Gandalf’s Apprentice: Learn The AI Spell — Even If You’re Afraid to Cast It
For many professional writers, AI feels like a threat.
It’s an attack spell—one that amateurs and hucksters cast to mimic and undermine your hard-won craft.
But what if you learned the spell yourself—so you could turn it against them?
Gandalf’s Apprentice is a short, honest exploration of how AI can help you grow as a writer, a writer who intends to continue to cast their own words, as J.R.R. Tolkien did.
No, it is not about getting plot ideas, curing writer’s block or rating your prose with AI. You’ve already solved those problems.
Gandalf’s Apprentice is about learning how to write with AI to help you practice the craft so you can outwrite the AI-generated competition the old-fashioned way—with a Hammond VariTyper typewriter and fantastic prose.
Get Actionable Insights Into
Use AI as a Training Ground:
Turn AI into your practice partner—not your co-writer, not your critic, not your publisher. Sharpen your writing and strengthen your craft by gleaning insights and doing tests with AI.
Break Down the Mechanics of Storytelling:
Watch how AI engineers a story and learn how to reverse-engineer your own. Understand what chapters matter most—and where your time and attention really pay off.
Test Risky Ideas Without Risk:
See how AI lets you explore wild genres, strange plots, and new voices—without committing six months to an experiment that might fizzle halfway through.
Practice Endings Like a Pro:
Why do most writers finish fewer books than they start? Because endings are hard. This paper shows how to practice final chapters—again and again—without the slow grind of a full draft.
Why download this guide?
Strengthen Your Plots and Prose
This guide shows you how to use AI to sharpen your skills behind the scenes—so when it’s time to write for real, you’re faster, clearer, and deadlier on the page.
Get More Hard-To-Get Practice
This guide shows how to use AI to take on the grind work—so you can practice writing the parts that are hardest to reach, like climaxes, conclusions, or full-length plot arcs.
Wipe the Floor With AI-Written Books
This guide gives you a powerful edge against a world where AI-generated fiction is multiplying by the hour. Learn from the machine without ever sounding like one.
About Daniel W. Howard
I'm Daniel W. Howard, and I coach professional authors on how to write smarter, faster, and better.
I’ve leapfrogged the competition in this rapidly evolving niche, innovating techniques that are 5x faster and 2x the quality of the super prompt AI writing technique that everybody else uses. I help serious writers use AI not to replace their craft—but to refine it. My method combines cutting-edge AI techniques with classic book writing principles to help you draft, revise, and publish in a fraction of the usual time.
If you’re tired of slow progress, endless rewrites, and time-wasting advice, I’ll show you a practical system that can get your book written and ready for publication—often in a month or less.
Real tools. Real support. Real results.
You’re the Writer. I’m the Coach.
Your job is to write great books. Mine is the system so you can do that.
Think of it like professional tennis: the coach doesn’t play the match, and the player doesn’t coach himself. Your job is to “play the game” — start writing, start finishing, and start selling books in as little as 2 weeks. Don’t waste 6 months fiddling with AI writing techniques only to end up with 1 book instead of 10. You focus on your craft. Let me focus on the system.
