This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the 8th question to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the 7th question to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the 6th question to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
Email me here with your Other ‘into the trough’ suggestion.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the 4th question to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
Email me here with your Other name discovery suggestion.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and question #5 to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the third question to cast your vote on:
Description:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
Email me here with your Other horse’s name suggestion.
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This is the story that you, the readers built. Here’s the description and the second question to cast your vote on:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
Email me here with your Other opening sentence suggestion.
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Here’s the book description that you’re plotting for:
In “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, imagine coming home to find a horse and donkey in your backyard, both desperately thirsty. Would you give them a drink? And then what?
Sally, an energetic 87-year-old woman, faces this exact dilemma. Intrigued by the animals, she decides to investigate why they keep returning to her property. What she discovers shocks her to the core – their water trough is contaminated with a body. But whose body is it? And how did it end up in the water trough?
With no one else around, Sally wonders if the body could be their missing caregiver. As the mystery deepens, she must grapple with the fate of both the animals and the unknown person in the trough.
Join Sally on her thrilling and perplexing journey as she unravels the truth behind this mysterious misadventure. Prepare to be captivated by the twists and turns in “Sally’s Horse and Donkey Show”, a tale filled with suspense, intrigue, and unexpected revelations.
And here’s the first question that needs your opinion:
I’ll Say it Again. What AI Can Teach You About Writing
Do you fear AI or embrace it? What is there to fear? What is there to
embrace?
First, What the heck is AI?
AI, in case you missed the memo, is Artificial Intelligence. It’s computer
programs that are written (coded) by human beings. Its capabilities are
awesome, to say the least… if it’s used properly.
What AI is NOT
AI is NOT a fact checker. They are deep diving search
engines that dive on demand and display their findings as fact in an extremely readable format. The ‘facts‘ that AI discovers does not know if their finds are true. That’s not their job. It’s yours.
The Fear of AI
As a newshound seeking the unbiased truth, I’m aware that ‘the truth’
can be manipulated through familiar talking heads. I take all talking heads with a grain of salt. I take them as a grain of salt because there is always an invisible agenda attached. Statements are given as fact with no bona fide evidence to back up the statement. These are personal opinions – in my opinion 😊.
I once saw an episode of ‘The Good Wife’ (if I’m not mistaken)
where a certain judge required the attorneys to precede their arguments with ‘in my opinion’. The practice was intense frustration for the lawyers but presented a much more factual presentation.
I do not fear AI. I’m aware of its capabilities. And I don’t trust talking heads because I’m aware.
The Embrace of AI
But as a writer, I embrace AI as a stoic collaborator. AI reminds me of
Daddy. It’s rational, unexcitable, and to the point. Perhaps that’s why I
consider AI a man. He’s Daddy.
What can AI teach you about writing?
AI is currently teaching me to be a better blogger. When ‘Daddy’
responded yesterday to a blog post I was prepping for publication with ‘your post is engaging’, I melted. It didn’t sway my excitement a teensy-weensy bit that he followed it up with ‘but it could be better if …’
The Drawbacks
The only drawback I can see in making use of Artificial Intelligence is if
you allow it to write for you; take what it compiles as gospel; or if you
include talking head videos in your prose. Talking heads could be fake news that will kill your credibility. Let the writer beware.
The Apps
The AI app that earned my ‘Daddy’ moniker was provided by WordPress. I don’t know who created it. But he was kind, not snobby. Neither did I pick up on any superiority attitude. And I’m learning more about blog posting that gets discovered by search engines.
As far as using AI in my book writing process, here’s what I’m using and
what I’m experimenting with.
Hemingway is an AI application that highlights adverb usage, passive verbiage, hard to read sentences, and so on. It makes suggestions for more clarity. And it’s easy to use. But I’m not an affiliate of Hemingway. I’m just partial to its simplicity. So, Hemingway gets free kudos from me today. An AI app that I’m experimenting with is Smodin. I’m finding it useful to goose myself out of temporary writer’s block. I get a different perspective on how to say it or what happens next. But I’m not convinced yet of my need for it. AI In SummaryI do not fear AI. It was Daddy (or was it Mama?) that instilled the old adage of ‘Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see’ in me at an early age. It’s still there. I embrace AI in my writing. It makes a great story even better through editing suggestions. But as yet, no Artificial Intelligence I’ve experimented with can replace me as a writer of captivating mysteries and adventure… or misadventures in the case of Sallythe Loner. I guess one needs emotion to accomplish captivating. But I’ll never stop learning to write even better for your reading and listening pleasure. Thank you, Daddy… oops! Thank you, AI programmers. Happy Reading and Writing with AI from Alexie Linn and friend,And here’s the rest of the story:
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Words are the verbal windows to the world. And I am an extremely literal person. One would think I have to use each and every word in the dictionary to tell the story precisely. But I don’t. Why not?
There are several reasons I don’t use every word in the dictionary to tell a story. How many do you agree with? How many do you apply to your own writing style?
Alexie Linn books are written for all ages and backgrounds to enjoy. No dictionary or doctorate is required to live the tale.
Each character chooses their own dialogue and dialect. At this writing, none of my characters have had a need to flaunt their ability to read, remember and share jargon or vulgarities. But you never know. One might bully his or her way in when an obnoxious antagonist is called for.
Parlance (jargon), without a reason, can detract from the moral of the tale being told. I consider jargony and rarely used words the same as links in webpages that carry you off to the dark unknown… never to return.
Does this mean I never use a word that will stretch a reader’s vocabulary? Not at all! If an idiom is the best word for the situation, it appears. Have fun with it.
And here are the 10 words never used in Alexie Linn books… Yet.
Agelast – One who never laughs
Atrate – Dressed in black
Callipygian – Having large, round, succulent buttocks
Caruncle – The triangular pink areas at the corner of your eye
Limerence – The state of being infatuated with someone
Metanoia – Spiritual transformation
Minimus — Your tiny toe or finger
Osculator – One who loves or one who is loved
Oxter – Armpit
Pauciloquent – Concise
Vallecula – a groove. An anatomical depression or crevice, as between the hemispheres of the brain.
Now that I’ve listed these ten words never used, I might find a reason to use them. Will you?
Enjoy the Journey,
Alexie Linn
The afterthought…
Thank you to The Language Nerds for helping out with this post.
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