I recently completed a short story for the Bridport Prize, titled “Home and Dead With Strangers.” This experience has reaffirmed my belief in the power of deadlines and competition prompts to motivate and sharpen my writing focus. I stumbled across this one on instagram I think, almost immediately after writing about writing completions in this […]
The Motivation of Deadlines: Writing for the Bridport Prize Read Post »
I’ve found it much easier to write when I have a focussed entry or competition to write for. Sure, I still really enjoy writing outside of those circumstances, but ultimately my focus is drawn to kids, work or the other day to day aspects of life. It doesn’t even really matter what type of competition
Finding Focus Through Writing Competitions Read Post »
I have been playing around with ChatGPT and other AI assistants. So far my quick take on ChatGPT and its usefulness in this blog in particular: I’ll give an example with the recipes. Here is what I asked ChatGPT: Can you help me craft engaging content similar to my other recipe posts if I give
Forays in Writing and Blogging with AI Assistance Read Post »
I’ve been thinking a bit about what I’ve been writing here for the past several years – sporadically at best, but with bursts of activity for sure. It’s a place for me to dump my working papers out into the world. I haven’t really had any feedback to speak of though to be fair I’m
Cow Island – what is it? Read Post »
