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AI Secrets to Kickstart Your Writing: #3 Dig for Research Info

One of my favorite benefits of using AI is its ability to gather research information in and ordered list for your consideration.However, you must exercise caution in using this information, as Chat is prone to fudge its results. You should check it against internet sources. Yet, the wealth of what it digs up is impressive, […]

AI Secrets To Kick Start Your Writing: #2—Outline Your Chapter

What’s the biggest obstacle a writer faces? Even if you have outlined your book. Staring at the page for the start of that new chapter. Endlessly. All writers do this—even famous ones. Take, for instance, Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath (from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath) Monday, July 7 (1958): …But I have no idea how […]

5 Stellar Ways to Use #AI in Your #Writing—#1 Rough Outline Your Novel

Forget the controversy over whether to use AI in your prose. This issue will shake out as writers use AI more and develop best practices in writing fiction with AI. But you can do some things with AI that help you with the mundane writing tasks that help to speed up your work with nasty […]

The Craft of #Writing: #Pantsing versus #Outlining

The following is from my post on Quora responding to this question: Do writers and authors write out an outline of their novel first? How detailed is the outline? Whether to outline or “pants” (meaning to write by the seat of their pants) is individual to each writer. Some people, (like me,) “pre-write” their books […]

The Craft of #Writing: #Pantsing versus #Outlining

The following is from my post on Quora responding to this question: Do writers and authors write out an outline of their novel first? How detailed is the outline? Whether to outline or “pants” (meaning to write by the seat of their pants) is individual to each writer. Some people, (like me,) “pre-write” their books […]

Relax—#ChatGPT will not steal our #writing jobs

Nearly ten years ago, before ChatGPT was a twinkle in its creators’ eyes, in one (nearly finished) I wrote, two of my characters created a program they called Timebender they used to predict future events based on information models fed into it to make military and business decisions. Highly proprietary, only three people in the […]