An excerpt from “The New Story” – No Really Big Spoilers, & It’s Based on a Real-Life Incident. Interlude South Miami Senior High School, December 8, 1981 1 Every school year, the choral groups at South Miami High worked hard to prepare for two concerts. One was the Winter (or Christmas) Concert in December; theContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Well, It Took a While, But I Eventually Came Up with 1K Words (and Eight to Spare)”
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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 kidContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Today Was a Good Day to Write…Maybe the Force was With Me?”
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 manyContinue reading “On Writing & Storytelling: Music and Words – They Go Together Like Bacon and Eggs”
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 veryContinue reading “Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 16, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second”
‘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 forContinue reading “‘Love Unspoken, Love Unbroken’: A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Stephen King”
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 thisContinue reading “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)”
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 inContinue reading “Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Dreamer of South Miami High’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ As Rewritten by Bing Chat in the Style of Hemingway)”
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 pickedContinue reading “A Scene from Reunion: A Story…As Reimagined by Bing AI’s Chatbot in the Style of William Shakespeare”
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…
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 aContinue reading “Jim & Marty: An AI Sonnet Based on ‘Reunion’”
A Certain Point of View, Too 