Only just found this as I decided to be ill for a few days.
I confess I read mainly factual and to break it up with fiction I tend to read science fiction and gothic horror preferably written between 1750 and 1920, so this was totally different. I read it, reread it after five minutes and you definitely got me wondering what happened next! It was the way you made it come completely alive in your reading of it that made me jot book title down ready to find a bit later on today.
I started out writing fiction before I joined Substack, but had no luck getting any of my stories published. As it turned out, I've been writing poems and essays that I never thought I'd be writing. In between, I post a short story or excerpt from You Never Know and other stories for promotion purposes, and also to avoid publishing the same type of thing with the same message all the time. If you're interested, there are more 2 more excerpts (4 more are coming) and a few more short stories on my Stories page https://dianeengelhardt.substack.com/s/stories
I'll take a look at your link a bit later on when I can sit down and relax properly, so thank you for that. As far as I have ever seen it takes the truly talented author's longer to get published over those who simply write what's expected of them.
I don't know how people can read AI produced work, it has a habit of repetitive words and phrases and it uses the same names and part of the same narrative no matter the difference in the storyline. I have this awful fear, that people are will soon get used to reading or listening to AI stories etc; they will begin to forget what a real authors writing is like.
Only just found this as I decided to be ill for a few days.
I confess I read mainly factual and to break it up with fiction I tend to read science fiction and gothic horror preferably written between 1750 and 1920, so this was totally different. I read it, reread it after five minutes and you definitely got me wondering what happened next! It was the way you made it come completely alive in your reading of it that made me jot book title down ready to find a bit later on today.
So thank you for something completely different.
I started out writing fiction before I joined Substack, but had no luck getting any of my stories published. As it turned out, I've been writing poems and essays that I never thought I'd be writing. In between, I post a short story or excerpt from You Never Know and other stories for promotion purposes, and also to avoid publishing the same type of thing with the same message all the time. If you're interested, there are more 2 more excerpts (4 more are coming) and a few more short stories on my Stories page https://dianeengelhardt.substack.com/s/stories
I'll take a look at your link a bit later on when I can sit down and relax properly, so thank you for that. As far as I have ever seen it takes the truly talented author's longer to get published over those who simply write what's expected of them.
No kidding! And AI is going only to make the situation worse!
I don't know how people can read AI produced work, it has a habit of repetitive words and phrases and it uses the same names and part of the same narrative no matter the difference in the storyline. I have this awful fear, that people are will soon get used to reading or listening to AI stories etc; they will begin to forget what a real authors writing is like.
They can read this stuff only if they're too uneducated and illiterate to know the difference, or they don't want to think.