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Making AI Your Friend: Three Ways Writers Can Use Tech to Enhance Their Craft and Achieve Their Goals with Javier Ortega-Araiza
September 21 @ 10:00 am - 2:30 pm CDT
$110Saturday, September 21, 2024, 10am-2:30pm CST (including a 30-minute lunch), online via Zoom
Instructor: Javier Ortega-Araiza
Nonmember: $110; Member: $95; Student/Educator/Mil $75
*EARN CPE’S
TWO SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE
Are you interested in learning how to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) to support your writing without losing your humanity? Given the hype around this new technology, this workshop will offer participants a chance to sift through fears and find the real tools AI provides.
In this one-day workshop, author Javier Ortega-Araiza will help participants adapt to AI’s impact on the writing industry and learn to collaborate with technology. Students will explore AI tools, such as ChatGPT, and become familiar with how writers can use them to bolster their creative practice.
This class is open to writers of all skill levels 18+.
In this workshop, students will learn how to use AI to:
- Generate ideas and defeat the blank page
- Fireproof their pieces to ensure they are well-crafted and understood by their target audience
- Repurpose content to adapt to various social media platforms and increase their exposure.
Learn more about Javier at his Writer’s Desk!
Javier Ortega-Araiza is the author of Three Years Later: Poems of Loss, Love, and Renewal (2024) and a co-author of Stories from Montréal (2019), an anthology featuring over 20 Hispanic-Canadian writers. He is passionate about storytelling’s power to heal and unite us. He believes technology can be a fantastic ally in helping writers enhance their careers and have a bigger impact. Javier is a lifelong traveler, entrepreneur, and storyteller whose thoughts on the impact of AI in the writing profession can be found here.
Ortega-Araiza’s writings, spanning various genres, have been featured by leading outlets such as Business Insider, Forbes, the New York Post, FOX, the Toronto Star, and the Winnipeg Free Press. Through Mindset Consulting, a strategic communications firm, he has also worked with several tech startups and venture funds, gaining first-hand exposure to the impact of AI in several industries. He has also worked with leading brands such as MGM and Caesars.
