I suppose I could do so, but why? Am I not the author, the one supposedly in control? If you happen to be reading my book, A Haunting We Will Go . . ., (if you are one of the winners of the Goodreads Giveaway) …
Read MoreCHAT 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 …
Read MoreOnce again, I thank you. And once again I’m late in thanking you.
To all who entered the last Goodreads Giveaway contest, the one for Rohmer’s Garden, I thank you, sincerely. Even though I don’t say it often enough, I do appreciate anyone showing interest in the stories. And to those of you who won, I hope you …
Read MoreDust off that Screenplay! Final Draft’s Big Break contest is here.
April 12 is the early entry date. I go through this every year. I kick myself for not having a screenplay ready to submit. Each year I tell myself that I’ll buckle down and write one and have it ready for the next year’s entry. …
Read MoreAnd now for something really scary!
Sometimes when in the middle of formatting a book you can’t help but stop and read passages. You are always, of course, on the lookout for errors. They are there aplenty, believe me. Okay, maybe not as bad as I just made that sound. But …
Read MoreYou don’t have to live it to write it; you simply have to imagine it.
I like Hemingway, but often think he did not help writers or the art and craft of writing by perpetuating certain myths. For instance, the myth that you have to live it to write about it—whatever it might be. You don’t! As Stephen King points …
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