My writing is often inspired by characters and the desire to put them in certain situations. For me, the character’s story is most often what motivates me to write. Most of my stories are centered around characters I’ve created for an RPG at one time or another.
A character needs a setting and I like complex, internally coherent settings. To safeguard continuity and logic I’ve written a web based system that I call the Book Making Machine. I use it to keep track of events, locations, characters, families, titles, ranks, military units and more. It’s a tool that constantly evolves to meet the needs of my writing. I like it when events in my material is properly referenced. If a character would likely know about something that has happened somewhere else in the setting, I prefer it if it comes up in the story somehow. For this reason, I sort of expect to publish new editions of older works periodically when I’ve added substantial material to a setting. It wouldn’t feel right if characters were oblivious about events that they ought to know about. Since I write up and down the timeline of my setting, this is something I expect to run into.
So far I haven’t used AI to write anything. I’ve experimented with it a little, to see if it can extend texts in my own style (it can’t). So far, the only use I can really imagine for it is in the endless search for missing or wrong words in the editing process. It may also occasionally be useful to give an idea how to write the next scene. Not that I’d be likely to follow something suggested by an AI as so far everything it has come up with has been crap, but it has on one or two occasions led to a new, if unrelated, idea.