Popcorn Double Feature (redux)

Various ideas for your book:

Include a scene at the rheumy palace — 

Maybe a nonfiction setting on shipwrecked cay. 

Maybe not.

Use these words liberally:

Ablation; asperity; cassocks; chasubles;  hooded cowls; astringent; incursive; afflux; minikin; Grand Guignol; rutilant; cadge; rebus; limpid; enmity; hackles; pathoformic; sabbat; afflatus.

Write, one hundred, 100-word chapters. 

End abruptly, midway through the narrative, and append a long footnote that elucidates nothing.

Add Autocorrected Texts and Overheard Conversational Automatism.

Include two single word chapters: “Isotope” and “Gunplay” on pages 33 and 66, respectively.

Include the anecdote about the Girl Scout merit badge you were awarded for “Sailing.”

Title the work: 

Lime Automatic See Thru Three Cats Aging in the He Code Other Using Nixon No-Stow Straws

Include the anecdote about Harry and Jerry not having cottage cheese on their plates at your Sweet Sixteen BBQ. And how Stone took the big wooden spatula and rammed it in Orpheus.

Remember people are usually pessimistic about rain.

Include the scene where you make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for every potential boyfriend on the first date. 

Include the line: “I’m a hipster.”

Don’t disappoint everyone.

No one was mad at you.

Remember what Dr. Greene said:

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic, and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Include the words THE END.

What I’m Reading:

Although many people find it helpful to discuss their feelings with ChatGPT, mental health experts have warned that users who have intense conversations with the chatbot can develop beliefs that are potentially harmful. The phenomenon is sometimes called “AI psychosis,” although the term is not a medically recognized diagnosis.

OpenAI estimated last month that 0.15 percent of its users each week — more than a million people — show signs of being emotionally reliant on the chatbot. It said a similar number indicate potential suicidal intent

— Gerrit De Vynck and Jeremy B. Merrill / “We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.” / The Washington Post