Yet another article on AI, part 2 By: Gwynne Dyer OPINION — June 3, 2023 I’m looking at a headline this morning that screams “AI Creators Fear the Extinction of Humanity,” and I suppose they could turn out to be right. But it’s still a bit early to declare a global emergency and turn … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Is Artificial General Intelligence “Coming Alive”?
Cue The Byrds: (And the rest of you, open your Bibles to Ecclesiastes 3): To everything, (Turn, turn, turn), There is a season, (Turn, turn, turn), And a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to build up, a time to break downA time to dance, a time to mourn . . . To … Continue reading To The Young Dude In His Dancing Duds – May 16, 2023
Limiting what novelists can write about won’t help readers [Blogger’s Comments In Red.] Washington Post — Opinion by Kathleen Parker — May 12, 2023 “Fiction is where I go to tell the truth,” the late, great Pat Conroy once said. In his acclaimed novels, Conroy cut close to the bone, exposing human truths that … Continue reading More On Limiting What Authors Can Write About
According to some of what I read and hear these days, I definitely should not have written this story, about a young slave girl and the Quaker saint John Woolman. Why not? Mostly because of what I wasn’t: I wasn’t a girl (& never had been); wasn’t a slave (or even an enslaver, for that … Continue reading A Story. Could I get it published in Florida this year? Probably not. Maybe Not New York Either?
FOUR: Bringing Them, Home, and Bringing It Back Part One is here. Part Two is here. Part Three is here. While on Nantucket, I managed to draft about sixty pages of my Quaker novel, and several episodes of the quilt story, before cash ran too low for more room rent. Than I had reluctantly taken … Continue reading The Island of Two Stories: Part Four of Four