Pause, and calmly think on that.
The following story was entirely generated by ChatGPT+ with GPT-4. No revisions were made. No human writing was included (except tweaking the AI generated title). The featured image is also AI generated by Nightcafe. Here is the prompt for the story: Write a short story, in the style of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Silmarillion, using…
The following story was entirely generated by ChatGPT+ with GPT-4. A number of revisions were requested of and performed by the AI to improve the story, characters, and plot, but no human writing of the actual story was included. The featured image is also AI generated, from Nightcafe. The Oath of the Five Realms In…
I just got done watching the entire series of Lost on Netflix for the second time. What a trip. What story telling. This time around things came a little bit easier. I more often had “aha!” moments and more than a few head-nods to the writer’s foreshadowing. For having gone as long as it did,…
Yesterday, I managed to start a search for better mornings, after experiencing very enjoyable mornings in PEI on vacation, by waking up an hour earlier with the hope that I would have time for coffee, breakfast, and time to just relax in the morning before going to work. As my brother so often does, I’ve…
In this picture is a bale of hay. Another, smaller, lies to its right, some ways away. Dead grasses lie before it. The brown specks of Autumn lie behind. The waning sun shines upon it all and grants the place life and being…
Tip to the writer who wants to improve his craft: Avoid putting side-tracked thoughts in parentheses.
The best poets concentrate words so well that just a few lines can be read as a full-on essay. Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ode to a Skylark is one example. When understood in this way, Ode blooms with ideas and with striking similarities to how we write essays.