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How to Write with AI: Tips, Tricks, and Observations for Writers using ChatGPT

Artificial intelligence (AI) can make it easier to work more efficiently with text. With tools like ChatGPT, writers can save time and focus on more creative tasks.

Poetry in Virtual Reality: The Aesthetic Potential of VR Experiences

As poets and poetry lovers, we are always on the lookout for new and innovative ways to experience and engage with poetry. With the rise of virtual reality (VR) technology, it’s clear that the potential for immersive, experiential poetry experiences is vast.

Text Adventures that Go Beyond

One of these text adventures takes a new approach to the old experience, and another pushes the medium towards a limit that could suggest its future direction. "

Stories as Conversation; Conversation as Interface

A look at two hypertexts: one game and one visual novel, that tell their stories in a conversational way."

Bandersnatch, Hypertext, and the State of Interactive Stories

Interest in non-linear storytelling is rekindling. Two months ago, the Black Mirror studio released an interactive, non-linear movie called Bandersnatch on Netflix. The choices aren’t merely about what should happen next, but also about the mood, style, and even the meaning of the story that unfolds.

Infinity Ink Presents: An Internet

Amalgamation of contained digital content, a small internet on a USB drive, together with a unique, modified book.

Litblog Roundup 20

some greatly exaggerated rumors about Mark Twain, the value of paragraphs, and more.

How I Made a Repository of my Writings, and Why

If you have a lifetime of writings, it can get difficult to sort through it all. I’d like to describe a the system I use to keep track of what I’ve written. Suggestions for improvement are welcome!

Composing with Words like John Cage

In about two days, I plan to get on stage to perform a written work in front of a live audience and read, not from a script, but from something more like a score. I’m not the only person engaging in this literary experiment. There are about a dozen of us. What are we doing?

Last of the Typewriter Men

If you have a laptop that quits working, you can take it to one of the many computer repair shops all over the country to have it repaired — for a while, until it becomes obsolete in just a few years. If you have a typewriter and it’s a good one, it should last 100 years or so, but where can you take it for repair? Typewriter repair is a dying art.

Writing Instructor Rants

A few days ago Ryan Boudinot’s published “Things I Can Say About MFA Writing Programs Now That I No Longer Teach in One .” It includes a few incendiary remarks. For example: “if you didn’t decide to take writing seriously by the time you were a teenager, you’re probably not going to make it.” In addition to the original post’s 90+ comments, rebuttal posts are popping up on The Digital Reader and terribleminds .

Submission Strategy Review

If you submit more writings, you get published more often. It’s simple. Here’s how I keep track of it all.

Litblog Roundup

Observations of topics and trends from across the literary internet.

More Things Not To Do At A Literary Reading

Cliché has no place in poetry, because it isn’t artful.

Git and the Writer

Imagine if your editors and beta readers could send for your review through a freely distributed application where each participant can work independently.

The Death of the Novel, Again

If novels are dying, should we mourn? What are we parting with, exactly? How can we make sure not to throw out the baby with the bathwater, if we move on from books?

Ten Things Not to Do at a Literary Reading

Literary events, like any live performance, are bound to have some glitches here and there. Some of those glitches are easily avoided.

Index of First Lines

It’s easy to create an index of first lines. If each of your poems is a separate text file, then a handy command line trick will produce an index of first lines. If you have all your poems in a single Microsoft Word document, you can use the index feature.

Following Silliman’s Blogroll

Literary blogs are a vibrant and enjoyable treasure trove. You can still subscribe to them all and join the conversation. I’ve created a tool to help.

Leaving Microsoft Word Behind

I have amassed a collection of files: .doc files, .docx files, .rtf files, .html files, but I set out to convert them all to plain text files."

Scrivener, Git and Version Control for Writers

Scrivener projects are laid out as application bundles with the .scriv extension, and, as it turns out, are amenable to Git version control.

Apps For Writers with Version Control

The way I see it, there are two ways to add Version Control abilities to your writing workflow. One would be to use a word processor specifically built for the task. The other would be to use the word processor you already have, and to use a separate app to handle the version control features.

Useful Features of Version Control Software

Version control for writers, and why it’s useful.

Version Control for Writers

Authors, editors, literary scholars, archivists: all eventually have to do work with multiple versions of a text.

My Grandmother’s Writings Part Two: File Cabinets and Beer Boxes

the writings were carefully removed from their original file cabinet and transferred into a set of brown cardboard boxes emblazoned with the irrelevant phrases “Bud Ice” and “Corona” where they remained, stored in the basement, for about 20 years.

My Grandmother’s Writings Part One: ‘Look at all this paper!’

In October of 2012, my dad gave me the entire collected writings by my Grandmother, Elizabeth Kinnett. I’m going to catalog, annotate and digitize these writings. Along the way, I’ll blog about the work I do.

How I Do My Word Processing

‘I am both a “computer person” and a writer. You might be interested to know: how do I combine the two? Here are some thoughts on how I do my word processing, most of the time.’

When to Abandon a Creative Project

My list of ongoing creative projects is too complicated. I’m declaring creative bankruptcy, so to speak. I’ve had too many irons in the fire for too long. Why so many? It seems I have trouble bringing an end to some projects. "

The Death of Hypertext?

Does anyone write literary hypertexts anymore? Are the existing tests future-proof?

My Favorite Notebook

My favorite notebook is full. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to make these anymore. Where can I find one like it?

Scriptwriting Software

I sampled the various software apps that are designed to help a writer to produce a stage play

The Experimental Literature Cook Off

An informal session for experimental writers modeled on the idea of a chili cook off

Writing with Audio

When it comes to audio equipment for spoken word performances: what works and what doesn’t? How can I impprove my sound, on the smallest possible budget?

Ten Reasons Why I (don’t really) Love Lists.

With a list, you can quickly fill up the page without having to actually write very much. It’s kind of like using a really big typeface to get out of writing a long book report.

Altered Text

I’ll call it altered text, although for the thing I have in mind there are actually many things, many names, from many times and places. My notion of “destroyed text” is somewhat unique, but not really. I’ll show you some examples of a family ideas I think the idea is descended from. I’ll try to give you explanations, citations and examples for each.

Building a Writing Studio

I’ve written this entry to outline the ideas I have for a new writing studio. Along the way I found photos of famous writing studios, some feng shui tips for a workspace, and some ideas for how to organize a writing studio.

Spoken Word, Recorded Poetry, and Hip-Hop

The creative challenge here is to find a way to take my favorite elements of each of these groups, and go my own way with them.

Physicalist Manifesto

No bullshit! The thing is the idea. The idea is the thing.

A Writer’s Artist Statement

Published by the Extreme Writing Community, a group dedicated to experimental literature. The community’s posts are written in Ukrainian and English. 2013. Online.

Poetry Reading by Thomas Raine Crowe

Look out! I don't mean the window, I mean the helicopters overhead, the buzz on the phone, and the police at the door. Achtung! The sky is falling from the atoms they have taken from the air. The trees cut to build temples to oil. The brown water no longer fit for fish. Look out! When freedom is just another word for what we have lost. When peace is another brand of bomb. When the national animal is no longer an eagle, but a sheep. I attended a poetry reading this evening by Thomas Rain Crowe , with whom I had the honor of sharing my lunch today earlier today. He’s a real bona-fide beatnik, drinking buddy to the stars: Ginsberg and company themselves. That alone was impressive, I suppose. He shared with us some selections of his fiction and his poetry. He told us about his rock band . and his first volume of translations of the poems of the 14th century Persian poet Hafiz , ( Hafiz )According to his bio: “Following six years as Editor-at-Large for the Asheville Poetry Review, he is currently writing a memoir in the style of Thoreau’s Walden based on four years of self-sufficient living in the wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina from 1979 to 1982. He currently resides in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. His literary archives have been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina.”

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