Writing skills | Alison Morton Author

Destroying pleasure – using Generative AI to write

AI can be wonderful; it can be morally corrupt. It can ease our lives; it can destroy our creativity.

Now, I use AI for research. I regard Gemini, ChatGPT, Vibe as LLMs (large language models) which cut hours, possibly days, off my research. It’s a quick fix. It points me towards genuine sources which I […]

What's my writing process?

(Photo: Uschi Hering)

*Falls over laughing*

It’s chaotic. No, I do not sit down at 9 am and work through to 5.30pm. But somehow it does get done.

Right I’m going to try to take this seriously (Puts on stern face)

My first main characters had been running around in my head for […]

Writers about writing

Alison and Morgen Bailey

Writers can’t help talking about writing, especially when they meet other writers. When I was invited by Morgen Bailey to take part in the online Self Pub Fest in January, I enthusiastically said yes!

Self-Pub Fest is a quarterly in person book festival celebrating self-published authors. The online festival […]

Writing tics – The beasties!

A writing tic is something you write over and over again without realising it. Perhaps you’re in the zone and the words are flowing, especially on your first draft. You’re bashing the story out and before you know it your favourite writing tic is all over the place.

We can be completely oblivious to the […]

Chapters – Entitled or just a number?

Is it better to put a title at the beginning of each chapter in your book or should you merely put a simple number? I’ve never used chapter titles when writing my own books although I’ve absorbed them when reading other books.

What do chapter titles do?

They can act as promises of what’s […]