Tomeworks Blog
We Don’t Use AI (and You Shouldn’t Either)
AI tools are everywhere. “Create your book cover using Midjourney!”, “Ask ChatGPT to analyze your story structure!”, “Write your first draft using Scribblr!”. Writers are bombarded with opportunities to cut corners in the creative process. I’m here to tell you: Don’t. Do. It.
Fun with the Chicago Manual of Style
One of the fun things we like to do here at Tomeworks is go through the Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) Q&A to determine how their updates impact our editing world. Here are some of our favorites from late 2023. We hope these help you get your writing right the first time around.
It Takes a Village to Write a Book
Today we live in a world of Zoom calls and binge-watched television shows, of isolation in the big city and blocking people on social media. But we are no closer as writers to being an island than our forebears ever were. We need each other as a community, as partners in creative construction, and as reviewers and feedback-givers maybe now more than ever.
Zombie Writing and How to Kill It
Today we’re going to discuss something much more horrible, much more frightening, something that will rise up from a dirty plot in the ground, grab your pacing by the legs, and drag it down, down, down until it too is a shambling mess, ambling mindlessly from one concept in your story to the next.
Zombie writing.