It turns out we’ve had AI tools for years. Here are two examples of old AI and one much newer one that have now become staples in my writing business. LINKS: Support 58keys on Patreon: Also join the Writer’s Mailing List: Buy my book on Amazon US: Or Amazon UK: If you buy through my Amazon links, they might throw me a penny or two. Or they won’t. Either way, it will never cost you anything extra. Whisper Transcription: Whisper Memos: Pixelmator Pro: Perplexity.ai:
And I second another individual’s comment here. A live podcast series with industry interviews would be great. It would be nice to have a cup of something while you pick the brains of some authors, editors, and publishers. Im sure you have an interesting Rolodex of people to call upon, and you are bound to have insights into the method behind the madness of various steps of writing and publishing. Johanna Penn has a similar podcast called The Creative Penn, and it leads to some great deep dives into other authors and designers on the creative process. Since it would be live you could have a QnA at the end of each episode.
I would very much enjoy live shows with an over the shoulder approach. Perhaps a few episodes per medium with a shared screen going through the whole process for books, screenplays, magazines all the way from outline and planning to execution and editing, and seeing the proofing an publication steps. Would be very interesting to see the thought process articulated for different mediums and see all the time saving techniques as you go through all the apps along the way. Perhaps a bit like a live tutorial series with a bit more of an off the cuff approach with some instructions and associated musings along the way.
Otter will record and transcribe your interviews, including the listing of keywords in the conversation. There’s now a feature where it provides an outline of the discussion as well.
Hi William,
I will develop an application for both mobile and web platforms for those who want to learn a new language. I will find example usages of unfamiliar words from your videos and show them to the user. This way, I will also demonstrate the example usage of that word
I would like to make short excerpts from your videos for this purpose. I will use the original YouTube link of the video. I am requesting permission from you to avoid infringing on any copyright laws.Would you grant permission?
Thank you for everything.
Have a nice day.
Could you give us a video on how to use AI Writa?
Just Press Record app works on iphone mac and watch…..and retains an audio file as well as transcribing…maybe consider that?
Hadn't heard of Perplexity but it seems decent. Like you, there's no way I'd even go near it if it didn't also share its sources, but given that it does… yeah, promising. Now if only it integrated properly with Alfred. Perhaps someone cleverer than me can write a workflow similar to ChatFred.
I am writing this comment using Whisper Transcription. I've been using it for typing replies on Discord, writing emails, responding to emails and other messages, and basically pretty much everything.
Everything gets edited before it gets used and that way whatever errors there are, I can fix them and can pretty much make sure that it's my own words because I know what I said. Plus I'm able to edit my words – and vet them before they wander off into the world on their own. I still don't have the use of my hands to do a lot of typing so this has made a massive difference for me.
Unlike dictation, which often makes more work for me, I can write using my natural speech rhythm, and it doesn't mind when I pause to collect my thoughts or remember a word. It saves the audio as well because I'm using my MBP to do the recording.
On the topic of live streams, I'm not sure I would be able to catch you, but I would certainly love to. It sounds great. I'd love any hints or tips for writing on the iPad, without an attached keyboard since I really can't type on one at the moment.
I know it's not exactly the point of the video, but I've seen some people say things like "AI allows me to write an entire book in a day instead of a year." And I'm just thinking… but you didn't. You have to actually write the book to write a book. If a machine just spits a manuscript out, those aren't your thoughts. You can't rightly say you wrote a book without, you know, actually doing the work. All you really have is a digital ghost writer who churns out manuscripts for you.
58Keys tackles subjects with endurance. Software that will be useful for the long haul, that sort of thing.
Your live shows could cover the ephemeral, offering insight on developing trends or news in publishing. You could have guests and discuss issues of import to writers, perhaps interview authors.
It would be great. Best of all, it would be a perfectly compelling reason to put off writing! 🤪
In terms of transcriptions, if you have davinci resolve (studio) that will give a text output as well. Not awesomely formatted, but does the job. One off charge.
Live shows would be great.
A live show! Wonderful! I could PEPPER you with more questions about writing & writing tech!
Has there been any Ai books you've read that helped you as a writer. I've read 3 and they are ick for me as a writer.
How have you used Ai to complete your YT video segments/whole. How you can use it to help you create YT video scripts on your focused topics (Mac/etc.)
Comparing 3.5 free version and 4o free version, how to use it to help me improve my writing skills (NF).
"I could take up religion just to have gods to thank for it." 😂😂😂 You are a gem, sir.
Live session on you researching/dumbing down a nonfiction or memoir writing table of contents using Ai.
Of course a live session! I'm thinking that your 9000 (ye gads!) subscribers are smarter and more interesting than the average bear, and I just want to see/hear them. Sorry, gotta go now, and check out Perplexity. See you live soon…..
Thanks, William, interesting as always. I think you make an important point that AI isn't necessarily going to be in our faces, but will be subtle in the way it will augment our existing toolsets. I agree that even if AI could write the most amazing novel, why read it when you know it was produced in seconds by a computer? At the end of the day, there has to be some humanity there in art and culture otherwise what is the point of art and culture at all? The next few years are going to be very interesting: I hope in a good way!
Of course we want live shows with you. we could talk about complex apps like Scrivener. Or going back to pen and paper. Or typewriters even. Is dictation a form of writing?
Curious how AI interest grew once it learned to be a writer 📝 (This being only one very particular kind of AI)