I was in my car listening to the radio on a dash as FEMA was on furlough so long I ran out of unemployment, and I couldn't hear it all, but something stopped me cold. Teens are diagnosing themselves with mass misinformation. Not a little. Not occasionally. Constantly. And it is dangerous. I had to do something about it and it was in my head of projects. I might have a few rolling around. And so I am working with Lord Sinjin on Biology and Botany and I was like this too

I was doing a bonus working with biology and botany for Lord Sinjin's Next Comfy Couch stuff when I was reminded that I hadn't checked on the plant habitat situation. So after having asked a friend to make a few tiny posts on my Animal Project to get awareness on the ones we are losing spreading. I was like ... you can't wait on plants. And then I went looking for the numbers needing the fatest documentation. These next facts were pulled based on a search. Deforestation Added

It's Just Two Days Into the Week and the Eager Beaver Is an Overachiever Work and fun is a balance and so let's see how my scales are doing? Task One Selected Snuggle Bunny & Pumpkin Britches FAN PAGE: Before the week even started, I did the fan page for Snuggle Bunny and Pumpkin Britches and threw in a smackdown job of editing for Book Two. I'm putting them in LIVE! That is right, read a passage and then read the mass expansions of notes. HA HA HA. I touch things, I make the

Every time a flame burns out in the world we are diminished. These voices, once gone, might not ever be heard again. They do attempt to clone creatures but it has limited results. And as they often need to combine genetics due to lacking pieces — in the case of the northern white rhinoceros, scientists are using frozen sperm collected from already-deceased males combined with eggs from the last two living females, gathering the pieces of a species literally from the dead — ar

More Cards stack upon the Plate but I am not scared. I see the healing. I feel the mission. Long ago, I would have issues staying on me feet. When I couldn't run, I walked. When I couldn't walk, I crawled. If crawling failed, I grabbed with my hands and drug myself to a phone. When that stopped working, I talked. And even if I lost my voice, my mind would still be going. When there is even just one path, I find the way. THE MAP We have been building. One woman, a retired husb

ME, Lord Sinjin, sitting here together with Mister Chewy and Lady Ariarose… Aria: Another Tree Planted is always good. I mean to grow a forest one volunteer at a time. I am Milady's husband and fully retired, though I help on occasion with some editing and idea-bouncing. Mostly, when she is streaming, you'll hear me in the background doing other things. My favorite character names are Sinjin, for the tennis player, or Marcus Au, short for Marcus Aurelius. Kids, that is the jo

When it comes to animals that assist people, many assume all support animals are the same. My Chewy helps with blood sugar monitoring and often protests the rules that govern service dogs and protests the fact that he is not included in the upper tier and relegated to ESA. But these rules exist for good reasons. Now let's clarify what are the Service Dog Requirements are and why they are important. A Service Dog Hard at Work... Don't Pet Me, I am Working ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Well, the furlough has gone on so long, I ran out of unemployment. So now I'm doing some Dash work. No big deal, as I can work on writing between orders. Chewy, my Yorkie, was very concerned about his bone stockpile and offered to help dash for bones. See him up there, so cute, but I'll get enough bones to keep him well supplied. But, working in the car. Not the easiest. Can I lug the laptop? Yeah, but what of my massive screen? No. So, I decided to organize projects, as you

When I write for an audience, I must know how much weight the target reader needs and can handle. Every story carries weight. Your sensory details, emotional depth, the action beats, and dialog all combine and impact a reader. The question is not only how much weight your narrative needs but also how much your reader can carry and whether you are handing them the right load for where they are right now. Healing demands the person be ready for it. A doctor comes in and tells a

Now, in a past blog I talked about the Twine and Thread Technique but hadn't provided an example. The reason I hadn't is the first time I started to use it was in The Repeated Moments RIM Trilogies. First written book called Just Imagine That which I thought in the dream might be a small one off book but my Chewy interrupted the dream sequence saying he needed tending. The writing of a small bit was so fast I had all of it writen it all in under a day, but saw three structu

Yes, it's official. Well, maybe it is and maybe it isn’t. It tickled me to do it. Ha ha ha. I went and bought 1 sq. foot of land, and this is said to make me a Lady. Hey, titles have been bought and sold before. I just never believed it could be for so little. HA HA HA. It’s a vanity title. But I have played many games and earned that title in every game that offered them. Including the titles of Princess, Queen, Milady… ha ha ha, so many times I have earned it. However, I al

All the tools in the shed. New and innovative. Tried and true. I am willing to try them all. Writers and image creators take a lot of flack for using AI at all. But part of it is some are trying to cheat with it. AI should not do your writing. I do like it for copy editing though, as it catches more than Grammarly and ProWritingAid for a dyslexic writer — but you have to thoroughly watch it. I do a light copy edit and ask its opinion on the narrative and give one example of a

Every building starts with a foundation — sometimes stilts, sometimes slabs, sometimes basements, and some are built on good solid earth. A house built on sand sinks and demands many posts dug to keep it. You dig and dig until you have made a solid place so that as the sands shift, the house will not sink too far. Houses settle after a time. Sometimes that is why there is a tiny difference in a floor once so flat a ball wouldn’t roll. The “roll test” is to find if the house h

I use every tool in the box I come across to write — traditional and innovative — provided it empowers the reader’s experience, helps in the healing I am trying to aid, and serves the narrative. Why Another POV Technique? Some POV techniques cost you more than they give. Ping‑ponging between perspectives costs you momentum. You finish one perspective before entering the next. Repeating the same scene from two angles costs you tension — the reader already knows the destination

This is a MATURE AUDIENCE GAME and is not for children. Even with the zombies totally off, there would be gore and crude language. But hey we are building something for us adults that are going for it. And while doing the challenge, I discovered things :D So I made this addendum. 7 DAYS TO DIE — ENCOUNTER ROLL SHEET Enemies Off / Manual Spawn System HOW IT WORKS One roll per trigger. Roll a D6 anything 3 or higher at night 4 or higher daytime is an encounter roll. So I will

A FAMILY SITE NOTICE This is a family site. The content below is written in a family-friendly way. 7 Days to Die is a mature-rated game, and for great reasons. Even if you permanently turned zombie spawning off and did nothing but rebuild, the trader's language is crude, there are remnants of gore left behind in the environment, and the game would still not earn an E for Everyone rating. This is a mature challenge written for adults who play a mature game, presented in the fa

Fraudsters sometimes offer you deals that sound like golden opportunities, but they are covered in lies and have spiders ready to bite you the moment you accept. A careful fraudster, though, will make it only slightly too good rather than obviously great. They want you excited. They want you ready to accept. But no matter how good or standard it looks — watch out." I work remotely. I have for a number of years as I have Ehlers-Danlos among other conditions. Hey, we all have o

An Op-Ed on Consumer Rights in the Age of AI Subscriptions, Fed up power users YOU SIGNED UP FOR UNLIMITED. YOU GOT A LEASH. Let me tell you how it works. An AI company launches a product. They need users. They need power users especially — the ones who push the tools to their limits, who build workflows around the product, who make their failures workable. And after months of fine tuning their product to usable, they start to become dependent on it. At first, it is premium p

✦ ✦ ✦ Twinkie or Cookie? Yes, kids, today that is my tough decision. Life altering, right? Of course not! But you know, you never know when you'll come across one. What do you do when you're faced with major things? Like, say you don't study for a test, and you're sitting in your class and the smart kid near you is scribbling away. Tough decision, right? Do you look? You're there squirming, feeling awkward. Maybe they're your friend, and they even offered. Ah… don't, kids.

Officially Pitched Out due to the bad bat As I said in the last post, AI will not replace humans. But even as it can't replace us, with perseverance we can prevail. Patience is a virtue we all struggle with at times. But perseverance does not mean it eases my task. That picture with the Bad Bat Flower? It's been replaced officially. It took nine prompts to get one to work with for an attempt. Then twenty more to get the signs adjusted in the middle to be correct for a mere th