Comments on: 8 Cool Non-Writing Ways to Use AI

By: Teodosia N Rivera

Teodosia N Rivera — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:29:58 +0000

Thanks, Jenny. You did a great job of researching for all of us. I believe we all can use it, acknowledging that AI is here to stay. Great work!

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:37:45 +0000

In reply to Barbara Businaro. I hear you, Barbara. We always appreciate people stepping up to add their knowledge here.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:36:34 +0000

In reply to Matthew. Isn't it so annoying when that happens? However, it's not plagiarism if YOU take the great idea and tweak it for your characters and your voice.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:35:12 +0000

In reply to Lissa Johnston. You are very welcome, Lissa!

By: Lissa Johnston

Lissa Johnston — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:27:10 +0000

Great tips. Very similar to how I use Chat. Although I was not aware of the Temporary Chat feature. Thanks!

By: Barbara Businaro

Barbara Businaro — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:50:31 +0000

As an IT specialist who is forced to study and use AI, and who is in contact with other IT friends who programme AI, I strongly advise against using it for writing, even if you use Temporary Chats, even if you use anonymous windows, even without a registered account. Any type of AI. Did they ask our permission when they used the entire internet to train the first models? No. Did they ask publishers for permission when they used ebooks of novels, from pirated archives no less, to train the models again? No. Are you really convinced that it is now safe to put your manuscript, your draft, your idea into an AI chat? The answer should be no. Because of the way an AI platform is built, which by definition must “learn by itself”, the text that is part of the question automatically ends up in the AI's own archive for further training. Therefore, your texts risk appearing as a response to someone else, perhaps someone who might ask, “Can you write me a story like this...”? How will you then prove the copyright of your unpublished text? AI is only good for scientific or historical research, without ever letting it know what you are really writing.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:04:44 +0000

Nice essay. Good ideas. I tried it once asking for a story idea with certain boundaries. It came up with one much better than anything I'd been running thru my mind for days! Scary! 😱🙄😫

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:44:50 +0000

In reply to Lisa Norman. What a wonderful benefit! I do something similar, but with Otter.ai in the middle taking the notes. Then I upload that into ChatGPT so it can organize and make sense of my huge dictational morass. LOLOL.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:40:15 +0000

In reply to Becky Rawnsley. You are very welcome, Becky. I found out I had ADHD when I was 46 years old, and the more I've dug into what that looks like for me, the more I've realized I can make up some of my deficits with great tools. My snarly yarn ball of a brain has really made the road to publication harder than it needed to be. You and I both have very distinct writing voices, which saves us from any allure of letting AI help with creative work. But man, the organizational power has saved me bunches of times already. Plus, I write out of order, which means I often have continuity issues. I was very happily surprised to see that AI could find those for me in under 2 minutes. Here's what I did: (With all sharing off) I created a new Project, uploaded the latest draft, told it the problems I wanted to find, and it gave me 7 very actionable to-do's. That was a happy day.

By: Jenny Hansen

Jenny Hansen — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:34:29 +0000

In reply to denise. I hear you, Denise. And there's no reason to use something like this if it's not your cup of tea. We're not new at this, but I have friends who do really worry about the new writers. It's so easy to say yes and then yes again to something that offers to fix your manuscript problems. . .until it's not your manuscript at all. That's the downside of AI. The upside is how much time it saves on the marketing and minutiae types of tasks.