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Share Your Stuff Friday🎉
Share whatever you’re working on or proud of right now. This community is full of creators, authors, and entrepreneurs, and sometimes the best thing we can do is help each other get a little more visibility. 💡 IDEAS ON WHAT YOU COULD SHARE: • Yourself and what you do • Your Skool community • A book you're writing or recently published • A project you're building • A shoutout to another member • A video, post, or resource • Affiliate links (yes, those are allowed) The goal is simple: help our members get seen. Just one request so this stays valuable for everyone. 👉 1 RULE: If you share something, please also leave a thoughtful or helpful comment on someone else’s post. Support goes both ways, and when we all participate, the whole community benefits. Now let’s see what everyone is building 👇
Share Your Stuff Friday🎉
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@Krista Brea Yes, exactly. That is one of the reasons your “Future Author Energy” framing makes sense to me. Authors need clarity about the goal, the audience, and the message before any tool can really help. But independent authors also need technology to step up because most of us do not have the resources of a traditional publishing house behind us. The right tools can help close part of that gap. They can help authors think more clearly, organize ideas, create better reader pathways, improve visibility, and make stronger publishing decisions without needing a large team or a large budget. That is true for authors, and it also seems true for people helping authors. The better the technology becomes, the more practical support creators, coaches, and communities can offer. “Make the reader feel seen” is still the heart of it. The tools matter because they help the author reach the right reader with the right message more clearly.
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@Krista Brea Yes, absolutely. That is an important caution. AI can help organize, clarify, and create a stronger vision, but it can also generate an endless list of “next steps” that make an author feel productive while pulling them away from the work that actually matters. That is where human judgment has to stay in charge. The question is not, “What else could I do?” The better question is, “What is the next useful thing that serves this book, this reader, and this goal?” Used well, AI reduces overwhelm. Used carelessly, it can automate overwhelm. :-)
Day 18 - Pinterest Challenge
We’re officially on 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟴, so today is a good day to check your progress. Are you at: 📍 𝟮𝟱 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀? 📍 𝟱𝟬 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀? 📍 𝟳𝟱 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀? 📍 Already closing in on 𝟭𝟬𝟬?! And if your number is lower than you hoped — 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴. This challenge isn’t about perfectly creating Pins every single day. It’s about building a system that keeps bringing you back to Pinterest. Even creating 𝟯–𝟱 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 can add up quickly. 💡 Pinterest Tip of the Day:𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗮 𝗣𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗹𝘆. Pinterest works more like a search engine than a traditional social media feed. A Pin you publish today can continue getting discovered weeks or even months later. So instead of constantly deleting Pins that don't immediately perform, keep publishing, watch your analytics, and give your content time to circulate. The more quality Pins you create, the more opportunities you give Pinterest to connect your book with the right readers. 👇 𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟭𝟴 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗖𝗞-𝗜𝗡: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗿? Drop your number below — 𝗻𝗼 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆! 💗
Day 18 - Pinterest Challenge
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@Lara Knutzen I really should have learned a another language.
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@Lara Knutzen Probably not too late, but I may need to negotiate with my current project pile. :-) I admire people who can move comfortably between languages. It opens doors into different ways of thinking, not just different words. For now, I seem to be hyper-focused on writing, publishing systems, and building author tools. But you are right — “too late” is probably just an excuse wearing a calendar.
🎬 The Conversational Age #6
Working Beside Intelligence For generations, we have measured technology by one simple question. "What can it do for me?" The tractor plowed fields. The calculator solved arithmetic. The word processor replaced the typewriter. The spreadsheet automated calculations. Each tool performed a task more quickly or more efficiently than before. Artificial intelligence certainly does those things. It writes. It summarizes. It translates. It organizes. It analyzes. Yet describing A.I. only in terms of the tasks it performs misses the larger transformation that is taking place. The real question is no longer, "What can it do for me?" The more important question has become, "How can we work together?" That single shift changes almost everything. When people first encounter conversational A.I., many approach it like a sophisticated appliance. They ask for a list. They request an outline. They generate a social media post. The work is completed, and the interaction ends. There is nothing wrong with that. Sometimes a simple task deserves a simple solution. But if every interaction follows that pattern, much of the technology's potential remains unexplored. Consider the difference between hiring someone to mow your lawn and bringing someone onto your team. The first person completes a specific assignment. The second contributes ideas, notices opportunities, identifies problems, and helps improve the overall result. One performs a task. The other participates in a process. Conversational A.I. is at its best when it becomes part of the process. Suppose you are developing a new course. You could ask artificial intelligence to generate ten lesson titles. It almost certainly will. Or you could begin a discussion. "What questions is my audience asking that I may have overlooked?" "What objections might prevent someone from enrolling?" "Which lesson should come first, and why?" "What important topic have I forgotten to include?" Suddenly, the interaction changes. Instead of producing content, you are shaping understanding. That distinction matters.
🎬 The Conversational Age #6
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@Stephen B. Henry This is another strong entry in the series. The distinction between completing a task and participating in a process is the part that stands out to me. Many people first approach AI as a tool for quick output: write this, summarize that, make a list, create a post. That can be useful, but it is not the most interesting part. The deeper value appears when AI becomes part of the thinking process: asking better questions, testing assumptions, organizing complexity, identifying gaps, and helping us see possibilities we might have missed. For authors, that difference matters. AI can produce words quickly, but the real collaboration happens when it helps clarify the idea behind the words. I also appreciate your emphasis that collaboration does not remove responsibility. The human still provides purpose, judgment, values, and final direction. That feels like the healthier framing: not AI as replacement, and not AI as magic appliance, but AI as a thinking companion that helps the person do the work more thoughtfully.
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@Stephen B. Henry Absolutely. I’m ready. At this point, the series has become a very worthwhile unfolding conversation, which seems appropriate given the subject. 😁 Looking forward to #7.
Magic 8 Ball
Here's another FUN PROMPT you can do ... upload your photo and your book and ask the 8 ball. PROMPT👇 Create a fun, polished social media image that features me as the author, my uploaded book cover, and a classic Magic 8 Ball as the main visual concept. Use the uploaded photo of me as the author image and the uploaded book cover exactly as visual references so the final design feels personalized to my book and brand. Based on the title, cover design, genre, mood, and any visible clues from the book, create a short, curiosity-driven question that my ideal reader would immediately relate to. Display that question prominently in the image, then show a Magic 8 Ball with a short answer appearing inside the blue answer window. Keep the Magic 8 Ball answer approximately 2–6 words so it looks realistic, and make the answer clever, intriguing, encouraging, or playful while connecting naturally to the theme or promise of the book. Position my author photo and book cover in a way that feels intentional and visually balanced without overpowering the Magic 8 Ball concept. Match the colors, typography, background, and overall style to the uploaded book cover so the finished graphic feels cohesive and on-brand. Make the design eye-catching, highly readable, social-media friendly, and designed to encourage people to stop, read the question, and engage with the answer.
Magic 8 Ball
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Can complexity become connection?
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Yes, I did. These special prompts you come up with always have the ability to inform as well as entertain. I'm always learning.
📌 DAY 17 OF THE 100 PINS CHALLENGE!
Today’s goal is simple: Share at least 3 Pins. If you’ve been creating Pins but keeping them to yourself, today is about showing your work! Drop 3 of your Pins in the comments so we can support each other, get inspired, and keep the momentum going. You do NOT have to be perfect. You just have to keep showing up. 💡 Pinterest Tip of the Day: Create multiple Pins that lead to the same book or page — but change the angle. Instead of repeatedly posting the exact same graphic, try promoting the same book with: 📌 A question 📌 A pain point 📌 A tip or list 📌 A quote or takeaway 📌 A different image or design 📌 A different keyword-focused headline One destination can give you dozens of unique Pin ideas without your content feeling repetitive. That’s exactly how we get to 100 Pins — not by saying the same thing 100 times, but by finding 100 different ways to get the right reader’s attention. 👇 DAY 17 CHECK-IN: Share at least 3 of your Pins in the comments! Let’s see what everyone has been creating. 💗
📌 DAY 17 OF THE 100 PINS CHALLENGE!
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Thanks, in advance for visiting my pins. The Lost Heirloom | Benji https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221441625/ Not Every Idea Takes Flight https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221441666/ The Pond Knows How to Party https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221441634/ Lights, Camera, Frogs! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221441694/ Hygiene Hysteria Hits the Jungle https://www.pinterest.com/pin/701857923221441656/
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