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Narrative Conventions of the Seasons

Image Source: Grant Snider via Rob Bignell on Bluesky .  Check out my new writer's profile on Bluesky ! I just signed up and found the above cartoon. Next, I saw an amazing photo of an albino squirrel, which resembles the main character in a fairy tale I'm writing: "The Keepers of the Dawn." That character is based on a white squirrel that lived next to a post office near me. Whenever I mailed a letter, he or she would scramble down toward me, and I began to consider the little animal as a talisman. What a moment of synchronicity to sign onto Bluesky for the first time, to be greeted by a white squirrel, exactly like the one in the story currently on my desk. Image Source: Artologica aka Michele Baks on Bluesky .  This story is part of a series of children's books I'm creating which focus on the adventures of wild animals in Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, as well as wider parts of Eastern Ontario, the Ottawa Valley and Southwestern Quebec. 'Keepers' i...
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A New Mythology for the Turn of the Millennium: The Podcast

The blog will now begin exploring the power of AI to discuss the stories I have been writing for over a decade and plan now to bring closer to publication. Since AI is considered a universal threat to creators, I will discuss what it means to work with this exponentially-growing medium as a commentator and potential fictional character in itself.
 
To that end, I have a new podcast series about my fictional writing: A New Mythology for the New Millennium. This first podcast was generated by AI and is the start of a new journey, building on the work I did at Histories of Things to Come and on Patreon, Discord and Telegram. It will also profile the millennial characters and storylines in my fiction.
 
The AI voices are a bit weird, but that is part of the exploration. They make conclusions about my writing, a form of odd literary criticism from 'out there.' Link to the playlist. Link to Podcast #1. Can an AI which is commenting on human arts become a critic - or a metafictional character inside those arts? We will see.
 



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