How I Used Generative AI Tools For My Short Story, With A Demon’s Eye

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From The Creative Penn:

I’ve been noodling on this idea for a few years now. I first thought about it when I had laser eye surgery over four years ago, and then I read a memoir from a combat photographer, It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario.

Plus, I can’t help writing about demons!

Many of my stories have aspects of demonology in them, and this one brought to mind a scene in Delirium when Blake Daniel returns home only to find demons feasting on his dying father. If you enjoy lots of demons, also check out Gates of Hell. (All my books can be read as stand-alone).

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I started writing the story in Scrivener, as per my usual process.

But once I had a basic story, I used Sudowrite to expand some of the descriptions and to give me ideas for how the story might go.

In this first example, I selected the ‘demon’ and then used the Describe function for expanding on sensory details.

In this next example, I used Sudowrite to help me with ideas for what happened after the explosion.

Link to the rest at The Creative Penn