Recent content by Karlin

Inspiration is a major part of my creative process. Why would I want AI to inspire me?

I recalll playing a quest game, with basically zero graphics. It used keyboard symbols, like @{_~ and so on. This was late at night, on a VAX DEC machine, while waiting for an experment to run. I doubt there is any way to play that today, nor do I think anyone would want to. There was Digger on...

I don't conciously think about any of this, so I don't have a "bitch of a time". I didn't take writing courses, or read stacks of "how to" books. I don't even know what half the terms you use are. It's a very intuitive process. Since you are not a pantser, it may strike you as insanely...

I see that this is a standard thing taught in writing coiurses and so on, but it makes little sense to me. Note that I am a pantser, and write intuitively, so I am blind to most of these nuances.

Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna

He wasn't home much, so he may have had some spirit left.

I just asked google "When did Vittoria Colonna's husband died. I got an AI summary that reads : "Vittoria Colonna's husband, Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos (the Marquis of Pescara), died in 1925? No, 1525! Let's check the date: 1525 (specifically, he died from wounds sustained at the Battle of...

I think we are seeing the two different approaches to writing here. Planners vs. Pantsers. If you are a planner, you know what you need from your research, you look for it, find it, and move on. Discipline and rules work in this space. If you are a pantser, you don't know what's next, and you...

Of course you need self discipline. But not all writers are the same. An ocassional rabbit hole is a bonus for some of us. Perhaps having some attention deficit is connected. I don't know.

Some of us don't have deadlines, and finish and publish novels.

You are describing writing as a discipline. As sticking to a contract. Almost as a form of employment. For me, writing is an adventure. This despite my research degree and (rather limited )military experience. As a pantser, it is not even clear what research will pay off. I'm almost tempted to...

I wonder... what is the attention span of a gnat? or of any insect?

I take a goat to the wise man in the mountain. He checks the horoscope, chews some fungus, and comes up with a name.

standalone version of Word, private cloud backup (not onedrive). email myself copies of work in progress, and physical hard drive backup.

I've heard that "ideas are a dime a dozen", yet I also see many posts here asking for ideas, or ways of generating ideas (Even use of AI to generate ideas). I think it differs by person. I'm an idea person. Ideas just appear, sometimes quite a flood of them. I know that they are based on...