So. AI, eh?
Like most folks of an artistic persuasion who are active on social media, I’ve been seeing more and more about advances and applications of AI technologies within creative fields.
Is Twitter Dying? (Is it dead already?)
I started this on the train just because 🥲 pic.twitter.com/iZJ804yjLs
— Darling Mikki (@OkSoMik) November 10, 2022
In the book The Artist’s Way it’s known as synchronicity.
Through absolutely no planning of my own, the topic of today’s post is a perfect case in point to what I wrote last time when considering the future of this blog. Specifically, the point I made in favour of maintaining some semblance of it indefinitely:
The Future of Blogging (for Me)
The blog Slab defines the ‘Delete’ quadrant of the Eisenhower Decision Matrix as “Tasks that distract you from your preferred course, and don’t add any measurable value.”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of this blog.
I’ve had it for 10 years now, an anniversary from back in February that I completely missed. Still, I remember exactly where I was—both literally (geographically) and figuratively (as a writer)—when I started this site.
Adventures in Reading: All Ears (At Last!) for Audiobooks
It was taking a course in speed-reading that finally made me try audiobooks.
My library of audiobooks in the Audible app
In my previous blog post, I wrote about my adventures and outcomes in taking MindValley’s 21-day Super Reading course last November.
Adventures in Reading: A Need Wish Possibility for Speed
I once told a friend that if I were ever given three wishes by a magical being, I would wish to be able to read faster.
A simple request for which I envisioned no unforeseen, earth-shattering consequences, and that I believed would genuinely make my life better.
Last November (2021), I decided to grant my own wish by signing up for a speed-reading course.
A Rapid, Last-Minute Reset and Replication: My Fourth-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In
As the famous saying goes, it ain’t over till it’s over.
After my mediocre showing in Q3, with its debilitating heat during both the Pacific Northwest Heat Dome and the hot-hot east coast where I later fled home expecting cooler climes, I was determined to finish the year on a positive note.
On the Deaths of Over 10,000 Darlings
Ah, the irony!
Having last month complained about wordcount conventions for aspiring authors, particularly the idea that their books should be as short as possible, I’m now devoting even more words to this topic.
Some Words about Wordcounts
For the past three months, I’ve been working on an R&R for an agent.
In part this has been to improve my novel’s wordcount.
Turning Up the Heat on Achieving Progress: My Third-Quarter 2021 Goals Check-In
What a difference three months makes.
Or perhaps more accurately, what a difference one week makes.
The Purpose of Writing
Is art—in particular, writing—meant to be representative or aspirational?
On Twitter, where I admittedly spend more time than is probably recommended, the issue of representative vs. aspirational writing comes up often, if not necessarily using these exact terms.
A Frame Around Infinity 