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Read It To Me Differently

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One Story. Three Voices. What Delivery Does To Meaning.

I’ve been thinking lately about how much of a story lives in the telling rather than the text. The same words, read differently, can make you laugh, unsettle you, or send you to sleep. Tone of voice, pace, register, these aren’t decorative. They’re structural. They change what a story actually is. So I ran an experiment.

I took one of my favourite pieces from this blog, ‘The Queue At 10:47,’ the story of a waiting room that never seems to empty, and asked Claude to rewrite it three times. Same story. Same characters. Same fish tank, same purple cardigan, same tuna sandwich. But each version reshaped for a completely different delivery: a bedtime story, a breaking news report, and a nature documentary. Then I took each version into ElevenLabs and chose a voice to match.

What came out surprised me. Not because the story changed, it didn’t, not really, but because each version revealed something different about the material that was always there, waiting to be unlocked by the right tone of voice.

Have a listen. Then I’ll share what Claude and I both noticed.

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What Happens When AI Turns Flash Fiction into Comics?

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I’ve always seen myself as a storyteller first and a writer/creator of stories second. As such I have always been fascinated in trying to find different ways to tell a story to an audience. What I am discovering, as I experiment with AI, is that the opportunities for different ways to tell a story are becoming so much more exciting.

So, today I have been playing with CatGPT’s image creator. I have taken a couple of Twitter length stories and asked ChatGPT to create a graphic comic page telling the story. I have been impressed. My prompt in both these examples was simply, “Use this story to create a 6 panel comic. Each panel needs to be a different size. (Then I inserted the story).”

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Flash Fiction Generator

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I love listening to AI podcasts. Recently there has been a lot of discussion about Claude’s (Anthropic) growing expertise in creating code. Some experts were suggesting that by the end of the year AI will be writing 90% of all code.

Now, I know absolutely nothing about coding but I am forever curious. So, I asked Claude, “Can you write a piece of code that can generate pieces of flash fiction?” I was expecting a simple answer, instead it replied, “Absolutely. Given your flash fiction expertise, I’ll build something with the kinds of constraints and parameters you’d actually use – genre, word count limits, tone, specific prompts or themes.”

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Join Me Down The Rabbit Hole

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Every now and then I feel the urge to put up a short post when my experimentation excites me. And that’s what this post is!

I found a Drabble (100-word story) that AI and I had collaborated on a year or so ago. I wondered what would happen if I put the story into the prompt box for ChatGPT’s new image generation and simply asked, ‘Create an image that reflects this story.’

Here’s the image and the story:

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A blurred reflection of an older man’s silhouette in a studio window, with a microphone visible, suggesting voice recording and quiet unease.
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Writing, Emotion Tags, and a Voice That Sounds Like Me

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This post is part of an ongoing habit of trying small, contained experiments rather than grand declarations about what AI can or cannot do. In this case, the experiment was simple: could a short piece of writing be performed by an AI voice in a way that felt deliberate rather than mechanical.

I prompted ChatGPT to write a brief dystopian monologue and asked it to include emotional cues directly in the script. I then copied and pasted the text into ElevenLabs and generated the audio using a cloned version of my own voice. No editing, no post-production, no technical tinkering. Just text, instructions, and a voice.

What interested me wasn’t realism or polish, but interpretation.

The Audio – ‘Where Silence Is Suspicious’

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