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Not sure where to discuss this, so I'm putting it here: When managing a story, there is an "Unpublish Story" feature which includes the option: "Removing story permanately" I believe, along with the results of several online searches, that "permanently" is the only correct spelling.
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By strange coincidence, I've been using this principle for a year now with respect to the Bing Image Creator. It's an interesting study in English to produce prompts which easily pass the Microsoft pornography test but which AI understands perfectly. Of course MS strains out most of the objectionable images on the way back, but sometimes that fails too. Unfortunately, the Bing team eventually learns about the synonyms and I have to look for new techniques. I'm tempted to send them a bill for services rendered.
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Thanks for sharing this, Wolf. It's a great way of remembering a very personable and popular author, and a good friend to many on this site. It's unfortunate you couldn't finish the project with Carlos, but perhaps this very intriguing beginning could be developed into more? A world of its own? Or I can conceive of ways it could be integrated into Running with the Pack. Sorry, my imagination is running wild I also note elements in this chapter which parallel events in your earlier writing. Experiences, even less than optimal ones, can be very useful when developing stories.
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Happy birthday. I think you have your priorities in the right sequence
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LOL! Absolutely perfect
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Well, I got here just in time for the ending. No suspense for me on this one Good story, Chris.
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GA's Newest Promising Author: WolfM
Backwoods Boy commented on Graeme's blog entry in Gay Authors News
Outstanding! Appropriate recognition for an excellent collection of stories. I hope this will help inspire many more -
What a delightfully unexpected ending to a great short story. Unlike many others, I haven't read your stories elsewhere, and while I'll go looking, I hope you post some more here
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Well Terry, since you've taken the brave step of humanizing AI with an emotion, I'll add what I was thinking earlier - that it has a sense of humor - somewhat warped - as demonstrated by @Myr's creation. And I'll repeat an earlier sentiment - it may be the "mistakes" that make the best story prompts
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Well, that didn't quite go the way I had expected, but the surprise reappearance was wonderful. When he gave his name as "Michael", I suspected he was an angel. And at that point, in a way he was - an angel who becomes real. A great Christmas story.
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Another excellent story-from-a-picture, Ivor. You're always very creative with those. One might have wished for a happier ending for the others, but that would not have fit with the plot well. Besides, stories, like life, don't always have 100% happy endings. Looking forward to more of your creativity, soon, I hope
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There's a story here for sure, since it has already been written. But there's always room for another sequel. The prompt was the lyrics to Jefferson Airplane's, White Rabbit As the Cheshire Cat would say, 😁
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An excellent ending to an excellent story, Craig, and I too will be looking forward to the epilogue. I particularly enjoyed the human touch - and the extensive detail, which adds so much to a story. Keep up the good work
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When it comes to comedy, I think it's hard to beat @Refugium. Two not on the list are satirical poems that had me laughing so hard I nearly wet my pants: https://gayauthors.org/story/refugium/bible-sex-laws-an-exploration-in-limericks/ https://gayauthors.org/story/refugium/if-dr-seuss-had-written-leviticus/
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Excellent! That was an attention-grabbing beginning to a story that I know will continue to be riveting - which I hope happens soon
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Thanks, Terry. "Raven" has long been the voice that speaks to me in the woods. I'm sure, were I Native American, Raven would be my spirit guide. I have a Sue Coleman "Raven" picture in every room of my house. I can put words together sometimes, but have absolutely no artistic talent, so a tool to feed text to and get a painting out is marvelous. I'm afraid I've been spending far too much time playing with it for the last month or so - a good way to get through the season of greed and gluttony. Time to get back to other things
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Probably not a candidate for a story prompt, but another experiment was the world of Canadian Northwest-Coast First Nations art. Sue Coleman, who does paintings of animals with their native equivalents, does things like this. Here's the prompt: "A Raven perched on a branch of a Cedar tree looking at its Northwest-Coast First-Nations totem-pole equivalent carved into the bole of the Cedar tree, in the style of Sue Coleman. Oil painting." This particular example didn't follow the prompt exactly, but again it turned out to be the best of the several I produced.
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I need to find an organization called Image Creators Anonymous However, I got to playing around with sepia-tone photos from the 1930s as an offshoot of earlier gas-station-attendant examples. I was playing around with city tenements and possible socialization therein when I got this one, which had little to do with the prompt but has turned out to be my favorite. It might even be worthy of a story
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Good thing I buy house-brand tissues. I just looked at my crystal ball, and it told me Michael becomes a caregiver (temporarily, at least) and Charlie will soon be driving a Mini Cooper. How am I doing? The question is rhetorical, of course, as the answer is
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You do an excellent job with complex human relationships, Craig, and you have demonstrated that again in this chapter. How you managed that with a group of six boys is awesome. As a computer scientist, I was aware of Alan Turing and his contributions to that field. It was only in recent years that I learned "the rest of the story". Another homophobic travesty of the era, but not one they mentioned in school. Not part of the expected "ticky-tacky" that was supposed to make us all come out the same.
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Another great chapter, Craig and Terry. Definitely nothing ticky-tacky. I'm behind in my reading, as you see. However, like Dan, I cued in on that song and had to take five minutes to find a recording to listen to it once again. When Pete Seeger was making the song famous, a certain eighteen-year-old had just graduated from high school and was on the way to the university intending to measure success by not being made of ticky-tacky and not coming out the same. I think I succeeded
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Well, I found another appendage problem this morning. It seems that the application which screens the AI-produced pictures for morality isn't foolproof, as evidenced by one this morning. Above the hand stuck in the pants pocket was another appendage sticking out, and it wasn't a finger. And to make sure I noticed it, one of the other boys in the photo was pointing at it. Needless to say, I'm not going to post the picture.
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A bit of snow around here today, even more at higher elevations. As to writing, I hope winter gets me going again. I'm looking forward to more fun.
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Great story, Craig. I like how each character is a distinct individual, and all are human, including pulling pranks and Jason talking with his mouth full. Charlie is adapting to his new home well. Looking forward to more.
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I think the name obscuring or omitting is deliberate - undoubtedly a legal issue. I've been playing around with early 20th century northwest-rural historical settings, and the Oasis Bordello in Wallace, Idaho (yes it accepted the last word, but "brothel" didn't fly) was a random building with misspelled variations of the name. And if you think the human appendage problem is bad, the 1930's gas-pump appendages are a hoot. The hose once appeared out of the front of the attendant's pants, giving new meaning to "servicing the customer".
