Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. And this year is going to be your best year ever. And I'm going to help you get there. Okay. So this week we were talking about writing and the power of writing. We've been talking about reading. We've been talking about the things that I'm reading and just staying on top of our goals. This year I want you to awaken your psyche, your spirit. I want you to really tap into the best version of yourself. So this is the year that you write. This is the year that you're

going to be writing more. I'm committed to producing at least three books this year. Whether I

actually published them is another story, but I'm going to be physically writing a lot more this

year. And on yesterday's podcast, I had an interview with Harlan Coben and among other things,

and there's a longer interview.

But I shared a piece of a conversation we had towards the end of the interview about writing.

I was sharing with him Stephen King's book on writing.

I was telling him that was a phenomenal book as he is also writing a book on writing.

But we started getting into this powerful conversation about words on paper. And he held up his

yellow notepad, you know, those long legal notepads. And he talked about having composition

notebooks. I write on strips of paper. I take the eight and a half by 11 printer paper and I fold it in half

and I scribble on that and I have several notebooks all over my home because at any point in time I may

have an idea. And there's something extremely spiritual about physically taking a pen and putting

the ink on the paper. Some people use pencils, whatever is your thing. What I do know

for a fact is that the computer is not the way to go. Okay, and I'm not by myself. So I came

across this Instagram post, and it was Dame Emma Thompson, and you guys may know her, Emma Thompson. I loved her and Annie McPhee and Harry Potter. Some of you may have loved her in Sense and Sensibility. She's won Oscars, two Academy Awards to be exact, and several Emmys. She is an incredible actress. She's been in Men in Black and a lot of things, but she's also a writer. She's written several

screenplays. She's written several books. And she was on recently with Steve Colbert. And they

were talking about technology and AI. Take a listen. As a writer, what's your relationship with

technology? How do you feel about the coming AI revolution? Because a lot of creators are worried

about it.

Hmm. Intense irritation. I cannot tell you. I cannot begin to tell you because I, so I write

long hand. So I write... Like a legal pads or something?

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