Tag: The Muse

• On Writing For One Year Straight

  

  You reach a goal and watch it happily tumble uphill.

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  1 febbraio 2023

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  1-year challenge, 100-days challenge, Author Montresor, authormontresor, musings, The Muse, writing

• The Stone-Cut Sky

  The stone-cut sky rests on shoulders of geometric stone.  You never truly realize what anthropic means until you are standing on a flat square of marble at the bottom of a man-made hole, a wound etched on the mountainside by talons of steel and diamond thread. The only diamonds left here are those glistening in the soft…

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  21 gennaio 2023

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  100-days challenge, Author Montresor, authormontresor, one-shot, short story, The Muse, writing

• What you Deserve – one-shot on writing, ads, and arrogance

  Advertising is surprisingly honest. This morning a friend of mine sent me a pic – what’s a bit of trolling between friends after all? – and if she wanted to elicit a reaction, she most certainly did. For those among you who do not read Italian, the tagline goes something like this: Did you write…

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  19 dicembre 2022

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  100-days challenge, Author Montresor, authormontresor, fantasy, meta, Oneshot, The Muse, writing

• What’s due to Caesar, what’s due to the Muse

  

  On vacation, the Author realizes that he may not be able to dine on sole words.

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  18 novembre 2022

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  1-year challenge, 100-days challenge, Author Montresor, authormontresor, meta, musings, Oneshot, The Muse, writing

• wormword – an AI-assisted short story (and what it means being creative)

  

  A writer succumbs to the temptation of using AI-assisted tools. His Muse does not react as he expects…

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  2 ottobre 2022

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  1-year challenge, 100-days challenge, AI, luddism, musings, philosophical, sci-fi, technology, The Muse, writing