Category: Poetry
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October Leaves (A Haiku)
Yellow-orange leaves(Some scarlet-brown ones as well!)Fall gently downward.
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On Writing & Storytelling: Bing AI’s ‘Dust Jacket Blurb’ for Reunion: Coda
Reunion: Coda is a captivating and moving story of love, loss, and redemption, filled with realistic and relatable characters, witty and poignant dialogue, and vivid and nostalgic details. Diaz-Granados skillfully blends romance, humor, suspense, and history to create a novel that will appeal to fans of Nicholas Sparks, John Green, and Stephen King. Reunion: Coda…
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Writing & Storytelling: What Bing AI Thinks About My Manuscript – So Far
I don’t use OpenAI ChatGPT, at least not the version seen in the illustration above. I do, however, consult with his/its accessible version (on Microsoft Edge’s Bing Chat function) on such things as whether my dialogue in a story works well, if the story makes sense, or if it, frankly, is going to be well-received.…
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Forgotten Dreams
She played a song of forgotten dreamsOn the old piano in the barShe sang of love and loss and hopeHer voice was soft and clear as a star He listened with his heart and soulHe felt a connection he couldn’t explainHe saw the beauty in her eyesHe felt the joy and the pain They talked…
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But…It’s Spring! In Florida! (A Haiku for a Chilly May Morning in the Tampa Bay Area)
Chilly northern breeze Sends unexpected shivers To sleepy writer. (It’s 63 degrees Fahrenheit/17 degrees Celsius as I write this at 9:26 AM; it’s going to be hot later, with a forecast high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit/31 degrees Fahrenheit later in the day.)
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Tuesday Morning, May 2, 2023 (A Haiku)
Tuesday morning comes With golden sun and gentle breeze. Now, coffee I need.
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The Warmth of Florida Spring (A Haiku)
Humid tropic air Blows eastward from the warm Gulf. Spring, like summer feels.
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 16, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
Things on My Mind: (Sunday, April 16, 2023) Project X Update Well, even though I am sticking to my “No working on Project X on weekends” rule, I can’t quite shake off the impulse to think about the characters, settings, and situations of the story. I already know who the protagonists are – one very…
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‘Love Unspoken, Love Unbroken’: A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Stephen King
Last of a series: If you’re a regular visitor to this space, you’ve noticed that I’ve been “collaborating” with Microsoft’s OpenAI “Bing Chatbot” by asking the artificial intelligence to rewrite passages from Reunion, my novella about love, loss, time, and regret, in the styles of well-known authors, including: I am doing this little experiment for…
A Certain Point of View, Too 