Ayla Gard

Writing Prompt: Animal Movement as Form

The natural world is a wellspring of inspiration for how we can structure our writing. One book on this comes to mind immediately: Meander, Spiral, Explode. This craft book by Jane Alison looks at designs and patterns in writing that can be found in nature: fractals, wavelets, cells. I'

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There's no need for me to tell you that artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people write. The internet is flooded with its synthetic prose. Its patterns can even seep into our own writing, if we're not paying attention. Large language models (I'll just