Category: Books
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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 I…
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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. I…
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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.…
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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 the…
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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 bits…
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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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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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