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Write On! Features: Writing Through Grief by Preetha Leela Chockalingam

02 August 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Preetha Leela Chockalingam Coming from a family of avid readers and writers, I was unusually slow to both reading and writing. In my very South Indian family, it was expected that you would love books. I was eight and struggled with reading. By contrast, my sister, Deepa, who was only ...

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21 July 2024 Monday Moments, News, Saturday Spotlight, Thoughtful Tuesday, Thursday Connectors, WriteOn Features, WriteOn Interviews, WriteOn Showcase

Madeleine F White (Bluesky/Instagram: @madeleinefwhite) I never know whether to approach December with joy or dread. Joy, because there is always a sense of togetherness and a letting go of the mundane to lose yourself in the lights and the fun. I also always worry, though: about the presents, whether I ...

Write On! Features: Now Your Work Is Organised

19 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Mary Walsh My last feature gave you the story of me trying to organise my work. Have you done yours yet? Are there still nooks and crannies filled with odd bits of writing? Have you retrieved all this precious treasure and bullied it into some sort of order? I hope ...

Write On! Features: The London Typewriters

05 July 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Natalia The London Typewriters story began in 2012, when we went searching for something special and quirky to start as an independent enterprise. After many trips to a variety of car-boot sales we failed to find anything unique, but then one day an old broken typewriter caught the eye of Alex ...

Write On! Features: Overcoming Hurdles by Eva Lauder

21 June 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Eva Lauder I’ve had Multiple Sclerosis for 27 years, 25 officially. My diagnosis was on my birthday in 1999. Smart phones didn’t exist, and the internet was purely restricted to internet cafes and so trying to read up about this condition I’d only known through posters on the London Underground ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 3 – The Future of Writing & AI by E.M. Blake

07 June 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part three of a three-part series. Read part one here and part two here.) “If I was a professional writer rather than professional thinker, I'd feel slightly threatened by ChatGPT; not because it would replace me, but because of what it would do to intellectual property and ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 2 – Art, Literacy & The Singular Literary Genius by E.M. Blake

31 May 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part two of a three-part series. Read part one here.) Dr Omar Kholeif says, “Most of the time when I use ChatGPT, I am with people, who use it as a kind of party trick. I’ve noticed it happens with individuals who don’t have an interest in ...

Write On! Features: ChatGPT Part 1 – Is Generation Z Trying To Save Us From AI? by E.M. Blake

17 May 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by E.M. Blake (This is part one of a three-part series.) “Woah, slow your roll, we’re not going to take it seriously. We see AI as a new meme opportunity,” Tennessee born MFA student Catherine Sheffield says. She was one of five people I interviewed for this three-part series on ChatGPT, a natural ...

Write On! Features: Echo Chamber by Gertcha Cowson

03 May 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Gertcha Cowson Gertcha Cowson, AKA Gertcha The Disabled Poet, is a working class Barking-based poet who belongs to no one genre, yet has a hand in all! Originally using his scribbles as a self-therapeutic exercise, Gertcha has written over a hundred poems and pieces of prose and is finally ready to ...

Write On! Features: Writers & Editors, Do Not Despair! AI And The Future Of Writing, Editing, And Publishing by Dan Cross

19 April 2024 News, WriteOn Features

by Dan Cross A few months ago, I was at the launch of a book I edited. Over drinks, the subject of AI came up, with everyone praising how much they use ChatGPT. Without a doubt, the most common question I got was: "Have you thought about how you’re going to ...

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