Writing

Write a play. Playwriting is a shitty career but an excellent teacher. Start with a one-act. You’ll have roughly 30 minutes to take your audience on a simple journey. You’ll need to bring characters to life using nothing but their observed behavior. (Dialog is behavior. Interesting characters rarely say what…

As fiction writers, the first time we played with ChatGPT seriously freaked us out. The tenth time not so much. Yes, it can write a “story” that makes sense, but if a human wrote it, you’d toss it away after the first few paragraphs. It’s like the Russian proverb: “The…