Harnessing AI to Develop Your Writing

Can we make use of AI and nature itself to help our poetry and prose interpret ways into thinking about climate change and sustainability. We'll see how we can make AI do the hard work but keep creativity in our own hands. We'll look at various short forms in prose and poetry: eg flash fiction, prose poetry, haibun, and sonnets and use Jane Alison's idea of story telling being circular and explosive rather than an arc. And we'll use the forms nature offers us. Join OCA tutor Liz Cashdan for this event.

As Jane Alison writes, nature offers us other patterns than arcs and waves:

"Patterns other than the wave, though, are everywhere. Here are the ones Stevens calls “nature’s darlings.” Spiral: think of a fiddlehead fern, whirlpool, hurricane, horns twisting from a ram’s head, or a chambered nautilus. Meander: picture a river curving and kinking, a snake in motion, a snail’s silver trail, or the path left by a goat grazing the tenderest greens. Radial or explosion: a splash of dripping water, petals growing from a daisy’s heart, light radiating from the sun, the ring left around a tick bite. Branching and other fractal patterns: self-replication at different scale made by trees, coastlines, clouds. Cellular or network patterns: repeating shapes you see in a honeycomb, foam of bubbles, cracked lakebed, or light rippling in a pool; these can look like cells or, inversely, like a net."  The Paris Review March 27 2019 https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/03/27/beyond-the-narrative-arc/

Find more information & resources on Padlet here. including an article which highlights the environmental impact of AI. 

Everyone is welcome, come along and try something new!