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For Writers: Rising Tsunami of… What?
From PC: The rise of widely available, easy-to-use artificial intelligence tools is creating a new genre of robot-generated literature. Amazon already offers over 200 books (and climbing) with ChatGPT listed as an author or co-author. The reasons for people to “write” these books varies. Some authors were previously discouraged by the time and effort to write a book, and are now turning to ChatGPT to generate short novels in hours. They are also combining text generated by ChatGPT with illustrations from platforms such as DALL-E,…
For Writers: Life Finds a Way, Savvy Daughter, & Done vs. Perfect
Alligator fish hybrid… totally safe. Life finds a way. Couldn’t help but think of this when I read this: They detailed their findings on the preprint server bioRxiv. The paper has not yet been peer-reviewed. Scientists used CRISPR to insert the alligator gene that codes for cathelicidin into catfish. It found the survival rate of the genetically modified fish was resistant to a common infection. The fish are also sterile and can’t reproduce unless they are injected with reproductive hormones, MIT Technology reported. Are…
A New Writing Update Post on Patreon
You can find it here. Also, there is a video update available only to Patrons.
Jake Ramsey #4 – Work in Progress Post 1
Over on Patreon I’m putting up posts from the upcoming Jake Ramsey novel. I thought it would be fun to share a post over here on the main website. So here is the first Work in Progress Post from Patreon. (If you’re not aware, several of Patreon subscriber levels provide access to Work in Progress posts AND a copy of the complete novel once it is ready for publishing.) Here is the first Work in Progress Post: I slammed into…
Writing Update: Done with Draft 6 of Jason Maxfield #3
And starting on draft 7. Last week went very well. I’m making very good progress on Jason Maxfield #3. In this last draft things have really started coming together. I usually have several branches that go nowhere which need pruning and most of that got done this pass. The word count for last week was approximately 10,100 words. (Note: I write on a lot of different projects all at once. My weekly word count is for all projects, even though…
New Writing Update
You can find it now on Patreon, available to everybody. The picture above is AI generated based on a scene from the upcoming Jason Maxfield Novel.
For Writers: Book Marketing in New Year, Social Media, Problems with AI
Over on Substack, I post my thoughts on writing, publishing, & storytelling. Here are some recent highlights: Book marketing thought for the new year: Better off writing? Coming from Forbes: It’s very important to build a community around your book journey early. Look across your networks of colleagues, clients, industry peers, board members, university alumni groups, community organisations, friends and family. Be active on whatever social media channels they’re engaged with, and ask them to interact with you and share…
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