Writers' Coffee Club
August 2024
Chapter 12: AI AI, It's off to Write we go.
1. Can you foresee any circumstance where you might use AI to
compose part of a story?
2. Is there a person in your life who encouraged you to write?
3. Do you agree with George Orwell, who said you should never
use foreign, scientific or jargon words and phrases in your work?
4. What else competes for your time, and what strategies do you
use to secure time for writing against those demands?
5. If AI created a genuinely good story, would you read it?
6. In your writing, what location has inspired you the most?
7. In your writing, what is the best thing you've done (or
might do) to a reader's state of mind?
8. Authors love to show off a book stack. Post an image of your
stack or a collage of your digital work.
9. In your work, do you include short sections in languages
other than the primary language?
10. What's your favourite summer read for a getaway/holiday/vacation?
11. Do you consider any of your work to be unfilmable?
12. Someone asks permission to use AI to write a book in your
style outside your usual genre. Do you allow it?
13. Would you ever serialize your work? Have you done it?
14. Have you helped other writers on their journey, or is it
every person for themselves?
15. Have you used any form of AI to help in creating your work?
Do you have a red line? Where is it?
16. In a maximum of 500 characters, can you write us a short
story, poem, or words of wisdom?
17. What was your motivation for choosing past or present tense?
18. Coolness, humour, strict necessity. How do you balance them
in your work?
19. What are the top five things you've learned on your writing
journey?
20. How would you react if a fan had a tattoo of one of your
characters?
21. To what extent does politics play a role in your work?
22. Hollywood wants to turn one of your stories into an
animation/anime. How do you feel about this?
23. Would you ever collaborate on a book or other literary work?
How do you feel about sharing the limelight?
24. In your writing, what is the worst thing you've done (or
might do) to a reader's state of mind?
25. Do you format all your writing similarly or use special
formatting for specific sections?
26. Where do you think the line exists between homage and
plagiarism?
27. To what extent does technology impact your story? (Bearing
in mind that technology is just "a set of methods and practices to do
something")
28. Do you incorporate poems, songs or letters in your work? How
do you format them?
29. What's your favourite story structure? Three-act, four-act, eight-sequence (8-reel), or what?
30. Would you consider using AI for a book cover design or an
audiobook?
31. What would you pick if you were forced to write in a genre
outside of your speciality?
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