Seven weeks of content and this Thursday post is one I’m especially pleased with — because it solves a real problem that no one else in the AI space seems to be talking about: how to use AI for creative work without slowly losing yourself in it.
Save this. Return to it before every creative project.
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🐾 Your Personal Creative AI Practice — All 5 Principles
🎨 AI Is the Apprentice, Not the Artist
You hold creative authority always — AI supports, carries, enables. Never the reverse.
✍️ Give AI Your Voice Before Asking for Help
Share 3–4 sentences you love + what makes your voice distinctive. Do this before every writing session.
💛 AI Does the Hard Parts — You Keep the Parts You Love
Research, structure, stuck moments → AI. The actual creating → you. Know which is which before you start.
🎯 Set Your Creative Boundary Before Every Session
“AI will help me with X but not Y.” Say it out loud to AI. Ask it to remind you if you cross it.
🌙 The Creative Session Ritual
OPEN → conversation phase. SEPARATE → close AI, take a breath. MAKE → create without AI open. CLOSE → return only for feedback.
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The key prompts from this week
📌 Voice Priming (Principle 2)
“Before you help me with my creative writing, I want to give you my voice. Here are sentences I’ve written that I feel good about: [paste 3–4]. Here’s what makes my voice distinctive: [describe]. Tell me what you notice. Keep this in mind for everything we do today.”
📌 Creative Boundary Setting (Principle 4)
“Before we start: AI will help me with [list what’s okay]. AI will NOT do for me: [list what stays yours]. Please acknowledge these and remind me if I ask you to cross them.”
📌 Creative Session Ritual Opening (Principle 5)
“I’m starting a creative session. I want to use the Creative Conversation Method. First: here’s my project context [describe]. Second: here are my creative boundaries [list]. Third: ask me the Creative Visioning questions one at a time. When we’ve finished the conversation phase, I’ll tell you I’m going to make now — and I’ll return only if I need feedback or get stuck.”
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🎬 Watch today’s Thursday Lecture: The full walk-through of all five principles — including why creative people eventually stop using AI and exactly how this practice prevents that.
🐾 Building your creative practice with a community? This is exactly what we develop inside the AI Puppy Community. Link: https://www.aipuppyplaybook.com
Come back Saturday for the week-in-review. Seven weeks — and this one reminded me why making things matters. 🐾
— Debbie
AI Puppy Playbook