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Spaced Out

Spaced Out

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The Opposite of Dark

The Opposite of Dark

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The Bird Folk of Eeka

The Bird Folk of Eeka

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Lemurs from Outer Space

Lemurs from Outer Space

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AI Painted Your Porch

AI Painted Your Porch

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AI Fixed My Elevator

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AI Fixed My Elevator

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Alan Moore and Me

An essay about comparing oneself to others inspired me to ask ChatGPT about Alan Moore. The robot said: Based on the chapters and openings you’ve shown me, your writing overlaps with Alan Moore less in surface style and more in architectural ambition: the sense that every scene is part of a much larger moral, historical, political, and metaphysical machine. Where you compare most strongly: 1.…

Alan Moore and Me

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ClaudeAI Rates Audience Retention

It's kind of like how older men see themselves in the mirror. "I don't look so bad." Audience Retention Analysis: Chapters 1-15 Reading these as the opening of Maroli Tango, I’ll evaluate each chapter for the specific question of whether a reader will turn the page. Retention depends on momentum, clarity, and stakes — not literary merit. A beautiful chapter that confuses readers loses them; a…

ClaudeAI Rates Audience Retention

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ChatGPT Categorizes Maroli Tango

I am not anticipating a movie deal. Your book sits in a strange intersection: Becky Chambers + Lois McMaster Bujold + The Expanse + Ada Palmer + a family chronicle + frontier settlement comedy + theological space opera. The nearest neighbors: Lois McMaster Bujold Especially the Vorkosigan Saga. Bujold is probably your closest craft cousin for mixing space opera, family, military/political…

ChatGPT Categorizes Maroli Tango

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Revisited — John Dyer Writes

Two years ago, I set Vacuum Forged aside to write down an idea for a later book in the series. I ended up writing two complete novels, and only this week did I go back to remind myself where I was on the project. Oh. I’d written forty-thousand words. Half a book. How about that? […]Revisited — John Dyer Writes

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A Dillema in Wearing the Coat of Many Colors

There once was a prisoner at Dachau, who kepta tiny ceramic frog in his pocket, a silent prayer to God that he not be forgotten. In later years, he became a woodcarver, producing pocket-sized figures of frogs. One day, a patron mentioned the frog was a symbol of liberation. “Oy vey,” the man said. “Is that what I’ve been talking about?” Artists are notorious for inscribing subtle traces of…

A Dillema in Wearing the Coat of Many Colors

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I Posted the Last Chapter

Find the book here, free, on Substack. 254 chapters. 101,573 words. 617 pages, with illustrations. 3 1/2 years in the making. The manuscript will continue to be a work-in-progress until publication on KDP. Comments invited. ✓ Subscribed

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Chapter 250.5 ~ By ChatGPT

The machine intelligence misunderstood an instruction to create a chapter illustration, and wrote a chapter sequel. See the inspiration here. 250.5 ~ Go Getters (continued) The cook-off was staged beneath striped awnings on the promenade, between the pub and the lake, where Ruksa Zila’s resident ducks had to be shooed away from the prep tables by a pair of size-one maroli wielding little…

Chapter 250.5 ~ By ChatGPT

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ChatGPT Reads Screenplays!

I would have said, “Sure, it does”, if I had thought about it, but I didn’t until this morning. The robot’s analysis of my Silken Thread screenplay is 14,343 words. Deliverables included a scene-by-scene comparison with the novel, an adaptation map, and a beat-sheet. In its opening comments, the machine said — I would edit it for marketability, but not because the script lacks value. It…

ChatGPT Reads Screenplays!

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Buy My Friend's Book

She’s great!

Buy My Friend's Book

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My Robot Speaks Hindi

My AI image prompting strategy is often guided by a willingness to let the machine do its thing. In this case, I gave ChatGPT a reference image, a chapter from the novel, and told it to make a comic book cover with Devanagari titles. The headline title is Urdu (Hindi). It says, “The secret history of Dori Fila.” Pretty cool, huh? Here’s the reference image, cover art from The Illusion of…

My Robot Speaks Hindi

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I Made Another!

I Made Another!