| We are wordsmiths, tapping out sentences not quite as fast as our brain comes up with them, as we sit alone in a room with the door closed (or maybe out somewhere, yet encased in an invisible creative bubble).
I had forgotten the synergy created in a room full of people who speak the same language, not English but AUTHOR. It’s how I felt at the World Fantasy Convention and my first NFPW conference, both nearly 20 years ago, long enough to forget. Consider joining me at our APW Conference on May 17th (in the Phoenix area).
I spent the second week in November in Las Vegas drinking from a firehose of information at a gathering of 1,100 independent authors. I am still trying to wrap my brain around the notes I took, but it is clear that human creativity and AI are here to stay. Harper Collins just made an AI training deal with Microsoft (there are many articles, here is one).
We have come a long way from writing with a piece of charcoal on a flat piece of tree bark.
Meanwhile this month, there are
- gatherings with friends to attend (RSVP to the Rim Country for our holiday party),
- deadlines to meet,
- APW memberships to renew,
- preparation for NFPW contest entries,
and for me, working on a novel.
May your keys never stick, and your pens never run out of ink,
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Arizona Professional Writers 