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A Few More Thoughts On AI
Read more: A Few More Thoughts On AIAI [Artificial Intelligence] is so hot these days (I’m writing this on 3/10/2024) I feel I have to comment on it. Generally, I’m not too much in favor of writers using AI to “write” a book or story or any kind of written communication. AI takes away the personality of the writer which always infuses…
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Casey At The Bat
Read more: Casey At The BatHave you read the poem, “Casey at the Bat,” by Earnest Lawrence Thayer? Or at least heard it recited? Most people have, I imagine. It’s one of the best known poems in American English, and can usually be found in any compilation of the best known or best loved poems of the American people. It was written in…
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Import
Read more: ImportI’m going to stick my neck out here and try and define a characteristic of fiction that is, at least to me, new. I’ve written a few short stories as well as three novels, but when I finished a short story of about 4600 words a few weeks back, and read through it several times,…
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Be It Ever So Humble . . .
Read more: Be It Ever So Humble . . .What’s the hardest part of writing for a writer, especially an unpublished one? The hardest part for me is staying humble. I haven’t found it particularly difficult to force myself to sit down and write every day. I enjoy the process—of putting words down on a computer screen, of rearranging them to better say what I want;…