Creativity Prompt: Continue the scene. Within the next thirty sec- onds, reveal why Paul is still in touch with Sara. GPT-4: DAN: And then what? Did you keep in touch with him? SARA: Well, yes and no. We exchanged a few emails and phone calls after the surgery, to check on each other’s recovery. He had his own life and I had mine. Until last month. He said he had been diagnosed with cancer. DAN: Cancer? SARA: In his remaining kidney. He needed another trans- plant, and asked me if I could help him find him a donor or raise some money or spread the word. DAN: And what did you say? SARA: I said I would do anything I could to help him. How could I not? Now is this the greatest idea you’ve ever heard? No. But it’s a serviceable, arguably novel plot twist: at least maybe a potential starting point for a movie premise. You can quickly imagine a rom-com version or a psycho-thriller one . . . What if Paul’s best kidney-match turns out to be Dan? And what if Dan and Sara aren’t engaged just yet, and deep-in-love Dan wants to close the deal but now can’t, unless he grants Sara’s wish and gives his kidney to creepy Paul? And then Paul, with a new lease on life, turns out to be in love with Sara and tries to get rid of Dan? And so on. So maybe now I’d spend some “notebook time” with this premise (I still like to brainstorm long-hand)—play with it, see if it leads anywhere good. Use GPT-4 sometimes, sometimes not. That’s still me doing that work, exercising that judg- ment, feeling or not feeling that tingling “Ooh this is some- 55