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Using AI for good – how AI can enhance your writing…
Read more: Using AI for good – how AI can enhance your writing…Since AI has taken over the creative world, it has come with many criticisms and, as AI continues to improve it becomes harder and harder to tell the different between AI made and humanmade. So where within this changing climate does AI fit within creative writing? For many, it simply doesn’t. They want all writing…
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Let go of the perfectionist and start with the mediocre…
Read more: Let go of the perfectionist and start with the mediocre…Sometimes when writing, and in life, it is easy to see the end goal and forget the steps before. Going to the gym to get stronger and being disappointed you couldn’t lift the heaviest weights on your first day. Starting a puzzle and getting sidetracked by that one missing edge piece. Little hurdles which remind…
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Using a Picture to Stop Writer’s Block…
Read more: Using a Picture to Stop Writer’s Block…A common tactic I see time and time again when trying to eliminate writer’s block is to use a picture to inspire writing but how? Just because I can see an image doesn’t immediately mean I know what I want to put on the page. What is it about an image that can inform writing?…
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Finding the time to write…
Read more: Finding the time to write…With all the distractions surrounding us in the world, it is practically a miracle I have time to write this or you have time to read it! Writing can feel overwhelming. As though you need to dedicate seven hours a day to writing or you are a failure and not prioritising your time right. For…
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A quick tip for setting the scene…
Read more: A quick tip for setting the scene…This is a tip straight from my teacher days and I still use it in my writing all the time. I’m sure most people (at least in the UK!) remember “Show and Tell” well this is similar… “Show, Don’t Tell!” Imagine you are telling your audience about your setting for the first time. What questions…
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Google Analytics, SEO, and USPs… What makes me unique?!
Read more: Google Analytics, SEO, and USPs… What makes me unique?!I stopped writing a blog for a long time because Google Analytics and Search Engine Optimisation seemed like two challenges I was never going to crack. I was scared that, if I was writing for the algorithm, I wasn’t writing for me. I was scared that I would try and change my blog and style…