Thanks to the latest @The Late Night Linux Family podcast for bringing this cool interactive fiction editor/publisher tool called Inky to my attention. #writing #WritersOfMastodon #CreativeWriting #InteractiveFiction #gaming
#writing
Hmm...
A video introduced (on Mastodon), by Dave Dawkins, artist/writer/musician/designer - with the headline:
"How AI destroys everything"
The video touches upon the whole issue of AI 'creation' and displacement of/substitution for human creatives....
The introduction below is his, a good thin-slice and framing of the implications for human creatives, as well us 'user experience'.
The Real Reason Why Music Is Getting Worse
Publishers are talking up a subscription model for books. You pay a monthly fee and download whatever from their catalogue. They want to drain writers just like Spotify killed music. But authors can't do live shows to earn money, like most musicians have to in order to pay their bills.
Anyway, an insightful video on the value of creative (as it pertains to music but could be writing or anything.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZ0OSEViyo
#WritingCommunity #writing #music #art #AI
Hmm >:=C
I am working on my first role playing #scenario (#ttrpg) which I plan to put out as CC-by as is the rule with this project. It is about four old hippie ladies who meet up in the great forests of Michigan in the autumn of 2020 and from there... well mystery, possibly horror, hopefully fun for those brave enough to try it out.
My working title has been "The Fabulous Four" and as work is progressing pretty well I just thought that I would check again to make sure it is not in use ...............
LOOK WHAT I FOUND! Premiere July 26 - 2024
Not at all the same, still COMPLETELY THE SAME! WTF! I will need to find a new title.
Here's the silly trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFdUOzrYMD8
#penandpaper #roleplayinggame #writing #creativecommons #cc #cc-by #freeculture
I see those articles as seeds, out-of-time compact flashes.
https://notesandsilence.com/2024/05/05/gardening/
#zen #mind #meditation #silence #writing
https://bobrich18.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/bobbing-around-volume-23-number-12/
Bobbing Around Volume 23 Number 12
Posted on 23/06/2024 by Dr Bob Rich
New content Posts during the past month
#ENVIRONMENT We still have a little time. Here is how to use it.
Being childfree saves a future for children
Can individual actions have an impact on global warming? How do small changes in behaviour affect the environment?
GOOD NEWS Vermont leads: make climate criminals pay for damage
More on Vermont: saving pollinators
Four out of five people are sane: UN report
#POLITICS On human shields The Ukraine invasion hasn’t gone away
One of the major reasons I am proud to be in the Australian Greens
#PSYCHOLOGY Wired-in compassion
Terrified I want to die before the horrors of the near-future get me
Oh the stories we tell! How they can change your life
DEEPER ISSUES Human nature being what it is: cooperative and helpful
#TECHNOLOGY Pedal power Wheel in mouth disease
#HEALTH Medicated ecosystem
#WRITING Where do my ideas come from?: June, 2024 round robin.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Pragito’s free book
And Pragito’s course on creating miracles
Ned Kelly’s son rides again You just have to read Mary Tod’s thriller
#STORIES A new addition to my SF series
#POETRY Joyous Litha, by Laurie Corzett
"Content should be non-discriminatory, polite and relevant. Announcements should be 100 to 200 words, shorter if possible. Book reviews, essays and stories should be at the very most 500 words, poems up to 30 lines.
Author bios should be about 50 words, and if possible include a web address."
Ep - 22
The meta meterage, magnified incoming coffees, housed to recipient, advent to escapism, the drone placed calculate once netted to seclude a figure infinity, apples basketed the least contention, softer aspirations concluded. Geisha mouse reciprocated in hours, vestige to a Tenth, eliminating status, from intent, cored the apples savvy of data insulating numbers, fabric twofold devices, worn the warming sleave of drone and expansion. Net coffees, to the inspirate contender, barista of edified notation, saliant wares of designer imports, Ken Koala procured a production of hamlet, recognised those in meta placements, cabins trajectory, the between hour, bad actors or good intentions.
Silence whispered to have a graduated second, established connection, the data became sequential, apples decided a cinnamon top, the poised apron arrived with numbering Ken, as meta data, little to the unknown, consuming to out pace interim retention, they had supported to end warfare. Protocols remained, the room housed fifteen sets of Eos permits, Ken softly spoken of, supplied the room, with intervening reports, Dams concurred, their fortification, trips to Bristle on the very bookmark they inquired about.
Steeps set a binary of tabled letters to those inferred to by coffee retention, then masking one a second cup procured non effectual; you see charismatic coffee, loans a supporting patronage, those basket contending seeds a grievance of software, nouns are sharply ineffectual, the occupied lands a hamlet by your residency, to reside with application, courage to bring a supportive apple, once required; the intemperate is data free applicating stores of pastries. Progressive #writing
Two lengths of capital transparent numbers, scheduled the place we’re to say, time hasten the starry light’s, breaks the cushioned recoil of stellar clouds, dispersing sun, to mind the drone of infinite time, measures by Twelve, before surpassing a negative binary of Fifty-nine. Chaucer pocketed one more dimension, Nepal’s cat counted around of, expressionistic counter measures. They found vails and vanes, the inducive typeset, Geisha mouse fondly craved the resistor, a patronage creative to a supple resident.
They measure at combatant lengths, firstly foreclosures imminent chimes, fasting dreams a Proton star, Nepals instrumental calculus, formatted geolocational timeframes, Pilates coding code of contact. The insatiable appetite, once reformed by geishamouse, provided a nuanced hourless hour, introverted incoming clouds of data, of predicted annuals secluded the patronage hour, redressed in fashionable desire. Save they both tabled, incoming reports, addressing their cushioned satire by the mantel, a seat stated Chaucer, by the chaired fireplace.
Generational pretext coded by next generation surveillance in all you know, the knowledge of knowing, a trick painted slough brought about by the decisive bill, two letters, one word. Worth or misplaced recuperation, the saliant paint dried a summation, airs having the lasting impression, to the umbrellaed release, matramony to the metronome, recalled in by a feasability study, the menu charged with acceptance speech. Should locality display the domain in a welfare product, armaments retreating the causalities of cohesion.
Geisha mouse dormant to improvised words, they knew their existence to gather devotion, grace by the exceeding truancy, windows tailor made from a widows recovery, two generations, one by default, the following by provocation, renewal in estrangement. Nepotism replaced the vale, acceptance spoken to by the narcissistic recluse, travel time documented my surrounds. The retreat was sunshine gathered to, captive to the clouded sequester, sprung the sprig of lambing factual, withdrew the contending bill, covenant before them, misfortune replacing platitudes, hospitable for the rounding familiar.
Progressive #writing ©️
After lunch yesterday, we went to the #HistoryOfScienceMuseum in #Oxford. It's not very big but contains some really fascinating exhibits. It is right next to the #SheldonianTheatre and well worth a visit.
Here are wooden models of the #FivePlatonicSolids.
This is a beautiful example of #HandWriting in a book. #Writing like this is certainly a lost art these days.
Here I am explaining to my spouse the similarities and differences between #Octants, #Sextants and #Quadrants.
This wooden box contains some immaculate #brass #DrawingInstruments. Another rarity these days but I do remember learning how to use similar #instruments while studying at university.
A brass #sundial.
Without anything but manual #SurveyingEquipment, humans were able accurately to map out the entire globe. It's amazing what can be achieved when humanity works together. But also, this model is absolutely gorgeous.
Not to be outdone, the #astronomers mapped the #sky and here it appears on a companion globe.
No computers were around then but the ingenuity of humans to develop calculating instruments to allow them to crunch numbers meant the creation of some devices of stupendous cunning.
To this day, trainee pilots have to master the #CircularSlideRule in order to do calculations for various tasks. Before flying was ever developed, such #SlideRules were in common use.
This #camera is another fine example of hand-made instruments. The craft and skill of whoever made it is a marvel.
Ep – 20
The foregone catalyst, numeric expansions encased a concept of thought, seeing to the analytical conundrum, leaves fall the Autumn pray, they spiral in spherical catch, reproduced lay of upswept contemplation. Matter the mindful time, a regressive branch discards her postal colourful ambrosia, timely instants the fall records annual habitation, the very exist we replete to vivid composition, composing multitudes of variant shapely, format, the open escarpment to vilify a singularity of patter placement; germinating the maturing surrounds, informing one lost brief, identifies the causation of imagery as whole, the individual brief, secluded a maturing vanity, one costly reproduction of natures formalities. Our introduced leaves as a multitude, their resemblance is counterintuitive of pattern placement, to consider a matter of factual exactness.
Hypothesis is to saving expressions of similarity, causation if a familiar identity, is to assume the sense of seeing, the equivalent to seeing the retrospect of reproduction, is a fleeting conclusion. Connective optical conclusions could vary the photogenic singularity, briefly adapted to a sense of thoughts, interaction of feeling the containment in hubris interactions, seen to by the sampling of thinking thoughts; to listening with example to the reappearance of intuitively thoughtful futurity. The expression of seeing, is being absolute to the scenery of sensation, them bearing only those words, the resumption of inclusion, interaction has no known point of conclusion, outsourced by the blooming age of winters discarded conflict. Progressive #writing
#writing #literature #chaucer #canterbury #tales
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) was well-travelled and highly educated. He was as familiar with Latin and French as he was with English, and he had little trouble in learning enough Italian to absorb the literary tradition of Italy during his visits to that country. It is therefore hardly surprising to find that stories from the literature of France and Italy, and from the Classical tradition, appear in the Canterbury Tales, adapted to a greater or lesser degree.
- For the Clerk’s Tale of “patient Griselda”, Chaucer uses a story told in Latin by Petrach (1304-74), and this is actually cited in the short prologue to the Tale. However, Petrach is known to have used Boccaccio’s Decameron as his own source, this being a work with which it is believed Chaucer was not familiar. For the Clerk’s Tale, Chaucer sticks quite closely to the story as told by Petrach.
This ruined English spelling
#History #Language #English #Writing #Zibaldone #BreakfastVideo #RobWords
In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips
https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-pulitzer-prize-winner-jayne-anne-phillips/
#dylan #writing #mywork
AT THE TIME
At the time, I should have married Dylan.
But he was already married.
When he was free, at the time, I was briefly married.
It was a mistake. Why waste time on a mistake?
Then he was free and I was free,
but at the time, we were both immature
even though he was ahead of me.
He fell back, and I got ahead of him.
At this time, we’re even. I heard him saying
“Yes. I believe in a higher power and life after death.”
I know he’s numb, and can hardly smile,
just going up and down, back and forth
on the same old roads.
At this time, I been thinking..
I should send a postcard.
1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 USA.
#fiction #non-fiction #writing
1800 French Linen
I’m Non-Fiction
with Fiction lace around the edges
so I don’t scare people.
- Ivy Blackledge Whitfield
Ep – 18…
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Winter arrived in exult for another transaction, snow fell as the sunset barely arose without trending to the occupational distances, vendors piecemeal, a wifi turret of seclusion for the edifice, redressing Stonehenge a place of compatibility. Monolithic hands of time, they withdrew their ceiling of a starry veil, should pagan or rite, have conductively hallowed the shallowing market, an active pillars soliloquy in syllogism, taut or fragrant, the volume was exceeding the ceiling, fell to quantify those seasonal departures.
Those fares travelled smite in contributing discovery, four-hundred were metered out in global patronage, it didn’t attain to symbolic cartels, word’s were fashion, studious as the fallen snow; apparel netted assistance, facial recognition to a covert assimilation. The future forwarded a shallow imprint, those pending words corrected for a sovereign transfer, lusts compendium, inducive for interacting youth or reacting warmth; the meter of memoir showing to the resistance of capitulating the age of generational displacement. As they sanitized the lightly selective, the cuppa, once upheld for matriarch, disorder in manifest, those times they are a changing, the physicality of remembrance, challenges the spite on aligning time with sociology. ©
