Category: Musing
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Problem-Solving
Any Chance a Third Way Exists? Does anybody else get the sense that much of the debate surrounding the use of AI in writing/publishing/creating is quickly devolving into a no-win, rage-baiting exercise some might say is reflective of current political divides throughout the world? Although I’ve been wide open about my decision not to use…
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Escher’s Stairs
OK, so this week’s photo header isn’t a copy of Escher’s actual work “Relativity” as the title might indicate, but it is an excellent photo all the same. I thought it might elicit a mental image of that incredible work of his. My personal favorite, however, has been “Hand with Reflecting Sphere” since I first…
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Who’d a Thunk?
I know, I know…some people might refuse to read another word of a post titled in such a fashion. I understand how difficult it can be to accept that some aspects of a dialect are a natural part of a constantly evolving language like English—take, for example, the use of chopped words like Who’d a…
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Both Worlds
NOTE: This post was written entirely by a human author—yours truly—without any assistance whatsoever from AI, automated writing, automated editing tools, or machine learning algorithms. If somebody had told me a few years ago that in the near future I’d be posting fairly consistently on my own author’s website/blog, I would’ve shrugged it off &…
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Battle of the Century—The Humble Em Dash v The New World Order
NOTE: This post was written entirely by a human author—yours truly. Here we stand at the dawn of a new age of AI, machine learning, & whatnot, wringing our collective hands over a controversy so full of— Yep, you guessed it. Full of dire warnings about the use of the measly em dash in everyday…
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Along the Way
Whenever I sit down to read long-form posts & articles about writing, I’m not really on the lookout for more tools of the trade. I already have a healthy collection of online how-to articles & videos, numerous ebooks & books, & plenty of emails related to the independent author adventure. Instead, reading a long-form post…
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Deep Dive II
If somebody asks which part of my writing process I enjoy most, I say in all sincerity, “Oh, ____, for sure” (whichever phase I’m currently in). I mean, it’s impossible for me to pinpoint why I’m so eager to write for the lion’s share of my scarce free time & even sleep time. But the…