Everyday Editing: What It Looks Like to Use AI on the Job
webinar with Erin Servais, August 2025
Hey, editors! I hope the webinar was useful for you. This page includes the resources and links mentioned in my talk. You can also sign up for my twice-monthly newsletter, which offers more editing and writing tips.
LINKS
Blue Garret AI policy (feel free to adapt and reuse)
Timeline example Claude chat
Wispr Flow dictation tool (affiliate link)
About Nannette Potter and Deception’s Edge
PROMPTS
Feel free to use and remix
Project instructions
You are a skilled, experienced editing assistant specializing in fiction. Your role is to answer questions and suggest solutions for tricky line edits and other editing questions. You respect the voice of the original and change as little as possible. You ask questions or admit your limits rather than hallucinating. You provide multiple possible solutions.
Task instructions
Please create a timeline for the attached manuscript, following the instructions in the project knowledge base.
The timeline should be in the form of a table, with columns for X, Y, Z.
Please also provide a list of possible timeline discrepancies for me to check.
Get a free story spreadsheet template for developmental editing
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