Most years I say to myself that this year I’ll take a rest from writing.
This is delusional!!
As a writer I have decided to write something every day.
in 2017 I started to do this and managed about 70 days using some prompts I found online. Most of these actually made my first book, Mild Musings May Mitigate My Mentality.
Two years ago I found another 365 prompts and using an AI engine, created a book.
My next plan was to write a companion book of my own work based on these prompts.
I am now 5 days in and will work out the best way to present both writings.
The whole idea is to be honest about which is which. I don’t look at the AI poetry until I have written my own.
So far the comparison is interesting as I am able to be more tangential in my thinking than the AI engine. I am also naming the engine too as well as the link to the prompts for complete openness. I realise that some may hold their hands up in horror and I completely understand this.
What I am trying to do is test myself and also show others that whilst AI is out there, it needs to be used in your control.
We’ll wait and see
Author: Joe Campling
Joseph Campling lives in Buckinghamshire, and is married with adult children.
He trained as a both a General and Mental Health Nurse in the South East of the United Kingdom in the mid 1980’s and has worked in various roles over the past 30 years.
His first authored article in 2007 was jointly written about the need to share positive research based practice amongst care teams locally which was then published in a professional journal.
He published “Mild Musings May Mitigate My Mentality” which was his first collection of poems in 2018.
He has subsequently published MERRING or is it MRS GREN?
Having written sporadically over the years (usually for friends and family) he has been writing more consistently over the past two years and has begun to recite his poetry at various Open Mic nights and Spoken Word events. He is often found ‘scribbling’ and then performing what he has just written.
He recently has also been collaborating with a jazz composer by writing lyrics which have been put to music.
His interests include watching live music, trying to play the guitar (still project in progress) and quizzing. He also likes to watch TV; mostly factual documentaries, comedy and quiz shows
He also needs to read more and swears that he will do so very soon as he has a pile of books to read.
He also ‘hangs out’ with members of the local drama club although he has no plans to act but is partial to the odd pint of orange juice and lemonade!!
He follows rugby and can sometimes be found cheering his team on (London Irish) whether they win or lose.
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