Crafting Story Worlds, Creative Control, And Leveraging AI Tools With Dave Morris
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Why is creative control and owning your intellectual property so important for a long-term author career? How can AI tools help you be more creative and amplify your curiosity? Dave Morris talks about his forty-year publishing career and why he's still pushing the boundaries of what he can create.
In the intro, Writing Storybundle; Finding your voice and creative confidence [Ask ALLi]; Does ChatGPT recommend your book? [Novel Marketing Podcast]; Google IO expansion of AI search [The Verge]; Sam Altman & Jony Ive IO [The Verge]; Claude 4; my AI-Assisted Artisan Author webinars.
Today's show is sponsored by Draft2Digital, self-publishing with support, where you can get free formatting, free distribution to multiple stores, and a host of other benefits. Just go to www.draft2digital.com to get started.
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Dave Morris is an author and comic book writer, as well as a narrative and game designer, with more than 70 books and over 40 years in publishing. He is best known for interactive series such as Dragon Warriors and Fabled Lands.
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Show Notes
* Keeping your IP for long-term earnings
* Working on your own projects to maintain creative control
* Benefits of AI tools for long-series authors
* AI as a research and brainstorming assistant
* How creative confidence leads to confidence in using AI tools
* Using AI to advise on marketing strategies
* The potential of AI to enhance emotional expression in writing
* The future of gaming with AI integration
You can find Dave at FabledLands.blogspot.com, patreon.com/jewelspider, realdavemorris.substack.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:08.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing craft and creative business. |
| 0:14.7 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint, and lots more at thecreativepen.com. |
| 0:22.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. And here's the show. |
| 0:26.3 | Hello, creatives. I'm Joanna Penn. And this is episode number 810 of the podcast, and it is |
| 0:32.5 | Saturday the 24th of May, 2025 as I record this. In today's show, I talk to author and game designer Dave Morris about crafting, story |
| 0:42.8 | worlds, creative control and leveraging AI tools. |
| 0:47.4 | Dave's been writing and publishing for 40 years, and I always love to learn from those |
| 0:52.1 | who've managed to stay in the industry. |
| 0:54.8 | Because they haven't burned out and left, they haven't become discouraged and left, |
| 0:59.3 | they have kept learning, kept pivoting, kept trying new things, kept writing and creating. |
| 1:04.4 | So I hope you enjoy my discussion with Dave today. |
| 1:08.0 | Coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:15.2 | In writing and publishing things, |
| 1:21.1 | well, talking of longevity in the industry, two of my mentors, Chris Rush and Dean Wesley Smith, |
| 1:26.6 | are in the latest writing story bundle. It is a bundle of e-books for a special price, and it includes Deans, stages of a fiction |
| 1:29.3 | writer, which is really useful for assessing where your skill level is at, as well as Chris's |
| 1:35.4 | closing the deal on your terms, a must-read book about agents, contracts and other legal things, |
| 1:41.0 | plus Thorn Coils the Midlist Indie indie author mindset. The bundle is worth it just for |
| 1:45.8 | those, but it also contains books on writing for anthologies, business plans, a writer's guide |
| 1:51.4 | to audiobooks and more. Check it out at storybundle.com forward slash writing. Links in the show notes |
| 1:58.7 | as ever. On the self-publishing with Ally podcast last week orna ross and i did a session |
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