One-Day Intensive
Critical Thinking and Creativity with AI
11.13.26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM PST 6 hours in one focused day
Use critical thinking to beat AI brain-drain -- then make AI your creative co-pilot.
with Liz Howard
Overview
Skeptical about AI? Bring it. This one-day intensive uses critical thinking to beat AI brain-drain, then puts AI to work as a co-pilot -- never a replacement. You'll configure your own assistant (memory, tools, and connectors), flip the script so it interviews you, and use AI as an analyst to reverse-engineer what actually makes great writing work. After a values exercise and a creativity warm-up you'll land a real book premise, raid the master-plot templates behind nearly every story -- Story Circle, Freytag's Pyramid, the Hero's Journey, Tobias' 20 Master Plots -- pour in your own history, and start writing something you genuinely like. Call it vibe authorship: the AI does the labor, you keep authorial control. No coding required.
What You'll Master
- Keep your creative edge, don't outsource it to AI
- Reverse-engineer great writing with AI as your analyst
- Seize the master-plot templates beneath nearly every story
- Bend an AI co-pilot to your voice and your values
- Vibe authorship: AI does the labor, you keep authorial control
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 PropagandaAbout 30 hours of practice sit behind this one. See what your hours buy.
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One-Day Intensive
- 6 hours of live class time and lifetime course curriculum access, including all updates / future recordings for up-to-date materials
- Your seat in the class
- Lifetime access to materials
- Minimum price, doesn't fund a scholarship seat
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