I'm reading a lot about this now (I have time in retirement). I want to distinguish between generative AI and AI that might be used for...

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the...

Rachel Griffin-Accurso and Melani Sanders My granddaughter, like most toddlers, loves “Miss Rachel.” Miss Rachel (or Ms. Rachel) is a...

This is the text to a recent podcast. Yesterday I spent four hours at a local gift shop conducting a book signing. That description...

My husband came out to the deck where I was reading, thinking, and taking long pauses to listen to birds and watch them visit the...

On April 16, my publisher and a friend and I attended the awards ceremony for the Townsend Prize. It was held at the Callanwolde Arts...

https://georgiawriters.substack.com/p/seeking-the-man-behind-the-curtain?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=570089&post_id=161714...

No wonder our ancestors worshiped the sun. What to an untrained, unmodern mind is more fierce and faithful. I see it perched on a...

I believe that when we craft a story, there has to be a spark. That spark may be: a person or group of persons (family) with a certain...

These are short but stunning in many ways. Here is one I wrote, playing with words: Some one said to “pen” a narrative. The opposite of...

On February 2 I put out the solo podcast episode that was part 1 of this series. If I didn’t anger you or totally discourage you, I’m...

This is the transcript of a recent podcast, a solo one by me.   Welcome to this early February 2025 episode of Dialogues with Creators....

For almost 30 years, I have used a Franklin Covey Planner. I will probably stop this year; they are more than a retired person needs....

That title is an overstatement, and click-baity. But it's close to the truth. I read Beloved a long time ago; I don't think I understood...

For some reason, Facebook is giving me a lot of links to or copies of poems, probably because I am friends with a few published poets and...

My publisher, Vickie McEntire of Colorful Crow Publishing, heard of the Townsend Prize for fiction and decided to nominate my latest...

The Idea #27 is tongue in cheek.  But these are some ideas about writing fiction, which I have done in ten novels (and counting), a dozen...

These four posted were culled from Facebook and other sites...I do not think I would post my poems on the Internet, but I am not sure...