So… we’re gonna make it a thing!

Starting Monday, Nate St. Pierre, creator of the Talemaiker World Builder Assistant, will begin booking one-on-one sessions to help you:

• generate ideas for a new project
• generate fresh ideas for a stalled project
• expand your existing story, characters, and setting
• address specific concerns with your story, characters, and/or settings

I know we have mixed feelings about AI; some of us outright fear it. But Nate’s AI doesn’t do any writing. It’s just a tool to facilitate your own writing — not to mention a source of motivation, inspiration, and renewed excitement.

As Nate himself writes, “We’ll use AI not as a writing tool, but as a brainstorming superpower to take us many places in a short time.”

I first shared my writing with Nate almost thirty years ago, long before AI was a thing, and I’ve found his feedback consistently thoughtful and useful. He's still one of my main readers. (Sorry 'bout that, Nate.)

Look at it like this: You and a developmental editor getting together to throw around ideas about plot, character, setting, and more. And that editor facilitates the discussion with a computer program he happens to have created.

If you're ready to sign up with Nate or want to learn more, click the button below to email me:

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In the Words Of...

But don’t listen to me. Here’s what your fellow WriteByNighters have said about working with Nate and his world-builder:

“Nate’s guidance with the prompts helped the AI go deeper into its suggestions, and that got us some cool results. I felt I came out of the session with potential new paths I could take. One thing I told Nate was that the interaction of us ‘three’—the AI, him, and I—was the thing I felt was the most interesting part.”

– Priscila S.

“[Nate] helped me prioritize a part of the conceptualization process I'd otherwise put off … it gave me a lot of real-world scientific basis for the speculative world I'm building for my story, freeing me to focus on the plot mechanics and character arc development that brings me more joy in writing. What started as a short story now feels much more attainable and exciting.”

– Jeffree M.

“The session went great! It was super helpful and Nate was a joy to work with. I left the session excited to work on my manuscript again, which is a relief, since I was super frustrated with it and had to put it down for a bit.”

 – Alicia O.

How it Works

I offered something of a demonstration in this email; scroll down to "A Brief Demonstration."

Once you schedule a session, you’ll send Nate anything that might prove useful in understanding the full scope of your project: synopsis; character sketches; plot outline; sample pages.

Come prepared with specific questions for discussion and, as Nate puts it, “a willingness to follow the white rabbit.” 

In other words, be ready for anything. Because that’s what might happen during the next hour or two — anything.

Post-session, Nate will send you a full transcript of the dialogue with the AI, which amounts to dozens of pages’ worth of notes, ideas, and new directions.

And then, full of renewed inspiration… you write!

How Do I Sign Up / What Are the Costs?

You can find all of those details and more here, but the gist is that you sign up by clicking the button above or replying to this message to email me, and we'll walk through it together.

AI story editing and world-building sessions with Nate are $200 per hour (for now), with a 60-minute minimum. 

But! For a limited time we're offering a 90-minute session for only $250.

Between you & me, 90 minutes is the sweet spot.

Who Is This Nate Guy?

By now you know how picky I am with hiring. We take on only the best writers and editors here at WriteByNight.

Even people I already know go through the full process.

Nate and I have been friends since we were eighteen. We’ve worked on numerous writing projects together; we’ve read and discussed the same books. We’ve been roommates; we’ve even been each other’s best men.

But when Nate came to me with his AI world-builder, I wasn’t about to say “Let’s start offering this new service right this instant!” I wanted to try it for myself first, see what it was like to have Nate use his tool to brainstorm ideas for my own work.

I was impressed with the AI's results, and even more so with the discussion that led to those results.

After that, we decided to take whatever time was necessary to shape this service into the most useful tool possible for you.

That was February 5th.

We kept at it for seven months. That’s how much we believe in this.

Now it's time for you to learn why. Reply to this email to express interest or sign right up.