Tag: Alex Diaz-Granados
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On Writing & Storytelling: ‘Sunny in the Village of Crickets’
Hi, everyone! I hope you are all well on this late summer Sunday in August. Well, I have good news for you guys today! Popcorn Sky Productions, the small indie film production company that I’m affiliated with as a screenwriter, completed postproduction on the new short film by actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez, Sunny in the…
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More Musings, More Thoughts for Thursday, July 20, 2023, or: On Writing, Stress, Grief, Stormy Weather, and Stark Realities
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Creative Writing, Family History, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in Florida, Victoria Eugenia Pineros Restrepo (Vicky)Evening, Thursday, July 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, again, Dear Reader. It’s still light outside – sunset is about an hour or so away – as I begin writing this second post of the day. And after a batch of thunderstorms passed through the area between 5 and 6 PM Eastern Daylight Time, the skies…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Today Was a Good Day to Write…Maybe the Force was With Me?
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 kid…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Music and Words – They Go Together Like Bacon and Eggs
Today’s post will be a short ‘n’ sweet one, partly for aesthetic reasons – it’s been a while since I did one with a bunch of music videos – but mostly because I was up late last night and worked (a bit too much, I dunno) on The New Story. I didn’t write too many…
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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…
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The End of an Era: A Brief Encounter with a Cheerleader on the Last Day of School (Bing Chatbot Reinterprets a Scene from ‘Reunion’ in the Style of Jennifer Egan)
Third in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story For my last post for this Throwback Thursday of April 13, 2023, I present to you another version of the “Jim Meets the Hot Cheerleader” scene I shared this afternoon. This time, though, I asked Microsoft’s OpenAI (aka Bing chatbot) to rewrite this…
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Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Dreamer of South Miami High’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ As Rewritten by Bing Chat in the Style of Hemingway)
Okay, I’ve asked Bing Chat to reinterpret bits of my novella, Reunion, in the style of Shakespeare, Poe, and Clancy. Now, here’s another brief snippet (without much context, I admit) from the novella rewritten by OpenAI’s Bing Chat in the style of Ernest Hemingway. I sit alone in the old English classroom. Shakespeare’s Macbeth in…
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A Scene from Reunion: A Story…As Reimagined by Bing AI’s Chatbot in the Style of William Shakespeare
Written by Bing AI Chatbot, in the style of William Shakespeare The school bell then did ring, Breaking silence with its dinging sound, Startled, Marty removed her arm from my wing, I took a step back, relief and regret abound. “Well,” I said in my best Harrison Ford voice, “This is it, sweetheart,” I picked…
A Certain Point of View, Too 