Duluth writer’s comedy ‘Daniel’s Gotta Die’ to screen at Minnesota Film Festival
Filmmaker Matthew Dressel wrote the screenplay for “Daniel’s Gotta Die,” which is the last movie that comedian Bob Saget performed in before his death. It screens in Duluth as part of the Minnesota Film Festival. DULUTH — Matthew Dressel first saw an audience watch “Daniel’s Gotta Die,” the dark-humored film he wrote more than a […]
How is AI Changing How We Write and Create?
We spoke with three English professors to find out Since late last year, artificial intelligence platforms like ChatGPT have become a growing topic of conversation on college campuses, with students using the technology for everything from class assignments to essays. These text-generating software programs sift through massive databases to generate human-like responses to prompts or […]
Is ChatGPT the End of Writing? Turnitin Believes It Could Actually Boost Students’ Writing Instruction
AI Writing Detection is Just One Part; Tools Also Planned to Help Teachers Save Time and Better Equip Students for the Workforce Plagiarism-detection software provider Turnitin is putting the finishing touches on its AI writing features for educators; the detection tool is expected to launch for users of the Turnitin platform in the next few […]
Book review: Writing Landscape, by Linda Cracknell
Her earlier work often found her on the move, but in her latest book Linda Cracknell seems more interested in the power of being still, writes Roger Cox In 2014, the Perthshire-based author Linda Cracknell wrote a book called Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory, which deserves to be celebrated as one of the […]
Writers group helping area poets, storytellers through sessions
A dozen people gathered on the second floor of the Ludington Area Center for the Arts for a recent Ludington Writers meeting. On the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, the Ludington Writers group transforms the solitary act of writing into a team effort. Ludington Writers is a nonprofit that aims to support a […]
Novelist Etaf Rum: ‘Dig deeper and find meaning’
Etaf Rum, author of the bestselling novel “A Woman is No Man,” hosted a workshop for beginning writers as this spring’s Visiting Writer Series speaker. Learn About Bryant Apply to Bryant Writing is difficult by design, Etaf Rum, author of the bestselling novel A Woman is No Man , told the more than 200 students […]
‘Star Wars,’ Marvel writer hosts comic book crash course
A comic book writer for Star Wars and Marvel returned to his alma mater for a crash course in comic book writing Monday afternoon. “It’s been a while since I’ve been back to campus,” the Bowling Green State University ‘00 alum Marc Sumerak, said. “It’s really rewarding to come full circle and be a legacy […]
One of the Writers Guild’s Biggest Contract Negotiation Issues Is the ‘Mini Room’ Boom
One of the most resonant issues on the table in the ongoing Writers Guild of America contract negotiations has turned out to be one of the hardest to define: mini rooms. Rising to the top of writers’ concerns in bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is the rapid growth in the […]
How to Make ChatGPT Copy Your Writing Style
Jason Montoya / How-To Geek Published writers can ask ChatGPT to emulate their style by referencing existing work; anyone can submit samples of their own writing for emulation, or you can simply describe a style using plain language. ChatGPT can generate excellent text on virtually any subject, but by default, it has a very bland […]