For now this is just going to be a blog for sharing short stories I write mostly in response to writing prompts, whether from Reddit, Reedsy, or the numerous prompting games and dice I’ve collected over the years. Sometimes I’ll combine prompts, occasionally I’ll write without an external prompt. I’m just a big bundle of writing chaos and you’re welcome to come along for the ride if you like.

I am also in the process of planning content for my YouTube channel so I look forward to seeing you there as well.

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A Quick Note about AI

AI is an extremely contentious and divisive topic, especially among artists and creators. While this site is focused on my writing (and yes, it it all my writing and I will never use AI to generate or modify my stories), my social media posts often require a piece of artwork to accompany the post (with the goal being to get people to click through to my blog and read the story here).

So if you arrived here after seeing one of my social media posts and you want to scold me for using AI images to attract readers, please consider the following:

If you are an artist and you struggle to come up with taglines or other written work to accompany your visual art, I would propose that it is not the worst thing in the world to use AI to supplement your talents in that case. If you could afford to hire someone to write the text for you, I’m sure you would. But until that time I would consider it reasonable for you to use AI to generate whatever text you need in order to succeed as an artist. And that is why I use AI to generate images to accompany my stories.

The fact is that no human artist can do what the AI does as quickly, and especially not for free. I understand that AI is using training data that includes essentially stolen art when it generates images for me (and similarly, it was likely trained, without my permission, on my writing as part of its textual language training), and I wish we lived in a world where those artists and creators could receive accurate and fair compensation for their contributions to the AI, especially in situations where companies are profiting from those contributions. However, we do not live in that world, and instead I must look forward to a future in which I can afford to pay an artist to create original works of art to accompany my work.

I do not believe that sweeping “zero tolerance” attitudes are healthy or helpful for society, and I feel that boycotting is a powerful tool that needs to be used with care (and, perhaps, in moderation). Pick your battles, use the tools available to you to increase in strength and power, and then become the change that you wish to see in the world.