Since fall 2023, I have spent about 15 hours in webinars and in-person workshops learning about artificial intelligence--specifically about generative AI and how it could impact my work as a professional writer, a published creative writer, and a creative writing instructor. A few of these workshops offered a balanced look at the technology, with information… Continue reading A year in AI news
Category: The Internet is a Text too
What writers need to know about AI
Disclaimer: I am not an AI expert, and do not know everything there is to know about AI. I am just a marketing writer wondering if generative AI is going to replace my job, a creative writer wondering how it will affect the publishing landscape, and a teaching assistant trying to help students navigate the… Continue reading What writers need to know about AI
Tattoos for English Majors
Up until relatively recently, this blog had a title, and the title was Scribal Tattoo. I wasn't particularly attached to the name, which is a shallow pun on "tribal tattoo": I'm the scribe, obviously, and while I'm not more tattooed than your average writer, my identity as a tattooed person goes all the way back… Continue reading Tattoos for English Majors
Pandora’s Music Box
In 2015, when my friends were curating Spotify playlists to listen to on their smartphones, I still listened to CDs and the same three Pandora stations I created when I registered in 2009 and could only seed channels with musical concepts. One of my stations was exclusively for classical and modernist instrumentals--study music. One featured… Continue reading Pandora’s Music Box
On strong being the “new” pretty
I drafted this post months ago when the posts linked below were posted; just now got around to fleshing out the text I wanted to quote. At The Daily Dot, Anne Thériault addressed the implications of hashtags like #StrongIsTheNewPretty and #StrongIsTheNewSkinny in the context of current media depictions of so-called Strong Female Characters (with a shout-out… Continue reading On strong being the “new” pretty
More questionable interpretations of Lolita
Sometimes I start a post and then it just sits in my draft box until some relevant circumstance wakes it up and sets it free. In this case: some time ago, back when I was re-watching Scandal with my visiting friend, this same friend mentioned that she'd recently read Lolita and was blown away. Reading Lolita… Continue reading More questionable interpretations of Lolita
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