Hey, writers! Natalia here.

So, why this internship? AI has already taken work away from many people who used to make a living writing: summaries, reviews, product descriptions. Now it is moving into creative work as well. The industry is hiring fewer screenwriters and copywriters. Soon AI will take over more because, by many writing standards, it is objectively better than we are.

So what should we, as writers, do? What is uniquely ours as human beings and as writers, that AI cannot replace? My answer is: stubborn, creative individuality. In writing, it means the ability to imagine the big picture, an entire real or invented life, in detail and without limits. Then, select pieces of it, and put them together in a unique combination. To create people in our own image, almost like a God, alive and weird. To transform one large work into another, a novel into a film, a screenplay into a play, by choosing what matters from your own unique point of view.

I could keep going, but it all comes down to the same thing. AI can create endless new combinations from an enormous range of possibilities. We create from one, our own. And we stubbornly keep creating from it. The more original and complex our combinations, the stronger we are as writers. And if we can produce many of them and work hard, we become formidable writers.

This internship is for those who have chosen this path and are capable of following it.

During our four-month internship, you will produce your own unique combinations, watch us work on ours, and learn practical techniques used in the film and theater industries. Be prepared to think a lot and write a lot. And in the work you will be doing here, you won’t need AI at all.

Natalia Nightingale-Grey