Jamal

I completely understand your reaction. I just think that Clarky is open-minded enough to revise his prejudices, in this case. Thank you for explaining...

But it'd be interesting to know what "getting away with it" means, artistically speaking.

It just occurred to me that this is a surprising criticism coming from the man who wrote "A Special Christmas" and "Dead Baby Shoes".

This might be a good topic for an OP. When this accusation is thrown around (generally, not particularly about David Lynch) I find myself wondering (a...

Anglos aren't saying much in this discussion mainly, I think, because they feel they don't know enough. @"T Clark" was brave enough to raise his head ...

I like Eraserhead. It's an early, intentionally experimental art film, so to say it's gratuitous seems a bit misguided, though of course I can underst...

Agreed :up:

Glad it's not just me.

I've had poutine and it was delicious, probably the best Canadian food I had when I was in Canada. I wouldn't have thought peas would make a good addi...

Tokyo Express by Seich? Matsumoto Point Zero by Seich? Matsumoto

https://i.postimg.cc/brzqw1Gk/Ambrosia-Rice-Pudding.jpg

I'd like to try grits. And collard greens. Does anyone eat chitlins these days?

I always assumed that was just an urban myth.

I think they might be silicone implants.

I went for a walk in Spain, starting at the beach then heading inland and up to the top of the mountain called El Montgo. Visibility was good all day....

Probably far too long. There was a week of aimless sporadic writing, then one night lying in bed inventing a plot, then a couple of days doing researc...

Writers have been using technology since the beginning. Many people use Grammarly, while believing they're not using AI. Word processors provide spell...

https://youtu.be/9ef7DL1te3I?si=GcFEJmd460_7iAmw https://youtu.be/9HhN3iNmFb8?si=mavWOCm6c7wWAR8n

My favourite Russian song, once again: https://youtu.be/rdxv2AFky3I?si=JI_vO68VZp2uup5A

https://youtu.be/Axcq_AbImso?si=wMo9j6DTc998O50n

https://youtu.be/h-3Lk3Cr-1k?si=iw_zRzjzAId0WGaT

https://youtu.be/Wf_S45AFFGM?si=t46VZ-LWdvqvaTMo

https://youtu.be/cu_wPmXlhds?si=N5WtlbA4EOtHRW-m

Good point :grin:

There's now a non-English area on TPF. So far it's only Spanish in there but as we're allowing Spanish, we have to allow Swedish and Finnish too. So f...

https://youtu.be/ldKt0JgC-F4?si=24hyVPnTRvoz40m1

They key might be to write for the next round of short stories. Write one, then see if you can write a better one, and so on till December.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. So far: great.

I'm pretty good with language but it's entirely intuitive, so these insights are revelatory to me. Thank you.

Thanks. My subtle humour, as with all humour, really benefits from being broken down and explained like that.

Yes, and attempts to appear as if it's not.

Interesting analysis, but surely the meaning of "up high" is exactly reproduced by "lofty...above"? Because up = above, and lofty = high. (Something c...

Pigs is not my province.

Good to know! Yeah, "the century teetering on its edge" is so gratuitous it's virtually a parody; and, considering it was trying to remove repetitions...

Yes, but I had "up" and also "high", so it was probably mimicking me.

It's exactly what we love about dogs. To be clear, I mean the innocence and unquenchable lust for life, not the feces and vomit.

I actually quite like the phrase "lofty gaps," even though it's less direct and immediate, and therefore less effective, than mine (as I must continue...

Indeed, but I need to know what the Chinese are trying to tell me.

Fortunately, your youth culture references fly over my head. I think it attempts to say something like "I've got you covered" (even though it's just m...

I bought a pair of gloves today and noticed this interesting tagline on the box: https://i.postimg.cc/mDVVFYHp/PXL-20250105-152744761.jpg "Fortunately...

For my own amusement, I have just now asked ChatGPT to rewrite it. Mine: Robot's: The way it's trying so hard to appear human, it's almost embarrassin...

Yes, the thought of the reader reading it is motivating, for me and it seems for you too. It’s difficult to imagine the mindset of the writers who pro...

It’s clear that you deserve 100% of the credit for your story and that you used AI legitimately as a tool, like a combined thesaurus, grammar guide, s...

I'm happy for you to interpret it in your own way so long as you shower it with praise. But my suspicion—I'm a very suspicious guy—is that @"Tobias" g...

It's called media embedding. Your question is a little ambiguous but I assume you're asking if you can embed non-Youtube videos in TPF posts. The answ...

I agree with you, but the thing I noticed is that sometimes the line feels too easy to cross. Before I had worked out precisely how to ask it what to ...

With the enshittification of Google, googling such things has become a lot harder. EDIT: Actually, I forgot it has AI built-in now.

To say a bit more... My line of thinking is like this. I haven't used it for creative writing before writing this year's story, and even now it's not ...

I'd be interested to learn to what extent other authors used ChatGPT or similar. I used it in two ways: research and as a thesaurus. For the research,...

Fair enough. I agree that "jest" is good; it's the "pull" that didn't look right to me. When I found out that Russian monks often took Greek names, I ...