AI writing tools have the potential to revolutionize the way we write and create fiction. These tools use artificial intelligence and natural language processing to assist writers in various aspects of the writing process, such as character development, plot structure, and language usage. Using AI writing tools, writers can improve their writing productivity, overcome writer’s […]
Ted Bell left a successful advertising career to write thrillers about a British billionaire secret agent. Ted Bell, a former award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director who abandoned Madison Avenue in his early 50s to recast himself as a best-selling novelist by writing and marketing his Alex Hawke spy thrillers, died on Jan. 20 in […]
After spending the past two years immersed in generative AI, I can confidently say that AI will reinvent PR practice and transform our industry, unlike any other force since the Internet. Much like how ERP and CRM systems revolutionized manufacturing and customer relations, generative AI will soon automate our workflows, streamline content creation and reduce […]
ADOLESCENCE, THAT alchemical torment, is a time to which few of us wish to return. We remember too well that maturity comes at a cost. And yet, stories of baptisms by fire are common and commonly loved. These coming-of-age tales have the narrative neatness of a hero’s journey — departure, risk, trial, disillusioned growth, and […]
Early in October I received a small package from England, which looked most interesting even before I opened it. The envelope celebrated “Her Majesty the Queen’s PLATINUM JUBILEE.” Five stamps carried the postage, each with a distinctive image: Soldiers from World War II; three lines from my favorite Percy Bysshe Shelley poem, “ To a […]
This one time, my dad bought me a house in Providence, Rhode Island. It was a two-story fake Colonial with yellow aluminum siding on Hawkins Street. We bought it from the bank for $55,000; it was one of many properties under foreclosure in the city in 2009. Dad and I spent a few days looking […]
