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Reflections on Fourth of July 2024 and Writing Progress Update
The United States celebrated its 248th Independence Day, evoking mixed emotions for the author. The Fourth of July was uneventful, but positive feedback on the novella “Reunion: A Story” brought some cheer. Despite missing out on traditional celebrations, the author remains focused on finishing “Reunion: Coda” and polishing the novel. Reflecting on the past, the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, March 21, 2024, or: A Quick Progress Report on My Novelist’s Journey
Late Morning, Thursday, March 21, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s a sunny but frigid early spring day in eastern New Hampshire. Currently, the temperature is 22°F (-6°C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the west-northwest at 14 MPH (22 KMH) and humidity at 39%, the wind chill factor is 14°F (-10°C).…
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More Musings, More Thoughts for Friday, July 21, 2023, or: My Unexpected Mental Health Break Day
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Blogging, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), MicroProse Software, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Regiments: Second Wave, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaLate Afternoon/Early Evening, Friday, July 21, 2023, Lithia, Florida Well, Dear Reader, it’s still quite hot outside. According to my computer’s Weather app, the current temperature is 92°F/33°C under mostly sunny conditions. That heat advisory I mentioned earlier today is still in place – the heat index (at 5:32 PM EDT) is 100°F/37°C. That’s hellishly…
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More Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: I Will Be Getting Royalties Soon – But I Can’t Plan on Going House Hunting Just Yet…
One thing that did cheer me up today is that while I was writing Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second, Amazon sent me two emails to inform me that I can expect to receive at least two royalty payments. One is for the Kindle e-book edition of…
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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 Cheerleader’s Kiss’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Erica Jong)
Fifth in a Series of Reimagined Versions of a Scene from Reunion: A Story I wrote Reunion: A Story myself. I put it on Amazon in the summer of 2018, when the world was burning and I was feeling old. A paperback from CreateSpace, an e-book from Kindle. A story about love and loss, youth and…
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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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‘A Farewell to School’: Bing AI Chatbot Reimagines a Scene from ‘Reunion’ as Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to School Microsoft’s OpenAI/Bing Chatbot, in the style of Ernest Hemingway First in a Series of Reimagined Versions of This Scene I gave the yearbook to Ann Saroyan. She was a cheerleader. Not anymore. She wanted me to sign it. I wrote: To Ann Saroyan: You were good in English. It was all…
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‘A Visit from the Dream Squad’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Jennifer Egan)
And for my last post for this “Hump Day” (Wednesday, April 12, 2023), I present to you another take on the dream sequence from Reunion I shared yesterday. This time, though, I asked Microsoft’s OpenAI (aka Bing chatbot) to rewrite this scene (which was the first bit of the story I started writing way back…
A Certain Point of View, Too 