Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words.
Occasionally the five words will have a theme. This week’s theme uses words often connected to Canada’s aboriginal communities. September 30th marks Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. A national holiday meant to bring awareness to our country’s terrible history with the indigenous communities that settled this continent long before Europeans arrived on its shores. The goal is to build bridges between our communities, begin the long healing process, and unite all Canadians.
Your story is not bound to the theme. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to a belated Five Word Weekly. Five random words should have dropped on Sunday at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Better late than never, I guess. Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Welcome to Four Line Fiction, a pix-to-prose challenge. Each Tuesday, at 9:00am Eastern Time (Canada/United States) I will post an image I have captured myself, featured from another blog or plucked from one of the Interweb’s many royalty-free image sites. You as the writer are to use that image as a point of inspiration to craft a masterpiece of fiction in four lines.
Image: Greg Glazebrook / GMGPhotography
This week’s image depicts messy-haired boy (my boy) sitting at a restaurant table. His mouth is wide open waiting for that next spoonful of ice cream he has lifted to his lips. The image has been processed using an icy blue duotone filter with the text “I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM” printed in block font across the bottom of the image.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading the tales you spin. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their masterpieces.
Welcome to Five Word Weekly. Five random words will drop on Sunday evenings at 5:00pm (17:00h) Eastern Standard Time (Canada/United States). Your task is to craft prose or poetry using any or all of the prompt words. How you participate is entirely up to you. Your work(s) can be a single piece using some or all of the words, a series of stand-alone projects incorporating at least one of the words in each, or an epic serial linking the words over several entries. Let the words be the inspiration that takes you wherever your imagination leads.
Be creative and have fun. I look forward to reading what each of you conjures up. Don’t forget to show your fellow bloggers some love -❤️- take some time to read, like, and comment on their responses.
Every week, Fandango over at This, That and the Other posts a provocative question. This week’s question is…
“How do you feel about bloggers using AI-generated text to write their posts? How do you feel about bloggers using AI-generated artwork to illustrate their posts? Do your feelings differ between AI-generated blog posts and AI-generated images in bloggers’ posts?”
I suspect there are some huge benefits to AI if approached properly. As with everything there is the potential for bad. The ethical dilemma is enormous and I don’t think any of us can truly fathom how much our lives are controlled or influenced by AI and the enormous number of data points Meta, Google Apple and Microsoft collect and feed into these artificial brains. This does not even begin to touch on unfriendly regimes such China. The information they are collecting on each and every one of us will be used to undermine our politicians, corporations, even individuals and ultimately our freedom.
Fandango has asked us to comment on AI at a more personal level – in the blogosphere. There is no simple answer to his questions. I think it depends on the intended use and purpose for employing AI. There is no doubt a greater number of blogs are integrating AI technologies and the results can enhance the user experience. I am not opposed to such use however I do believe that the work needs to be credited properly.
For example, my Four Line Fiction post this week uses an image generated by DALL∙E, the AI brain behind Microsoft Bing’s Image Creator. The concept for the image was “a bird dressed in a tuxedo dining on a carcass”. The picture on the wall of the image below was one of four Microsoft’s AI brain spit out. The final image including the wall and staircase was created using Microsoft Designer, another AI-driven app you can use to edit/refine the final product. It can be accessed by clicking the Customize link next to the AI-generated image at Bing. Once the design was finished I credited the image as shown below.
Concept: Greg Glazebrook / GMGCreative | Image: DALL∙E / Microsoft
I think my approach to crediting the image strikes a balance and makes the reader/viewer aware that the image was artificially generated. It is fair for the artist/blogger to take credit for the concept, but not the actual image/artwork.
Here are some images Nate, my seven-year-old son conceptualized for fun this morning. Does this make him an artist? All images were produced by DALL∙E / Microsoft.
“a tree wearing a tuxedo”
“a cat wearing a train costume”
“a dog wearing a cat costume”
“a lion with long sharp nails cutting through prison bars”
I am a lot less interested in AI writing generators for blog posts. At least in the realm of creative writing. I can see the uses in business, advertising or technical writing but having something written in the creative sphere feels like cheating.
That said, I have been toying with the idea of a sister site to Greg’s Blog. It is currently in development using the working title “Randomly Generated Twaddle”. Admittedly the idea has stalled because I’m not sure if there would be much interest and my own time constraints. The RGT concept would use AI-generated content to respond to the myriad of daily and weekly writing prompts many of us post and respond to around the blogosphere. The blog concept was meant to be an AI experiment as opposed to a purely creative endeavour. The key being the reader would always be aware that the content was AI generated as that was kind of the point. If you think this might be a worthwhile endeavour let me know and maybe I will consider resurrecting it.
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