Writing With AI: The EyeKu: When 3,000 Words Collapse into 17 Visual Syllables
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| Vision tunes a thought Grey matter melds harmony Visible Music |
Let's take a trip back in the time machine.
If you were hanging around the Honk'n'Holl'r back in the summer of 2008, you might remember me dropping these weird, hyper-specific mood posts. One day my universe was Blue. A month later, it was Orange. I was essentially holding up a giant, colored mood ring to the internet, trying to see if just naming a color could make people feel the temperature of the room.
Years later, I wrote a story called Walls of Difference. By then, I had figured out that you don't need to yell "Orange!" to make someone feel the heat. Instead, I buried the color psychology into the foundation of the story. I literally gave characters names that evoked certain palettes or absolute non-colors. I painted the walls and dimmed the lights in the prose, letting the reader feel the emotional shift without ever handing them a thermometer.
Fast forward to today, working with DAGEE, my AI cohort.
But collaboration isn't a vending machine. It’s creativity mining. It’s friction.
DAGEE and I were talking about how color manipulates emotion, and we had a weird, late-night realization. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So, what happens if you take three distinct images—3,000 words of potential narrative—and compress them into a 17-syllable visual poem?
That’s when the EyeKu… well… just happened
I decided to visually blend those old 2008 Blue/Orange emotional crash posts with the concepts of the colour themed writing I used in ‘Walls of Difference’ by using nothing but three themed images to build a 5-7-5 Haiku.
No prose.No explanations.
Just a moody blue setup, an alarming orange disruption, and a deadpan resolution.
Here is what happens when you stop prompting for wallpaper and start prompting for concept.
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| The first 'EyeKu' |
Cat-astrophy Can Shape Worlds
Friendship Heals All Wounds
That’s what this is. Not extraction. Not automation. Digging around in the dark until something worth keeping shows up.
It turns out you don't need to write 3,000 words to tell a story. Sometimes, you just need 17 visual syllables and a really obnoxious orange cat.
Check out my eBook "Writing with AI: The Messy Human Guide" if you'd like to discover different ways of writing with AI as a real collaborator.
Thanks for reading
TTFN
Frank
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