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Using AI Art as writing prompts
There’s been a lot of noise and debate about Artificial Intelligence and human creativity over the last couple of years.
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Ken Elkes
The writer’s balancing act
Ways to rediscover lost creativity
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Ken Elkes
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Perfect Pitch - using music to generate stories
Are you a writer who likes silence, or a writer who likes music to be playing as you work?
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Ken Elkes
Story Endings - enhancing your readers’ experience
Thoughts on how to get your story over the finishing line
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Ken Elkes
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Finding writing prompts on your bookshelf
One of the benefits of taking a bit of time away from Substack is that I get to read more, which is never a bad thing.
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Ken Elkes
Foraging For Ideas - Using Nature As Inspiration
Hello everyone,
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Ken Elkes
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Writing exercise - igniting the enthusiasm in your writing
This week in my free Writing Talk post, I mentioned that I led an online writing group that is a relaxed hybrid between a social writing meet-up, where…
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Ken Elkes
Locating The Energy In Your Abandoned Drafts To Revive Or Reuse Them
The weekly online writing group I host/lead is a fun gig, a relaxed hybrid between a social writing meet-up and a workshop of writing exercises…
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Ken Elkes
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The Importance of First Impressions
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression.
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Ken Elkes
Does a story really need conflict to work?
Reflections on the so-called 'golden rule’ of narrative
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Ken Elkes
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Defamiliarisation - a fun way to embrace the strange in your writing
In last week’s free Writing Talk post, I talked about embracing the strange in your writing work.
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Ken Elkes
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Embrace the strange in your writing
Unleashing the potential of the off-beat and the odd
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Ken Elkes
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Make your readers care
Ideas on the only goal we really need as writers
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Ken Elkes
Writing funny - it’s a serious business
How using humour can add depth and energy to your work
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Ken Elkes
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