Recent content by Demesnedenoir

AI might "write better" and sure as hell will write faster, but it won't write the same story you will. It writes good copy and flashy, impressive shit like a new toy. Whatever.

I wouldn’t fear the word Chateau, but whether or not other stuff gets too close I wouldn’t know. Odds on you’ll never make their radar anyhow. That said, all things become more alcoholic the longer you ferment them, upto a point of course. Yeast only survives to a certain point before you need...

Gross outside of maybe a children’s book and then max of 2. Cartoon strips excluded as special case.

Plans? As the great Bill the Cat said more than once... ACKPHFT!

Welcome aboard! Hopefully you find the soil fertile.

Sounds encouraging. I had a spec script requested by a production company in LA and I got this letter back, and I'll totally paraphrase this since it's been 25ish years. Oh my God, I laughed outloud! I can't tell you how rare that is when reading scripts. It's almost too funny, you want to give...

Interesting premise, but I don't read much any more, all my extra time is writing until someday I retire... it that ever happens, heh heh. Nice cover, to echo Prince.

My writing chair is wherever I plant my ass, which could be in the Jeep, beneath a tree, a rocker, a recliner, or every now and again an actual desk chair! I'm currently converting the loft into an office, but we'll see how much writing actually gets done there, heh heh. I plopped out about 1k...

My brain immediately leaps to: NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition... Cardinal Fang! Fetch...THE COMFY CHAIR! I really need to rewatch all of the Flying Circus.

I don't make a pile of sand, I go to the beach. Health and time issues aside, writing can be a struggle, but it's hitting that Zen Zone where there is no time, no confusion, no questions, and everything is easy that's Hard as Hell. It's those times when you look back at your last few paragraphs...

One thing I find amusing is that there was a point when people loathed Token characters, but we seem to have come circling back to celebrating Token characters. You can see a mirror of this with the "segregation is bad" argument coming around to "segregation is good" and it's really determined...

Quite a few years ago, pretty much every agent was seeking "own voice." The nomenclature changes, but monolithic is the right word. The worm may have turned a little bit by now, on the surface, but the underlying culture is deeply engrained. Other than that, I'll just say I don't give a shit...

Okay, so, here's a link, and this is fun... The AI vs authors results! (part 2) You can check it out yourself before viewing what Winston thought of the stories. Lawrence used ChatGPT of some sort, I think. See how you score picking out the AI! While pure AI work is standing out like a...

Weightier and far superior, and the funny thing is, some folks like to claim Tolkien was a terrible writer.

I have characters who speak more formal, while others are more colloquial, some use zero contractions, some use a bunch, but I won't go as far as "thee" and "thou" any more than I would use "dude" or "stylin'" or other modern lingo, because it speak distinctly to a certain period and region of...