Hello fellow writers, from a warm Wales, where a powerful storm yesterday took out our internet and traumatized the dog…all passed now though. Do hope you’re reading this in calm conditions.

This month’s course update is a book review of Write What You Don’t Know, now at lesson 57, section 5 of the Complete Freelance Writing Course. It’s a book co authored by Allegra Huston, John Huston’s daughter and Angelica’s sister, and James Nave, and is based on their Imaginative Storm writing course, with a helpful website at link. It’s a most useful look at how imagination prompts might overcome writer’s block and a limitation of doing ‘good writing’ rather than writing in our own unique voice.

Allegra Huston has recently given a Ted Talk on Imaginative Intelligence: your creativity, your insight, your self, on a similar theme to a book I wrote a few years ago, called Eureka. With uproar in the literary world about the recent Granta prize winning story and its AI attributes, now seems like a great time to revisit what human brains can create alongside what AI does best. That’s the summer reading list sorted here then…

If you’ve any summer creative projects , then now as ever, it would be lovely to hear from you – whether you’re AI ing or not.