One-Day Intensive

Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI

06.29.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PDT · 6 hours in one focused day

What You'll Master

  • You'll configure an AI assistant with persistent memory and preferences, then put it through critical thinking boot camp. Learn to write prompts with specific evaluative criteria that get consistent results, practice divergent thinking exercises to offset AI's tendency to narrow creativity, and question your own assumptions about story, character, and style. Build a complete story framework using the Story Circle method, develop distinct character voices, and create a Director system that orchestrates multiple AI agents like a creative team. Master the art of managing artificial collaborators
  • knowing when to trust their output, when to push back, and how to maintain your unique creative voice. By the end, you'll have working character agents that can write full scenes in your style, plus the critical thinking frameworks to keep improving them. Perfect for writers who want AI superpowers without becoming generic.
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Part of the Resistance Field Training track — 8 classes, take them in any order.

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Overview

Learn to use AI as an assistant, configure yours to both your writing style, and your actual needs. Align it to your values and use critical thinking and clinicaly-proven exercises to keep your creative spark shining brightly. Write a book with AI in one focused day - while becoming a better critical thinker and creative director. This hands-on intensive teaches spreadsheet queens and tech-adjacent professionals how to use ChatGPT or Claude to build stories from concept to completed scenes, no programming required. But this isn't just about prompting AI - it's about managing a creative staff, questioning your assumptions, and maintaining your unique voice when collaborating with artificial minds.

Who this is for & what you'll need

🟢 No codeThe AI writes any code. You'll never touch a terminal.
🖥️ A few installsYou'll install a couple of tools — we'll help you in class.
On your own machineClaude track: install Obsidian, Claude Desktop, and Node.js v18+ locally for the MCP path.
Or use the hosted optionChatGPT track: runs entirely in the browser with Custom GPTs, no install.

Where This Class Leads

What you leave able to do

  • falsify a blended voice by looking for its sources
  • justify a story structure that fits what you want to say
  • construct a multi agent conversation with turn taking
  • govern a swarm by information hierarchy
  • reconcile agents from different toolchains into one run
  • synthesise a long work that stays consistent across many generations
  • synthesise an agent that carries notes across its own runs

How you show it. Paired runs of the same multi-step task with the note store kept and cleared, where the cleared run repeats a step the noted run skips, plus the note text the agent wrote and the later turn that cites it.

It sits on 3 paths

🎨 A creative studio with AI. 1 of 5 before The Interactive Fiction Intensive 🧙 Build strange systems that change how people think. 1 of 8 before Practical Propaganda 📊 A liberal-arts curriculum rebuilt around AI. 1 of 4 before Practical Propaganda

About 30 hours of practice sit behind this one. See what your hours buy.

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One-Day Intensive
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