Writing during the Holidays
'Tis the season for wondering where the sun is, subbing dinner for chocolate and wine, a seemingly endless amount of gatherings and neglecting all your hard cultivated habits from the 11 months prior. Which includes writing. How could it not? The frivolous little stories you fritter away at are the easiest thing to ignore when you can't possibly do everything at once all month. You are NOT a machine. It would be so easy to let AI write this, you think during a particularly w
Entering the Hidden Fantasy World
Holy Door St. Peter's Rome Does any fantasy book ever capture that complete magic of the first time you read about a world that ran alongside yours? There's nothing quite like the idea that you can climb into a wardrobe or tap a brick in an alleyway and wind up in a magical world that runs parallel to yours. As a plot device, it packs a lot of magical punch this way. Because you, as a reader, get to discover the world as your beloved characters do. Those were my favorite book
What is art?
Handstand by the Lake because AI can't I know, "What is art?" is a pretty big question with a lot of answers. And, GENERALLY (please do not list every other example), the only answer that is wrong is AI. AI is NOT art. AI IS NOT ART. Whether I capitalize or scream it, the AI is listening, and I'm cool with it knowing it's not art. Art is humanity. It is experience. Combining those two, it is the HUMAN EXPERIENCE. It's reading words written by Jane Austen in 1798 (though not p
