novel Archives - Westin Lee https://www.westinlee.com/tag/novel/ Homepage of writer Westin Lee. Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:52:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 48931760 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 2 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/02/13/ai-for-writers-2025-part-ii/ Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:06:52 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3056 In Part One, we looked at the basic technology underneath modern “artificial intelligence,” along with possible use cases professional writers see across industries. This also lengthy part will explore the business of AI, as well as my favorite developments in the public eye. We’ll finish with some predictions and recommendations, as if my hot takes will be good and valuable.

Again, no one else went to the trouble of writing something like this, so now I have to do it.

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]]> 3056 ‘AI’ for Professional Writers: Navigating the Circus Part 1 https://www.westinlee.com/2025/01/30/ai-for-writers-2025-part-i/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:03:01 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=3032 Here we are in 2025, years into the current generation of AI technology. We’ve been inundated with hype at a scale greater than the last five tech industry hype waves combined. We’ve been told all sorts of great-sounding lines about how revolutionary and inevitable this technology is, especially for creative endeavors like writing.

But is it?

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]]> 3032 The Writing Tools I Use (to Write) https://www.westinlee.com/2013/07/25/the-writing-tools-i-use-to-write/ https://www.westinlee.com/2013/07/25/the-writing-tools-i-use-to-write/#comments Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:52:31 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=765 I do a great deal of writing. I'm hard at work revising my novel, and I also write short stories, blog posts screenplays, comics, live comedy and corporate videos. Of these mediums, the one I respect and fear the most is the novel. Long-form prose carries a number of extra challenges not present in shorter [...]

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