Tag: writing
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Sorry, I can’t change that, AI Dave
There’s a delicious irony creeping into the publishing world, and it’s getting harder to ignore. Writers are now being told by publishers that their work may be run through AI detection tools to ensure they haven’t used AI. Pause on that for a moment. A human writes a book. The book is then fed into…
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Take me back to the year 1972
The first hint I might be a Time Lord happened in high school. So I wasn’t panicked when my old mate Orville proudly showed me his new watch. That’s Orville all over. One upmanship. I had just named more Doctors than he could. I stared at his watch face. It said 4:17. I glanced at…
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Top of a lighthouse is on my bucket list
Get in line if you want to know how many humour columnists it takes to change a lightbulb. I’ve got a more pressing riddle: how many humour columnists can you squeeze into a lighthouse? That’s the question I asked in an email I sent to Steve Jeffrey, former editor and proprietor of the Anchor Weekly…
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Two things will happen in my next novel
In the final book of my Windy Mountain series, someone will get married and someone will die. They may even be the same person. I haven’t decided yet, so please go easy on me. That uncertainty probably tells you a lot about me. I try to write blog posts weekly because they behave themselves. They turn up, do…
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I’m not who you think I am. Wheely.
I can’t continue the lie. All this time I’ve been masquerading as a short, overweight, unfit former journalist called John Martin. But my real name is Urs Freuler — and in the 1980s and 1990s I was one of the world’s greatest cyclists. Six foot two. Muscles on muscles. Legs like tree trunks. Born in…
JOHN MARTIN'S TALES 