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- Feb 2023
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wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com wordcraft-writers-workshop.appspot.com
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Wordcraft Writers Workshop by Andy Coenen - PAIR, Daphne Ippolito - Brain Research Ann Yuan - PAIR, Sehmon Burnam - Magenta
cross reference: ChatGPT
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language models are incredible "yes, and" machines, allowing writers to quickly explore seemingly unlimited variations on their ideas.
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Wordcraft shined the most as a brainstorming partner and source of inspiration. Writers found it particularly useful for coming up with novel ideas and elaborating on them. AI-powered creative tools seem particularly well suited to sparking creativity and addressing the dreaded writer's block.
Just as using a text for writing generative annotations (having a conversation with a text) is a useful exercise for writers and thinkers, creative writers can stand to have similar textual creativity prompts.
Compare Wordcraft affordances with tools like Nabokov's card index (zettelkasten) method, Twyla Tharp's boxes, MadLibs, cadavre exquis, et al.
The key is to have some sort of creativity catalyst so that one isn't working in a vacuum or facing the dreaded blank page.
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- Vladimir Nabokov
- ChatGPTedu
- human computer interaction
- read
- language models
- blank page brainstorming
- blank page
- cadavre exquis
- programmed creativity
- in-context learning
- creative writing
- combinatorial creativity
- writer's block
- tools for creativity
- improvisation
- Mad Libs
- brainstorming
- digital amanuensis
- user interface
- card index for creativity
- Twyla Tharp
- PAIR (Google)
- artificial intelligence for writing
- text editors
- group creativity
- LaMDA
- yes and
- experimental fiction
- Wordcraft
- prompt engineering
- creativity catalysts
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