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Words, the flow of the story, and “The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl.”

The story below, “River Rendezvous,” is from volume 4 of my Civil War tales: The Scarecrow and other stories. I’m presenting it here, as an example of a story, yes; but not just as an example. I am using the story as an analogy also. …

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Analyzing a story, The writing craft, Writing storiesJune 12, 2023June 12, 2023 By Mark

CHAT GPT Writes a story!

Sort of. So you’re probably familiar with the terms “smart technology” and “artificial intelligence.” And you may or may not be familiar with the term “natural language processing,” also known as NLP (not to be confused with neural linguistic programming, which is something different). In …

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Chat GPT story, WritingMay 1, 2023May 2, 2023 By Mark

To continue with the SCUBA mystery theme . . .

I don’t know that I actually forgot about having previously written a SCUBA mystery of my own when I was writing the last post, but I didn’t mention it. Perhaps I was just too excited about the new books I had found. Of course, the …

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Esmirana's Trunk, SCUBA Diving Mysteries, The HandDecember 1, 2022February 7, 2023 By Mark

I’ve been remiss. A Thank You is in order.

Here is the Thank You: Sincerely, to all who entered the Goodreads Giveaways for Blue Girl and the Stars, and The Scarecrow (Volume four of the Dark Tales of the Civil War series) I very much appreciate it! And, as usual, to those who won, …

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Thank you. Writing. SCUBA diving mysteries.October 31, 2022May 24, 2023 By Mark

So here it is, the part of a story I had promised in the last post . . .

In the last post I had stated that maybe I would put the bit of a possible story up on my web page. I had intended to. I had even created a page for it. I was going to create a button with a “Work …

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A partial story., Writing storiesAugust 15, 2022October 4, 2022 By Mark

Disparate thoughts, Random connections, Odd coincidences, and Strange dreams. . . Where do story Ideas come from?

Probably the most often posed question to any writer is “Where do you get ideas for stories?” I’m guessing the truth for most writers would be that they don’t actually know, at least not in the general sense. If you ask them about specific stories, …

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Story ideas, Writing.August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 By Mark

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