Wednesday, March 6, 2024

IWSG - March 2024

  

Purpose: To share and encourage. Writers can express doubts and concerns without fear of appearing foolish or weak. Those who have been through the fire can offer assistance and guidance. It’s a safe haven for insecure writers of all kinds!
Co-hosts for the March 6th are

QuestionHave you "played" with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI's impact on creative writing?

The simple answer is Yes. If you've researched anything on Google or Bing, AI's participated in your search. If you use ProWritingAid (and I'm guessing Grammarly uses it too) to check for grammar or style corrections, you've used AI. Photoshop uses it too now, though they say they use only their own stock of owned pictures as sources. 

I love using ChatGPT for my blurbs. I'm kind of awful at writing them. While I put emotion in my books, I tend to be "dry" with the blurbs. And ChatGPT is sooo drama! I find it really over the top. But it uses words or phrases I sometimes can use (toned down).

What I really like is using AI to brainstorm with. Or to help with the description of a scene I'm fighting with. I may give it a section of text and tell it to rewrite it using all five senses. Then I can go through what it suggests and see if there's anything in the words it uses that I like. This isn't all that different from when I would use the website resources (from The Emotion Thesaurus gals) for this kind of thing.

The key is that it's a resource for me to strengthen my writing or make the research a little faster. When I was writing a scene in a book that released last year, I needed some kind of business for another character. I  could spend hours checking the types of businesses on online stores, but ChatGPT gave me a huge list of possibilities. Just like that.

I used to spend a week formatting my paperback books in Word once I had my ebook done. Now I have Vellum that does it with with a simple click. That tool has given me back a week of my life for every book I release.

And that's what AI is to me. A tool.

What about you? Do you agree or feel differently?



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