Welcome to The Fictional!
Whether you’re reading me here, on Substack, Medium, Tumblr or elsewhere, all the things you need to know about my writing projects will be found right here.
AI is a tool, like everything else. How you use it is what matters. I’m using it and having a blast! I can do so many things now that I couldn’t before, and it’s so exciting to have this 360-degree approach to my writing, from ideas to polishing the text to audio voiceover and images. It pushes all my creative buttons, and I like when those buttons are pushed a lot.
A tragic tale of lust and betrayal. After ten years, the story started in 2013 is finally done. Read about how four authors put together a dark fairy tale and it finally made its way to completion.
Anyway, I still have to write the novel. I won’t let ChatGPT do that. But at least if I need an idea generator, then here’s something I can use.
In Crabquake, our heroes Jesse and Haze battle a new kind of insanity — giant crabs morphed by the chromium seeped into Baltimore’s historic Inner Harbor and unleashed by an earthquake on the unsuspecting neighborhood of Fells Point.
Okay, it’s really not going to destroy me. Honestly I can’t do just one thing. I just can’t. Call it ADHD, or in my childhood we called it being “hyper”, but I can’t just do one thing. There are too many stories calling my name in my head, and well, what’s a guy to do? Gotta just tell them all. Fuck it.
At least half of what I write now is considered “serial novel”. I have literally a half dozen in the works, either actively being written and published or being written to be published later or simply just a concept with some of the basics already worked out. I find it to be a fun way to tell a story, and I didn’t realize that serialized novels were such a thing now.
Do not underestimate what your reblogs and words mean, just because you’re not ‘big’ or whatever. Reblogs are the key to creating and maintaining a community of like-minded people, supporters and supportive folks who share interests, encourage each other’s creativity, and engender a feeling of community and togetherness. Reblogs matter.
Dorothy: Locked & Loaded was told by five different authors from 2010 to 2012 delivering 138 episodes over two years!