If I had to select just one novel by Bernard Malamud to read, which should it be? The two I'm torn between off the cuff or The Natural and The Fixer. But I'm very open to suggestions. #WritingCommunity #Literature
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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
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https://paulkater.com/manuskript-software-for-writers.html
My first post about using #Manuskript for writing stories.
My writers' group reviewed the seventh and last of the #stories in my 'story cycle', a set of stories in what I describe as a low-magic #fantasy world (which became increasingly #queer as I went). It's a chunky one, much longer than the previous six. Most of them wanted me to write more, possibly turning this story into a novel. I don't think so. The stories all together are meant to form a novella.
Still, it's good to be appreciated and receive constructive feedback, and I was congratulated on finishing this project, even if there's still a fair amount of editing to do. It feels good. After all, I wrote the first story more than ten years ago, when two friends and I formed a small writing group. I picked the up the writing during lockdown and it's finally getting there.
"It is better to light just one little candle than to stumble in the dark"
♲ Caro Kinkead - 2024-02-23 16:21:23 GMT
In bad times, if you can find some good, it serves as a spark of light against the dark. It might even show you the way through.#FinallyFriday #WritingCommunity
I performed at a #spokenword event last night for the first time in a long while. I was really nervous, but it was good. The theme was World War III Literary #Cabaret.
My #story, #Balls, is below. It's a performance piece, not sure how it'll come off reading it from a screen. So just picture me turning to stage right, waving my fist and shouting "Plonkers!" at the right moment.
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BALLS
My grandparents grew up in caves. Granddad says it wasn’t safe to go outside most of the time. Some people who did got sick, some even died.
My parents remember it too from their childhood: they were taken to shelter in the big underground spaces when the burning rain came, or the choking clouds that often followed it.
They say it was because of the wars. World Wars, they call them. They say there were three of them.
But they were all over long before even Granddad was born. There are stories, but I think nobody really knows what happened in the before times.
It all sounds scary, but really – people causing burning rain? It doesn’t seem very likely, does it?
What I do know, is that we’re doing better now. Better than when I was a child, and even better than when the elders were. We’re growing more food and we’ve recovered lots of machines and books and stuff from the before times.
There are a lot more people in our valley than when I was a kid, both from growing families and from strangers who have come to join us. We’ve explored more of the ruins and fixed up homes. It seems to be the same all over the land. We’re in a period of prosperity.
Now, even though we understand some of the old technology, there are still lots of machines we find that we can’t get to work. Mum says they need something called electrisss— something...
She’s in the science team, so she should know. They make a little electrisss in big boxes called batch-reez. Apparently they used to have lots of it, judging my all the machines. No idea what they needed so many machines for.
I think that was one of their ages, in the before time. They had a stone age, and a bronze age, and a plastic age. Maybe also an electrisss age. I wonder what that makes us now.
But even though we’ve figured out so much, it’s not all good news. Since there are more of us, the land is getting crowded. There’s only so much wood to gather, so many animals to hunt. The people in the next valley are getting jealous of us. Plonkers!
There have been some fights over the past couple of years, and it’s getting worse. There were some bad clashes, and a few people were killed just last week.
We’ve had no choice but to build up our defences. We do have some weapons, even some guns from the before times, although the powder is hard to make.
I heard some of the elders talking, saying there were tensions all over the land, with clans grouping together. One of them said it would lead to war. She thinks people are just built that way. We’re doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
I think she’s wrong. I’ll tell you why.
We’ve recently recovered a... carrnon? Conan? Cannon. A cannon.
A big old metal thing. Our weapons team got it to work. It shoots big metal balls. It’s not the most accurate thing.
Apparently they found it in a museum. Maybe in the before times they didn’t know how to use it properly. But some of our fighters worked it out. You load it with these big metal balls filled with the fire powder and use more of the powder to send it flying. Something like that.
The cannon balls explode when they land or hit something.
I watched a few days ago. They tested it out on an old building. The devastation!! The whole house collapsed, rubble and dust flying everywhere. And the noise of the explosion!
Imagine – if these cannon balls were fired on people. We could annihilate each other. Surely that fear will cause all civilised people to recoil in horror and end all fighting. Surely with these cannons, there can never be another war!
This is reality already
♲ Kimberly - 2023-02-23 10:53:44 GMT
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I haven't done an #Introduction here recently. This is my home on #SocialHome, a small patch of the #fediverse. I only post my #writing here, nothing else. Writing isn't my dayjob, so it's sparse and won't fill your feed. Often #microfiction. I follow some writing, art and nature from here. #writingcommunity #amwriting
Here's a short story (~1000 words) that I submitted to #Jewish #Futures, a forthcoming #SciFi collection. Sadly not successful. It's written from the perspective of a young #Jew just before their coming of age ceremony, living on a distant colony in the far future. It's called Forgive Me. Your thoughts welcome, both here and on Wordpress.
https://zirk.us/@sbarolo/109395260695536751 sbarolo@zirk.us - Anybody who cares about novels should read Ursula K. Le Guin’s revolutionary 1986 essay “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”, which she wrote while she was figuring out how to write like herself and not like Great Men.
“That is why I like novels: instead of heroes they have people in them.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
free link https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-the-carrier-bag-theory-of-fiction
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Reading another pop-fiction book from the 1970s and I have to say it totally sucks, even ignoring the politics of the piece. Did pop fiction have some sort of Renaissance in the 80s or 90s to make it so much better or were the 70s just a dark ages? #WritingCommunity
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