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September 19, 2023
Horror Short Story 25 – Those Holes
Left Center or Right? Feel free to mix fonts or suggest color changes. I’m nearly done writing story #25 in my horror thriller short story series. Let me know if you’d be interested in beta-reading this! It’s psychological horror, no gore. Thanks!
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September 15, 2023
Writing Sucks – Judgement by Wired Journalist Christopher Beam
A recent Wired article on AI had the journalist Christopher Beam stating: “After almost 20 years of typing words for money, I can say from experience, writing sucks. Ask any professional writer and they’ll tell you, it’s the worst, and it doesn’t get easier with practice.” What in the world??? I adore writing. I mentor
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September 13, 2023
Gizmodo Using AI to Replace Authors
Gizmodo laid off several Spanish translators, then stripped their authorship off their articles. Then Gizmodo used AI to convert vast numbers of English articles into awful, broken Spanish, deliberately not crediting the original English-writing authors. Companies are using AI to actively harm competent writers because it’s “free”. This continues to escalate. Either authors speak out,
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September 12, 2023
US Copyright Office Asks for Comments on AI
On August 30, 2023, the United States Copyright Office published an official request for comments on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright should relate to each other. The US Copyright Office oversees how copyright applies throughout the United States, so this is a critical area for authors and artists to be attentive to. Here is
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September 7, 2023
Amazon Asks Authors About AI Usage
Brand new question in the Amazon publishing interface. Amazon wants to know if the author has used AI to generate any content or images. I’m strongly in favor of asking this. AI uses existing authors & artists copyrighted content WITHOUT CONSENT, without attribution, and without compensation. The title of the section is “AI-Generated Content”. The
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September 5, 2023
Death Watch – FREE Horror Short Story
It’s Halloween season!! I’ll be giving away free spooky stories all the way up until Oct 31st! First up, one which is important to me. I have a YouTube video which explains what inspired me to write this story. Death Watch on Amazon
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August 27, 2023
Romance Novels do NOT Legally Require a Happy Ever After Ending
I have been avidly reading and writing romance novels for decades. I have both in the past and currently belonged to a number of groups specifically for romance novels, both as a reader and a writer. I have subscribed to countless magazines (in the ancient days when such magazines actually existed) and newsletters. I have
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August 25, 2023
Publishing Out of Copyright Content and Gutenberg
One of ways I earn money is to track down old books which are wholly out of copyright and also completely out of print. The only way, currently, for interested readers to read that book’s content is to buy a first edition of it from a rare book store for a fair amount of money.
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August 24, 2023
Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen Nineties by Max Beerbohm SciFi Short Story Review and Analysis
The scifi time travel fiction short story “Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen Nineties” was published in 1916 by author Max Beerbohm. This is an amazingly fun story because Max, the author, grew up going to Oxford in London. He was a man-about-town college student. He then writes this story with HIMSELF as the
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August 23, 2023
Blocking ChatGPT Use of a Website
My next emergency to-do list item is to protect ALL my websites including BellaOnline from ChatGPT / AI ingestion, as best I can. This is a critical priority for me. Here’s my plans. Who else is working on this type of a project?
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