Since taking on the endeavor of maintaining four blogs and my Medium page, I’ve had to get creative in coming up with ideas. Each of my blogs has a different niche. Trying to come up with fresh ideas for each one can turn the brain to mush. So, I decided to try something different. I asked an AI chatbot.
Now, for the record, I’ve never had an AI program write anything for me. However, I use AI as a tool to come up with ideas, to find more information, and to come up with angles I hadn’t thought of before. And which one do I use? Gemini AI.
For several months now, I’ve been using Gemini to help shape my writing projects. I don’t have the AI do the writing for me. I just use it to take my ideas to the next level.
I’ve used Gemini to help me create storylines and topics in some of my niche categories. Then, I decided to go completely off the wall and just throw something out there to see what would happen. And I was amazed.
As a prompt writer, I’m always coming up with just goofy stuff. I like to throw words together that have no business being in the same sentence. So, I did that with Gemini and was given some of the coolest ideas ever.
Here’s what I did. I threw in the phrase, “Red isn’t blue because silver is king”. I figured I’d either get a “cannot compute” message or I’d break the program. On the contrary, Gemini gave me ideas in various fiction genres. It gave me ideas for fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, and even symbolic. Most of the ideas I’d never even considered. I don’t write sci-fi, but I might give it a shot.
The series I’ve been working on, Investigating the Beyond, is the product of a brainstorming session with Gemini. The program gave me the prompt, “Write a story about a psychic, a police officer, a thief, and a college student”. So far, I’ve written two 30-minute reads. The first one is about an aging psychic and the second is about an elderly private investigator. Book 3 will be about a Columbian weapons expert and the 4th will be about a young woman with a degree in Botany. The final book will be about the four characters coming together as a single unit.
I’ve also used Gemini to help with some of my non-fiction pieces. I wrote a piece about the differences between the Greek and the Roman gods of love. Though they are basically the same deity, they are very different. If it wasn’t for Gemini, I would have missed a few key facts.
As I said, I don’t have the AI program write my pieces for me. In my opinion, that just beats the purpose of becoming a writer. However, even as a prompt writer, I get writer’s block sometimes. This is just another tool in my arsenal. It’s just another way to be creative.
My favorite part of using Gemini is the fact that I can do it in a way that feels more like having an actual conversation. I don’t feel as though I’m brainstorming with a computer. It’s more like brainstorming with a cherished friend. It makes me feel more creative and some of the ideas I get from Gemini’s suggestions have taken me down roads I didn’t even know existed.
Until next time,
Stay Creative!!!!!
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Christine Graves has been writing for more than 30 years. She runs several blogs including Priestess of Words, Collected Keepsakes, and Mystic Realms, all of which are part of her company, Graves Publications. You can also find her on Medium.com and her Amazon author’s page.
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