I’ve finally completed my brainstorming portion and now I’m on to outlining the scenes.

Ahhh, this feels so good. Today is the first day I’ve had in a while to just sit and brainstorm for as long as I want. Fingers crossed I can complete this brainstorming round and start outlining this story this week.

I'm a couple days late, but Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month runs from May 15 through June 15. Please take the time to research and learn more about TS and Tic disorders at Tourette.org/awareness

The mosquitoes are officially out in swarms in ATX. I’m covered in bites after watering plants last night.

I just set up my Substack account this past weekend and so far I’m really enjoying it. It’s taking a little to figure out the interface and how to do things, but I’m getting it. Slowly.

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Early morning brainstorming session created a new character and a complication for my MC that I'm so glad I thought of. *insert evil laugh*

Took a walk in downtown ATX with my teenager yesterday. It was fun hanging out and spending time with him one on one. I also got a few more ideas for fun things he wants to do this summer.

Finally found it. The average book thief makes between 60k and 99K USD.

The average author makes around 10k. Most pirates are stealing from people worse off than themselves. But they cosplay as poor or use poor people as a shield to justify their class warfare.

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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.

I was still fired up about the whole books being used to train AI thing this morning, so I wrote a newsletter about it. Let me know if it's useful to you!

Extra cute cat photo today, to help with the feelings.

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Time to get some plotting in before I need to be at work.

I spent the weekend writing out my plot on colored index cards. Great way to find where a plot thread has gone cold or you’re missing a link somewhere.

Hello Bluesky! Finally created a profile over here.