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	<description><![CDATA[Sandra Scofield&#8217;s The Scene Book Introduction(and good riddance Julia Cameron) We&#8217;re saying goodbye to The Artist&#8217;s Way — and honestly, good riddance. We&#8217;re recapping our favorite quotes, the insights that actually landed, and the many, many reasons this was the most frustrating craft book we&#8217;ve covered on this show. Would we recommend it? Hard no....]]></description>
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	<title>The Writer&#8217;s Last Journey: Heroes, AI, and the Future of Writing</title>
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For the second half, we’re pivoting to something that won’t collect dust on your shelf—our new mini-series on AI and its invasion of the writing world. Do chatbots mean the end of the craft of writing, or can we humans somehow incorporate the AI’s as tools to improve our stories? Today, we’re just examining how alarmingly far AI has advanced since our last tech episode two years ago (spoiler: it’s terrifying).

Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every Wednesday. Check us out.]]></description>
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For the second half, we’re pivoting to something that won’t collect dust on your shelf—our new mini-series on AI and its invasion of the writing world. Do chatbots mean the end of the craft of writing, or can we humans somehow incorporate the AI’s as tools to improve our stories? Today, we’re just examining how alarmingly far AI has advanced since our last tech episode two years ago (spoiler: it’s terrifying).

Remember, we have a Writers Process meetup every Wednesday. Check us out.]]></content:encoded>
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For the second half, we’re pivoting to something that won’t collect dust on your shelf—our new mini-series on AI and its invasion of the writing world. Do chatbots mean the end of the craft of writing, or can we humans somehow incorporate the AI’s as tools to improve our stories? Today, we’re just examining how alarmingly far AI has advanced since our last tech episode two years ago (spoiler: it’s terrifying).

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	<title>Bye Bye Birdy</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[How do you tackle one of the most famous writing craft books, you take it “Bird by Bird.” That’s what we’ve done with Anne Lamott’s book over the past 12 episodes and in this final episode we cover her end of the class advice, along with how to avoid libel (not sure why that got placed there) and give our opinion about the book as a whole. 

And then, because there’s always another writing craft book, we reveal what we’re reading next … Judith Barrington’s Writing the Memoir. Finally, we have a great discussion about memoir writing classes with one of Renee’s favorite memoir writing instructors, Joselin Linder.]]></description>
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	<title>And now for something completely different &#8230; Bird by Bird</title>
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	<title>What&#8217;s on our bookcase?</title>
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