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The Best Content Marketing Books of 2017 to Boost Your Creativity and Productivity

Content Marketing Institute

If you’re a chief content officer , copywriter, designer, or programmer searching for ways to create more and better content in less time, you’ll find fresh ideas for improving your creativity, productivity, and writing skills with these best books from 2017. Efficiency: Building your team’s creativity, planning, and productivity.

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Is AI the end of human creativity as we know it?

Content Hacker

What Marketing Experts I Trust Say About AI Joe Pulizzi Made An Eerily True Prediction In 2017, Joe Pulizzi predicted that by most of content would be automated in a few short years. Then how can you use what the robots don’t have—your insights, emotions, experiences, creativity? Two choices, she says: No? It crushed.

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“Erg, no kidding?” Interjections in Creative Writing

The Subversive Copy Editor

Creative License. You can see that even without a defined grammatical function, interjections are as useful as any other part of speech and especially useful to creative writers. This strengthens my impression that  in creative writing exclamation points are best used sparsely and with care.  Ember, 2017.

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The Secret to Hitting the Creative Sweet Spot

Content Marketing Institute

This article is adapted from an excerpt in the new book The Creative Curve by Allen Gannett, from Penguin Random House. Most of what you know about creativity is a lie. Our culture has embraced the idea that creative genius is inborn and innate. You’re either a brilliantly creative content marketer or you’re not.

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The Importance Of Confident Creative Direction, Voice, And Taste, In Generative AI Art With Oliver Altair

The Creative Penn

What are some of the tools and why are creative direction, voice, and taste, so important? In the first 28 mins of the podcast, I give an extended introduction about the various legal cases around AI and copyright , my thoughts on the best way to approach it for your creative work, and how to use AI tools ethically and responsibly.

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The One Thing Killing Your Most Creative Content Ideas (and How to Stop It)

Content Marketing Institute

Creativity. We’ve gone from pitching wildly creative ideas every day to floating mildly interesting ideas once every six months. It’s just that we’ve been beaten into believing that we’re not creative because we’ve heard “NO!” Hearing “no” too many times beats down our creativity, says @carlajohnson. We all want it.

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27 Ideas to Break Your Creative Slump

Content Marketing Institute

Well, instead of watching a mocking cursor, take a tip (or 27) from your fellow marketers on how they get out of a creative content marketing slump. The Rare White Squirrel Who Eats Pumpkins (and Other Stories of Creativity). When you’re consistently trying to use your creative brain power, it’s easy to hit a snag and become exhausted.