Category: Kindle Create (Publishing App)
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 9, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, April 9, 2023. It’s also Easter Sunday 2023. It’s a somewhat cool and cloudy day here in the Tampa Bay area, and the house is quiet and peaceful, with only…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Carving Out Reading Time in Order to Write (Better) – The Saga Continues
It’s late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, April 7, 2023. As the second movement (allegro sostenuto) from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor plays in my Amazon Music app, I am, once again, thinking about finding a workable balance between writing, reading, and leisure time. As it stands, I spend most of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, April 6, 2023, or: Carving Out Time to Read (and Other Challenges)
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. I just finished my second – and last – cup of morning coffee, and even though I have caffeine in my system, I’m still a bit sleepy. Clearing the cobwebs up in Brain Central is not as easy as…
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Jim & Marty: An AI Sonnet Based on ‘Reunion’
A tale of love that never had a chanceOf Jim who yearned for Marty from afarBut never found the courage to advanceAnd tell her how he felt before they part He gave her a letter on the last day of schoolA letter that confessed his love for herShe read it after graduation and felt a…
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Bing AI Reinterprets ‘Reunion: A Story’ (An AI Haiku)
Reunion’s sweet tale Two hearts, two souls, one story Love’s mystery told (Haiku created by the Bing AI, based on Reunion: A Story, a novella by Alex Diaz-Granados)
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On Books & Reading: My TBR List for April 2023, or: You Can’t Be a Good Writer if You’re Not a Good Reader
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, James D. Hornfischer, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Military History, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Operation Downfall, Peter Caddick-Adams, Reunion: A Story, Star Wars, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Kick-Ass Writer (Chuck Wendig), Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960, World War II (1939-1945)Time Marches Inexorably Onward… “Time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind.” – Nicholas Hawthorne Well, Dear Reader, here we are on Wednesday, April 5, 2023; it’s the middle of the first workweek of the month, and – once again – I am dumbstruck by how fast time seems to fly. I could have…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Getting Over the Fear of Starting is Not Easy, but it is Necessary
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.” ― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings I have a confession to make. Every time I embark on a new writing project that’s more substantial than a blog post, I feel both excitement and…
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AI’s Take on ‘Reunion’ (A Haiku by Bing & Alex Diaz-Granados)
He loved her so much But never told her his heart Now he wonders why (Haiku created by Microsoft’s Bing AI, based on my novella Reunion: A Story.)
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, March 31, 2023, or: What Do You Mean, ‘March is Over’?
All Quiet on the Northwestern Front So, it’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, March 31, 2023. Another week, and another month, and another quarter of a year, have ended. I don’t have much in the way of news; the house in Brandon is still being remodeled and renovated, and since the owner…
A Certain Point of View, Too 