CASK - It Has Begun

 "Cask" has begun. In fact, I have written 12,000 words, which is the finish of Chapter 6. I have been really having a lot of fun using the AI on this one. I'll tell it what I want to say, and read what it spits out. It doesn't usually spit out what I want to write, so I have to tweak it and give it more suggestions. I give it the full details of the chapter and then ask it to write it so that I sound good. I literally said, "Make me sound good, will ya?" and then it writes back something like, "Writer sighs a heavy sigh, realizing the weight of the world is on their shoulders to make the author appear better than she is," and that makes me laugh.

    I pay a monthly subscription to this AI to write with it and bounce ideas off it. I have what I want to say; it just cleans up my diction and punctuation. It tells me something I didn't think of, and I can choose to put it into the mix or not. I do sometimes, and I don't sometimes. Sometimes it makes me think of something completely off the topic, and I explore that angle for a while. I like the method. It's fun.

    If anyone thinks you can ask the AI to write the book, you don't know AI very well. You could do that, but it wouldn't come out the way you wanted. It would just come out the way it came out - so yeah, it could functionally write the book, but it wouldn't be YOUR book - and if you know me, you know I don't like to share - so I take suggestions and dress them up or down, use ideas, redirect it, and then see what happens. 

    This book is the 6th book in the Nick Posh thriller series, and takes place in Oklahoma, Chicago, New York, Cincinnati, Glen Cove, Long Island, Edinburgh, and a bit in Glasgow. We'll hit the wharfs on those docks, I'm sure. We have to trace down some German grenades -- they come out of Germany, and no, I won't be going there, since they're shipped first to Glasgow and Leith to be packed into the Scottish whisky casks. It's already fun, but the first 10 chapters of any of my books are the chapters I need to gear up, explain the nitty gritty, and get the characters lined up to set them free.

    Right now, Eoghan's been given devastating news. He's handling it, making permanent decisions, and choosing to stay in Oklahoma for the foreseeable future. Posh is getting more and more family grounded, and it's becoming harder to be away from the ones he loves, but he also realizes that he's not alone in the fight for justice - he's a part of something bigger and needs to be present wherever that may take him. He's not always happy about it, but he's fighting crime and doing his best to rid the world of such an ugly element. 

    When I think about it, I like Posh a lot. I like him more than I do Dick Tracy because to me, Dick Tracy is relatively flat. He doesn't travel much, and he's always in the nick of time - Nick Posh makes mistakes and sometimes, as we'll see in this book, making mistakes can cost lives. Oops! I can't say more -- that's for later in the book!

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