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Continue reading →: Research: Using Flower Names for Female CharactersI have several teaser stories written to promote my draft Boudica and The Butcher. For fun, I decided to try name the female characters after flowers. So, I asked three different AIs for a list of potential character names. In the table below, I identify which AI listed each name.…
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Continue reading →: Angry-Woman, The Heroine We Need?One old story idea that I might never write was inspired by a character who appeared for 3 seconds without any spoken lines on the show “In Living Color.” This occurred in the introductory sketch for Handi-Man. She was described as the world’s only black feminist lesbian superhero, Angry-Woman; it…
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Continue reading →: Research: Using Weapons Names for CharactersI have a number of teaser stories written to promote my draft Boudica and The Butcher. For fun, I decided to try name the male characters, who were all soldiers, after weapons. So, I asked three different AIs for a list of potential character names. In the below table, I…
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Continue reading →: If I Had Been a Better ManI observe that often my drafted stories have a musical influence. In this century, Colin Hay, famous as the lead singer for Men at Work in the 80s, made a mature and reflective song called “If I Had Been a Better Man.” As inspiration, such a song risks venturing into…
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Continue reading →: Research: Apache TranslationI have two characters, an uncle and nephew, who are Apache and appear in two of my draft novels. During editing, Copilot helps me with research during editing to add a little spice. Question: What is the Apache word for dog? The Apache word for “dog” is góshǫǫ. In Apache…
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Continue reading →: When Adam Offered Eve an AppleI have noticed some reoccurring events across my draft stories as I edit them. One is a man offering a woman an apple. Looking at these recently, it seems like a riff on the woman choosing between a man or bear in the wilderness meme by having her choose to…
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Continue reading →: Research: Describing Being TaseredOne of my short stories involves a restrained prisoner who is threatened with being tasered to extract intelligence. Never having been tasered I needed some hints on how to describe the effects. Below is my exchange with Copilot to gain some details to include in the story. Question: I am…
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Continue reading →: The Massive Chad StoriesI have been editing my Chad Seeks Wife stories, which are my largest block at 51 stories with more than 600k words drafted. I estimate that at 3 books, The Misadventures of Chad Seeking a Wife novel plus 2 anthologies of short stories that were not essential to the novel.…
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Continue reading →: Research: Naming a Succubi HunterI asked Copilot questions to help me name the assassin in my Succubus Queen story (see below). I decided to name him Tofano as a masculine adaptation of Giulia Tofana, who feminists have been celebrating as a killer of men. My short description of that short short is “Tofano offers…
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Continue reading →: Butch and Nasty at CollegeI had been working on drafting an experimental short story that could go horribly wrong as it crashes and burns before completion. Butch and Nasty are new college roommates without having known each other previously. Nasty thinks Butch is an effeminate scrawny shrimp but attributes that to Butch growing up…





