Anna Bernstein is a prompt engineer at Copy.ai, which makes AI tools to generate blog posts and emails. Her job is to write prompts to train the bot to generate high-quality, accurate writing. Here are three tips on how to write prompts to get the best outcomes from AI. This as-told-to essay is based on […]
Olivia Colman’s mother characters have often concealed a spike beneath their smiley, feminine exteriors. There was the stepmother from hell in Fleabag —the kind of monster who mounts a sexhibition with a wall of plaster penises showcasing those of both your father and ex-boyfriend. Then there was Elena Ferrante’s Leda in the big-screen adaptation of […]
So far, in our discussions of artificial intelligence chatbots for student writing and the teaching of writing, there has been a key piece that needs to be added. It has to do with the role of optimism in teenagers’ lives. Its absence points to our emotional impoverishment as parents and adults and to some reasons […]
Great comeback stories, especially when something tragic stops someone from following their dreams and passion, can be a huge source of inspiration. Since last year, actors making comebacks has been a much-discussed topic. The Academy Awards only increased the subject after Ke Huy Quan, and Brandon Fraser won Oscars for the two male actors categories; […]
If you ever meet Tim Vandehey, resist the urge. “I get this all the time,” he said, “‘What do you do, Tim?’ I’ll be at a party or whatever. ‘Oh, I’m a ghostwriter.’ ‘Really.’ “The same question follows 90% of the time. ‘Who have you written books for?’ The next thing almost always follows, ‘If […]
Beginning in Fall 2023, the department known as “English” at Boise State will expand into four new, distinct departments: English Literature, Linguistics, Writing Studies, and Humanities and Cultural Studies. Boise State will present the new departments, prefixes, and degree programs in the 2023-24 catalog. Seeing that the academic and professional needs of the student population […]
Gathered in a Zoom workshop, a group of Black women writers had the opportunity to do some “digging into that honesty box,” as presenter Ebony Stewart put it. Part of that exploration of honesty meant looking their imposter syndrome — or feeling of fraudulence and self-doubt — in the eye. “Self-sabotaging your greatness because you […]
Two-time CBC Literary Prizes winner Chanel M. Sutherland won a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. (Submitted by Chanel M. Sutherland) Chanel M. Sutherland is a two-time CBC Literary Prize winner. She first won the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize for her essay, ‘Umbrella.’ Then in 2022, she won the CBC Short […]
There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than existing IP—thus, the Oscars are historically adaptation-friendly. Last year, 50% of the Best Picture nominations were based on books and plays; in 2016, it was 63%. According to Adam Morgan at the Chicago Review of Books , on six separate occasions, 100% of the Best Picture nominees were based […]
