Creative AI Writing Lab — Experiments in Human × Machine Storytelling

A hands-on gathering for writers who want to use AI as a creative instrument and explore what happens when human imagination meets algorithmic mischief. This is a place where “I wrote this by hand” carries no moral superiority, and where “I got the model to hallucinate the trial transcript of a man accused of being a metaphor” earns you applause.

We begin with a round of “what I’m playing with,” then share prompts, insights, and techniques that help shape better (or stranger) writing. The second half of the event is dedicated to live experiments, including some of the following exercises:

1. Style Hijack
Everyone brings a short passage from their current project. Each person picks another attendee’s passage and uses AI to rewrite it in some impossible fusion (e.g. Kafka × reggaetón lyricist). The point is to break your voice and see what leaks out.

2. Constraint Roulette
We prepare a list o constraints (e.g. “no adjectives”, “dialogue only”, “nested parenthetical hallucination”, “two competing narrators.”), AI + human must co-produce a 150-word piece under three random constraints. The group votes on the weirdest success.

3. Adversarial Editor
Each writer feeds a piece to the AI and instructs it to perform deliberately wrong edits: remove all metaphors, invert emotional tone, rewrite as a legal contract, etc. The result serves as a mirror; what did the model misinterpret about the author’s intent?

4. Prompt Dissection
Someone presents a killer prompt that produced great results for them. The group collectively deconstructs it: which clauses did the model latch onto? what constraints mattered? what’s the “latent geometry” of that prompt? It trains everyone in prompt craftsmanship.

5. Latent World-Building
The group chooses a setting (e.g., an abandoned futuristic horchatería at midnight). Everyone uses AI to generate 2–3 micro-details (laws, customs, textures, tech). Then we assemble these fragments into a shared world and write a short scene.

6. Human vs Machine Continuation Duel
One person reads the first paragraph of a story. Two continuations are generated: one by a human, one by the AI. The group guesses which is which. The goal is to sharpen everyone’s sense of voice, rhythm and cliché-detection.

7. Algorithmic Poetry Surgery
Take one raw AI poem and collectively “fix” it, but you’re only allowed to alter it through targeted prompts. No manual edits. This trains writers to think like engineers.

No technical background needed; just curiosity and a willingness to explore new territory.

Bring a laptop (preferably) or a phone, and/or a text of something you’re working on.