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I screwed up
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Hey Reader, I think I’ve fcked up over the past few months. In talking about what I do, and who I do it for and with, and why. After a throwaway comment on a networking call, my kneejerk reaction was to get really cross… The comment was along the lines of not being able to compete with a new AI book-writing tool/course/thing. It got my back up and I immediately went on the defensive — defending what I do, why it’s better than AI tools, why AI isn’t proper writing, blahblahblah. Then I took a breath, and wrote out my frustration… and, as always happens when I write, I found a little clarity. I’m not in competition with AI writing tools. That’s not what I do. Yes, I help people to write books, and essays, and blogs, and even social media posts from time to time. But that’s not the core of what I do. I help you to use your brain to make things. THAT’S my zone of genius. Sometimes AI is a tool we use, but — like I said yesterday — the robots are here to do our dishes and make space for us to create something. The work is the point, not the outcome. It’s not about the writing, it’s about the creativity and the thinking. The little slice of you that we tease out and display using well-chosen words and phrases and media. The writing is just how we put it out there. It’s tempting to reach for a tool to shortcut it all just to bang something out in a desperate attempt to feed the algorithm, but what if… What if we stepped back, took a breath, ignored the algorithm, and made something we want to make? I can help. We can do this together over the next 30 days. Find out more here.​ TTFN, Vicky p.s. If you like this newsletter and want to support it, you can:
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Hey Reader, I’m thinking of starting a club called The Bad Art Club. What do you reckon? Would you join? Mostly a rhetorical question, so you don’t have to answer unless you really want to. In the Creative Playground this morning we were talking about weekend plans and one of mine is to paint something. I dragged my watercolours out last weekend and stared at them for a while. Then, yesterday, I painted a birthday card for a friend. It’s not terribly good, but it is silly, and I enjoyed...
Hey Reader, Most people don’t want to write. They want to have written something. And I get that. I want to be able to do the splits… But I don’t want to actually stretch and train it… because training is hard work and it’s frustrating seeing my legs at a right angle when my friend over there is fanny-to-the-floor Splitty McSplit Face and rightfully smug about it. The question then becomes: how much do I want to be able to do the splits? What am I willing to endure to get there? And how can I...
Hey Reader, You don’t need “the muse”. You need a consistent writing practice. One may appear just at the right moment for you, like the capricious and unreliable floozy it is, but the other means you’ll create your own inspiration, every single day, no matter what that unreliable floozy may be up to. So: let’s create that consistent writing practice, shall we? Write Every Damn Day on Easy Mode is available all throughout May, and by the time we’re done — after 30 days — you’ll have not only...