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- Feb 2023
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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.
Tags
- language models
- brainstorming
- creative writing
- in-context learning
- group creativity
- Vladimir Nabokov
- LaMDA
- Mad Libs
- user interface
- cadavre exquis
- text editors
- creativity catalysts
- tools for creativity
- digital amanuensis
- combinatorial creativity
- card index for creativity
- experimental fiction
- artificial intelligence for writing
- prompt engineering
- Wordcraft
- Twyla Tharp
- ChatGPTedu
- writer's block
- programmed creativity
- blank page brainstorming
- human computer interaction
- read
- improvisation
- blank page
- yes and
- PAIR (Google)
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