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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 14, 2024, or: A Brief Post from the ‘Between Chapters’ Doldrums
The weather in Madison, New Hampshire is currently 65°F (19°C) with 66% humidity and a 5 MPH (8 Km/H) south-southwest wind. The feels-like temperature is 77°F (25°C) with mostly sunny skies and a high of 77°F (25°C) expected. The author hopes for a more productive day with their writing routine. Stay safe and healthy!
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, April 30, 2024, or: As the Month Ends, Showers Continue…and Work Proceeds Apace on the Novel
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), New Hampshire Weather, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Spring 2024, Writing as a CraftThe author discusses the weather in New Hampshire and the process of editing their novel, Reunion: Coda. They express a preference for revising existing material rather than writing new content when not feeling energized. Despite spending time editing, the author aims to write new material to progress the novel towards its conclusion. They also mention…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Writing Exercise #2 – If the Suit Fits…Wear It
Writing Exercises for Reunion: Coda Monday, April 1, 2024 What does your hero say the first time he sees the heroine naked? “As a historian, I’ve always believed it’s the unseen details that hold the true essence of beauty. Now, standing before you, I realize some histories are felt rather than told.” And this is…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, November 14, 2023, or: The Big Move’s Preparations Continue Apace – The I Hate Packing Edition
Late Morning, Tuesday, November 14, 2023, Lithia, Florida “Leaves have fallen onto the snow like punctuation marks. They’ve held on for so long, but winter gets to us all in the end.” ― Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Murder Game Hey there, everyone. It’s a cool – by Florida standards anyway – late fall morning here…
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Summer Reissue Special! For a Limited Time (July 3-10), Get the Kindle Edition of ‘Reunion: A Story’ for $1.99
To celebrate the completion – at long last – of the third revised edition of Reunion: A Story, the first volume in a two-book series, Amazon and I are offering a Fourth of July special price for the Kindle edition. (Sorry, paperback fans, but Amazon doesn’t let me offer discounts on the hard copy editions!)…
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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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‘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 Final Embrace’: (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Anais Nin)
Fourth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story Hey, you. Thanks for reading this. It’s Friday, April 14, 2023, and you know what that means. It’s #FlashbackFriday. Let’s go back to the last day of school, when we were young and stupid and brave. When we thought we could do…
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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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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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