people who bought a book in the last three months.

22% were okay with the use of AI at any stage of creating a book, including the writing.
28% don’t want AI in books at all.
45% don’t mind if an author uses AI as an assistant or for checking grammar and spelling.

36% of teenagers are open to AI being used at any stage of the writing of a book.
11% of people over 55 were of the same mind (meaning 89% of the age group were against it - big number).

85% of people of all ages said books should disclose whether AI was used in the writing process.

Bottom line: If you don't use it at all, nobody will be against reading your book for AI reasons.

So why use it?

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