AI & Authorship: Where’s the Line?
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 6: AI & Authorship: Where’s the Line? We’ve explored AI as brainstorming allies, critique partners, and research assistants. Now we’re tackling the most contentious question: should writers use AI in the actual writing process? Not the “generate a novel in a week” approach (both ethically...
Beyond the Book: AI Solutions for Author Marketing
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 5: AI Solutions for Author Marketing In the current publishing industry, authors are expected to handle their own social media. If we wanted to be out there interacting with people, we probably wouldn’t have picked artforms that have us sitting alone for hours everyday. What...
Harnessing AI Without Losing Your Voice: A Talk with Kate Scott
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 4: Harnessing AI without Losing your Voice:A Talk with Kate Scott Can AI truly enhance your creativity without taking over? Our previous episodes left us wondering, but in this episode of “Words to Write by,” we interview educator Kate Scott of the “AI for Squishy...
Brave New Feedback: When your Critique Partner is a Chatbot
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 3: Generating Feedback via AI Submitting work to your first workshop or critique group is nerve-wracking – these aren’t your supportive friends or family, but strangers with opinions. Yet honest feedback is the lifeblood of growth for writers. The problem? Workshops are expensive, inflexible, and...
Brainstorming with Bots: The Ethics of AI-Assisted Creativity
Authors & AIEpisode 2: Brainstorming with Bots Can writers harness AI ethically without surrendering the soul of their craft? In our provocative new mini-series, we’re not just theorizing about AI’s role in creative writing—we’re putting it to the test. Picture this: You’re staring at a blank page. Your protagonist...
The Writer’s Last Journey: Heroes, AI, and the Future of Writing
Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s JourneyThe Rest of the Book&Introducing our Authors & AI Season Check it Out: The Hero’s Journey Study Guide In this episode, we’re finally putting the Hero’s Journey to rest and bidding farewell to Christopher Vogler’s “The Writer’s Journey.” And by “putting to rest,” we mean...
Getting to the Climax: The Anatomy of Romance Novels with Lia Riley
An Interview with Lia Riley Check it Out: The Hero’s Journey Study Guide Christopher Vogler’s The Writer’s Journey insists all stories follow the Hero’s Journey template—but does this actually work for romance novels? I mean, we know they have climaxes… just not necessarily the kind Vogler was talking about....
Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge
Authors & AI SeriesEpisode 7: Not Your Usual Words to Write By: The AI Podcasting Challenge! Is nothing sacred? After exploring how AI might steal our writing jobs, we’re now testing whether these digital usurpers can replicate our podcasting chemistry too. Google’s NotebookLM claims to transform documents into conversations...