Michael's World (Blog)

Tag: Writing

  • Chapter 3: On the Way

    I was feeling down. I didn’t see the rainbow yet. To tell the truth, I was scared. I just kept on walking and hoped I wouldn’t die. Little surprises would probably come, like the poop-spitting clovers, wild, ferocious animals, and leprechaun traps. I wanted to make my family proud though. I could just hear them…

  • How I Found a Pot of Gold: Chapter 2: Not Normal Stuff

    When I woke up the next morning, I was like, yo? Anyone there? Not normal stuff for me. Nobody was home. Nobody was answering my calls. I didn’t know if they were coming back. Don’t be silly. But still! They’re coming back soon! Weren’t they? I was home alone the entire day. I ate ice…

  • How I Found a Pot of Gold: Chapter One: A Poopish Day

    I was walking along the road when suddenly a clover popped out at me and pooped on my face. I really hate it when that happens. Bit nasty if you ask me. Unless humans think differently. Then it’s delightful? Really not the most delightful and happy thing to me, especially if you’ve had a bad…

  • How I Found a Pot of Gold: Introduction

    Hi. I’m Georgie the leprechaun. I am not a boy. Most leprechauns think I’m a boy. Maybe humans are smarter than leprechauns sometimes and don’t mistake me for a boy. I hope so. This story is complicated. I’m just warning you now before you read. Oh yeah. I’ll tell you about life here as a…

  • Monkey Fist

    I took a writing class last year. The class was about the habit of writing, rather than the craft of writing. As such, it had daily writing prompts and weekly discussions about our writing with various types of exercises to get you writing. One of the class assignments was to bring an inanimate object. I…

  • Argumentative Writing – Is TikTok Safe for Kids

    Everyone loves TikTok, right? But is it truly safe for kids? I don’t think so. First of all, TikTok has inappropriate content. Some of the shots have swearing and violence that is not kid friendly. These clips can encourage young users to imitate inappropriate behavior. Nobody wants kids to be acting more… shall we say,…

  • Tells and Engs

    Jilletta is a tell.  It is all that she has ever known or cared to do.   Yet she doesn’t always like her work.  She is good at her work.  She should be, since she is the daughter of the greatest tell ever.  Her father was considered to be at the apex of the art.  His…

  • ChatGPT – AI Writing – More thoughts

    I read somewhere that Clarkesworld Magazine closed submissions due to an influx of AI generated stories. I don’t know if that is true or not, but if you look on their site, they do say “We are not considering stories written, co-written, or assisted by AI at this time.”I don’t think that we should be…

  • 50% Evil – Revised

    I recently shared a draft of this short piece.  I generally have an optimistic view of the world, so I was endeavoring to write an ‘opposite’.  I had an idea that this might be a way to start a bit of satire. Perhaps, you can see the potential.  This is (I think) better than the…

  • Blogging Stuff

    There are a lot of people that blog (or perhaps, journal) on a daily basis.  I am not one of those people.  I have claimed (mostly to myself) that I want to write a book.  I have been making that claim for about 4 or 5 years now.  I even took a “Creative Writing Habits”…