Claude, ChatDog & DALL-E, My New Best Work Friends
Some folks are nervous to say they are using AI in their projects. Is it cheating? Will I be seen as a hack?
Category: process
Ulysses for Headache-Free Writing
I Got a Lot of Problems, but My Writing Software Isn’t One of Them If you are a writer who uses some combination of a Mac, an iPad and an iPhone, the Ulysses writing app could be the best software thing that ever happened to you. Amiga, My Love Adopting …
Writing Dreamer Site
Creating a new website and portfolio ought to be easy for me. I work in WordPress and Joomla… I write web copy… I am a writer and a graphic designer, AND an enthusiastic photographer and bad artist. How hard can it be? Silly dreamer!
Shamanism and the Job Jar
Since my last post, I have been struggling with the usual pests–fear of poverty and procrastination–but also with a sense of mortality, my own and that of my parents. …. so funny. I started this post, maybe, two years ago, and I am still stuck in the same drama. Want …
Getting My Writing in Focus
Focus is Crucial I have been a writer of poetry, stories, and novels for more than 35 years. I have read, at best estimate, 7500 books, and so I know about the turning point, the climax, the denouement, and the plot arc. But I couldn’t connect them with my own …
Wax On, Wax Off
Practice. My friends on ProzactoPrana and Slippers have been talking about it, and I promised to do it this month. 50,000 words in 30 days during NaNoWriMo may not produce a finished novel, but it is certainly good practice. Where am I? Embarrassingly far behind. To save face, I’ll say …