The Story Behind the Wedding Day Novel

It's been an interesting challenge writing the Wedding Day novel, mainly due to how I splintered the short story into different works, all of which had positives and negatives. Putting those pieces together has been a bit frustrating, but—I think—ultimately going to lead to a compelling…

Writing with AI: Sudowrite

My last few entries I discussed writing with Laika and how it did in the Codex Summer Flash contest. Last round I was pressed for time due to my having a deadline for an agent, so I rushed out the story and sent it in. So while a raw draft won't get good scores, the process was certainly helpful in…

Writing With AI: Laika & the Codex Summer Flash Contest

I haven't regularly written short fiction in years, but I've re-started lately and one of the things I've been doing is playing around with various AI writing tools. You can find my previous posts on this topic here and here. While testing the software…

Thoughts on Another AI Writing Tool: Sudowrite

A critical difference between the two platforms is that Sudowrite is intended to just plain work, which is great because you just type and press buttons. But it is vastly different than Laika, which allows you to upload your writing for the AI to learn your writing style. As I noted in the previous…

First Thoughts on Collaborating With a Creative Writing AI

Since Laika is a collaborator and not a button press type of AI, I reset my expectations from "Laika will do the writing for me" to "Laika will help my writing." The concept of helping writing is broad, hard-to-define, and ultimately very personal. For me, Laika added some new ways of thinking durin…