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Empathy Engines and the Imagination. Part One.

Anya Achtenberg

Discussion toward a rich writing exploration I’ll post next time. Anya Achtenberg Nov 22, 2025 Empathy Engines and the Imagination. Part One. Anya Achtenberg But first, a few snarky comments from a frustrated creative writing teacher. I teach creative writing. I mentor writers. I consult with writers on their manuscripts. Many people have found me… Continue reading Empathy Engines and the Imagination. Part One.

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Which can AI do: formulaic writing or organic writing? // Which kind of writing will fulfill you as a writer?

Anya Achtenberg

Oct 18, 2025 posted on Substack,  by Anya Achtenberg, Writing in Upheaval Which can AI do: formulaic writing or organic writing? Which kind of writing will fulfill you as a writer? [ Which kind of writing will fulfill you as a writer? Try organic. AI has clarified for me even more the underpinnings of my… Continue reading Which can AI do: formulaic writing or organic writing? // Which kind of writing will fulfill you as a writer?

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My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind

Anya Achtenberg

My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind Anya Achtenberg, from Blog and Substack, Writing in Upheaval Oct 06, 2025 My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind Anya Achtenberg neuronal pathways--"rivers" and… Continue reading My name for AI is RAE (Replace and Erase): AI as a tool for colonization of the writer’s mind

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Say it! Dígalo!

Anya Achtenberg

New creative writing standalone workshops For Writers of Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Multigenre and Hybrid Forms with Anya Achtenberg Today, August 16, 2024:  I am very happy to announce the Fall 2024 Launch of a new series of single-event writing workshops coming in September Say it! Dígalo!: The Standalone Workshop Series with Anya Achtenberg Each single-event… Continue reading Say it! Dígalo!

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News! Creative Writing Workshop: Writing Place and Placelessness Friday, Sept 23, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm EST

Anya Achtenberg

for the International Women's Writing Guild Free Write withAnya Achtenberg Sefara-Rabi Writing Place and Placelessness A sense-of-place writing workshop to address place in a world of historical amnesia, diaspora, flight, trauma that knocks us out of place, gentrification; place as investment property, as profit. The poisoning of the sacred. Climate catastrophe.  All this with a deeper dive… Continue reading News! Creative Writing Workshop: Writing Place and Placelessness Friday, Sept 23, 2022, 1:00-3:00 pm EST

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Story, and the Republican National Convention and Minnesota Nice and East Africans in the Twin Cities and Blood Diamonds,

Anya Achtenberg

or, The Blood Diamond of Story. Perhaps the wonderful thing about story, about writing, is the chance to reframe everything. The free field of language which in its spiderwebbing way leads us to more truth, hidden truth, forgotten truth, truth which has been obscured and deformed.   Reframing everything. Putting everything back in context.  … Continue reading Story, and the Republican National Convention and Minnesota Nice and East Africans in the Twin Cities and Blood Diamonds,