I am working on the 5th edition of my eBook “The Tao of Jesus,” on Kindle, and I am using Microsoft Word’s AI, Copilot, to do my proof reading, and putting a “clickable Table of Contents” together, cleaning things up (like what I call “Free Radicals” in the form of empty spaces and page breaks scattered throughout the manuscript.
The AI experience has been quiet informative, learning as I go. For instance, AI remembers nothing and is good only for this conversation right now. If I want to continue the conversation I cannot end the chat, I can only close things down while I go to bed, eat lunch, get my hair cut, etc. My computer can shut down, but the conversation has to remain open in oder that I can pick back up where we left off. I have lost a wealth of work, sending bits and pieces of the manuscript in for inspection, closing down the chat, and opening it up the next day thinking we were starting where I stopped. We were starting all over. Like nothing had ever gone on before.
AI is linked to all the information there is, but. I have to know what question to ask to get to what I need. The experience has been more frustrating than helpful, but the “Clickable TOC” will be very nice. My experience of creating one manually with hyperlinks placed where they need to go was grinding things out and not snapping things into place. I will be glad to have it done and look forward to being free of having to be so exact in taking the steps that need to be taken.
The other hitch in the process is that I cannot upload the entire manuscript, because it is too large to transmit, so I have to break it down into a couple of chapters at a time. Attention to detail is not what I do best. I have learned to put my socks on before my shoes, but that’s about all I’m good for in respecting the right order for all of the processes in my life. I will let you know when the deed is done.
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