Rob Bignell says try something risky and I 100% agree. Write in the present tense, write in the second person, write from a non-binary perspective, turn a poem into prose or prose into a poem, or create a visual poem. You can do it! It’s fun.
Fun!
We all feel like that, but think about those ten people who enjoyed it. Something’s missing in the promotion chain. What if agents repped books that are already out? All that work has to count for something. Good to know it improved my communication skills.
The dismantling of the publishing industry means no support for promoting new authors. We need alternative systems for promotion. Giving everything away for free and monetizing later is the “content creator” model, but a book is a lot of work and it shouldn’t have to be given away for free.
You know I’m a huge fan of Bruce Lee’s philosophy, “be water.” That’s why I’m putting Jeff Chang’s Water Mirror Echo on my short list for Spring reads. @zentronix.bsky.social
The Fence stole my jewels and left me a briefcase full of scratch paper.
One can believe, simultaneously, that protesters in Iran should not be shot or hung en masse for speaking out against the government and that war against the mullahs in Iran is illegal without congressional authorization.
Iraq 2.0. Expect chaos.
Shocking. We need the names and they need to be prosecuted.
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Even Microsoft got rid of Delve.
It should only be used when describing what the dwarves do in the Lord of the Rings.
Love it!
Wishing you all the power you need. 🤩
This cover design is intricate and bold -- and then I heard there's time travel. 🔥🔥🔥 #sciencefiction #timetravel
Have you tried DEN Denver?
And I took the fork less traveled.
Love this one. Preach it! Zombies, shipwrecks, headless ghosts and more!
A cogent point about point-of-view and a topic to explore. What is objective and what is subjective? Centralizing experience within a character provides clarity, but doesn't require repeated attributions. Readers don't want to struggle, but you don't have hold their hand. Less is more in most cases.
I've got a new story going out. Learn more about what I'm up to on my blog: fredpierre.com/2025/
#writingcommunity #indieauthor #authortalk
I saw that movie.
Lyric, surreal and hard-hitting. The Sea cannot be contained.
Save it all and mine it later.
Imagine if your birth certificate wasn’t proof of citizenship. That’s why there is an attack on birthright citizenship. At the same time wealthy immigrants can buy citizenship for $1,000,000. I’m already grumpy about having to show my driver’s license to vote. I don’t want to prove my family tree.
Set up to steal our words and ideas and repackage them for sale without paying any humans.
A language model is a semantic model is a knowledge model. It’s a search engine on steroids. It may not “think” like a human but it knows more words than any human and it can retrieve more data mined human answers.
The models are getting better and better and they can help people solve real world problems. If you track the development from B.I, business intelligence or think about A.I. as a data mining and categorization operation, you start to understand their possibilities.
Washington friends,
This Saturday, I'll be signing copies of BURN THIS NIGHT at the Kitsap Mall at the Barnes and Noble in Silverdale.
Appears in my collection of poems, called Flywheels.
So unconstitutional!
Hint: Show it a picture of your dad.
And here I thought tech bros. spent three trillion dollars to make tools that non-consensually undress people. Where’s that cancer cure?
