Recent content by Karlin

I just threw out a chapter in my own writing. It happens. Don't view it as wasted effort. You needed to write those two chapers in order to figure out the third.

The question is how to tell your readers what the setting is. You can drop a few details near the begining that will show this. A title page that says" Rwalabraship , year 5723". Or even a map.

Fritz Lang, Metropolis

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?