Writers, if you’re curious/nervous about AI text generators like ChatGPT taking over, you might find this article helpful. My students and I spent weeks exploring ChatGPT to explore its uses and limitations for writing fiction. If you’re at all worried about being replaced by a machine, you’ll definitely want to read this. What Writers Need […]
AI & Fiction: Limitations, How It’s Helpful, and What Writers Need to Do to Keep the Human Element Alive
March 16, 2023 by · Leave a Comment
Quick Writing Tips Free Video Series
December 19, 2021 by · Leave a Comment
Looking for some quick, easy ways to improve your writing? Here’s a free series of short (each is under 5 minutes) writing tips videos. They focus on some of the most common prose problems that I’ve seen writers struggle with over my two decades of teaching creative writing. My goal in making these videos was […]
Making Things Worse by Making Them Better
October 17, 2021 by · 2 Comments
Writers talk a lot about provoking characters to transform by making things worse and worse for them until they’re exhausted, and are left with no choice but to change. That’s what stories are usually about in a nutshell: transformation in the face of adversity. It’s the old “hurt the hero” game. As Star Trek and […]
