Before you ask AI,
ask your body. Ask the season.
Ask the creek. Ask your dream.
Ask the roots. Ask the stars.
And listen.
Don’t expect instantaneous success. Become the question. Let the question enter you. Let it simmer. Allow it to ripen.
Tijana Lukovic
Creativity is a form of knowing.
Writing is generative. Writing opens us to what we do not yet know.
We consume thousands upon thousands of words each day. We scroll. We skim. We absorb other people’s thoughts before we’ve had the chance to notice our own.
Our human becoming is inviting us to become more, not less, conscious.
Writing asks something different of us. It asks us to slow down. To listen. To enter. To tune. To churn. To chew. To metabolize. To sort and discern.
Writing changes our thinking. So does AI. Not in the same direction.
AI can help us think faster. Writing helps us think more deeply. AI extends certain forms of intelligence. Writing can cultivate consciousness, creativity, and imagination.
It helps us know ourselves.
Writing cultivates relationship with ourselves, memory, body, imagination, and the living world.
Good writing comes from good sensing, good listening, and good tracking. Not from being smarter or simply knowing more techniques.
Writing steadies the nervous system. It calms. It nourishes. It brings us home to ourselves. It helps us metabolize grief, joy, rage, and the thresholds of a human life.
Writing does not always give us answers.
Hallelujah.
Artist: Tijana Lukovic
We need more practices that remind us life is not about having every answer.
Writing can turn us into the question. It opens another way of seeing and offers a quieter place for listening, so that an old story can slowly decompose and a new story can re-compose us into more space and freedom.
The written word has always carried power.
Words can wound.
Words can bless.
They can imprison.
Words can liberate.
They can destroy a life.
They can help re-create one.
Writing connects us to more than the mind. It can connect us to memory, mystery, Source, the Divine—however you name it.
And it can return us to a world that is speaking—not only through words, but through weather, animal, dream, body, image, and season.
Artist: Tijana Lukovic
AI is brilliant at finding patterns in language and helping us organize ideas. But no technology can do the slow, mysterious, enigmatic work of human becoming.
Become more you through the ancient practices of storytelling and writing.
Artist: Alessia Ianetti
If you long for a nourishing place to write—to discover, to generate words from within the alchemical cauldron of body, life, memory, place, and imagination—and to see what happens when myth, oral tradition, and story become companions in the writing process, I’d love to welcome you into my upcoming thirteen-week Crack Open the Story.
Equinox → Solstice
Online Sundays
Limited to 13 women
Artist: Brook Shaden
***I moved last week and it’s been a huge whirlwind. I’m still working on updating my website- you cannot currently find more info there.
If you feel called- write to me- movingthestory@gmail.com
Also- you can find a little bit on this Google doc!
More articles on why writing is good for you:
“Writing changes our thinking. So does AI. Not in the same direction.” Poignant line! Brilliant article. Insightful & thought provoking! Thank you for writing it. I’ve been struggling with editing my writings through AI. This article helped put things in perspective.
“no technology can do the slow, mysterious, enigmatic work of human becoming” 🙌🏼