Sometimes you have to go on when you don’t feel like it, and sometimes you’re doing good work when it feels like all you’re managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position. ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft One of the earliest lessons I learned when I was a kidContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Today Was a Good Day to Write…Maybe the Force was With Me?”
Category Archives: Books
Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 23, 2023, or, Weekend Update, Part the Second
You put the ‘Sun’ into my day. Happy Sunday! ― Anthony T. Hincks It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on a quiet, cool-but-warming-up Sunday, April 23, 2023. I wanted to sleep at least until 8; I went to bed way past midnight (I didn’t go to the kitchen to check the time before IContinue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 23, 2023, or, Weekend Update, Part the Second”
On Writing & Storytelling: Some Days, the Story Doesn’t Flow…Other Days, It Does
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft It’s early morning – as I begin to write this, it’s still a half hour before sunrise – here in Lithia, Florida on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. IContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Some Days, the Story Doesn’t Flow…Other Days, It Does”
On Writing & Storytelling: A Late Start to My Workday…and One Final Tweak to ‘Reunion’
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s almost noon here in Lithia, Florida, on Monday, April 17, 2023. I’m off to a late start on this cloudy, sometimes rainy, and balmy spring day because I went to bed far too late and woke up just a tad later than my usual 6:30 AM “rise and shine” time.Continue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: A Late Start to My Workday…and One Final Tweak to ‘Reunion’”
Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, April 15, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Things on My Mind…. I woke up incredibly early this morning. Not at 4 AM, thankfully, but it was still pitch-dark when – as is all too familiar an occurrence for me – I was awakened by a full bladder and the need to pee. Of course, I ventured forth to the bathroom across theContinue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, April 15, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First”
Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (Another Excerpt from Bing AI’s Wharton-Style Take on ‘Reunion’)
If you liked my earlier post, Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (‘Reunion’ Reimagined in Wharton’s Style by Bing AI), here’s an additional scene from Reunion as “reimagined” in the style of Edith Wharton by Microsoft’s OpenAI Bing chatbot. (That post also includes a detailed explanation of why I am using OpenAI to rewrite bitsContinue reading “Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (Another Excerpt from Bing AI’s Wharton-Style Take on ‘Reunion’)”
‘Tom Clancy’s For Love and Honor’: A Scene from ‘Reunion: A Story’ as Retold by Bing AI in the Style of Tom Clancy
I have been having fun messing around with Microsoft’s Bing AI Chatbot lately. I’ve been asking it to take either the plot summary from the back cover of my novella, Reunion: A Story, or even one scene from the body of my first (self-published) work of fiction, and rewrite in the style of a well-knownContinue reading “‘Tom Clancy’s For Love and Honor’: A Scene from ‘Reunion: A Story’ as Retold by Bing AI in the Style of Tom Clancy”
The Revised Reunion A Story
Originally posted on Leonberger Life:
Sometimes I make posts not directly related to Leonberger dogs, especially if I want to promote a good book. Today I am announcing that a book written by my on-line friend Alex Diaz-Granados has been improved in various ways. The story is the same, but it has been edited a…
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 asContinue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, April 6, 2023, or: Carving Out Time to Read (and Other Challenges)”
On Books & Reading: My TBR List for April 2023, or: You Can’t Be a Good Writer if You’re Not a Good Reader
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 haveContinue reading “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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