Since my third novel, Saving Julian, was published in early 2024, AI has learned a lot. For example, on Aug 8, 2024 Curtis Sittenfeld wrote an article in the NY Times.entitled, An Experiment in Lust, Regret, and Kissing (favorite subjects of hers as well as her readers) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/20/opinion/beach-read-ai.html    She wrote a 1000 word short story based on the prompts her readers had supplied while her editor told ChatGPT to use the same prompts to write a

Ennui and desuetude, but we're alive and well, I hope, so let's use what we got.

This is a post about my writing why and how, written as a newby writer before coronavirus hit the fan.

Who cares how your future novel is classified? You do if I tell you that your book is more easy to peddle if it falls into a clean...

Finally! We can get around to writing a new novel. If this were a book on writing (and there are megatons of them) I’d have to summarise...

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A new algorithm aims to inject some science into the art of publishing

Many, many reasons. But for these times, one good answer is that it is therapeutic. There’s some evidence for that. Below is a good...

That's ambiguous, isn't it. Why not, write! That comma indicates that you should just write, dammit. For no reason or for a few reasons,...

1. Write your novel. 2 Carry out developmental edit, line edit, and proof reading. 3. Find an agent. 3. Repeat step 2 with agent. 4. Tell...

Today I was reading an old New York Times Book Review and found that Courtney Maum has written a book called Before and after the Book...