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Christine Kerr's avatar

I'll have to look into that. So you can have AI read it back and make Audio Books, I imagine. I got pretty good at reading books upside down to kindergartners, and I have an FCC license from when I did the Opera radio show when I was in College. But that was a long time ago. Things change. Ha

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Michael Allen's avatar

Beautifully stated Cecil.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

I can't agree with you more! Today I set out to write a poem. As I was working on it, it totally morphed into something different than I originally intended. I don't know how that happened but I kept trying on different ideas and found one that stuck. I enjoy writing on substack. Some

things are good, some things aren't, but that's OK, I'm getting practice and I enjoy the time spent.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

Elsa was more of a dada surrealist type ( years before surrealism) artist I think in the New York area I guess. She is interesting. I did end up using it to make a story from for exquisites book. I’ll probably post it eventually.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

I found an old blog entry I never finished so I finished it and ran it through Chatgpt. I wrote the story but Chatgpt made it so much better. I still had to clean it up a bit, but overall I was very pleased with the outcome. Thank you so much for the tip. I'm still noodling with it, images next. I know you probably read a lot of stuff, but if you want to check it out it's called "Stars In My Eyes"

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

yes I read that. Yes, like I mentioned before, I regard whatever chat GPT spits out as found collage material. I like to copy and paste everything into a Chat Master Doc where all of the conversation is kept as it happens that way you can then select stuff from there and make another doc to do all of the refinements and changes to the document and leave out what ever won't be in your final product. Later if you are developing a longer story, you can upload the doc back into chatgpt and have it only drawing from the 'fix' version without all the extra noise. If you start going crazy, it will be hard to keep the material organized so you want to figure that part out from the beginning. I chase down a lot of rabbit holes.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

I feel like I am running out of material, I don’t have a central focus any more like you have your art. I think fiction is probably the way to go.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

I can understand how that can happen. I keep backups of everything in Google docs, I need to clean it out, just like everything else.

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

I usually upload stuff to google docs. I like to upload the manuscripts at different points and then listen to then with speechify when I go out for walks.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

OMG. Speechify? Never heard of it. Is it an app? I’m assuming

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Cecil Touchon's avatar

I am constructing a poem this morning. I was researching baroness Elsa von fraytag-loringhoven and ended up in slavery archives in New Orleans. I didn’t intend to, but then I saw a phrase I liked and pretty soon I had the makings of a poem. If it has the bones I might make it into a story. So it goes.

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Christine Kerr's avatar

Funny how that happens. Is your poem about Elsa von fraytag-loringhoven? She sounds like she was part of the Art Nouveau movement happening at the turn of the century. I did a paper on Eric Satie, composer from around that era in France. I loved the music from that period of time, it was ethereal and broke a lot of rules, not surprisingly. I wish I could have been there to witness it.

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Annette Wilzig's avatar

I could never relate to the artists that had their studio somewhere they had to drive to. My studios have always been inside where I lived. When I can't sleep at night I will often go into my studio to sometimes do something in there whether it's working on an unfinished piece, or cleaning old glue off of an object, playing with various items to see if they need to be joined eventually. I feel better when I'm in there and after I leave. It's therapeutic for me. And I'm getting ready to really get better organized in there; bought some shelves the other day. I love that space. It's always There, ready for me to do whatever in there and I'm so grateful to have it. And I feel that gratefulness every time I go in it.

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