Alex Cassidy
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I also tested it with two others, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and Borges' The Library of Babel. The 'short story' prefix of the search is triggering the AI to write something itself, and pull directly from various fiction as a source.
April 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I also tested it with two others, The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and Borges' The Library of Babel. The 'short story' prefix of the search is triggering the AI to write something itself, and pull directly from various fiction as a source.
Take Kafka's The Metamorphosis, maybe one of the most famous and original examples. By searching 'short story about waking up as an insect'. Google makes its own story up, linking out to university papers, Goodreads, and even an unrelated short story on VICE.
April 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Take Kafka's The Metamorphosis, maybe one of the most famous and original examples. By searching 'short story about waking up as an insect'. Google makes its own story up, linking out to university papers, Goodreads, and even an unrelated short story on VICE.
Bonus was an exhibition on surrealism which meant got to see a Magritte
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Bonus was an exhibition on surrealism which meant got to see a Magritte
Work meeting in the Hepworth today in a sunny Wakefield
March 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Work meeting in the Hepworth today in a sunny Wakefield
I ended up buying the one quarter piggy bank, a lot weightier than I imagined.
February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I ended up buying the one quarter piggy bank, a lot weightier than I imagined.
January's finished books (in what was a writing heavy month).
The back-to-back Alejandra Pizarnik made for a quite bleak start to the year, finishing with the Zevon biography helped pick it up.
The back-to-back Alejandra Pizarnik made for a quite bleak start to the year, finishing with the Zevon biography helped pick it up.
February 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
January's finished books (in what was a writing heavy month).
The back-to-back Alejandra Pizarnik made for a quite bleak start to the year, finishing with the Zevon biography helped pick it up.
The back-to-back Alejandra Pizarnik made for a quite bleak start to the year, finishing with the Zevon biography helped pick it up.
Whenever the news about AI replacing writers gets a bit too much - I remember this comment from two years ago on Reddit.
This person gave up on their project because they thought ChatGPT would replace authors, and well, imagine what they could have done in the two years since.
This person gave up on their project because they thought ChatGPT would replace authors, and well, imagine what they could have done in the two years since.
January 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Whenever the news about AI replacing writers gets a bit too much - I remember this comment from two years ago on Reddit.
This person gave up on their project because they thought ChatGPT would replace authors, and well, imagine what they could have done in the two years since.
This person gave up on their project because they thought ChatGPT would replace authors, and well, imagine what they could have done in the two years since.
A very 90s leftover bookmark in a second-hand book
January 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A very 90s leftover bookmark in a second-hand book
Wask Studio (waskstudio.com) 'makes things you probably haven't seen before':
One quarter piggy banks, hard to read dice, match bookmarks
One quarter piggy banks, hard to read dice, match bookmarks
January 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Wask Studio (waskstudio.com) 'makes things you probably haven't seen before':
One quarter piggy banks, hard to read dice, match bookmarks
One quarter piggy banks, hard to read dice, match bookmarks
Also was in a second hand book shop here I inexplicably found a signed copy of an autobiography, making the game officially international.
December 30, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Also was in a second hand book shop here I inexplicably found a signed copy of an autobiography, making the game officially international.
One of Jimbocho Book Town's 130 (!) book stores.
December 30, 2024 at 10:50 PM
One of Jimbocho Book Town's 130 (!) book stores.
I’m currently reading Watership Down, having never seen the film. Writing commitments have slowed my reading down the last few months of the year, so I’m taking it slowly, a chapter a night. But I couldn’t have chosen a better book to savour. Already makes the top five and I'm halfway through.
December 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I’m currently reading Watership Down, having never seen the film. Writing commitments have slowed my reading down the last few months of the year, so I’m taking it slowly, a chapter a night. But I couldn’t have chosen a better book to savour. Already makes the top five and I'm halfway through.
A Month in the Country. Probably a perfect novel. Structured around the reconstruction of a church mural, centering the story around this craft works so well. Also created a new self publishing hero of mine in J.L. Carr. Lead me to read two more of his books and his biography as a result.
December 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
A Month in the Country. Probably a perfect novel. Structured around the reconstruction of a church mural, centering the story around this craft works so well. Also created a new self publishing hero of mine in J.L. Carr. Lead me to read two more of his books and his biography as a result.
I spent a lot of time researching a tennis biography this year, and Kings of the Court was an invaluable resource. Full of great sentences and descriptors about tennis players. It’s such an exquisite history of the sport up to the mid 20th century but completely out of print.
December 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I spent a lot of time researching a tennis biography this year, and Kings of the Court was an invaluable resource. Full of great sentences and descriptors about tennis players. It’s such an exquisite history of the sport up to the mid 20th century but completely out of print.
Headshot was on a lot of best ofs this year (including the Booker Prize longlist). The ability to write the action of consecutive boxing matches without it getting repetitive is so unbelievably hard. Incredible example of writing that I took a lot away from.
December 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Headshot was on a lot of best ofs this year (including the Booker Prize longlist). The ability to write the action of consecutive boxing matches without it getting repetitive is so unbelievably hard. Incredible example of writing that I took a lot away from.
I’d read On Heroes & Tombs before, but The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato was like a stick of dynamite. Read it in one sitting in the sun over summer. Stayed with me for a while afterwards and I’m looking forward to re-reading it again this year.
December 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
I’d read On Heroes & Tombs before, but The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato was like a stick of dynamite. Read it in one sitting in the sun over summer. Stayed with me for a while afterwards and I’m looking forward to re-reading it again this year.
Getting film developed has been a very humbling experience.
Being happy with <10% of around 40 photos reenforces just how much of an art form this is (or that I am terrible at it).
Going to be fun learning!
Being happy with <10% of around 40 photos reenforces just how much of an art form this is (or that I am terrible at it).
Going to be fun learning!
December 5, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Getting film developed has been a very humbling experience.
Being happy with <10% of around 40 photos reenforces just how much of an art form this is (or that I am terrible at it).
Going to be fun learning!
Being happy with <10% of around 40 photos reenforces just how much of an art form this is (or that I am terrible at it).
Going to be fun learning!
November 21, 2024 at 4:57 PM
(The coolest thing about the former is having it featured in print as part of the Bridport Prize 2024 Anthology alongside nineteen others' excellent work.)
November 18, 2024 at 8:52 AM
(The coolest thing about the former is having it featured in print as part of the Bridport Prize 2024 Anthology alongside nineteen others' excellent work.)
I've found over 30 signed books in second-hand shops this year.
Including three former England rugby coaches, two England cricket captains, and one Michael McIntyre.
#BookSky
Including three former England rugby coaches, two England cricket captains, and one Michael McIntyre.
#BookSky
November 17, 2024 at 6:45 PM
I've found over 30 signed books in second-hand shops this year.
Including three former England rugby coaches, two England cricket captains, and one Michael McIntyre.
#BookSky
Including three former England rugby coaches, two England cricket captains, and one Michael McIntyre.
#BookSky