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It’s been a productive week. I’ve been using AI to do a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Soiled Undies. There are some things AI is not good at but, when it comes to technical analysis, it is very useful. Or maybe I just like the way the obsequious chatbot shines my wheels. Today we’ll look at the…

Should be done the copy edit of Soiled Undies & Other Gorgon Encounters by next week. What then? Then things get scary. Book layout. I need to figure out book layout. Book agents. Yeah, I should really give it a try. Not that I enjoy rejection. Who does? Not expecting anything but rejection. I’m pretty…

Sometimes you’ve got to work through the sh!tstorm. At times like these, I’m glad I have developed my consistency muscle. An absolute dumpster fire at work. Not of my making but, it is my responsibility to deal with all such dumpster fires and clean up the resulting mess. Time consuming and emotionally draining. Too much…

Everyone knows how hard it is as a first time author to get your work published. Sure, I’ve had a few non-fiction pieces published but I never wanted to be a journalist or write editorials, what I love to create is fiction. In 2024 I founded a little writing group with a friend to help…

What’s new? My Substack campaign continues on to the next chapter. With my Not the Tales You Remember collection complete, this week I moved into a new set of stories from my collection Snapshots Across the Multiverse. The first installment is actually a prose poem, not something I usually associate myself with but, there it…

Exciting times. I just posted to substack my last fairy tale parody from my collection “Not the Tales You Remember“. This one is a parody on the tale of Rapunzel titled @GlamorLocks4Ever that imagines how our tower-dwelling hero would make out in a world dominated by social media. This is the 11th and final story…

I can’t claim authorship for this one. Yes, the concept was mine. I wrote the entire rant. Made all the points. But it came off as a dull piece. Limited humour. Weak narrative thread. Ran it through my Chat GPT editor in search of advice. It was the LLM’s brilliant suggestion to reorganize the piece…

Another week, another story up on Substack. I’m nothing if not consistent. Yesterday I just finished the first draft of a fun 40,000+ word Sword & Sorcery tale. It was a fun ride. Now I shove it in a metaphorical drawer (it is saved as a Word document on my laptop) for 6 months before…

The seventh story from my Not the Tales You Remember collection is up on substack: https://brainsoupfic.substack.com/p/sisterhood-under-the-sea There are eleven reimagined fairy tales in all. Three are available on Amazon including my favourite If the Shoe Fits and my readers’ favourite Piggies and Wolves and Sharks, Oh My! The other eight will be published on Substack…

Here it is, the 5th installment from my Not the Tales You Remember series. https://brainsoupfic.substack.com/p/the-fall-of-bear-corp Meanwhile, editing continues on Soiled Undies & Other Gorgon Encounters. Painful as it can be, I feel like it is going well. More work perhaps than anticipated but the results make it worthwhile.