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Just FYI, I was trying to get Bing Image Creator to show me some magical girls celebrating Thanksgiving, and this popped out. I like how it seems to have confused her Moon Stick with an orange on a fork, or maybe some unholy fusion of an orange and a stemmed wine glass. I also like … Continue reading "Follow-Up"

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I am a librarian. I like my job a lot. Unlike my previous career, it doesn’t require sixteen-hour shifts of hard labor plus homework, so I view it as my retirement. But sometimes I have to deal with other librarians, and then my job borders on intolerable. I have just returned from one of those … Continue reading "The Arrogance of the Librarian"

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I think this will be my last post on this subject at least for a while, lest this simply turn into a blog of AI-generated art, but I want to report on what happened when I tried to get Bing to produce images of the protagonist from Jake and the Dynamo. I did this in two … Continue reading "Bing Image Creator Tries Drawing Magical Girl Pretty Dynamo"

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I see a lot of people playing around with Microsoft Bing’s new Image Creator, which uses Dall-E 3 as its engine. I’m toying around with AI because, like other people, I find it interesting and fun but also because I’m obliged to familiarize it for work reasons I won’t discuss on the blog. In any … Continue reading "‘Rags and Muffin’ According to Bing Image Creator"

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I have the text of my children’s picture book back from my editor. She described it as “really sweet” and “a joy” and made minimal suggestions. I’ve been over the text one last time and think it’s ready to go. Since I’ve never done this kind of book before, I’m flying blind, but I think … Continue reading "Children’s Book Update: Back from My Editor"

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Having finished the manuscript for a children’s picture book and sent it to my editor, I’m back to work on The Cup of Agamemnon, a sword-and-planet adventure that I suspect will take me some time to complete This book will be a challenge for me. It involves more large-scale, semi-realistic warfare than I am used … Continue reading "Working on ‘The Cup of Agamemnon’"

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I will have to roll up my sleeves and format my new book in Adobe Illustrator or InDesign. This is something I wanted to avoid, but I don’t think I can hire someone for the formatting, mostly because I want to have the book in a  finalized draft before I hire the illustrator: I need … Continue reading "Picture Book Update"

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I have finally finished one of the projects I’m working on, the text for a children’s picture book. I wrote it specifically for my first daughter, and it’s based on a story I made up for her one night when we didn’t have a storybook handy. It’s a fairy tale with a whimsical premise, some … Continue reading "New Story Finished"

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If you’re hankering to watch a live-action movie based on a Mattel toy franchise, in which the characters make an ill-advised trip to the “real world” that disappoints long-time fans, let me suggest an alternative to the film that opened this weekend. I recommend the 1987 box-office disaster Masters of the Universe, which is based … Continue reading "Instead, Watch ‘Masters of the Universe’ (1987)"

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