Strategy & Content Services with Sandra Lee Schubert

I spent my lunch hour listening to a seminar on, "Is AI About to REPLACE Human Writers? Join Us for a Very Special Briefing with FIVE of the Industry’s TOP Experts and Discover the Answers You NEED Right Now" Whoa. A long title, right? It featured copywriters and marketers who weighed in on how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect all of us. The conversation was narrowed to ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. It uses advanced language processing algorithms to generate human-like responses to user inputs. The chatbot is trained on a massive amount of text data and can answer questions, have conversations, and even generate text on its own. ChatGPT is designed to be integrated with other applications through APIs, allowing developers to add conversational capabilities to their products and services. OK, I asked ChatGPT to explain itself and the above is the answer. If you are interested, GPT stands for generative pre-training transformer. This is why I rely ...

Write A Way: Journey to Creativity   "You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you."     ~ Joseph Joubert   Poetic Spam? The Quest for Inspiration Where do you find your inspiration? Some people pull it deep from inside them. Others glean it from life experience. Or you can find it on the side of the road. When you are ready to express your creativity how do you do it? Do you write for two hours every day or grab your time on the bank line? Do rules govern your creativity? In a writing workshop, a participant refused to do one of the exercises because she didn't create it that way. She couldn't write unless she did it just her way, thus missing the opportunity for exploration. A schedule can provide you with a successful framework for a writing life or it can make writing dull and ordinary. Keep to your schedule but shake the tree every now and then and see what kind of fruit hits you on the head.   "Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the ...

Write A Way: Journey to Creativity Start Your Story Now  by Sandra Lee Schubert Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.  John Barth When I created the course,  Writing for Life: Creating a Story of Your Own , I wanted to give people the opportunity to share their stories in their own way. Creating your life story is easy. You already know the main characters, the storyline, locations. Not only that you have complete control over how your story unfolds and how it ends. Most people worry about telling the truth, hurting the feelings of family and friends, or that it will be boring. Remember you are valuable. You don’t have to be a rock star or even a good storyteller to share your story. You can keep your story completely private or choose to share it more broadly. First of all, decide what you would like to do with your story? Do you want to record the events of your life for personal use? Share a family history? Or do you envision your story being an insp...