Ghostmasters 201: Your Guide to AI
Description
The question is no longer whether AI will change professional writing. It already has.
This course was designed and developed by Gotham Ghostwriters and Mike Long—a physicist, speechwriter, author, Georgetown faculty member, and self-described reformed AI skeptic—to help writers maximize the opportunity and minimize the risk of using AI in their professional work.
Five weeks. Live instruction. Hands-on exercises every session. No technical background required. All experience levels welcome.
What's Included
Your Guide to AI: A Practical Program for Mastering the Tools, Avoiding Traps, and Maximizing Opportunities will be offered over five successive Fridays from 12pm- 2pm EST on
Friday, May 29
Friday, June 5
Friday, June 12
Friday, June 19
Friday, June 26
Classes will be taught via Zoom and each class will be 2 hours long (10 hours total). Recordings will be available for registered participants.
Five professional tools you keep: prompt frameworks, a hallucination detection checklist, a style preservation template, a research verification protocol, and a sample client AI disclosure policy.
Why It's Valuable
This course is practical, strategic, and unapologetically actionable.
Most AI education isn't built for professional writers. This course is. Every session addresses the specific challenges ghostwriters face, including voice preservation, client confidentiality, disclosure obligations, and the craft judgment that separates a professional from someone who just runs prompts.
AI is changing fast, and the writers who will have a real advantage are the ones who learned to use it with skill, judgment, and intention. This course gives you the foundation to keep learning as the tools and technology keep evolving.
Who It's For
This course is for professional ghostwriters, executive communicators, speechwriters, collaborators, authors, anyone serious about their writing profession, at every level of AI experience—including skeptics, curious beginners, and writers already experimenting who want to go deeper.
If you've spent years developing craft and judgment, this course shows you how to put it to work.
Instructor Bio
Mike Long
Mike Long is an author, ghostwriter, and past director of writing for Georgetown University’s graduate public relations program, where he has taught for nearly twenty years. He has written for members of Congress, U.S. cabinet secretaries, governors, CEOs, and presidential candidates, and is the co-author of The Molecule of More, an international bestseller on neuroscience. Trained as a physicist, he wrote code before he wrote speeches, which gives him an unusual ability to explain how AI actually works, without the jargon. He was also, for a long time, one of the writing community’s most vocal AI skeptics. But once he dug in, his productivity and income increased. He now uses it daily and teaches it the way he teaches everything: show early success, build from there, and make sure every session ends with something you can actually use. “I’m going to show you how to do something you can take to work tomorrow and make money with.” —Mike Long
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