Desiderius Price

Or, perhaps you’re joining the Chinese Pepsi Generation?

I’m definitely in that “two spaces after a sentence” crowd, and somebody trying to use correct grammar/syntax – which, apparently, is also an indicator of being AI written.  (Think my biggest beef with AI is what the hype is doing to computer part prices!)  My background...yeah, my SAT written was pretty abysmal, it was the math portion that did the heavy lifting.  (At that time, only two components, not the current three.)  And in school, pretty much believed what my mother had latched onto, that “I hated writing”; took Harry Potter fanfiction for me to realize it was directed writing that I hated, thus creative what I want to write on just for fun – got a 2.6M fanfic that’s proof there.

Figured it’d be a great feature for April first.  After you’ve finished the first two chapters of a story, hit the “auto-complete” along with X number of chapters, and have AI do the rest!  I mean, with as GREAT of a product as AI is marketed to be, should let you clear those projects off your to-do list FAST.  (FYI, all sarcasm/parody here, enjoy a laugh or two.)

Figured it’d be a great feature for April first.  After you’ve finished the first two chapters of a story, hit the “auto-complete” along with X number of chapters, and have AI do the rest!  I mean, with as GREAT of a product as AI is marketed to be, should let you clear those projects off your to-do list FAST.  (FYI, all sarcasm/parody here, enjoy a laugh or two.)

Figured it’d be a great feature for April first.  After you’ve finished the first two chapters of a story, hit the “auto-complete” along with X number of chapters, and have AI do the rest!  I mean, with as GREAT of a product as AI is marketed to be, should let you clear those projects off your to-do list FAST.  (FYI, all sarcasm/parody here, enjoy a laugh or two.)

What fresh hell is this? (with thanks to the marvelously acerbic Dorothy Parker, whose wit will never be matched by AI...)

You’re not doing anything wrong; that’s actually an option suggested by the program. It just doesn’t work for me. If it works for you, more power to you. 🙂 If what I wrote came across judgy, I’m sorry about that; it wasn’t intentional.
My focus in college was creative writing and literature, but it was long enough ago that some of what we were taught is now obscure if not obsolete. Think following the origin language’s rules for words adopted into English, shorthand as a subject, tab-starting instead of adding an extra line between paragraphs and two spaces after a sentence, etc. It’s left me with some tough habits to break—or cling to like life rafts—and some newer practices make my brain short circuit. (“Anti-Capital-ism,” apparently, is a thing, and it has nothing to do with money or capitalism. It makes my brain hurt.)
Frankly, my college and university didn’t even have programming or computer science degrees until a few years after I left “because these computer things are just a fad” and “nobody is going to spend money on a degree that won’t make them money.” I’m impressed anytime someone can make computers work because my school district, in their stubbornness, raised a whole generation of technologically illiterate students. The other day, I took my (wired, optical) mouse apart to clean out the cat hair and almost couldn’t put the damned thing back together. It had four removable parts. 🫠

TBH, it was more engineering than writing in college for me; so lets start delving into the thermal calculations for your computer with one tool vs the other
Writing’s been more experimental for me, do a bunch of it and see what works or not.  When I tried mixing POVs with first person… that felt like a shipwreck and I couldn’t make sense of it on edit.  Thus, I’ve now done it with that line break (<hr> HTML tag), and try to establish the POV for the reader’s benefit (& mine).  Of course, my readership’s pretty low, so maybe I’m doing it wrong.

TBH, it was more engineering than writing in college for me; so lets start delving into the thermal calculations for your computer with one tool vs the other
Writing’s been more experimental for me, do a bunch of it and see what works or not.  When I tried mixing POVs with first person… that felt like a shipwreck and I couldn’t make sense of it on edit.  Thus, I’ve now done it with that line break (<hr> HTML tag), and try to establish the POV for the reader’s benefit (& mine).  Of course, my readership’s pretty low, so maybe I’m doing it wrong.

And once they stop being cranky… you know something’s wrong.  Been there with the last one.

Luckily, in dog years, that’s not as harsh.

And once they stop being cranky… you know something’s wrong.  Been there with the last one.

And once they stop being cranky… you know something’s wrong.  Been there with the last one.

Geriatric cats can be mighty cranky 🤣

I hope they help and back to full health soon!

“What has my human done to me?”

POV change… speed bump, like a horizontal rule, something.  And I make that new POV the first NAMED character of the scene.

POV change… speed bump, like a horizontal rule, something.  And I make that new POV the first NAMED character of the scene.

Luckily, in dog years, that’s not as harsh.

Luckily, in dog years, that’s not as harsh.

“Jail! Jail for Mother! She does not let us scratch our itchies! Jail for a thousand years!”😿

“What has my human done to me?”

“What has my human done to me?”

“What has my human done to me?”

She will.  I can’t leave it on for long, because she haaaaates it