A Free Download · For Creatives

Your First Week
With AI

A free seven-day checklist for writers, illustrators, photographers and artists who are curious — but not quite sure where to begin.

✦ Seven small experiments · Zero overwhelm ✦

A creative's desk with an open notebook, manuscript pages, pencil sketches, a camera and watercolour swatches
Whatever your medium — the checklist starts where you already work.

What's inside

A small, kind beginning.

A gentle 7-day plan

One small, doable invitation a day. No marathon, no jargon.

Ideas, not instructions

Prompts and experiments that bend to your practice — not the other way around.

Made for makers

Written by a working creative, for creatives. Your voice stays yours.

A printed seven-day checklist folded open, one panel per day

The field guide

Seven days, one page each.

It's a printable little field guide — something to keep beside your desk, tick off by hand, and put down whenever you like.

  1. Day 1Notice where the time goes
  2. Day 2One small, low-stakes experiment
  3. Day 3Draft something you'd never publish
  4. Day 4Teach it your voice
  5. Day 5Let it do the boring part
  6. Day 6Set your own lines
  7. Day 7Keep what earned its place
A sunlit studio desk by a window with books, dried grasses and pinned prints

From the studio

"I'm Rita — a working artist and teacher. I teach AI from a fellow creative's perspective, not a tech expert's."

✷ Surprise, Arizona

When you're ready for more

Or go deeper, one-on-one.

The checklist is a first step you can take on your own. But real fluency — an AI process built around your specific practice, with your voice fully protected — takes more than a week and more than a worksheet. That's what I do inside The Handwoven AI Method: a private, 8-week mentorship for writers, photographers, and artists. Creative to creative. No tech background required.

See the mentorship

The checklist is yours, free. Sign up and I'll also share when new spots open in The Handwoven AI Method.

No spam. No jargon. Just one creative helping another find their footing.