Ahoy, mateys! 🏴☠️
Last week we brought Intro to Cowork for Writers into port. Seven hours, forty-one lessons, four projects, real books formatted, real scouts running, and a whole lot of robots.
So... where are we sailing next?
Next week, we weigh anchor. Advanced Cowork for Writers sets sail, and you’re invited aboard.
Intro built the ship. Advanced sails the fleet.
But Kim, I’m still figuring out my scheduled tasks. I’m not ready for “advanced.”
Fair! But here’s the secret: advanced doesn’t mean harder. It means bigger. Intro taught you to hand Claude one job at a time. Advanced is what happens when you’ve got a dozen jobs, a handful of pen names, and a family that would like to see you at the dinner table occasionally.
That’s when you need a crew.
⚓ The One Author Crew
Some of you remember my YouTube live back in March about running a publishing business as a one author crew. (There was a sea shanty. There is ALWAYS a sea shanty.) This course is that idea, built out for real:
You’re the captain. At the helm, setting the heading, making every call that matters.
Your AI crew stands watch. In shifts, like a real ship, so the captain can actually sleep.
Every pen name is a ship in your fleet, each with its own quartermaster keeping the log.
Storytelling in a course for storytellers. I couldn’t help myself. 🦜
🗺️ The Voyage
Here’s the chart, no spoilers:
At the Helm: Claude driving your other software. Photo editors, slide decks, even video editing. You steer, the AI drives.
The Chart Room: your command center, whatever you build it in, plus the question nobody wants to answer: is your ship actually seaworthy?
The Fleet: pen name secretaries that run each pen name on its own schedule, from every single day to “see you next month.”
All Hands: your AI crew on watch. Ticket systems, doers and checkers, and working in parallel. (You are linear. The AI is not.)
Level Up: pipelines that move everything forward one step while you sleep, and how to sign on crew from other ports. Because our systems need to be robust enough to grow and change with the shifting tides in our industry and in the Age of AI.
⏱️ A Shorter Voyage, Same Treasure
I heard you. Intro ran about seven hours, and you’re busy people. This one sails leaner.
Every project opens with a Captain’s Log: a short TLDR lesson with the big idea and the one thing to do. Watch that and you’re sailing. Head below decks for the deep dives and demos when you want the how.
🤖 The Crew Built This One
Here’s my favorite part. We’re using the course to build the course.
The images in this post? Claude color-corrected and optimized every one of them in LightCraft this morning while I drank my coffee. Twenty megabytes of pictures down to about three, and nobody looks jaundiced anymore. (I’ll be doing this on the rest of the articles here and the website soon.) The slides, the video edits, the lesson notes: the crew is running all of it, and you’ll watch it happen.
Doing the thing to teach the thing. Very meta. Very Ink & Code. 🎉
🎓 Paid Members Sail Free
Paid members get Advanced Cowork for Writers free, same as Intro. Every lesson as it drops, on the house. Your boarding pass is waiting below.
Not a paid member yet? Climb aboard here:
🪙Early Birds Get the Doubloons
Rather own it outright? Advanced Cowork is at its early bird price of $299 in the store while the course is being built. When the last lesson drops, it goes to $399.
And Founding Members? You’re already aboard. Advanced Cowork is included in your membership, along with every other course in the school, every class and every update as it rolls out. If you want that all-access ticket for yourself, Founding Membership is $499 a year.
This is AI-assisted teaching, not slop. Every lesson is me at the helm, every workflow is one I run in my real publishing business, and every judgment call stays human. The crew just hauls the rope.
Monday, we sail. See you on deck, mateys! ⚓
The future writes in Ink & Code, and so do we.
~ Kim ♥
P.S. If you hear a sea shanty playing in the first lesson, no you didn’t. 🎶
🤖 AI Credits: Flag by Chatty (ChatGPT), color-corrected and web-optimized by First Mate Fabio (Claude) driving LightCraft. Drafting assist by Fabio. Editing and pirate talk by me. Yarrr. 🏴☠️