My good friend and sometime writing buddy Jenn Burke shared this link on Facebook last week: Romance Novels Generated by Artificial Intelligence. Briefly, computational scientist Elle O’Brien fed over 20,000 Harlequin Romance novel titles into a neural network and then asked it to come up with some titles of its own. The results are allContinueContinue reading “Poor Purter and the Midwife Cowpoke”
Category Archives: Writing
The Myth of the Perfect Draft
When I wrote my first book I had absolutely no concept of how the whole process worked. I wrote a story, read it over, sent it to a friend—who read it over and said very nice things—corrected a few typos, and sent it in. The publisher offered me a contract, and I thought, “Wow, thatContinueContinue reading “The Myth of the Perfect Draft”
Thursdays Are for Hiking
Sometimes to write better, you have to not write. I’ve been pushing hard the past couple of weeks trying to meet a deadline for Uncommon Ground (better known as my Aliens in New York project). I need to be done by tomorrow, and I’m maybe 3-4k from the end. Doable, right? Even more doable ifContinueContinue reading “Thursdays Are for Hiking”
Five Years!
WordPress just informed me that my blog is five years old today! In honour of my blog’s fifth birthday, I thought I’d share five of my favourite posts. Ramble: The Weed This is one of my earliest posts, and one I reread on occasion because it reminds me of the fact that sometimes, it’s theContinueContinue reading “Five Years!”
Magical Moments
That is seriously the corniest title for a blog post ever, but I’m sticking with it. I spent the past weekend at the Create Something Magical Conference in Iselin, NJ, organised by Liberty States Fiction Writers. Despite having depleted a good deal of my conference mojo at the Dreamspinner Author Workshop in Florida earlier thisContinueContinue reading “Magical Moments”
Kelly Jensen 