Friday Chatter: Venting
This week’s post was about venting techniques, in a sense. What venting techniques work for you? What helps you feel like you really “got a problem off your...
The Complaining Notes
One of the things I'm learning in therapy is how not to panic. This isn't an explicitly stated goal. I didn't come in saying, "I want help not panicking." (I...
Friday Chatter: Memory
I’m still chewing on the quote that I shared on Tuesday from “The Winter Knight,” about how memory can be nonlinear, like “a snarl of lights that needed to...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 79: The Winter Knight
Autistic Book Party is back this week, with a look at Jes Battis’s dreamy, surreal urban fantasy, “The Winter Knight.” If you’ve been here since April this...
Friday Chatter: AI Creativity
I’m still reeling from the conference, tbh, and thinking about AI more than I should. The writers I’ve seen are pretty unanimous in saying we do not want AI...
Conference Highlights
I'm back from the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity. It was a whirlwind of a week. My scholarly contribution was minimal, but...
Away this week
No post this week because I am traveling! Specifically I am in Waterloo, Ontario, at the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity,...
Friday Chatter: Review
On Tuesday I talked about writing reviews, but now I want to hear about reading them. What’s one of the best / most enjoyable / most useful reviews you ever...
Friday Chatter: Review
On Tuesday I talked about writing reviews, but now I want to hear about reading them. What’s one of the best / most enjoyable / most useful reviews you ever...
To Pan Or Not To Pan: On Negative Reviews
I was thinking recently about negative reviews, spurred partly by Charles Payseur's post on the topic and by the recent Critical Friends episode featuring...
To Pan Or Not To Pan: On Negative Reviews
I was thinking recently about negative reviews, spurred partly by Charles Payseur's post on the topic and by the recent Critical Friends episode featuring...
Friday Chatter: Formats
If you’re a writer, what’s a writing format that you haven’t tried, but would like to - or a new format that you did try, at one point, that was very...
Friday Chatter: Formats
If you’re a writer, what’s a writing format that you haven’t tried, but would like to - or a new format that you did try, at one point, that was very...
Writing For A Video Game
Now that Trinity Fusion is out, I wanted to talk about what the writing experience was like, especially for readers who don't have any experience writing in...
Writing For A Video Game
Now that Trinity Fusion is out, I wanted to talk about what the writing experience was like, especially for readers who don't have any experience writing in...
Cheating With ChatGPT
Like just about every other professor in the world, it seems, I've been dealing with my share of students who've tried using ChatGPT to write their...
Cheating With ChatGPT
Like just about every other professor in the world, it seems, I've been dealing with my share of students who've tried using ChatGPT to write their...
Friday Chatter: Helplessness
There’s a lot we could discuss about AI, but for today’s Chatter thread I want to briefly highlight a different point from this week’s post - the one that’s...
Friday Chatter: Helplessness
There’s a lot we could discuss about AI, but for today’s Chatter thread I want to briefly highlight a different point from this week’s post - the one that’s...
Welcoming (Or Not) Our New AI Overlords
I've been thinking about AI writing a lot these past few months, which is no surprise, because so has half the Internet. But for me, it feels personal in a...
