22
Dec
The Story Behind the Wedding Day Novel
It's been an interesting challenge writing the Wedding Day novel, mainly due to how I splintered the short
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04
Dec
Charles Brackett on Forgotten Screenwriter Muriel Bolton
I'm reading legendary screenwriter Charles Brackett's diaries, and it's a bit of a slog.
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25
Nov
Making the web your own
I could not agree more with John Scalzi's post about the artisan web. I've spent a
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20
Nov
Always Hustling
The members of my writers group like to joke that I'm always hustling. They mean it in the
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16
Oct
Feature Screenplay Completed
I put the finishing touches on my most recent feature screenplay. Entitled Not Hurt, it is what in the industry
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11
Sep
AI Story Sold to Lightspeed
Earlier this year I participated in the Codex writers group Summer Flash contest. I decided to do so with the
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31
Jul
Writing with AI: Sudowrite
My last few entries I discussed writing with Laika and how it did in the Codex Summer Flash contest. Last round I was pressed for time due to my having a deadline for an agent, so I rushed out the story and sent it in. So while a raw draft won't get good scores, the process was certainly helpful in
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10
Jul
Writing With AI: Laika & the Codex Summer Flash Contest
I haven't regularly written short fiction in years, but I've re-started lately and one of the
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23
Jun
Thoughts on Another AI Writing Tool: Sudowrite
A critical difference between the two platforms is that Sudowrite is intended to just plain work, which is great because you just type and press buttons. But it is vastly different than Laika, which allows you to upload your writing for the AI to learn your writing style. As I noted in the previous
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22
Jun
First Thoughts on Collaborating With a Creative Writing AI
Since Laika is a collaborator and not a button press type of AI, I reset my expectations from "Laika will do the writing for me" to "Laika will help my writing." The concept of helping writing is broad, hard-to-define, and ultimately very personal. For me, Laika added some new ways of thinking durin
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