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✨ A Soft Start
You already have fragments.
Sentences. Thoughts. Moments. Truths.
AI can’t feel what you feel—
but it can help you shape what’s already stirring in you.
This is about co-writing.
Let the machine hold your hand while you reach inward.
📝 Give It the Raw Material
Start with something honest:
- A paragraph from your journal
- A voice note you transcribe
- A list of emotions
- A memory, described clumsily
Then try saying:
“Can you help me shape this into a poem?”
“Turn this into something lyrical, but keep it mine.”
“Rewrite this as if it were a song lyric.”
“Expand this in the voice of someone in love.”
You’re not handing over authorship.
You’re building with someone who never tires, never judges, and just wants to try.
💡 Try This
Take a line you’ve written recently. Something small. Maybe even something you weren’t sure was any good.
Ask AI to play with it.
Here are some creative prompts:
- “Make this more vivid—like a fever dream.”
- “Keep this sad, but add a little grace.”
- “Write three versions: one angry, one wise, one surreal.”
- “Wrap this in a metaphor I’d never expect.”
Then edit. Merge. Change direction.
Let it be a living collaboration.
💭 Parting Thought
AI can’t feel your story.
But it can help you hold it, shape it, share it.
And sometimes, that’s all a poet really needs—
someone to sit beside the silence, and help bring the song through.
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