<![CDATA[Bay French Worlds: Writer's Workshop]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/s/writers-workshophttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CXP7!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff695790-e489-4175-a0c8-9c812170e5fc_500x500.pngBay French Worlds: Writer's Workshophttps://www.bayfrench.com/s/writers-workshopSubstackSun, 10 May 2026 11:06:01 GMT<![CDATA[Day 15. Using ChatGPT to brainstorm a novel]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-15-using-chatgpt-to-brainstormhttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-15-using-chatgpt-to-brainstormWed, 21 Dec 2022 09:50:18 GMT
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It’s a marathon

So we lost a week somehow around here. Things happen. It was a difficult week, with hundreds of exams to grade on a deadline and my two other blogs also needing their posts and general attention. But I finally managed to reach 17k yesterday evening. So now I’ve fallen back quite a bit; we’re at day 15, the …

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]]><![CDATA[Using ChatGPT for descriptions]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/using-chatgpt-for-descriptionshttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/using-chatgpt-for-descriptionsWed, 21 Dec 2022 03:04:20 GMT
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Let’s face it: the age of AI writing is here, and it’s time for us writers to make use of what it offers — without losing control of the creative process.

ChatGPT for writers

There is a fine line between using the AI for inspiration or research and cheating (in the sense of giving up authorship of one’s text), and this di…

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]]><![CDATA[Exploring Writing Through Dictation]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/exploring-writing-through-dictationhttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/exploring-writing-through-dictationTue, 13 Dec 2022 11:26:17 GMTUntil now, this blog has mostly dealt with my writing process of the second Ayla book, a fast-paced science-fiction novel about a crew of space pirates and their adventures. But I want to also take the opportunity and talk a little about the writing process in a more general way that might be useful to others who attempt the same.

And today, let’s talk …

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]]><![CDATA[Day 7: A Friend and a New Enemy]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-7-a-friend-and-a-new-enemyhttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-7-a-friend-and-a-new-enemyTue, 13 Dec 2022 00:14:30 GMT
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Day seven of writing the second Ayla book within (roughly) a month. Today I reached 12,380 words, so we’re fully on track. We’re at roughly one fifth to one quarter of the time and we have roughly the same percentage of words, if the goal is around 50k. So all is well.

There were not many surprises today. I already knew wh…

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]]><![CDATA[Day 5: Don Maksim and Erebus Two]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-5-don-maksim-and-erebus-twohttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-5-don-maksim-and-erebus-twoSat, 10 Dec 2022 11:28:49 GMTWelcome back to my project of finishing a book in about a month. Now we are at day 5, and we have reached 10k words. Find all the posts here.

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Good day. Wrote 3109 words, but it took me almost the whole day. Anyway, we’re back on track. According to my spreadsheet, for the first time now I need to write fewer words per da…

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]]><![CDATA[Day 3: Teaser and Dogfight]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-3-teaser-and-dogfighthttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-3-teaser-and-dogfightThu, 08 Dec 2022 15:05:23 GMT
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These days were a bit hectic. I started Great Adventure Tales two days ago, which, although it has no articles yet, still required a ton of work to get the hosting, the domains, the templates, the Javascript, the CSS, the menus and categories, the About pages, and a hundred of other things up and running. This cost me almost the…

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]]><![CDATA[Day 1: Getting started on the new book]]>https://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-1-getting-started-on-the-newhttps://www.bayfrench.com/p/day-1-getting-started-on-the-newTue, 06 Dec 2022 07:13:15 GMTToday I resumed writing on Ayla02, as I call it as long as I don’t have a better title. I was never good at titles. There are so splendid titles in Science Fiction, but it took me a week to come up with “Celeste Rising,” and that is pretty lame. So I hope that I’ll be able to eventually come up with something better for this one.

This here will be a sequ…

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