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Credit: Pixabay New Blog Posting Day Coming I said a few weeks back that our blog posting schedule would change from the weekends to Mondays. And so it did. For one Monday . However, I’ve temporarily returned to posting on the weekends for about two weeks. I hadn't announced the new post schedule here at the Fantastic Site enough and so I don't think a lot of people know about the new schedule yet. So, I'm officially making the announcement now that we will be changing to a Monday schedule beginning March 13th.  This new schedule is due to the statistics reflecting throughout the last six months-to-a-year that many of you prefer to read blog posts during the week and, so far, Mondays seem most popular for that. The new posting schedule doesn't count the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop. That's exceptional because it's a group activity and so will, to my knowledge (since I don't coordinate it), continue on its first Wednesday of the month schedul

Credit: Pixabay This time, I’m not posting late. As I mentioned at my Facebook page , I'm switching from posting on weekends to during the weekdays. As of now, I’ll be posting Mondays. Google Analytics has been showing me that it's a time many of you prefer and so I want to make the timing as convenient for you as possible. Now for today’s post . . .  Back in December, the admin of a Facebook writers' group I belong to announced a new rule for the group: no posting of anything done by an AI writer or AI artist. She gave several reasons why. Reasons I mostly agree with, including the jeopardising of writers’ and artists’ careers. Since around that same time, there's been a lot of online controversy over AI content creators which include both writer software and artist software. You'd think most writers and artists (digital and freehand) would be hella angry over this new technology that, basically, does your work for you. Well, I don’t know about most but I can say t

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) post! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. Well, it's already February and so we've made it through the first month of a new year! I've started this year out by trying to take a load off of myself and not concentrate too much on the marketing side of the writing and to focus much more on the writing itself, including my fiction. Last year my most current book that I've been working on, "Bad Apps", a collection of short fiction about strange and deadly mobile apps, kept getting postponed in its release because I was playing the role of marketer too much and I’m not a marketer, I'm a writer. And “Bad Apps” still has yet to see publication. So, this year I’ve laid off the extensive marketing and plan to continue doing so. However, one form of marke