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If you’re intrigued by AI, you’re not alone. Artificial intelligence apps like ChatGPT are now mainstream. What does this mean for writers and other creatives? For the past couple of months, I’ve spent hours each week exploring artificial intelligence news, views, and applications. If you’d like to learn more about AI and how you can use it, read on. AI … Read more
AI seems to be everywhere since the release of ChatGPT. But should you be using it in your writing business? Before we go on, if you’re unfamiliar with AI, here’s a mini-glossary: AI: artificial intelligence. ChatGPT: Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer. ChatGPT is an AI app. It’s a text generative tool, developed by the company OpenAI, and released in November 2022. … Read more
Spooky. If you’ve been hoping that AI would just go away and leave you to write in peace, recent news stories suggest that it might be time to pay attention. And upskill. I’m not suggesting that you use ChatGPT or a similar generative text AI tool to do your writing for you. If you’re a professional writer, you know better, … Read more
Today, self-publishing is big business. Wondering how many books Amazon has on its Kindle store? An estimate: 48.5 million. Amazon stopped making figures available several years ago, but it’s estimated that around a million new ebooks are published on the Kindle Store each year. With the rise of generative AI apps like ChatGPT, those numbers will increase. Self-publishing authors are … Read more
Does social media marketing (SMM) make sense for anyone with a creative business? Recently, a successful freelance writer told me that as far as she can tell, she’s never made money from social media. She gets clients via word of mouth, and emailing prospects. To her, the networks are a frivolous waste of time. Her question made me think. A … Read more