The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2024

I really enjoyed this laid-back discussion around AI tools as part of the creative book cover design process with James Helps from Go On Write. How our human creative drive and connection is our real differentiator. It was one prompt on DALL-E, and then I used Canva to put some text on.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Do you want to publish an image-heavy book like a cookbook? How can you navigate the challenges of photography, book design, and publishing choices to make the best product possible? Can you also maybe comment on how— How has getting away from your desk and doing the adventuring helped your creative side? It's a bit strange.

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Neil Patel

JUNE 1, 2021

What there is, however, is plenty of opportunity for success if you can be creative, authentic, and target your proper audience. In an environment full of opportunities for businesses, the entrepreneurs who take the lead are those who know how to use the online medium to make creative and appealing content. 73% of adults in the U.S

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 19, 2022

What has changed in the publishing industry over the last few years? This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. She's also an award-winning publishing commentator, writer, editor, professional speaker and teacher.

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Content Hacker

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Videos are often more engaging than text and can help you reach a larger audience. YouTube and Vimeo are great platforms for video publishing. Ultimately, repurposing content is about creatively reusing what you already have. Content repurposing is an art that combines creativity and strategic thinking.

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The Creative Penn

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

How can you create a high-quality photo book and publish it on Kickstarter? But you're not on the travel podcast today, you're on the publishing podcast. I mean, even doing the transcript for my interviews on this show, I'm aware sometimes that the text on the page does not reflect the emotion that we talked about.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 15, 2024

In the intro, Draft2Digital announced a retail distribution agreement with Fable [ D2D ]; Kobo launches a new color e-reader [ Rakuten Kobo ]; Ultimate guide to subscription models [ Self-Publishing Advice ]; Independence and interdependence [ Self-Publishing Advice ]; Becca Syme on getting unstuck [ Ink in Your Veins ].

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How does curiosity fuel creativity? Maria Brito talks about How Creativity Rules the World. This podcast is sponsored by Kobo Writing Life , which helps authors self-publish and reach readers in global markets through the Kobo eco-system. How did you break out of such a high-paying job to start a creative business?

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The Creative Penn

JANUARY 26, 2023

What are some of the tools and why are creative direction, voice, and taste, so important? In the first 28 mins of the podcast, I give an extended introduction about the various legal cases around AI and copyright , my thoughts on the best way to approach it for your creative work, and how to use AI tools ethically and responsibly.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JULY 15, 2022

It’s more that email, texting, and team apps encourage brevity at the expense of context, and punctuation steps up to communicate tone of voice. Maybe all the fuss over “texting these days” has done us a favor in pointing up limitations in the way we punctuate. Creative License. First published 1740. It’s so easy.)

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The Creative Penn

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

How does a creative career develop over the long term and when do you need to take a step back to consider how to move forward? In the intro, Amazon changes ebook return policy [ Society of Authors ]; Spotify introduces audiobooks [ Spotify ; FindawayVoices ; Publishing Perspectives ]; Neal Stephenson on The Sword Guy podcast.

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The Creative Penn

JULY 3, 2023

Four years ago, in July 2019, I put out a podcast episode that went through the 9 disruptions I saw coming for authors and publishing in the next decade. I mentioned ‘centaur publishing,' and suggest you check out AI Writing for Authors to find thousands of authors already experimenting with new ways of co-creating with AI.

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 17, 2023

What are the most important aspects of becoming a successful publisher? Jon Barton is the founder and managing director of the award-winning independent publisher Vertebrate Publishing, as well as the author of several bestselling mountain biking guides. And that's where the publishing business came from. Jon: Hi, Jo.

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Bramework

AUGUST 1, 2023

Your notes could even spark creativity for a new piece. Recommended: Best Blog Post Workflow: How to EASILY Go from Research to Publish Tip #8 – Prepare Your Meals This may seem very silly, but a writer’s got to eat ! Just don’t text and write. Take some notes and see where it takes you. Break out subheadings if needed.

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Fat Joe

AUGUST 24, 2022

We’ve been in the backlinks business for over ten years now, and in our experience, these are the 18 most effective, scalable, and creative ways to acquire backlinks. The more traffic you get, the more likely you are to receive new backlinks from people sharing and reposting that excellent new content you’re publishing. .

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Buffer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Ogilvy's Creative Director, David Raichman, called AI “ a force multiplier for creative expression,” and I couldn’t agree more. It is at these times AI steps in, rescuing me from the creative rut. Automated social media caption or text generation Words can be incredibly powerful.

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Kayleigh Moore

MARCH 9, 2023

Laura is currently a member of the English faculty at Spoon River College where she teaches creative writing, composition, and literature courses. She has had work published in Soft Skull's Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry and Ninth Letter, among others, and currently has work in Alluvian.

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Credible Content

JUNE 19, 2023

The problem is, although most clients know that there is no escaping from publishing high quality content for desired results, they cannot distinguish between quality content and mediocre content unless they have worked with multiple content writers and copywriters to compare. It cannot be creative. The same is happening with ChatGPT.

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Kristi Hines

AUGUST 4, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools transform businesses’ operations, opening up new possibilities to enhance productivity, creativity, and customer experiences. This tool empowers users to rapidly create, supplement, erase, or replace images with straightforward text commands.

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Make a Living Writing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Are you a creative or literary writer looking to share your words with a larger audience of your peers? Literary Magazines Accepting Submissions in 2024 Literary magazines are periodicals, which are dedicated to publishing poetry, short stories, essays and more from writers at every stage of their careers.

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Kristi Hines

AUGUST 2, 2023

This comprehensive guide will walk you through 147 ways to monetize ChatGPT plugins, allowing you to turn your creativity and the AI assistant into a money-making machine. Streamline your client’s content publishing across platforms like WordPress, Twitter, YouTube, Shopify, and Medium with Content.app. Let’s dive in!

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 18, 2024

You can’t publish a book without sitting down to write, to revise, to revise again (and again and again), to query, or to fill out your author questionnaire. The subconscious is creative. Creativity comes from beyond the thinking mind J.D. Creative percolation is the same. BICHOK is essential to writing. Siegel, M.D.

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Jane Friedman

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moehringer, ghostwriter of Prince Harry’s mega-selling memoir Spare, published a revealing peek into the intimate dance between author and writer. As publishing houses and media companies shed writers and editors, there’s a burgeoning supply of available talent. Ghosts are a lot more visible now.

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Publishing Trends

MARCH 22, 2023

At last count, more than seventy-five thousand titles have been published, a number that will dramatically increase as AI narration brings cost and production time down. Whether that’s a podcast that is edited for an audiobook audience, or written specifically as an audiobook, it’s a different beast from a text-first project.

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Animalz

JANUARY 23, 2023

They can generate text faster. They don’t suffer from mental blocks or creative ruts. It’s certainly possible to write articles entirely with these tools using a one-shot content workflow and publish the output verbatim. Human writers will never be as fast, as prolific, or, in some ways, as creative as generative AI.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 10, 2023

What can authors and publishers do to ensure their books are still found in the new form of generative AI search? If you join the community, you get an extra solo Q&A show monthly, as well as behind-the-scenes videos on AI and creative business, plus, discounts, early access, and more.

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Content Hacker

MARCH 3, 2024

Join us as we explore the reasons why relinquishing some control and allowing AI to work its magic might be the key to unlocking unparalleled creativity and efficiency in content generation. Instead, think of AI as a turbo boost for creativity and productivity. Want to build a real money-making blog, 10x faster with the use of AI?

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Grammarly

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Good, clear writing—whether it’s for an email, a résumé, a term paper, or a creative project—is not just writing. When an editor is giving a substantive edit to a draft, their focus is on the text as a whole. Look up words in a dictionary and/or run the text through a spell-checker to correct any spelling mistakes.

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Grammarly

APRIL 9, 2024

This technique allows for a creative approach to developing plot, allows the author to adopt multiple perspectives, and sets the stage for innovative characterization. The epistolary style is still used in literature, but oftentimes through text messages, email chains, blogs, notes, and social media posts rather than letters.

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Credible Content

MARCH 22, 2023

It generates human-like text based on the prompt that you give to it. Even if you want to publish this explanation of “What is a SEO content writing?”, suppose 10 people ask the same question to ChatGPT and they all publish the same answer? To make sure that you are not replaced by ChatGPT, you need to be more creative.

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Buffer

JANUARY 4, 2023

But it’s hard to keep up the pace of consistent and quality publishing without the support of a team. AI can help you develop new and creative ideas for your content by analyzing your audience's interests and suggesting relevant topics for you to write about.

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Grammarly

APRIL 2, 2024

Generative AI refers to a specific branch of machine learning where models are trained on large amounts of raw data to create original outputs, whether it’s text, images, or other kinds of content. These techniques build a model of the tone properties of text, based on many examples, and then use that model to evaluate new inputs.

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Backlinko

MAY 21, 2024

They published a blog titled “ Woman vs. machine ” with links to two competing pieces—one written by a human writer and one by ChatGPT. The brand publishes blogs around its core values, like sustainability, diversity, and nutritional health. Find something iconic from the past and put your own creative spin on it. The lesson?

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The Creative Penn

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

After many years of people saying, “AI can never be creative, AI could never write fiction (i.e. How can we use the tools to achieve our creative purpose in an ethical manner, and understand that we need to curate, edit, and take responsibility for any usage? Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.

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Grammarly

APRIL 19, 2023

They have a looser structure, more creative language, and just one requirement: to tell a story. Narrative essays, perhaps unsurprisingly, are defined by the presence of a narrative in the text. You can be creative in a narrative essay because you’re writing a story rather than presenting and dissecting others’ statements or work.

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Jane Friedman

APRIL 19, 2023

In this Q&A, she reveals some of the terrible titles it spat out (while keeping the really good ones to herself), acknowledges the complicated moral question of writers allowing ChatGPT to do their writing for them, and lists the many ways AI has been helpful to her both creatively and practically. But here’s the thing: it did.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2020

As opposed to a regular pin, which is just the one image or video with a description and link, Story Pins allow you to incorporate multiple pages of images, videos, text, and links. Story Pins also allow users to publish unique content directly in Pinterest, rather than just distribute content published elsewhere.

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