Recent content by A. E. Lowan

Yup. Same as a printer. Same as AI. It will be Hamlet, but without context, because AI doesn't get how they connect to the work, that lifetime of experience that Shakespeare carried within him as he wrote. That we all carry when we open a file or a notebook. A chimp has context. We may not...

Yes, but so can a chimp with a typewriter. AI's a lot faster, but neither computer nor primate will grok anything they type, no matter how it looks. Neither is writing. Basically, both are compiling information a lot like I play dps in MMO's; roll face across keyboard, repeat, repeat, faceplant...

Of course AI will improve. It's able to refine itself so fast you can see it reflected all across Pinterest. This week is stunning. Next week it will be mind-blowing. But what it is not is human. It lacks a connection to the Collective Unconscious and that intimate familiarity with what it means...

As should shock absolutely no one, I'm falling on the more complicated side of the fence on the AI question. I don't think AI can independently invent anything. Extrapolation can look like invention, and I know because I do it on the daily, but it takes a soul, a mind squishy in both thought and...

Writing is one of those rare professions that require both hubris and humility. We need the hubris that our words matter and we truly believe that they belong in the wider word, so your characters can live rent-free in someone else's mind... for a change. And we need the humility to know that we...

My editor - also oh, so very dyslexic - sits on the couch and makes fun of my typos. She also makes me look smart, so I think the little hottie deserves a giggle. And oh wow, if I ever submitted a rough draft, my mother would pop up out of that pretty urn my sister put her in, and she'd hit me...

Pretty sure it's just you. The quote sets up the implied but unspoken punchline that work just stops, and there is no mention of the train and the bus stopping because they love this work... That makes no sense. Remember, context, and the establishment of that context, are crucial to the...

"You know writing is a pipe dream." That was in 2011. Usually, we don't remember most of what someone says, but we do remember how they made us feel. I felt pretty pissed off. I find that when I get motivated, I get a whole hell of a lot accomplished. Blistering hot rage is like lazing a stick...

I get a lot of them over on FB, and if I have time and energy, I'll toy with them a while. But no, they don't get to bring that crap here. This is a safe space for a lot of writers, and to the spammers who've found us I'll say the one thing that scares the spit out of my little sister. "I don't...

Very, but he's thorough and I like thorough. He doesn't cuss as much as I do, but everyone needs room to grow. ;)

Cranky old man alert. He's not wrong, but also tired and cranky and cussing. I'm amused, but we all also know I'm bent.

I was approached by both rose1 and Festus in DM's, and it should be noted that neither of those threads still exist. I don't know how they were deleted, just that it wasn't me. I keep everything. I also love screenshots. The thing all of what I'm calling bots have in common is that they have no...

Ouch. Just... ouch. In the Epic Fantasy trilogy we're working on, one of the MMC's, the High King's personal bodyguard and companion - and secretly his Spy Master - lost his left hand and some of his lower arm just past the wrist while, in a moment of barely-post adolescent heroism, tried to...

This. ^^ Like everyone else, I've never had any success in finding an "original" idea. There are none, and that's actually a function of storytelling in a society - not to be original, but to strike cords and find commonality within the group. It's so we can sing the story of what it is like to...

I hear Azimov and I think for a moment on his more academic work, and now I need to show off our library, but only because you guys will totally get this. lol