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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”…
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ChatGPT – AI Writing
Ruining the market? I read an article about how ChatGPT is now the author or co-author of over 200 books on Amazon. It is expected that there are many more that haven’t disclosed the use of ChatGPT in the writing. I briefly toyed with the idea, thinking that it might help me be more confindent…
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50% Evil (Part 1)
What if 50% of the people you know were evil. I know social media and even news media make it seem like you should be scared of everyone, because evil is so rampant. But I know the truth. The Karulans are here, and they have been for centuries. They appear to be normal people but…
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Writing Samples Coming Soon
The point of this blog (I think) is for me to be able to practice writing fiction. There will be lots of posts where I talk about random thoughts or ideas that I have. Perhaps some posts about tools that I use (because.. why not?). And there will be samples of fiction writing. Now, to…
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The Blog Has Been Deployed
I finally created a new blog. Or at least, I completed the install for it. I haven’t posted anything on it yet, and right now if you were to go to it, it wouldn’t respond. (The site is ‘stopped’ in IIS). My intention is to get a post published on it soon. Probably in the…