Don't ask AI to be the author.Become the director.
Free tools that find what makes writing sound like a machine, a public benchmark of the models everyone argues about, and a thirteen-stage method for directing AI-assisted books people finish.
Five tools. One line.
Built in the studio, used on our own books first. Your text stays in your browser.
The Slop Detector
Paste a page and get a verdict. Then see every borrowed metaphor, inflated word, repeated shape and flat stretch of rhythm, with the fix for each.
Scan a pageThe Voice Profile
Load a few pieces of your own writing and see your voice fingerprint. Check any draft against it, then hand your model a Voice DNA prompt built from it.
Measure your voiceSix Laps
The scrub from the book, as software. Paste a chapter and each lap lights up in the text.
Run the lapsThe Benchmark
Eighteen models, one brief, blind judges. The numbers go up whether or not they flatter anyone.
See the leaderboardThe Row
Send one chapter. Get back what a reader would trip on, quoted and located, and three changes worth making.
Take a seat
The books behind the tools.
Not a prompt pack. A working creative operating system, in four books on Amazon.
Thirteen stages. No magic button.
Most AI-writing advice begins with a prompt and ends with a draft. This method starts earlier, stays later, and keeps the human responsible for every load-bearing decision.
Build the operation behind the work.
Most communities hand you prompts. Prompts get copied, age badly, and can't make decisions for you. Stop Slop teaches the judgment, the infrastructure and the repeatable systems of an independent story studio.
"Shane Mercer isn't my first publishing identity. It's the one where I show you how the machinery works."
Join Stop Slop on Skool- 01The Human WorkVoice, taste, purposeful prose, and revision that serves the reader.
- 02The Creative DirectorBrief collaborators, compare drafts, maintain canon, and keep the final veto.
- 03The Story StudioBibles, workflows, asset systems, and releases that survive one manuscript.
- 04The Brand PortfolioPen names used on purpose, audience promises kept, no brand sprawl.
- 05The Media EngineOne strong idea into the books, episodes, tools, and experiences it deserves.
Watch the method work.
Real examples, direct diagnoses, live revisions, tool experiments, and the occasional argument with a model that got clever in the wrong direction.
The stylometry that unmasked a pen name, turned into a free tool that teaches AI your voice.
One letter, when there's something to show.
New benchmark results, new tools, and the occasional teardown of a page. No schedule, no filler.
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