Tag: books
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Research Trip – Part 1 – The Fish and Chip Shop
Miss Pepper and I left mid Sunday morning and cruised down to Sydney. It’s about a 4-5 hour run from the mid-North Coast. The Take Away shop When Em’s life is almost at rock bottom, she flees the inner city, selecting a road with no consideration of where it will take her. She’s just driving…
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Holding On News – Meeting the Elephant Page Publishing team
I was so pleased (and nervous!) to meet the team at Elephant Page Publishing via video link today. I felt honoured and special to be “believed in” by a bunch of people that I don’t even know. (I was so nervous that I forgot to get a screenshot of the meeting.) Per, Soraya, Daniel, Kel,…
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Who’s the better writer? Me or ChatGPT
Just saw a social media post of an author castigating another author for using AI to write a story, and I think I’m inclined to agree. But I reckon a decent author can outgun ChatGPT any day of the week. (Maybe, twelve months from now, it will be a different story.) Consequently, I’m going head-to-head…
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Breaking Free – Chapter Four
Em moves to Sydney. There’s a sense of expectation. This is the calm before the storm.
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Sleeping in her car, the attic room (Smoothing out the plot kinks)
I wove the plot together in the last few days and it works well, but it’s not a 10/10. Yet. There are kinks at the 3/4 mark where I know I’m forcing the plot instead of letting it play out. It’s too quick. It needs more space. Consequently, I’ve let the plot outline sit for…
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Breaking Free – Conversation with ChatGPT
This is a planning document, helping me clarify my thoughts around the three main threads in the upcoming novel, Escaping Well. I had a conversation with ChatGPT, and was very pleased at the insights it spat out. It is not creating any storyline, but it is certainly giving positive feedback, which made me feel good…
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Breaking Free – Novel Concept.
Short synopsis and possible opener to “Escaping Well,” a companion novel to “Holding On.”
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Novel outline. The Hoser.
Okay, this is a pretty grim storyline, but it’s necessary to make my point. Part One is “The Monster In the Cave.” I want to capture the horror that the ancients must have felt when they discovered what the ‘gods’ required of them – the twisted, sick requirements around human sacrifice and sexuality. This would…
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