How to Use Muse AI BETTER than 99% of Authors

Vídeo em Inglês, publicado pelo canal Writing Secrets.

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Video summary

An author tests Meta's new autonomous AI agent, Muse, for a week to see how it assists with writing tasks, dashboard creation, literary agent research, audio generation, and plot consistency checks.

Key points

• Muse operates autonomously 24/7, setting its own goals and executing scheduled tasks based on user details.
• The AI built a daily updated writer dashboard tracking book series statuses and deadlines.
• Amazon blocked Muse from performing research on its platform due to it acting as an unauthorized agent, though other sites like Goodreads and StoryGraph work.
• Muse can turn dialogue snippets into audio files, providing a way to test how scenes sound out loud.
• The author connected a series bible and drafts to test plot continuity, and Muse successfully caught planted mistakes.
• Safety recommendations include turning off the data training toggle, using a clean dedicated email and Google account, and keeping approval settings active.

Topics

Meta MuseAI writer assistantBook consistency checksAutonomous agentsAuthor workflowAI research tasks

Video transcript

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Meta just gave every author a free employee that works while you sleep. I gave it a fake author life and let it loose. It built me a writer dashboard. It set up research on literary agents and ran it on a schedule. It read my new chapters and checked them against my series bible. It turned a snippet of dialogue into audio, and it did half of that without ever being asked. But not everything went to plan. I tested it over this week. Worst to best, the best one is last, so stay to the end. I made a brand new muse, told it one paragraph about myself mystery thriller author, series about a retired Army Ranger who runs a hotdog cart in New York and keeps getting pulled into murders. Three books out, fourth in progress. That's all I said, and it went to work. It wrote its own goals, it filled the ideas tab. It started a feed of things it thought I'd want, agent research launch checklist questions about book four. You can set goals yourself, but you don't have to. It builds them from what you tell it and what it learns about you. What I really like is how it's different than just a chatbot, because a chatbot will wait for you usually unless you schedule a task. But this thing, Muse, it starts. It works autonomously for you 24/7 while you sleep, and it's proactive. Which is great right up until it starts something you didn't want. Here's another use case, a writer dashboard. I asked my Muse to build me a dashboard for my book series, where each book stands, word counts, what's next deadlines et cetera. And it built it. Not a list in the chat, an actual page I can open with the books, the status, the next steps. Now, other AIs can do that too, but this dashboard is updated daily on autopilot. And that's cool. It's useful, not life-changing. If you already keep a spreadsheet maybe you'll shrug. If you don't, this may be the first time the data about your series has lived in one place And the next job is the one I'd actually been dreading. Research. If you're querying or just doing research for a book, you know the pain. Agents open and close their inboxes like a kid with a fridge door. So I told Muse, "Find literary agents who take mystery and thriller. Find out what they want in a query, and check back every week for who's open and who's looking for new." I put that in the goals tab and scheduled it as a regular task. A normal chat often forgets what you want the moment you close it. A goal though keeps running. Muse writes its own plan, runs it on a schedule, and reports back on its own. And here are some of the results that are already coming in. Now that's really useful, but research is also where Muse ran into a wall, an Amazon-shaped wall. Every author needs comps. What's selling, what the covers look like, what reviewers complain about. Muse has a real browser, a computer in the cloud that it uses to do research. So I pointed Muse at Amazon Yeah. Amazon blocked Muse about two weeks after launch. Amazon's position is that Muse is an unauthorized agent that hides its identity. Fair enough. Meta's position is that Muse never sees your password, supposedly. Both of them are talking past each other, but you're the one that gets the pop-up. The workaround is any site that isn't Amazon. Goodreads Bookshop StoryGraph all work, at least for now. But if you sell on Amazon, know that going in. Muse is not going to be your KDP assistant, not right now. Now that's not Muse's fault, but it's still your problem. If you're new here, I test AI tools for authors every week. Subscribe if these are the kind of videos you like. Now job five is the one that made me sit up. I pasted a snippet of dialogue from book four, two characters a detective and a hot dog guy, of course arguing about a bottle of ketchup that wasn't really about a bottle of ketchup. And I said, "Make this an audio scene." And it did. Here's the audio player. You can get images and videos with audio, or a whole podcast about any subjects you want. But listen to this dialogue scene. One plain mustard. I know what you get. I'm saying it so there's a record. Sergeant that is a condiment. It's a message. It's a message that somebody at the bodega had a sale. Voss had a visitor at Rikers last week. Lawyer new one, firm I'd never heard of. Voss is in prison. His money isn't. Is it an audiobook? No. But it's a really fast way I've found to hear whether a scene actually works. You can't really unhear a clunky line once a voice says it out loud, especially a voice other than the one in your head. This is a really creative way to test a scene. I also had it write. Same prompt I give every tool. The result was fine. Clean readable and about as exciting as a sandwich. It followed my series rules, which matters. It didn't surprise me once. Muse is a great assistant and an average novelist. Which brings us to the big one, the job I'd actually pay for. Let's talk about story consistency and plot holes. This is something that comes up in almost all of my comment sections. Every author runs into that at some point. So I put my series bible in a Google Drive connected to this Muse. Rudy Relish, seven hard rules, bad left knee, can't run more than a block, never touches a gun, no ketchup on the cart, ever. That's the bible series doc. Then I added the first three chapters of book four and asked Muse to check each one against the bible and against any other chapters or pages that I add to that Google Drive. Just to be clear, this is a way to automate story consistency checks every day on a free plan. Chapters one and two were clean. Muse said so, and that's the baseline. Chapter three is where I planted a few mistakes. One obvious, one medium, one I thought was unfair. Check this out. Muse caught every single thing. And the most important one, that unfair plant, it caught that one too. I set up my Muse to check this every single day. And it's free mostly. Here's the mostly. There are three tiers: free, about 16 a month, and one for 80 a month. Paid tiers don't unlock features, they unlock more usage. Zuckerberg has said that the free tier is around 100 million tokens a week, but Meta hasn't published a number, so treat that as a lot until it isn't. One thing to know when you set this up, it asked me for a credit card to start the free plan. And definitely know this going in, that Zuckerberg has already said that Meta plans to take a cut of purchases made through Muse. So this is free now, but probably not forever. Now let's talk about the elephant that's in the room. Before you connect a single document, go to settings and turn off the toggle that lets Meta train on your data. 10 seconds. Your manuscript should not be homework for Meta's next model. Meta says a fully encrypted version is coming later this year. Start with read-only connections and keep the approval cards on. Muse asks before it spends, or deletes. Keep it that way. Give it its own email and its own Google account. A clean one just for the agent. It works better because everything it sees is about your books and you sleep better because it never sees anything else. That avoids you ending up in the news headlines like that other guy whose muse gave his real address to people on Marketplace on Facebook, and people showed up at his house. So if I were you, this is what I would do. Go get Muse and test it out on the free plan. I've had literally no issues at all. I've used about 40% of my, weekly usage, and it resets tomorrow. set it up on your phone and your desktop. I use mine mostly on my phone. Super convenient. Turn off the data training toggle. Easy fix. And then connect your Gmail, your calendar, and your drive, or at least just your drive so you can drop in your manuscripts and all your writer stuff there. Set up some goals and scheduled tasks. Have it build that dashboard for you. You can create images like book covers or other graphics. You can even create AI videos right here in this app. Now that'll take more credits and usage, so I would limit those, but you can definitely do it. If I had to give Muse one job, it's the continuity check. That's super useful, and you can do it on autopilot. Here's where I think this goes. This is a big moment. Maybe everybody ends up with one of these autonomous AI agents that just help you with life For better or worse. I could see a future where everyone gets an agent at some point, and it just follows you throughout your life, helping you with different things with school, with work, with personal things with project management. Whether you trust Muse or not, there's other options. There's Grok Bot, there's OpenAI's Dots, and there are even some open source versions. You'll also find a link to get my free author bundle which has all kinds of prompts, tools, and guides already baked in. And one more thing on camera, no script. It really is me behind these videos. I do all the narration myself, and I really care about making the best videos possible to hopefully inspire people to use AI, to get back to writing. Writing is something I'm really passionate about, and I'm really passionate about these AI tools as well, and I think they can really work together to create something special for all of us. If you've made it this far in the video, I really appreciate you watching. If you haven't already please subscribe. There's another video on screen I think you'll like. Check that one out. And I'll see you there.

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