Now more than ever, being you is what makes art. AI-prompted images and text are here, and while much of it is still apparent, it’s not going to be long before it gets really good. I see people saying AI will never create something on the same level as humans, but it’s already eclipsing the […]
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AI Writing
I’ve mentioned before that I’m friends with quite a few artists. Lately, I’ve seen quite a few of them share thoughts about artificial intelligence generating “art.” Feelings range from machine-learned art taking jobs and stealing styles to it all being just another tool. AI Writing I friend recently posted a work of micro fiction on […]
The End of Silence (2022)
The September Silence of 2022 is over. With it being a bigger election year, the urge to return at the end of November is appealing…for many reasons. But…there are things I’ve missed this past month, and I can always step back again if things seem too noisy. Another September Silence This year, like last, I […]
What You Control
I’ve mentioned some of my writing close calls over the years: a large studio interested in a screenplay they said they would have fought for, but…they were being acquired by another studio wanting a new direction; and I’ve had partial and full manuscript requests from agents over the years. (In some cases, from people representing […]
Thirteen Years…
Thirteen years ago today, I posted this. (Yep, The Juggling Writer is officially a teenager today!) Thirteen is my favorite number. When I heard it was “unlucky,” I decided to take it on ’cause even as a kid, I had my thoughts about superstitions. So I like that this is year thirteen… A Sparse Year… […]
Until October…
It snuck up on me this year: September. I’ve been busy at work and working on the next Not About Lumberjacks story. Other things have had my attention. And then someone mentioned Labor Day weekend almost being here and… Well, like I said: September snuck up on me this year. The September Silence Each September, […]
Trigger Warning
I never liked the term “Trigger Warning.” It quickly became synonymous with mocking people who wanted to know what might pop up in a story — as though that’s such a bad thing to consider. People who wanted to know what might be in a story were deemed weak…it’s literature after all, and we survived […]
The Death of Literature
I used to be in a writing group with two good friends. One evening, we let another friend — someone who doesn’t write fiction — sit in. He was impressed by the effort my friends and I put into the stories we wrote. It wasn’t our friends’ intent, but he said something about how he […]