A hundred haiku from that one horrific day
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Monday, August 21, 2023
September Tuesday
A hundred haiku from that one horrific day
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Saturday, August 19, 2023
Before you watch the Barbie movie
Short stories on the cheap
Do Unto: A short story and twenty others
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Unto-short-twenty-others-ebook/dp/B019CSRZCQ
Do Unto: A short story and twenty others
https://www.amazon.com/Do-Unto-short-twenty-others-ebook/dp/B019CSRZCQ
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Tall Corn State
An Iowa Story
Tall Corn State - lively personal novel with actualist poetry, jumping trains, & unrequited love
Kindle Special TH-SAT July 27-29
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Tall Corn State - lively personal novel with actualist poetry, jumping trains, & unrequited love
Kindle Special TH-SAT July 27-29
on Amazon
Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Quaker plays
https://www.amazon.com/Ten-Quaker-Closet-Plays-discernment-ebook/dp/B0C7K3R6B5
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Chat GPT takes on haiku
In a rare confluence of luck, two people downloaded e pluribus haiku anthology near the same time, and it got #8 in the Japanese Poetry & Haiku category, Amazon.com, e-books. I was excited! I went to the page and prepared to tell everyone that I was in the top ten. But then, I noticed that Chat GPT had written the book that was #4.
I was flabbergasted! But I had to download it and see what it was about, even though I know that downloading it will basically make it get an even better rating.
The book, called Autonomous Haiku Machine, advertises itself as having Chat GPT as the author. The editor must simply have waded through thousands of three-line nothings and picked out whatever looked like it could remotely be called poetry. No seasons, no attention to nature, no syllable pattern, none of the traditional characteristics of haiku. But sure enough when I looked later that evening, it was still ahead of me; it was #13 while I was at #14. Tonight it's at #32 while I'm at #36.
We will probably sink together in the ratings until, after about a week, we'll cross the hundred line. That is, if you the reader don't read this and go and download one of the books. A download will shoot a book up into a pretty low rating but as you can see it's all pretty temporary and it starts coming down (getting higher) pretty quickly. If for some reason two or three people download it, it will have a somewhat better ratings jump and then come back more slowly. By watching Autonomous Haiku Machine I can learn a little about how fast a book comes back to earth.
In truth Japanese Poetry and Haiku is a pretty wide-open category, and they put comics in there and it still doesn't get thousands of people buying and selling every day. It's just not a very fast or lively category. In a way I feel like it's cheating, knowing I could write just about anything and with the help of a few friends, possibly get it into the top ten. This is what happened to the machine haiku. People will download it, sure, but does that make it good? This particular haiku is not good, but, who am I to say? You can read a little of my rant here.
I'm not really mad at these people who are flooding the market with ChatGPT-written stuff. If anything, it shows what we genuine writers have that a computer will never have. It makes ours look good, in other words.
Another surprise to me was that this book was written in 2021. Apparently it's not that new. It's just that now is when we are finally reckoning with the consequences of having this new elephant in the marketplace. Things will never be the same!
I was flabbergasted! But I had to download it and see what it was about, even though I know that downloading it will basically make it get an even better rating.
The book, called Autonomous Haiku Machine, advertises itself as having Chat GPT as the author. The editor must simply have waded through thousands of three-line nothings and picked out whatever looked like it could remotely be called poetry. No seasons, no attention to nature, no syllable pattern, none of the traditional characteristics of haiku. But sure enough when I looked later that evening, it was still ahead of me; it was #13 while I was at #14. Tonight it's at #32 while I'm at #36.
We will probably sink together in the ratings until, after about a week, we'll cross the hundred line. That is, if you the reader don't read this and go and download one of the books. A download will shoot a book up into a pretty low rating but as you can see it's all pretty temporary and it starts coming down (getting higher) pretty quickly. If for some reason two or three people download it, it will have a somewhat better ratings jump and then come back more slowly. By watching Autonomous Haiku Machine I can learn a little about how fast a book comes back to earth.
In truth Japanese Poetry and Haiku is a pretty wide-open category, and they put comics in there and it still doesn't get thousands of people buying and selling every day. It's just not a very fast or lively category. In a way I feel like it's cheating, knowing I could write just about anything and with the help of a few friends, possibly get it into the top ten. This is what happened to the machine haiku. People will download it, sure, but does that make it good? This particular haiku is not good, but, who am I to say? You can read a little of my rant here.
I'm not really mad at these people who are flooding the market with ChatGPT-written stuff. If anything, it shows what we genuine writers have that a computer will never have. It makes ours look good, in other words.
Another surprise to me was that this book was written in 2021. Apparently it's not that new. It's just that now is when we are finally reckoning with the consequences of having this new elephant in the marketplace. Things will never be the same!
Friday, April 14, 2023
Chat GPT
OK so I'm a short story writer (I have ten volumes). And the world is being flooded by Chat GPT stories. And I take this seriously: "You won't be replaced by Chat GPT, but you will be replaced by someone who knows how to use it." So should I be learning how to use it? It wouldn't be that hard to learn.
Lately I've been fantasizing about figuring out how to crank something out that would actually make money. The problem with what I write now, is that not enough people know about me. That wouldn't change if I started creating Chat GPT stories, but if I could truly crank them out people would find me just because of sheer volume. Rather than putting out a book of short stories every year or so, I could put one out every week. Or every month, at the very least.
I've noticed that themed stories in general do better than a book that just says, short stories. I'd like to do one about Disney, for example, twenty-five stories (or whatever) from the Magical Kingdom. But that's the kind of thing Chat GPT would do very well on. I could tell it I want ironic commentary on the nature of loving fantasy, of being taken in by that whole Mickey thing. I'm sure Chat GPT would understand - actually I'm not sure, but if it were to put a lot of Mickey and Goofy in there, that would have the same effect.
Another thing I thought of is making my next collection of short stories (I have about six so far) all about writing in general, and name it, A Real Person Wrote These" or some such thing. Not that I really know what's going on; I don't. I might try to download a couple of ChatGPT short stories just so I'd know what I'm talking about. Or write a few.
One interesting experiment would be to see if I could hide ChatGPT stories inside a book of real ones, and see if people can detect the real ones. I could become famous that way, especially if nobody could. It would be worth a try.
Stay posted, and I'll let you know. Is ChatGPT like an app or something, that I can just download?
Lately I've been fantasizing about figuring out how to crank something out that would actually make money. The problem with what I write now, is that not enough people know about me. That wouldn't change if I started creating Chat GPT stories, but if I could truly crank them out people would find me just because of sheer volume. Rather than putting out a book of short stories every year or so, I could put one out every week. Or every month, at the very least.
I've noticed that themed stories in general do better than a book that just says, short stories. I'd like to do one about Disney, for example, twenty-five stories (or whatever) from the Magical Kingdom. But that's the kind of thing Chat GPT would do very well on. I could tell it I want ironic commentary on the nature of loving fantasy, of being taken in by that whole Mickey thing. I'm sure Chat GPT would understand - actually I'm not sure, but if it were to put a lot of Mickey and Goofy in there, that would have the same effect.
Another thing I thought of is making my next collection of short stories (I have about six so far) all about writing in general, and name it, A Real Person Wrote These" or some such thing. Not that I really know what's going on; I don't. I might try to download a couple of ChatGPT short stories just so I'd know what I'm talking about. Or write a few.
One interesting experiment would be to see if I could hide ChatGPT stories inside a book of real ones, and see if people can detect the real ones. I could become famous that way, especially if nobody could. It would be worth a try.
Stay posted, and I'll let you know. Is ChatGPT like an app or something, that I can just download?
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