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Process Series

February 22, 2023 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

For years, I’ve wanted to document my writing process more. Obviously, I’ve shared quite a bit, here, but never a true Beginning-to-End effort. That’s about to change. The Process Series I finally started creating short videos about all that goes into creating an episode of Not About Lumberjacks. My goal is, when it’s done, to […]

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Some Additional Thoughts about AI

December 12, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

Now more than ever, being you is what makes art. AI-prompted images and text are here, and while much of it is still apparent, it’s not going to be long before it gets really good. I see people saying AI will never create something on the same level as humans, but it’s already eclipsing the […]

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AI Writing

October 28, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund 4 Comments

I’ve mentioned before that I’m friends with quite a few artists. Lately, I’ve seen quite a few of them share thoughts about artificial intelligence generating “art.” Feelings range from machine-learned art taking jobs and stealing styles to it all being just another tool. AI Writing I friend recently posted a work of micro fiction on […]

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What You Control

September 13, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

I’ve mentioned some of my writing close calls over the years: a large studio interested in a screenplay they said they would have fought for, but…they were being acquired by another studio wanting a new direction; and I’ve had partial and full manuscript requests from agents over the years. (In some cases, from people representing […]

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Until October…

August 31, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

It snuck up on me this year: September. I’ve been busy at work and working on the next Not About Lumberjacks story. Other things have had my attention. And then someone mentioned Labor Day weekend almost being here and… Well, like I said: September snuck up on me this year. The September Silence Each September, […]

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Trigger Warning

August 16, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

I never liked the term “Trigger Warning.” It quickly became synonymous with mocking people who wanted to know what might pop up in a story — as though that’s such a bad thing to consider. People who wanted to know what might be in a story were deemed weak…it’s literature after all, and we survived […]

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The Death of Literature

August 2, 2022 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

I used to be in a writing group with two good friends. One evening, we let another friend — someone who doesn’t write fiction — sit in. He was impressed by the effort my friends and I put into the stories we wrote. It wasn’t our friends’ intent, but he said something about how he […]

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Finding My Way

September 27, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

I finished, recorded, and edited a new Not About Lumberjacks story these past two weeks. (I’ve been doing a weekly writing update on the Not About Lumberjacks blog, by the way; in fact, there’s a new entry there right now…) The story I planned to release in October needs more time. So…I had a vague […]

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Twelve Years…

September 8, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

Twelve years ago I wrote this — the first Juggling Writer entry. Since then, the blog has gone from lists and “actionable” things to reflections on being a writer with a day job. The Past Year (In Juggling Writer Time) The past year has definitely been a mix of juggling writing with a day job […]

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September Silence 2021

August 31, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund 3 Comments

The September Silence begins tomorrow. Each year, for all of September, I take a month-long social media break. I treat it like my writing new year — despite the heat of Texas still making summer drag into late October or early November. When September rolls around, I’m like a little kid still living up north. […]

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Wanting It…

August 24, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

I’ve been a fan of Lilah Sturges’s writing since a friend (Mark Finn) joined a shared world fiction anthology called Clockwork Storybook in the late 90s. In a Twitter thread this morning, Lilah talked about a concept I hate: Wanting/Not Wanting something enough. And then she said something that really hit me: …maybe I don’t […]

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1000 Words of Summer – 2021

June 28, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund Leave a Comment

The last entry, here, was about the first week of the 2021 1000 Words of Summer writing challenge. (To be fair, for some reason, calling it a challenge always seems a bit…not right. It is a challenge — you’re shooting for a daily word count. But it’s never felt like other challenges in the way […]

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One Week In…

June 7, 2021 by Christopher Gronlund 1 Comment

I mentioned last week that I’m taking part in the 1000 Words of Summer writing challenge. So…how did the first week go? Week One I wrote 5,315 words in the first week. (Some years I blow past daily word counts, and other years I don’t even hit 3,000.) A friend is curious about how the […]

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