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Notes Toward an Aesthetics of 21st-Century Creative Writing
Series hub for my ongoing effort to define an artistically valid role for AI in the creative process, by reexamining the foundations of the literary…
Jul 3, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 9
The Talk
Sep 1, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 8
The morning after...
Aug 25, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 7
The night he discovers himself in the basement...
Aug 18, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 6
The day he discovers himself in the basement...
Aug 11, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 5
The day before he discovers himself in the basement...
Aug 4, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 4
Two days (still) before he discovers himself in the basement...
Jul 28, 2025 • Takim Williams
THE TALK | Chapter 3
Two days before he discovers himself in the basement...
Jul 21, 2025 • Takim Williams
In Media Res
In Media Res
Distilled insights from the research and writing of Takim's 15 pipeline novels. Storytelling and imagination expand our sense of what is possible, and thus make possible a better world.
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