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 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 doContinue reading “‘The Final Embrace’: (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Anais Nin)”

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)”

The Last Day of High School: A Time to Say Goodbye to Your Classmates and Hello to Your Future (Or Maybe Not)*


Second in a Series of Reimagined Versions of This Scene * By OpenAI, aka Bing Chatbot, in the style of Dave Barry “So long,” I said to the hot cheerleader (former cheerleader, I reminded myself) who had let me sign her yearbook. I had written this heartfelt message: To Ann Saroyan: You were a swellContinue reading “The Last Day of High School: A Time to Say Goodbye to Your Classmates and Hello to Your Future (Or Maybe Not)*”

‘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 backContinue reading “‘A Visit from the Dream Squad’ (A Scene from ‘Reunion’ Reimagined by Bing AI in the Style of Jennifer Egan)”

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 bitsContinue reading “Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (Another Excerpt from Bing AI’s Wharton-Style Take on ‘Reunion’)”

Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (‘Reunion’ Reimagined in Wharton’s Style by Bing AI)


Why I Am Collaborating with Bing Chatbot As of late, I have been playing with Microsoft’s OpenAI (aka Bing Chatbot) by asking it to take snippets from my recently re-published novella, Reunion, and reimagine them in the styles of famous writers, including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Tom Clancy, and Ernest Hemingway. Why am IContinue reading “Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (‘Reunion’ Reimagined in Wharton’s Style by Bing AI)”

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)”