Machine-Aided Creativity Isn’t New—So Spare Us the AI Panic Let’s stop romanticizing the past. Johannes Vermeer, the 17th-century poster boy of “pure artistic genius,” may have been tracing his masterpieces using a camera obscura—a literal box with a lens that projected reality so he could copy it. The revered painter Read more
If you’ve ever thought writing a book with AI was just a novelty or limited to short pieces, think again. What you’re about to discover is a full-blown system — a methodical, structured way to generate an entire nonfiction book using nothing but a well-designed prompt and a capable language Read more
You tried AI once. It spat out a lame paragraph. You said, “See? This stuff is useless.” Then you closed the tab, told your team AI’s just hype, and went back to copy-pasting from last year’s marketing doc. Let’s be clear: AI didn’t fail you. You failed at using Read more
A few years ago, I had a book on Amazon that was exploding with sales. I poured money into ads to ride the wave, and I knew an audiobook would send it even higher. So I hired a narrator through ACX Royalty Share. That was my mistake. She Read more
How to Get Consistent Series Covers in Ideogram AI (Works for fantasy, romance, pulp—anything that needs the same characters or branding across multiple books.) 1 Create a “DNA Prompt” for Your Series Element Example Why it matters Character shorthand — hero: red-haired woman, leather jacket, scar on left brow Re-use Read more
✍️ Still trying to “find your voice” by talking to your writer friends on Discord? LMAO. Fire them. I just wrote a damn good military thriller setup with Gemini 2.5 Pro, and guess what? It didn’t need a mood board, a writer’s circle, or someone’s MFA-filtered opinion on sentence flow. Read more
You’re still paying a human editor $1,500 to bloat your draft with passive voice and “tighten prose”? Cute. Meanwhile, I’ve got Claude working like an overcaffeinated intern—pumping out chapter rewrites, scene improvements, and juicy prose on command. FOR FREE. Is it perfect? Hell no. But if you’re still “struggling Read more
I levelled up, I just found out how to create python scripts with cursor to use ffmpeg and generate batches of 10 reels at a time. I loop the background, have chatgpt create a story in 60 seconds, generate voice with elevenlabs and boom, video reels. https://georgesaoulidis.com/elevenlabs That’s an Read more
Narrator: “that’ll be $700 and a 3-week turnaround.” Me & KDP Digital Narration: Just uploaded 8 AI-narrated audiobooks. Took 12 minutes. Cost me nothing. (Actually took me longer because I had to go through my entire catalog of 200 books to see which ones didn’t have an audiobook Read more
