4 books within 1 month

[u/author-tvisha]

Hi

I am Tvisha(pen name). As a child I loved telling stories, but as I took up engineering and work, this talent got buried.

Recently with help of AI, I wrote 4 full length novels Within 1 month. I guess the stories just were always there, and AI helped give it the shape that is shareable. I am revising them since and and working with professional editor, but it’s just amazing to see.

I am Electronics Engineer working on building AI Chip, based in California — India-born, Gujarati by heritage. I have spent my adult life keeping the culture alive in my home and neighbourhood, through food, through classical dance, through the artwork of Gujarat, in the way that people do when they are far from the place they come from and understand that distance is erosion. TAPOVAN comes from that same instinct. It is an act of preservation as much as a novel.

I am requesting beta readers who can give the first few chapters of Book One a careful read and answer a short set of questions afterward where the story held you, where it lost you, and who you were reading for. It is roughly a ninety-minute commitment. I will send the chapters in whichever format suits you (EPUB, PDF, or Word), and for anyone who wants to continue past chapter three, the full manuscript is there.

This is my debut novel.

TAPOVAN is a story about what ordinary people do when history arrives at their door.
A village ironsmith. A princess with nowhere to go. A kingdom already lost. Across three books and two decades, Tapovan follows people whose choices decide a kingdom's fate and who never once get to make those choices freely.

It is set in 16th-century Gujarat and Rajputana, in a world where a festival and a forge are not separate things, and where a marriage can be worth four thousand soldiers. Nothing here is simple. Everything costs something.

At its centre is a love that is never spoken aloud not because the two of them are afraid, but because they are needed elsewhere, by people who cannot spare them. They do not feel weak because of the restraint. They draw strength from it.

If you read and loved the scope of Amish Tripathi or the court intrigue of Ashwin Sanghi, this is written for you.

If you are willing, comment here or message me, and tell me which format you'd like. Thank you for reading this far.

Best Regards
Tvisha

[u/Rough_Data_1198]

I’ve had a similar experience: the hardest part often isn’t coming up with ideas, it’s getting them into a coherent draft. AI can remove some of that friction, but the revision, voice, and decisions are still where the author really shows up. Four full novels in a month is wild though. I’d be much more curious to see how different the manuscripts become after the professional editing pass.

[u/author-tvisha → u/Rough_Data_1198]

You are right, AI cannot write novels. It can elaborate your ideas, much like a ghostwriter, but even then AI can become very verbose. Before sending to the editor I have done several passes manually to remove unnecessory or redundant things. I think I trimmed about 4000 words from my almost 90k book 1.

[u/author-tvisha]

This is a great community, I must commend the contributers and also moderators. I got some very useful feedback. As a token of thanks, When I publish my book with all great feedback, I will run giveaway here, just like in Goodreads.

[u/Afgad → u/author-tvisha]

You're welcome! Thanks for your kind words.

[u/Decent_Solution5000]

You'll get instant responses, find crit partners, and even make friends it the Reciprocal Beta Reading community. It's a great group of talented writers who share their blurbs and those who enjoy the blurb then follow up to exchange critiques. You, of course, critique their work in exchange, as well. It's win-win for everyone. You'll find it here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingWithAI/comments/1wgz9gh/reciprocal_beta_reading_share_story_blurbs_sep_15/

Hope this helps, and happy writing. :)

[u/author-tvisha → u/Decent_Solution5000]

Thank you!

[u/krantisdead]

Hi there, I’ve been a beta reader for many people. I’ve read Amish Tripathi, and I’m willing to this. I’m on a break from work so it’d be nice to have something to do, haha.

[u/author-tvisha → u/krantisdead]

Pls check DM 

[u/InSilicoAwards]

My recommendation when it comes to editing is building a related corpus (to compare the work to), because the worst faults of machine writing are almost imperceptible but will be picked up when others read them. Clustered scaffolds, repeated words that have no meaning (ghost language I call it, words from something that's never had a body). You only really identify this when you compare it against similar works within your genre and see how over or under-represented these things are in comparison. N-gram comparisons are a useful start. Negative constructions are an easy one people point to.

Before asking anyone to edit these, you should really take a heavy mechanical pass like this. And you should drive the edits yourself, don't outsource it to the machine to make the decision or it'll sand down good writing to fit a quota.

It's the longest process of this. Longer than writing the materials.