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As a writer, I see the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) like in chatGPT (chat.openai.com) kinda like a carriage maker the first Model T Fords rolling off the assembly line. However, as the apex of my graphic art is doodling spirals on the desktop with overpour from my coffee, my reaction to AI art is […]
I’m 60,000+ words into a new novel, Dyer’s Daughter. Set far in the future with illegal human genetic experiments on a terraformed world that was eventually abandoned, the people reverting technologically, their past lost. Originally the planet was low in surface minerals so the terraforming involved adding deposits from meteorites processed at the geosynchronous space […]
This writing thing has so many moving parts. Don’t get me wrong, the writing itself is fine. Eventually you will have a first draft. Pat on the back. Drinks all around. Even the second stage, the rounds of revisions and rewrites is all good. It’s writing. You can do it with a crayon. (Don’t do […]
A writing friend, Barbara Jacksha, passed on this Writer’s Digest University Zoom webinar with Jane Friedman: Social Media Bliss: How You Can Engage With Meaning and Without Losing Your Mind. Well. Mind blown. In an hour and forty-five minutes, she covered everything you need to know on how to find AND engage your readers and […]
