What To Write About Next? How AI Can Help Authors.
The answer lies in your old writing. Insights into Topic Modeling.
“What will I write about next?” — this question inevitably resonates in each writer's mind.
I believe that another more insightful question, is “What did I write about previously?” Throughout this article, we will explore how to extract topics from posts using tools from Artificial Intelligence.
Can you write without a topic?
At times of great inspiration, words just flow through our keyboard. Proficient writers can produce several posts in a very short time.
As a writer, you might once have experienced the feeling of being unstoppable, capable of generating one piece of writing after another.
After taking a break from writing, I asked myself a few questions: what is that I have been writing about? Were my publications scattered over the places, or did they cover the same topics repeatedly? What are the keywords which would best describe my content and find my true audience?
I realized that my questions related to the topic-choosing-aspect of publishing. I recalled a vivid memory from my former literature mentor at high school. Mrs. Dembawai always reminded us:
“An essay should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. But above all, it should have a topic.”
Did my posts convey a key message for my audience? Could I easily put them together into a book that makes sense to readers? This is exactly what our mentor tried to find out.
One day, she asked the whole class to write about anything that crosses our minds. The essays would be collected and handed out to students of another class. Their task would be to analyze the writings and to find out the overall topics covered in our essays, the key messages.
We were overly surprised by this idea. Normally, academic essays are responses to questions or directions. This time, we were dealing with a reverse journey. There was no directive words, no topic keywords to guide us. We were left alone in an empty playground of imagination, without…
