AI For Authors: How to Use AI as a Tool and Not a Crutch (1 hour class + 500 Prompts)

Author friends! Here's a riddle for you: What’s as versatile as a pocket knife, as reliable as a KitchenAid mixer, and as helpful as your favorite personal assistant? If you guessed AI, you're absolutely right. Welcome to "AI for Authors: How to Use AI as a Tool, Not a Crutch", your one-stop-shop to boosting productivity, managing your author business like a boss, and discovering new levels of writing genius. And breathe easy, we're not looking to let AI write the next American novel. I've been friends with computers since 1994, traded jokes with HTML5 as a teenager, created room escape games just for kicks, and been leveraging ChatGPT since 2022. Anyone else remember that quirky paperclip from Windows 5? And the super helpful autocomplete from Google and Amazon? Yep, they're part of the AI family, and have been around for decades! So, no need to prepare for a Skynet takeover. But it doesn’t hurt to say "please" and "thank you" when you use AI, right? Now, let's address the elephant i