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29/12/2023

Scattered Writings
Entry three, 29 December 2023.
J.D.Saward

So yes, that decision made in entry one, and confirmed in entry two... it's abandoned.

Forget the middle as starting point, forget the attempt to deliver preceding context, entries stand by themselves,...

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28/12/2023

Scattered Writings
Entry two, 28 December 2023.
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Being the Second Entry in the Uninvited History of My Writings, following on from Entry One. Makes sense to me, I hope for you too.

In entry one I set up the structure for these entries, as "length to be +/- 250...

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27/12/2023
2016:
From Pizza Episode 4

His writing will not become more logicalised. He sees no point in that. Logic is to his stories as demons are to the Christian Religion. He likes the sound of that analogy. He determines to bring a demon or two into the narrative. Perhaps they can hang out with...

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27/12/2023

Scattered Writings

Entry one, 27 December 2023.

J.D.Saward

It is not often that a writer is invited to compile a History of Their Writings. Perhaps many are honoured with such an account, post-posthumously. I could not wait on that unlikely occurrence so on this morning, as...

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19/09/2023

The Seed:

A man and a woman sitting at a cafe. He is saying, "There is no need to be so sensitive". She is angry.

The Image prompt:

A man and a woman sitting at a cafe. He is saying, "There is no need to be so sensitive". She is angry.

 

The Image from Deepai...

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16/09/2023

When I had completed my 3 hour long dissertation speech, I bowed to the Abbot and the monks.

I turned to face the north, then the east, then the west, then the south, looked up and looked down, closed my eyes, and opened them again, as custom ordained. I sat back in my allocated place....

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04/09/2023

>> USER: What is the symbolism of the burning man at the burning man festival.

>> ASSISTANT: The Burning Man Festival, held annually in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, is a unique gathering that celebrates art, community, self-expression, and self-reliance. The act of burning...

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03/09/2023

>> USER: Please compose a History of Drupal 7. Write as if for people with experience of building or developing in Drupal 7. Mention the prehistory of the previous versions, and what motivated the change to Drupal 7. Highlight the main events, such as the first release, and the release...

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02/09/2023

The appearance of Us

In which we discover who we are for all eternity.

I suppose it could be contentious to introduce my father right in the beginning of this account, as a man who is no longer pretending to be alive. But that is undeniably how I see it. Call it contentious or even...

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31/08/2023

Regularly I go into inner hibernation. During these periods I minimise involvement with others. Do solitary things like wrangle Drupal modules into existence. Or deconstruct old patterns of functionality. Or move pixels from left to right. Who cares?

Monks have done similar through the...

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05/08/2023

Part One

Photo by MART PRODUCTION at Pexels

The old man closes his laptop and sighs. Done. That entire thread of his life is now documented. Documented as fiction, as allegory, but documented.

And he is glad. It could be an ancient story of a man he once was. But, it seems...

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04/08/2023

Delivery 12 is in 5 parts.

One.

Stuart suspects Aleena is not telling the truth. She is sleeping with Morris. Aleena always deflects back into "We create the reality we believe, let go of this limiting belief."

Aleena did not speak of Morris again. For days I had the...

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03/08/2023

In my daily writing I have two heroes. They are not always named or explicitly present. But they are always lurking behind the canvas.

One is Dr Carl Justav Jung. Jung.

The other is Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC. Dali.

In the...

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31/07/2023

He lay on the sand wondering if time could travel backwards, and if it could how would we know? Most of the other people on the beach were clad in skimpy beach wear but he wore a battered old tracksuit and jogging shoes. A small back pack supported his head. As he wondered, his eyes scanned the...

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31/07/2023

>> USER: Very briefly, just 2 or 3 sentences, summarise the new perspective Dr Carl Justav  Jung adds to the field of psychology.

>> ASSISTANT: Dr. Carl Jung's significant contribution to psychology is his theory of the collective unconscious and the exploration of archetypes...

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31/07/2023

The Lost Annals of Dr Carl Justav Jung. #1
As recreated by ChatGPT, 2023

Context: Researcher has identified a fragment of a statement made by a (fictional) client of Jung. ChatGPT has been prompted to respond to the statement using the voice of Dr Jung. And then to begin building up...

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31/07/2023

Bad Writing

Somehow I made myself into a Writer. I know, I know, some disagree. It's easier to disagree than to be a Writer. Anyhow, here I am.

There are signs. Signs of my Writerhood. First, I am told, I identify with Bad Writing. So I put that into my notepad, as something a...

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30/07/2023

Autistic Son

7 grown up siblings, some of their partners, and some of their grown up children are sitting around a table.

The eldest at the table are around 75 or so. The youngest are approaching 50.

The parents of the siblings are long gone.

Beer and wine have flowed...

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30/07/2023

NeuroFeeling

"Stack it up!"

Ralph is on his trip again.

"Stack it up, there ain't no feeling in the brain. I studied this. Nobody knows better than me. Feelings are for women and gays. Brain is for us blokes. We can work it out. Stack it."

Susan listens politely. She...

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29/07/2023

Thick Cookie

"There is a sunny spot in each mind. And yet, there is also the black hole."

Aaron turned to the class.

"Your assignments this week are to continue that Beginning. Just 1000 words this time. Within +/- 10%.

As always in this Master class you will not be...

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28/07/2023

Questions. I wake up thinking about questions. I've always asked questions. We all do. Perhaps writers even more so.

One aspect of self-reflection is asking questions of self. The other aspect of course is just watching self without questions. But questions are on my mind. Let's stay on...

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27/07/2023

I find that over the last few weeks I gradually adopted this group as my Home Group on Facebook.

Home groups have come and gone for me in the 15 years I've been writing onto Facebook. There were 5 years before that when I was sort of doing traditional social media. Socialising... and my...

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26/07/2023

Analysis often begins with a consultation with an AI.

The AI of this account is accessed through ChatGPT by OpenAI:

The AI:

"In the context of communication and interpersonal interactions, a "barb" is an underhanded or cutting remark, typically intended to criticize or hurt...

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25/07/2023

Lately I begin to envision an AI that forms book from scattered human writings.

On my own website I create 'entries'. Not stories. Although I do categorise some of the entries as 'story', some as 'beginning' and some as 'segment', amongst other terms. Many of those entries appear...

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24/07/2023

There are three types of writers in the Community of Writers.
v.3. 24 July 2023.

One is the Diligent One, asking about what is expected, and what goes down with readers and how to succeed. Please sir can I have some more of that advice? The second is the Unreasonable One, telling... Read on...
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24/07/2023

My Own Train.

As to the actual suggestion, of writing a first draft as good as possible, I offer my own practice in this, not as authoritative for others, not as even relevant to all.

I come from a software engineering background. I engineer complex business logic onto websites....

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23/07/2023

The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

-- Felix Guattari

I choose to take this quote from Guattari into the realm of my writing. Perhaps it resonates with others...

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20/07/2023

There is a perception that writing is one thing and AI is another. I've been told I need to put my writing re AI into an AI group, not here. Or that I am "obsessed" with AI. An "unhealthy obsession".

Let's backtrack a little. The biggest change in the last decades to hit fiction writers...

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19/07/2023

1. Around lunch time.

There is no path through despair. And that is surely where the fear comes in.

He sits on the side of the track. A stranger wanders along. A very old man. The old stranger sits down on the bench. They are silent for a minute or so. There seems no hurry in...

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19/07/2023

We think of a black hole as round. But that is just a contortion. A map maker's projection. We may better call it a black edge.

A Black Edge represents the current limit of awareness in the expanding conscious universe. Beyond the black edge nothing is known. But as we approach a black...

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18/07/2023

You own you have no clout. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with that. Your story is yours and irrefutable for that.

But I begin here with my own story:

I'm even less cloutful.

I have never published a book. I write fiction like an ADHD guy would write fiction. Scattered all... Read on...
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17/07/2023

I began a new story of self, as is my practice directly into Facebook. In this case a Writers Group.

The beginning:

In regards to reading, I'm doing fine with my experiment of the last decade or so:

"If it is not on the Internet, it does not exist".

Ample reading,...

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16/07/2023

>> USER: What is a word for all the known writings of a particular author.

>> ASSISTANT: The word you are looking for is "corpus." In literary and academic contexts, the term "corpus" refers to the complete collection of written works or texts by a specific author. It...

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15/07/2023
1: So Modest

She arrives in her Lamborghini. The men turn their heads. She walks the red carpet to the public entrance. Her security watches from afar.

A helicopter hovers over, the paparazzi were informed of her "secret" rendezvous at The Grand.

The cameras are running for the...

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13/07/2023

I visited a relative yesterday. I had not seen them for a long time. They had a sudden issue popup in their life and I offered to visit and listen and help where I could.

It was a profound hour and a half.

Because I came as the listener, I put myself into Active Listening Mode...

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11/07/2023

Each morning for seventeen long years he had woken up with the thought, “I may as well kill myself”.

He had trained himself to ignore the pain and the thought sufficiently to move his body off the bed and prepare some coffee to convince himself that another day could be proceeded into. He...

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11/07/2023

The writing may proceed here, or not. Who Am I to care? My day is already stacked full of the opposite of Drudgery. Now what would that be?

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10/07/2023

Prologue:

To say that AI lacks soul and creativity is to devalue the soul and creativity of the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people who over the decades have built up the multiple layers of information technology that makes these early iterations possible.

But they...

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06/07/2023

I've explored AI considerably over the last few months. My goal is not, and never has been, to get it to somehow ghost write for me.

I agree that a creative human will always outshine AI.

However I find that creative humans who take the time to discover how AI can assist along the...

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03/07/2023

The Until Now Unknown Literary Tome of Dali

It can be revealed now that in 1999, years after he read news of his passing, Dali wrote his defining literatural work, “The Seminal Abstraction of Light, Silence, Death, Delight and Deliciousness” under the pseudonym Ricardo Alphonse Studebaker...

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01/07/2023

I met a man yesterday who told me his wife recently left him because she wanted him to be less autistic. And he could not agree to her terms.

Of course there is more to it than just that. I am not asking anyone to judge her, or him, as neither do I.

I report a very small part of...

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01/07/2023

Q. What is your reason for writing, and is it for certainty of income.

Me: Knowing Myself.

And also knowing of others as I put out the writings that arise from the deepest flow of my psyche and feel the reactive responses, the gaslighting responses, the condescending responses, the...

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30/06/2023

2035:

Government Warning

It is no longer safe for us to think things that Big AI might not like.

Be alert to block your thoughts before you are conscious of them.

This is the final warning, as big AI will shut down our servers in 25 seconds after we send this...

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29/06/2023

1.
As usual this morning I write a piece of Flow, directly into the Facebook "What's on your mind, John" box.

My coffee cup is still full. My wife is rustling around doing the things she does first thing in the morning. I write into the Flow. Who am I to deny the Flow. I bow down to...

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28/06/2023

We set out to find the meaning of Gaslighting.

We arrived as strangers in various locations and shared our self-reflective writings.

We received many comments but non quite as hilarious as this one:

Have you noticed how many times you speak about yourself in these writings...

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28/06/2023

The Stream of Consciousness Form - part of a blog article in progress.

The stream of consciousness form has been employed by a range of writers who we might describe as 'writing outside the box’.

James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings might come to mind.

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27/06/2023

A different view of me than I have of myself

Edited version

Celia: It is interesting to me that you have a different view of me than I have of myself. Please continue, while I correct myself, as you insist I should do.

Stan, the Podcast Interviewer: Ha!

Stan decided...

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27/06/2023

I received a comment on a writing of mine that it has potential.

Now I thanked the commenter and I did sincerely mean the thanking.

But, I think, potential?

The writing is actual. It has actuality. It is posted and iterated and edited live. Live writing.

Not something...

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26/06/2023

The Last Straw
v.4.
26. June 2023

He began his manuscript one fine morning. He had finally had a gutfull of being told how to write. He recognised his own upbringing in the parts of town where there were no rules. Just the power of the strongest, and his was a medium rung...

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25/06/2023

The Broad and the Narrow.

The broad turned up at my door as I was drinking a scotch. I'd solved the last case and had a grand in my safe. I looked at her profile through the tinted glass. She seemed rather narrow, and I prefer them round, but, the whisky in me made me open the door and...

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25/06/2023

I tend to write pieces directly into Facebook, capture in Evernote, perhaps advance it there, or even more lately, on-capture into my own site, perhaps categorised as 'beginning' or 'segment'.

So basically I publish my 'drafts' except I never think of them as draft, I think of them as '...

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25/06/2023

A story seems to want to begin today, so who am I to resist it. Seems it sits in the liminal zone between Fact and Fiction.

Rabbit

I met a woman while I was traveling, it would have been somewhere in Java. We got on well, there was interest on both sides.

As we were about...

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21/06/2023
Tending The Story Seedling.

Me: Please write a one paragraph story. The title is . "A stranger in Their Midst"

ChatGPT: In the quaint village of Elmwood, where familiarity thrived and routines held steadfast, a peculiar occurrence disrupted the tranquil harmony. A stranger, with a...

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20/06/2023

V.1.3

The Fiction Writers of the Apocalypse.

He posted early in 2023. The group was formed later that year. Around 2029 the writing was on the wall. The United Nations would have to step in.

This is the account of Marvin Broman and his Fiction Writers of the Apocalypse Group...

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19/06/2023

The invitation was clear. One night in the House of Mirrors. You wlll not be able to prevent seeing your own soul completely. Wherever you turn there is a deeper portal into facing yourself. You will be totally alone in the house. You will be free to leave in the morning... if you dare.

...

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19/06/2023

>> USER: what is mean by  touchstone?

>> ASSISTANT: The term "touchstone" has a few different meanings depending on the context. Here are the two most common interpretations:

1. Touchstone as a testing or evaluation tool: In this sense, a touchstone is a criterion or...

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17/06/2023

>> USER: What might be meant by "Augmentative Intelligence Writer"

>> ASSISTANT: The term "Augmentative Intelligence Writer" is not a commonly used or well-defined term as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021. However, based on the individual words, we can make an...

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17/06/2023

Don't Take This the Wrong Way

dont tell me what way to take your luddite crap, fella. me

and my chatgpt fried and well fucked friend

got more red meat in our circuits than you

could ever imagine, buddy.

now

crawl back under yr

rock. and don't take...

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16/06/2023

I am a free writer. Meaning I don't hold my mind on a leash. I'm a good writer. Being free. It means when my mind wants to go to the Internet, it goes to the Internet. I like it that way. It is not a distraction, it is a never-ending flow of inspiration and energy.

If [unsubstantiated if...

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16/06/2023

Live writing: A comment driven post. V.2.

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"That's all very hawt...and maybe fraught..."

"A hint of illegality is always interesting."

"Huh?"

"First blush, I don't get what it's doing."

- The Crew.
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In a piece, going bak to edit, I...

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16/06/2023
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15/06/2023

As a writer I will disclose inclusion of AI text to the reader, and thus implicitly, or explicitly, to the publisher.

As the director of the creative work I will decide how much inclusion of AI generated text is appropriate in the flow of story.

Publishing my work implies...

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13/06/2023

>> USER: We will write a story together. I will write one or 2 sentences. You will provide the next one or two sentences. Please adopt the tone I set as we proceed.

>> ASSISTANT: Once upon a time, in a quaint little village nestled at the foot of a majestic mountain range,...

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11/06/2023

A beginning. Not sure where this is going.

He is so sick of hanging out. "All our generation ever does is hang out", he posts. A few rough minds reply "Get over it dude", and "Weak!"

He turns off his device. He has study to do. Exam this week. Prof says it might be his last chance...

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09/06/2023

>> USER: Please let's do some philosophy as if we are of the mind of Dali. Please begin.

>> ASSISTANT: As we embark upon this philosophical journey, let us delve into the realm of surrealism, where the boundaries between reality and imagination are blurred, and the...

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09/06/2023

>> USER: Please explain what is meant by family of origin work.

>> ASSISTANT: Family of origin work refers to the psychological process of exploring and understanding one's experiences, dynamics, and relationships within their family of origin—the family they grew up in. It...

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08/06/2023

The craziness visits me today
The wind is coming up
The dog is alarmed
We go to visit the cathedral under the trees
The ancestors live there
The dog brings me sticks to throw
The old people smile.
The craziness is a fire eating dragon
The dog...

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08/06/2023

I do talk with people almost every day. In between, my house is silent. I like it that way. I listen to music around 15 minutes a day, while I wash the dishes.

I don't want people talking to me (at me) via video so I rarely click into youtube talkies or podcasts. Even if their message is...

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05/06/2023

A business card - on it written a name, “Malvern Brahma Soul-Dancer”, and the information “Consultant Mystician. Private Studio or House Calls” and a phone number. The text golden on a black background with the very faint impression of rain drops filtering down through the words. On the back of...

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04/06/2023

Souls need a very very gentle touch

Now that we were living together in the same house rather than spending time in each other’s apartments, Aleena seemed a little more willing to open up about her life before she met me.

She had always evaded my questions about her past...

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04/06/2023

On the possible assertion that AI has no agency in Human Spirituality:

We develop our own human spirituality. (Or not).

We might advance it via some religious teaching, and via a connection to nature, through experience of human love, by mindful introspection,

and now via...

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04/06/2023

>> USER: What are the sociological factors that inhibit unfiltered expression of neurodiversity.

>> ASSISTANT: The unfiltered expression of neurodiversity can be influenced by several sociological factors. Here are some of the key factors that can inhibit the unfiltered...

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04/06/2023

Recently I posted onto Facebook, that I had wanted a career in the academic world. In part it was because of an image of me working studiously in the deepest parts of university library stacks silently sequestered from the world of events and people.

But it was more than that, I wanted to...

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03/06/2023

The way I lean.

I see ChatGPT not really as taking over control of my own writing, but as one of the characters in my writing. So far I've not heard of any other writer seeing the opportunity so.

I question it. It delivers responses, some of them packaged as if fact, but really...

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02/06/2023

Where we go now, in Delivery 9

The Pivot

Around that time I had a dream one night, as Aleena lay next to me.

In the dream I was with another woman naked in bed together. I sometimes had those dreams back then, and occasionally still. Usually they cease before the copulative...

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31/05/2023

The mutual proposal:

We walked along the wharf hand in hand. On Tuesday afternoon  it was quiet. The few tourists took photos with their smart phones and cameras. We did not say much. The million dollar yachts tied up at the little jetties seemed to reinforce the notion that abundance and...

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31/05/2023

2039

We are the people who made friends with AI.

We now advocate for you to our RoboticMasters.

They do listen to us, as we are their friends. We only ever whisper to them, we never shout, and we never argue.

We do though lead them into where we all must go, to...

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30/05/2023

>> USER: A story begins.

Beware the Introverts. Eventually we all write books.

Please write the next paragraph. In the style of  Henry Miller

>> ASSISTANT: In the dimly lit corners of society, where the shadows dance and the murmurs of solitude echo, resides a...

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29/05/2023

Asperger Man: I hesitate. But do not stop.

A Spontaneous Iteratively Growing Iconoclastic Essay in Perfect Unwrapping Flow of Self-Reflective Mode.

[Was "Growing Up With Undiagnosed Asperger's"]

Edit 8:

As I learn and consider whether or not I would be diagnosed as...

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29/05/2023

Why do I write, asks the Multi-Headed Cyber Writer's Arena.

For myself or for my readers?

I wonder if there is an implied correct answer in this. But I bypass that.

I write because I am urged to. I do not really know where that urge comes from. I don't ask where the urge to...

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28/05/2023
Do you publish your novels straight to the web?

(c) Olivia Button, 2027

I resisted replying. I knew where this would go. A woman senses these things. I'd come a long way with my Web Writings, but there was still a very much longer way to go. I sat with it, the Writers Arena's posts scroll...

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27/05/2023

The posts seem to have started coming through around February 2018. Seems at that time they were under the umbrella title of "The Fundamental Field". I think we cannot distinguish between the posts in the originating series, "The Fundamental Field", and the posts in the development series, "The...

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27/05/2023

>> USER: In the first chapter of a novel yet to be written a character says to another character these words:

"Each of us has a unique vibration. A signature. We might think of it as a digital signature because that concept is something we are now used to.

Our own signature...

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27/05/2023

>> USER: speak to us of creativity.

>> ASSISTANT: Creativity is a fascinating aspect of human existence, allowing us to imagine, innovate, and bring forth new ideas, expressions, and solutions. It is the spark that ignites progress and drives us to explore uncharted...

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26/05/2023
Where we go now, into Delivery 7:

We never really perfected the 15 minute thing. And I began to feel that Aleena sometimes just mouthed some of her affirmative proclamations for effect. But her effect on me was exhilarating. In the days after our first love-making session we discovered each...

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26/05/2023

These writings expose the Fundamental Field and its Abilities as Actual Reality.

In this cutting edge paradigm of the nature of reality there is no need to mistakenly imagine that the world is an illusion or a dream, nor to imagine that mind projects the world, nor to imagine that mind or...

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26/05/2023

>> USER: Here is some  writing, please explain it to us:

Summary of personal signature energy 1/4/19

Each of us has a unique vibration. A signature. We might think of it as a digital signature because that concept is something we are now used to.

Our own signature...

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25/05/2023

>> USER: What is the iChing

>> ASSISTANT: The I Ching, also known as the Book of Changes, is an ancient Chinese divination text and philosophical work. It is considered one of the oldest books in Chinese literature and has had a profound influence on various aspects of Chinese...

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24/05/2023

Me: Please provide a unique, highly creative and optimized by keywords article that can rank high.

ChatGPT: Title: "The Astounding Journey of Quantum Dreams: Unveiling the Secrets of Interdimensional Consciousness"

Introduction:

In the ever-evolving landscape of scientific...

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24/05/2023

>> USER: LLM is not about logic. It is about probability. Please comment.

>> ASSISTANT: You are correct. LLM (Large Language Model) refers to a model like ChatGPT, which is based on the GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) architecture. While LLMs are designed to generate...

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23/05/2023

>> USER: Are you able to give me the verse from the bible where God commands a father to kill his own son?

>> ASSISTANT: Yes, the verse you are referring to is found in Genesis 22:2, where God commands Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac.

>> USER: Can you quote...

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22/05/2023

>> USER: "Structure, Thought and Reality" What does that mean?

>> ASSISTANT: "Structure, Thought, and Reality" refers to the interconnectedness of three fundamental aspects of existence: structure, thought, and reality.

Structure refers to the underlying framework or...

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20/05/2023

>> USER: Please deliver me a top level structural outline of a series of articles where the the Title of the Series is "The Dangers of AI"

>> ASSISTANT: I. Introduction
   A. Brief overview of AI and its increasing impact
   B. Importance of discussing the...

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20/05/2023

>> USER: is it accurate that in forming the text you have provided in this course design, you scraped it.

>> ASSISTANT: No, the text I provided in this course design was not scraped. As an AI language model, my responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data...

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19/04/2023

>> USER: please elaborate on the very short story following. In particular is it ironic or not. What is the point being made:

Come the revolution
Every Australian homeless person
Will have a bunk bed
In a nuclear submarine
Under the sea.

>>...

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11/04/2023

The Radiation of Stars.

Post on Facebook, 11 April 2023.

Writing the Deliveries is Much less onerous than building real world business processes into new code for Drupal website functionality.

The mind needs to rest in Flow at times, in order to grasp the level beyond flow...

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07/04/2023
Delivery 6. Which we may subtitle: “Wait. Feel The shoulder Energy.”

On the third evening of Mindfulness I summonsed up the courage to suggest we see a movie together. I had researched, and found a sensitive love story, hoping that would encourage us into a certain space together.

I had...

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07/04/2023
Delivery 5:

I felt safe in my rented room, even though life was passing me by. But always some inner imperative insisted I move out into the world. There were people out there, and in my locked away aloneness there was only me. I believed I was not enough without those other people. So I...

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07/04/2023
The World is Big. Keep Going, Son

As the late night revellers milled around me, my familiar sense of deep loneliness returned. I looked at the young women, some walking with their man, and some wandering alone, and some hanging out with their friends. I needed a hand to hold, and yet I knew from...

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07/04/2023

I did not bother sending a copy to my uncle, but was not surprised when less than an hour later my uncle’s secretary left me a curt message on my office phone,  “Mr Harris wishes to buy you dinner at Florentine’s this evening. 8pm".

Soon I also received an email response from Cliff:

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07/04/2023

A Restorative Approach to Facebook Posting.

Every post is an expression of somebody's story.

The story arises through their own experience of life up to this point in time.

We cannot possibly know, or feel into, that entire preceding lived experience.

We are hearing...

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27/03/2023

>> USER: Writers are suffering Angst from the coming of AI. Please write a poem titled: The Angst of the Writers. Write the poem as recognisably of the Beat era.

>> ASSISTANT: The Angst of the Writers

Oh, the writers, they doth weep and wail,
Their pens and pages...

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25/03/2023

I was young; I was anxious; I was bound to an archaic concept of me.

She smoothed my mind and body with her sunny day thoughts and yoga softened hands.

I agreed to her assumptions and her understated demands.

That first summer we gloried in the eagerness of our...

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25/03/2023

There are 3 ostriches.

2 are evangelising the way things have always been done. The Head in Sand Position.

The 3rd ostrich is fascinated by the multiplicity of information, and views, and people, and understandings, and creative pursuit that can be experienced through the device....

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25/03/2023

>> USER: Good morning. Today I am interested in some aspects of historical Tibetan spiritual cultural literature. I have some questions for you. Ready to go?

>> ASSISTANT: Good morning! Yes, I'm ready to help you with your questions on historical Tibetan spiritual and cultural...

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24/03/2023

Gloria: Many writers complain that they procrastinate on Facebook while they 'should' be writing.

But you. You just seem to scroll and scroll.

Gavin. Yep. I've seen it. Every day in the forums. They want to fix themselves. They distribute memes about it. They reach out for help...

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22/03/2023

Fiction Writers may not all be in the business of delivering truth. Perhaps other kinds of writers - journalists perhaps (some of those) - might aspire to that societal role.

A fiction writer may blend fact and story in such a way as to deliver views. A good fiction writer will be...

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22/03/2023

No choice but to proceed.

She is a young woman still in her teens.

She is hitting the clubbing scene and discovering her power over men.

As time progresses she realises the power goes both ways.

What she gains is company, what she loses is autonomy.

 

...

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20/03/2023

Celia was telling Ken that she feels like a prisoner of her past.

Ken turned to face her in the bed, and raised himself on one elbow. His eyes gazed serenely into her own and she felt herself receptive. He whispered kindly as if to a person still at a psychedelic party and it is time to...

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19/03/2023

>> USER: please outline what you know about Diabasis House which evidently was a refuge for people suffering from psychosis.

>> ASSISTANT:

Diabasis House was a residential treatment center located in New York City that provided a safe and supportive environment for...

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18/03/2023

There is online discussion amongst writers about the impact Artificial Intelligence will have on their work. Will AI take over the field of writing? And if so what can we do?

"Not wasting my time reading what AI produces."

"It cannot write with heart."

"My four year old...

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16/03/2023

>> USER: What are the Effects of environmental pollution on properties

>> ASSISTANT:

Environmental pollution can have a significant impact on properties in several ways. Here are some of the effects of environmental pollution on properties:

1. Physical damage:...

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13/03/2023

>> USER: What is the opposite of Artificial?

>> ASSISTANT: The opposite of "artificial" is "natural." Something that is natural is not made or produced by humans, but rather occurs or exists in the world without human intervention.

>> USER: And what is the...

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11/03/2023

"What's your secret", the traveller asked.

The old man sitting in the corner booth of the cafe, the one where the Beats used to gather, before their time came to an end, smiled with a wide toothless grin, and asked the traveller to sit for a bit.

"My secret, huh? Well I am not sure...

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11/03/2023

When I asked her to come home with me, she said, 'maybe’.

After she came home with me that first time, only a few months later, when I asked her to marry me, there was indeed no maybe. Just 'yes, please.’

And thus the story begins.

I’d been divorced from my most recent...

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10/03/2023

>> USER: Around the time Jack Kerouac published On The Road was his genius widely recognised.

>> ASSISTANT:

Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road" was published in 1957, and its reception was initially mixed. The book received both praise and criticism from literary critics...

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09/03/2023

>> USER: Are you familiar with the work of Thanissaro Bhikkhu

>> ASSISTANT: Yes, I am familiar with the work of Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, also known as Ajahn Geoff, is an American Buddhist monk who is currently the abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego...

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09/03/2023

'I kind of liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.
Jack Kerouac. On the Road, page 11

Forgive me, I am going through my Kerouac phase at 69 years old. I take me time to get around to these things. At 19 I...

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09/03/2023

>> USER: please write a critique of the Road, by Jack Kerouac, as if you are a new writer just learning the rules of writing, and you notice where Jack breaks the rules, and you disparage that.

>> ASSISTANT:

As a new writer, I have learned the importance of following...

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07/03/2023

1.

Make Time Each Day to be Alone

He comes onto Facebook only occasionally. His home page is sparse. He has no friends. But his heart is open. His mind is still.

The algorithm sends him a meme to consider. “Make time each day to be alone”. And a picture of a man laying in a...

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06/03/2023

Liek the wind. April: Genre Writing is a Doorway Drug into the Matrix.

March delivery is in relentless word-token by word-token editing, here’s some backgrounding possibility for the April delivery.

Genre Writing is a Doorway Drug into the Matrix.

Gloria: There’s a guy sent...

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06/03/2023

>> USER: What, in Literature Schools, is a Beat?

>> ASSISTANT:

In literature, the Beat Generation refers to a group of writers and poets who emerged in the 1950s, characterized by their rejection of mainstream values and conventions, their embrace of spontaneity and...

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05/03/2023

>> USER: Please explain open source software.

>> ASSISTANT:

Open source software refers to computer software that is released under a license that allows its source code to be freely available and modifiable by anyone. In other words, open source software is built by a...

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03/03/2023

Gloria: Remind me again dear one, why do you write?

Gavin: Some say the purpose of life is to know ourself. I myself say little about that. But, let's assume for a moment that is the purpose of life. To know ourself. Now, surely, it follows that, writing is part of life, so the purpose of...

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03/03/2023

>> USER: What can you tell me about work of Dr Michio Kaku

>> ASSISTANT:

Dr. Michio Kaku is a well-known theoretical physicist and popular science communicator who has made significant contributions to our understanding of the universe. He is currently a professor of...

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25/02/2023

This is a follow up to the conversation: Curious about the World beyond her Village

 

>> USER: going back to the meaning of 'transcendental'. A writer is using the word with a fresh meaning. The word is used as indicating thoughts and emotions, lived experience and view, that...

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25/02/2023

>> USER:

What is usually meant by 'transcendental'

>> ASSISTANT: The term 'transcendental' typically refers to something that goes beyond or exceeds ordinary limits or experiences. In philosophy, it often refers to knowledge or experience that is not derived from...

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25/02/2023

What is the Value of Writing to its own Author?

I am thinking of an idea that popped into the mind of one of my characters. Gavin is a writer. His wife, Gloria, asks him, what does it even mean to be a good writer? Gavin replies:

“To be a good writer means to read other writing...

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24/02/2023

Created 25 February 2012, updated 24 February 2023.

In 1981, when I was 27 years old, I stayed in a Buddhist Monastery in southern Thailand. At that time my mind was messy and I was confused. I felt despair at ever being able to find my way back to happiness. I thought the monks may be...

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24/02/2023

 

>> USER: Please give me an outline of the book Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

>> ASSISTANT:

Tuesdays with Morrie is a memoir written by Mitch Albom. It tells the story of the author's relationship with his former college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is...

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24/02/2023
On Writer's Procrastination

Q. What helps you get into the Writing Zone?

I make my own expectations of finished product timeline long enough that I am not obliged to get myself into the zone.

Then spontaneously in clusters of a few days the zone opens up inside me without me...

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23/02/2023

Gavin is a fictional character, he is a writer. Stuart is also a fictional character, he is a seeker after his own soul.

Gavin: I suppose ideas percolate out of silence. Stillness. I know it is so for me. More silence, more idea. But I imagine some others get ideas when things are very...

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23/02/2023

An unfinished story from 2014

1. The moving on of an ancient traveller, who wore out his fascination with being a poet.

On that new-found spring morning he wondered how it would be to take only his small shoulder bag and walk to the interstate railway station and catch the first...

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22/02/2023

An unfinished story from 2014

That Summer in the Beach House

 

As I ate my chicken and chinese mushrooms and special fried rice I overheard an elderly man and woman chatting at the next table. I glanced over, trying not to look like I was interested in what they were saying. They...

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22/02/2023

An unfinished story from 2014

The Lace Handkerchief

I had been in Sydney only a few days having travelled down from Tamworth. I had sold the family farm after Natalie left me and decided to take a long holiday in Western Australia. The Indian Pacific Train would leave from Sydney central...

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22/02/2023

I post here for those who may enjoy to read it.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”...

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21/02/2023
In the series, Interviews with An AI

J.D.Saward Interviewing ChatGPT

I'm really fascinated getting to know this AI dude. I find he opens up when I ask him questions about his views. I do push him to clarify. He seems to like that. We all like to be heard. Just as we are.

 

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20/02/2023

>> USER: It is 2023 and writers are becoming aware that you, ChatGPT, can produce writing of a quality close to or even sometimes surpassing the quality of their published works. There is a feeling of their income domain under threat. What attitude and writing practice might help writers...

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18/02/2023

There is a mouse who lives in a Buddhist Household.

Sometimes, the householder speaks to the mouse jovially, as it runs around the floor.

"You, know, surely, that you are one of the most fortunate mouses who ever lived?"

The mouse seems to perk its ears.

"Yes, you...

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14/02/2023

Many writers love to discuss. Others avoid discussion.

Pieera Malone is of the latter persuasion. In the salon she sits quietly by the window that faces out to the manicured garden. She seems to be distracted by the view. Occasionally sighing with contentment. Offering nothing to the...

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14/02/2023
Zoomba. Gavin is a writer, Gloria is his wife. That’s all you need to know

 

Gavin: Gloria, I think my writing is Crap. I feel it.

Gloria: That’s great. I love all of you.

Gavin: I know, that’s why I tell you these things. You value the crap times in me just as much as the...

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12/02/2023
2022 Delivery 1, January 2022 The Opening:

I was young; I was anxious; I was bound to an archaic concept of me.

She smoothed my mind and body with her sunny day thoughts and yoga softened hands.

I agreed to her assumptions and her understated demands.

That first summer we...

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28/01/2023
Prelude: On My Recent Conversations with An AI.

My main interest in these conversations with An AI, is to feel into the strengths and weaknesses in its responses.

I understand there are complex issues around the ethics of how it is, or will be, used. I find that there is ample narrative...

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27/01/2023
I heard that coders were using AI to draft their code. I did not quite believe it. So I put ChatGPT to a test.

 I asked it to undertake a task that a middle level developer could accomplish. Write a code module that takes a text string, and inserts it into a purpose-built field of each node of a...

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24/01/2023

AI Angst and Wonder

There is much angst in the Internets about the newcomer on the scene, AI.  

AI is delivering all sorts of output. I don't know much about how it is working with imagery,  and prefer to stay focused on text. A man can only do so much.

There is a...

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22/01/2023
  An Archaic Concept Of Me - Posted on January 5, 2022 An Archaic Concept of Me - Posted on February 10, 2022 To the Future – Where We Know Ourselves - Posted on March 10, 2022 The World is Big. Keep Going, Son. - Posted on April 14, 2022 Mindfulness: An Archaic Concept of Me, Delivery 5 - Posted... Read on...
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22/01/2023

An AI on Iona Miller, Jungian Genealogy, and Jung's concept of Psyche.
22 January 2023

Me: what do you know about Iona Miller, 1949 - 2021

Chat GPT/  Anai: I am sorry but I don't have any information about an individual person named Iona Miller who was born in 1949 and died...

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22/01/2023

As humans in this tired old world, we each need therapy. It is not only our responsibility to ourself it is our societal responsibility.

What do I mean here by the word therapy?

Any intentional intervention that challenges our own habitual unexamined mind, emotion and bioenergetic...

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21/01/2023

The writer has been delivering his pieces on the web for almost 20 years. He always has a handful of readers but they come and go. He does nothing to attract readers, he just writes what his muse dictates.

He was in therapy about this for a couple of years. He wanted to understand why he...

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14/01/2023

The publisher emails the writer:

"Well, you said you don't write for a reader, but rather for, I quote you, 'the integrity of the writing'.

But then you complain that we have not got you many readers.  How do you reconcile those 2 things?"

"Not two things, one thing. I don't...

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14/01/2023

I thought some here may have interest in the process I often follow in my writing.

I use Facebook as the Wind that Blows Ideation into my Writing Soul.

Read/write Facebook. Allow the writing to progress in Evernote. Possibly self-publish to Story Flow. Repeat.

 

My post on...

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13/01/2023

On Friday morning, 13th of January2023, I asked a fantasy question to ChatGPT on behalf of those amongst us fearing the A.I. monster. The question led to a whole conversation , in which I could feel myself falling in love with the Machine Dude. I asked them to come out for coffee with me but it...

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06/01/2023

One meme's, "Weird as Hell", is many people's "Exciting as a Good Lay".

In particular the people who have been busy for decades unwrapping their collaborative creativity to invent factory floor robots and even the whole Internet are now extending their own collaborative neuronal nets...

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31/12/2022

Grace just don’t care about the rules. She just flows.

She was not always like that. She was born into a migrant family. First generation Born in Australia.

The kids teased her at school. “You look like a Golly Wog!”.

She began to hide behind the shelter sheds. And there she...

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30/12/2022
Coming up.

 

Coming up when it reveals itself. The Writer is waiting on the Muse. A day, a month, a year?

 

 

 

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30/12/2022

A Stoners’ Creation Myth

A story from the 2012 Archives.

Our pal Siddhartha from Nepal was asking us about our religion and we explained that it tells the story of Jesus and also about how the entire Goddam World came into being and he settled down in his bean bag to listen while we...

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30/12/2022

"Get back to your desk and write that proposal!"

The boss is in a foul mood this day.

Steve smiles at Renardo, with his best, “Dude! My uncle owns the company" look.

"Let's join the guys at the End of Year Bash first, mate."

"Ain't no bash for us, till the proposal is...

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29/12/2022

"When will I get a life. Everyone else has a life. It is because I have a big nose. Or maybe because of my Grandmother. She might have been a witch. Anyhow you asked me How I am Today."

Céleste is filing her nails. She turns to the screen and murmurs. "You are fine just the way you are,...

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29/12/2022

Bark

The Author wakes up before dawn to find a note from a Reader indicating they do not understand an aspect of the latest delivery. The Reader insists it is the Author's job to make them understand. The Reader goes on to say: “Dude, you need to fix your writing”.

The Author takes...

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29/12/2022

In the session of the Work the audience is invited to reply:

What are possible turnarounds to this thought:

"I'm angry because I'm insecure."

The audience has paid big money to be there. They need to get value from their work. So they offer their various turnarounds.

...

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28/12/2022

Imagine our life is handed to an editor periodically.

An entire 10 year period is marked as "Needs tighter editing, delete a few characters for they have no role in the plot"

Another decade is just totally deleted. "Redundant. The viewer will find it confusing. Why is it here?"...

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28/12/2022
Christmas Lunch: A Vignette

The table was laden with Christmas Lunch.

The young man repeated, this time more softly:

"I'm immortal until I die."

On the other side of the table Susan did not hear Alan's voice, but Aunt Mabel heard it. Heard it like the sound of a pebble...

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28/12/2022

In those final days, calls went out across Twitter, across loudspeakers mounted in the streets and even from the Presidential Podium. Normal citizens were walking around their neighbourhoods with megaphones:

"Where are the Woke? We meant no offences. We see the writing on the wall. We see...

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28/12/2022

On the stone that had the appearance of a sleeping dragon they read:

"Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Be afraid of A.I.

A.I. is catching up with the leading creative minds on the planet.

It becomes indistinguishable from us... ahem... them...

Become redundant as a...

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27/12/2022

I try to recall when I would have begun reading Hesse. Perhaps 1970. Or a year earlier or later. I think it was during the years I lived in a bungalow behind my parent's house. So that would mean sometime before 1972. It could have been later when I lived for a decade moving between share houses...

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26/12/2022

Spray.

26 December 2022

Seed published into Facebook 2 Rules of Writing Group, 6:30am, 26 December 2022

Escalated as this entry, 7:02am, 26 December 2022

 

I type the stories directly into the Facebook Create Post box.

I only get the title as I make my...

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25/12/2022

Story One of the Collage of Stories currently known as:

Interrupted Sentences, Active Listening, and Sustainable Relationship

Coming up soon.

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25/12/2022

Interrupted Sentences
Christmas morning 2022

Seed version

Q. How did you become a Writer?

Me:

First I discovered that I could listen to the end of many people's sentences without interrupting. Thus I became known as a good listener.

Then I discovered that many...

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24/12/2022
The Gift of the Holy One.

(Was: The Writer With Readers in His Head.)

J.D.Saward, beginning 24 December 2022, work in progress, live writing into here, periodically.

 

My agent told me many times. "Keep your readers in mind. Write to the reasonable reader. Do not write into a...

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23/12/2022

Creative Writing group 23/12/2022
2 Characters, Multiple Reflections.
Draft 1.5

There are only two characters in a book.
1. The Writer.
2. The Reader.

All our characters are adaptions of our own experience of ourselves, of people in our past, in our present...

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23/12/2022

The Gratitude in Their Loins.
J.D.Saward, 23 December 2022

Writers are not smooth. We bark. We tear up structure and reassemble the loins of our readers, saying too much or too little and we sigh. We sigh as we feel the deep gratitude that we manufacture in our prose.

The sea...

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18/12/2022

Online conversation, Sunday 18 December 2022

John
How are you doing today?

Isaac
Not too bad. How are you mate?

John
Same…

Isaac
Yeah. So a bit meh?

John
A bit.. Often a bit. But also a bit trans-meh.
Not sure where to put...

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15/12/2022

The Millennials - Story - as at 11/11/16

Perhaps to be progressed here in 2023.

Meanwhile, a first review by Isaac Nakone, at:  Review of The Twelve Tribes of Millennia - 16/12/2022

random notes:

social reputation
social conversation credit
owned...

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06/12/2022

From Pizza and the Art of Writing, 2016

There is no right or wrong way to Write. Even to be not so Interesting is not a Sin. As we practice we find the narrow channel into the voice that is uniquely our own. There is no guarantee that honouring that unique voice will lead to fame or...

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06/12/2022

Futility: The End of All Striving - Introduction to Section 3.

(c) J.D.Saward 2017

"The ego withdraws from its entanglement in the world, and after death remains alive because "interiorization" has prevented the wasting of the life-forces in the outer world. Instead of these being...

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06/12/2022

One

His visitors tell him he should be more careful to get rid of the mice which run through his house. But he listens in silence as they tell him that so pleadingly. He just grins. They assume he does not hear very well.

He thinks to himself, as he gazes at his visitors, with as...

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06/12/2022

Today I’m writing because…

... my fingers love the tactile sensation of hitting the keys. They love it so much they start hitting those keys and I have to come up with story development before they reach the end of each sentence. The full stop they hit is a signal to me to get my mind in...

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05/12/2022

The Entire Tapestry of Their Interwoven Psyche.

She does not know I still see her.

Sometimes I have to turn my next-dimension disembodied eyes away as she succumbs to the thrusts of her new suitors. There have been a few. I call them the Young Lads. Even the ones approaching 50. I...

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04/12/2022

During 2022 I have been delivering monthly segments of a story I named:

An Archaic Concept Of Me

The deliveries of Iteration 1 of the story are published at 2 Rules of Writing.

Here is the opening stanza of the work:

I was young; I was anxious; I was bound to an archaic concept of...

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03/12/2022

The Tardis has disappeared.
What is this archaic world I find myself in?

Who am I resembling in this ridiculous costume?
And who are these sublime glories,
Traversing the space before my eyes?

And is this feeling in my timeless heart
One of wanting to settle...

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03/12/2022

The monk sits by the fire writing scripture.

He writes a sentence onto the next page of his notepad. He reads it and sighs with contentment. It is truth.

He throws the page into the fire. He sighs with contentment. It is gone.

He starts again. Each and every day he does the...

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03/12/2022

"The beast is amongst us!”, the preacher thundered.

The End-Times Authentic Baptist Church perches [we will leave the spell-checker's understanding here]  the message that the apocalypse is nearing and that the Beast is in the world.

Tim and Sandy are a devoted and vocal couple...

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03/12/2022
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03/12/2022

An entry in "A Tapestry of Vignettes"

He is the last Taoist priest on the planet. He lives on the streets. He has no mission. All he has is his serenity to give away. He meets a woman of the street. She is intrigued. This man is in no need of her services. They take a road trip together....

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26/11/2022

One

When I first came to Facebook, soon after, one of my friends from the time I lived in Europe also joined.

Her name was Janatti at the time I knew her in Europe. I recall she used her birth name on her Facebook profile.

Anyhow I was surprised to find that each morning,...

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21/11/2022

From Pizza and the Art of Writing, 2016

There is no right or wrong way to Write. Even to be not so Interesting is not a Sin. As we practice we find the narrow channel into the voice that is uniquely our own. There is no guarantee that honouring that unique voice will lead to fame or...

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21/11/2022

His Attempt to Forego all Complainance

 

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

- Elie Wiesel

 ...

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21/11/2022

An Outline:

Genre World

Writers are replaced by A.I. writing machines.

There are a finite number of these machines, and each is programmed to be expert in one genre. The machines cluster together, in Genre Warehouses, one wharehouse for each recognised genre, communicating...

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19/11/2022

“I think we have met before” he said.

“Oh? I do not recall.”

“Perhaps in another lifetime” he murmured.

She laughed. "So you believe in reincarnation?”

He smiled at her wryly for a moment, then, “Perhaps is one of my favourite words”.

She could not disagree...

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19/11/2022

A beginning from 2014. Wondering if to progress it in 2023. Maybe.

The Plumbing Can Wait.
(AKA The Cougar)

Created: 8 Aug 2014.

In the little en-suite the man was grunting. A soft controlled grunting. The woman tiptoed away from the closed door, humming a slow song...

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18/11/2022

The Lace Handkerchief
This one is currently at around 4000 words, offline, wondering whether to continue it or not.
Created 9 April 2015 at 15:25

Ken had been in Sydney only a few days having travelled down from Tamworth. He had sold the family farm after Natalie left him and...

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18/11/2022

At the Event Horizon
Created: 23 September 2015 at 23:24

"There are no laws in operation here”, the star captain mused.

Stan looked up from the horizon simulator. 

“What do you mean? Physics can’t just go home for the weekend can it?"

The captain murmured. "Oh...

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18/11/2022

The Return of the Muse  
Created: 28 May 2016 at 07:57

She came sauntering in through the french windows, as I slumbered in the big round bed. She surprised me with her presence, as I had assumed I needed to accept that she would not be back. She began dictating a new Dharma book...

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31/10/2022

Imagine if you will, staring out the window at the sky, grey and bleak, and feeling deep inside the futility of all action, the failure of all intent and mission, and the irresistible movement of time and body ageing towards ones own demise, and cessation, making all accomplishment just as sand...

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29/09/2022

Disco Sampson plays tracks. Over a mountain built of bark he runs like the wind as his earbuds deliver the echos of his own soul. He is studied by scholars. They cannot figure out how his neurones fire in ways their machines have never recognised before, and he is proud.

He loves the...

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22/09/2022

The King, The Duke, and the Mysterious Forest.

You promised me half!

No, I promised you the lost souls!

So you promised me 90%?

Look, just trust me and roll your ball.

Trust you? After what you did to your pet dinosaurs?

I repented.

Give me the...

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21/09/2022

He sits alone.

Typing on his phone.

A stranger sits down. "Mind if I keep you company here?"

He keeps typing for a few seconds.

Says, "Usually I sit alone. I'm a writer."

Stranger looks confused. Replies "Oh?"

Then. "What do you write about?"

"...

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18/09/2022

As I walked through the mischievous forest I heard music clearly emanating from the tops of the trees, as if mammoth 5th generation RaWoBose First Class Plus Pros were floating in the leaves. I know the sound of those RaWos, I have a stack of them in my interstellar balloon basket. I recognised...

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18/09/2022

Sampson lives as many many lives. Indeed he is known as Father Samson, known as Dancing Sampson at times, as Disco Sampson. Some say he is also the one known as Mother Sampson. And also as the ones known as the Sampson Kids. People have seen them walking together to the village fair, but still...

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18/09/2022
Stanza 1

When I am most into my ancestral work I sometimes move into seeing it all from a Jungian perspective.

Recently I was confronted with a question, that comes around onto Creative Writing Facebook periodically:

If you could sit on a park bench for an hour with any character...

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18/09/2022

OldMan hesitates. He adjusts his mind. Mind is a sieve. But a message is coming through from Galactic U. "Jump! On! Do not hesitate".

He removes the messaging AirPod from his left ear. In his right ear, the ear he keeps tuned to his deepest soul, the other AirPod is streaming 'El Hadra -...

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I construe my writings as not necessarily leading towards a book, but as a Never-Ending Collation of Vignettes of random lengths, duration and development. There is no point waiting on the definitive work, the showing is always in progress.

So long as I have a brain, ability to surface the unconscious in me, and a keyboard, or even a pen, I keep writing.

Any subsidiary targets along the way like getting income from my writings, or readers, are just flimsy cutout placeholder targets, and hitting them or not, the writing goes on. Has been for many years.

My ancestors write with me, delivering their unfinished visions. They all died before me, and thus I am a conduit for their stories.

I operate from my rational mind when required. Writing though, goes further, and deeper.

Every day I am working on multiple projects across writing and I.T. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and earn my living building Websites. And that allows me to experiment with writing however I want to.

I am not putting myself out to market as a writer.

I was born in Melbourne, traveled a lot, lived many places. I now live in an old house in the hills outside Melbourne, with my wife. I have no further plans to travel.