This is super helpful! Thank you for sharing! It took me decades to use a thesaurus after a teacher said it was lazy. I now use one, but yours sounds way better. On Writing is fantastic. I'm also a huge fan of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Story Genius and Story or Die for story theory to get unstuck and keep things moving forward.
amazing, thank you for those tools, i didn't know about most of them. i'm actually from Morocco and it will definetly helping me to improve my english writing. thanks!
Thank you for the thesaurus recommendation!! I’ve always used thesaurus.com but have found that the upgrade they did a year or 2 ago has really decreased the quality. Excited to try it out :)
This is so important!!! I, too, get frustrated with AI. I don't want to see AI images, participate in AI discourse, read AI pieces of writing. BUT we cannot deny progress. We cannot just ignore it either. I'm in the final year of my master right now and everyone is the class uses Chat GPT to submit their projects on time. If I don't no one will come to shake my hand, and congratulate me. I will just be chastised for not submitting on time. I'm not endorsing AI, I just think that there are smart ways to use it and ways that make us dumber. Learning how to use a new technology is tricky, remember how we made fun of our parents in the early 2000s? Or how we rolled our eyes when they couldn't fathom how to use a touch screen? This is us now. This is the moment. We can just pretend something it doesn't exist, or we can try (and fail many times) to conquer it. The only way to decipher which essay is written by AI is to use AI, to learn its tricks, to speak it's language. Hating AI generated material won't make people use AI less (unfortunately this ship has sailed) what we can do is learn how to control it, figure out what sort of legislation/framework might be good and use it to gain time, to sort repetitive tasks, to move up. AI isn't just chatgpt and yes chatgpt is a mess but there are so many cool things we can do know, of we just look a bit to the side.
Am I a writer? No. Did I read every word and bookmark every link? Yes. Doing the lords work!
DO THE LINKS WORK
I just went down such a rabbit hole playing with the emojis! 😭👏👏👏
yessss! aren’t they so fun
This is so helpful, thank you!
So glad you liked! <333
I sometimes like to just randomly open books or magazines and it almost always unlocks new ideas
: it could be a word, a way to structure a sentence, one thought leading to another… It’s the best way to challenge or enrich my writing patterns.
this is fantastic
You just unlocked something with OneLook, wow
Love this. A writing guidebook I find myself returning to is Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott!
I love Strunk and White's "Elements of Style". It helped me get through college. It's very practical and such and easy read. Perfect recommendation!
This is super helpful! Thank you for sharing! It took me decades to use a thesaurus after a teacher said it was lazy. I now use one, but yours sounds way better. On Writing is fantastic. I'm also a huge fan of Save the Cat! Writes a Novel, Story Genius and Story or Die for story theory to get unstuck and keep things moving forward.
Ah i’m so glad. And these sound like great recos too. Everyone, take notes!
Thanks! Two others I meant to mention: The Emotion Thesaurus and The Conflict Thesaurus (2 volumes, because there's so much conflict).
These are sooo handy. Bookmarked all of them! Thank you!
Can't believe all those emojis! 🤩
isn’t it fun
Oh yeah! 🙃
Nice
amazing, thank you for those tools, i didn't know about most of them. i'm actually from Morocco and it will definetly helping me to improve my english writing. thanks!
Power Thesaurus is cool, but https://www.wordhippo.com/ is better because words are grouped by meanings
Thank you for the thesaurus recommendation!! I’ve always used thesaurus.com but have found that the upgrade they did a year or 2 ago has really decreased the quality. Excited to try it out :)
Interesting, thanks :)
This is so important!!! I, too, get frustrated with AI. I don't want to see AI images, participate in AI discourse, read AI pieces of writing. BUT we cannot deny progress. We cannot just ignore it either. I'm in the final year of my master right now and everyone is the class uses Chat GPT to submit their projects on time. If I don't no one will come to shake my hand, and congratulate me. I will just be chastised for not submitting on time. I'm not endorsing AI, I just think that there are smart ways to use it and ways that make us dumber. Learning how to use a new technology is tricky, remember how we made fun of our parents in the early 2000s? Or how we rolled our eyes when they couldn't fathom how to use a touch screen? This is us now. This is the moment. We can just pretend something it doesn't exist, or we can try (and fail many times) to conquer it. The only way to decipher which essay is written by AI is to use AI, to learn its tricks, to speak it's language. Hating AI generated material won't make people use AI less (unfortunately this ship has sailed) what we can do is learn how to control it, figure out what sort of legislation/framework might be good and use it to gain time, to sort repetitive tasks, to move up. AI isn't just chatgpt and yes chatgpt is a mess but there are so many cool things we can do know, of we just look a bit to the side.