Creating anything

Creating anything of consequence or magnitude requires deliberate, incremental and consistent work. At the beginning, these efforts might not look like they are amounting to much. But with time, they accumulate and then compound on each other. Whether it’s a book or a business or an anthill or a stalagmite, from humble beginnings come impressive outcomes.

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ＡＩ絵生成の弱点
ＡＩ絵生成ソフトの一番の欠陥は基礎を完全無視していきなり絵事態を塗り始める事に有る。だからこそうあれ程不安定で処理ミスが多い。

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n53b1889c1d42

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#weaknesses #image #generation #flaw #software #completely #ignores #basic #picture #unstable #process #draw #decide #composition #make #correction #necessary #line #start #foundation #properly #create #overall #exact #coordinate #positional #relationship #element #between

Weaknesses of AI image generation
The biggest flaw in AI image generation software is that it completely ignores the basics and just starts coloring the picture itself.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nbcf01aada7b5

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#weaknesses #image #generation #flaw #software #completely #ignores #basic #picture #unstable #process #draw #decide #composition #make #correction #necessary #line #start #foundation #properly #create #overall #exact #coordinate #positional #relationship #element #between

ＡＩ絵生成の弱点
ＡＩ絵生成ソフトの一番の欠陥は基礎を完全無視していきなり絵事態を塗り始める事に有る。だからこそうあれ程不安定で処理ミスが多い。

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n53b1889c1d42

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#weaknesses #image #generation #flaw #software #completely #ignores #basic #picture #unstable #process #draw #decide #composition #make #correction #necessary #line #start #foundation #properly #create #overall #exact #coordinate #positional #relationship #element #between

Weaknesses of AI image generation
The biggest flaw in AI image generation software is that it completely ignores the basics and just starts coloring the picture itself.

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/nbcf01aada7b5

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#weaknesses #image #generation #flaw #software #completely #ignores #basic #picture #unstable #process #draw #decide #composition #make #correction #necessary #line #start #foundation #properly #create #overall #exact #coordinate #positional #relationship #element #between

What Other Art Forms Taught Me About Writing

I collect hobbies. 
In true ADHD fashion, my interests are expansive, my search history littered with deep dives into any number of subjects, and my living space full to the brim with all the stuff one accumulates if they are, like me, attempting to fully live up to the idea of becoming a “Jack of all trades” (and master of none). 
(Also, in truly circular fashion, one of the hobbies I’ve collected, much to my mother’s chagrin, is the hobby of collecting itself– books, but also various dolls (American Girl and Disney collectible dolls primarily), along with cute mini-backpacks, quirky overalls, and of course, supplies for all my non-collecting hobbies).
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/26/what-other-art-forms-taught-me-about-writing/

#CRAFT #Inspirations #Process #REALWORLD #Writinglife

Tues. May 26, 2026: The Week’s Foggy Start

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Waxing Moon

Pluto Retrograde

Foggy and a little warmer

I hope you had a good weekend, and, if it was a holiday weekend for you, enjoyed the holiday. Restful or playful, depending on what you wanted and needed.

You can read the Community Tarot Reading for the Week here.

Friday warmed up a bit and got brighter, which was nice. After breakfast, I made the devilled eggs. I got some admin done, then packed up the dishes of eggs and the fruit into insulated bags and headed out.

Traffic was heavier than usual to Lenox, but not yet awful. I was early enough to miss the deluge. Parking in Lenox, however, was the usual nightmare. I finally found a spot on the correct side of a No Parking sign (the arrow went the other way to the other part of the curb), and maneuvered that. It was only a couple of blocks from the WAM office. But I was glad I’d given myself some extra time.

I helped set up as more people arrived, and we had a lovely time. I think there were 15-20 people who came through, some staying for the whole thing, others for  just a bit. There were people from Shakespeare & Co. and Great Barrington Public Theatre and the WAM board and other colleagues, and it was a lovely way to send Molly off to her new adventure. WAM and Shakespeare & Co. have been the two main pillars of her career. There was lots of laughter, great conversation, and good food. And plenty of people to help with dishes and cleanup! It’s great that the regional theatres have such a warm relationship with each other, and so important for the health of all the theatres.

I left around 3:30 to head back home. Traffic was heavy, because Friday of the holiday weekend starting the season. Plenty of terrible drivers, so I had to be on alert.

But I got home, got things unpacked (I had a few eggs left and most of the dishes washed already). I had about an hour to just read (a book by a colleague at the ghostwriting client’s, which was very good), and then I started dinner. Who would think I could eat any more after that huge, Italian lunch, but we had fish tacos, and they were good.

Quiet evening, to bed early. A tiring few days toward the end of last week, but the good kind of tired.

Up at the usual time on Saturday. So much for sleeping in, but Charlotte and Tessa were impossible. It was cloudy and cool, and I was glad I had some of my warmer clothes still handy.

If you’re not familiar with Persephone Books in the UK, I suggest you check them out here. The books they republish are fascinating, and their monthly newsletter is filled with wonderful atmosphere, ideas, and other interesting tidbits. They love both the content of books and the making of books, and it’s a delight.

Saturday I did housework, read scripts for the literary committee meeting, and did elder care. I got a little reading in, too. It started raining in the afternoon, and I felt bad for the people coming in hoping for a lovely long weekend. It was also pretty cold. So I couldn’t finish setting up the back balcony, either.

I had an idea for a new opening scene for I WILL BE DIFFERENT. I wanted to set it in January of 1900, but I’m not sure I can – I might have to push it back into the previous century. I wouldn’t know whether the time of the scene worked until I put the whole play together.

Slept reasonably well, although Tessa and Charlotte were impossible on Sunday morning.

Morning routine was fine. It was raining heavily. I did the Community Tarot Reading for the Week, which you can read here.

I also made vegetable stock – two small jars in the freezer (in former gelato containers) and one glass jar in the fridge. With the CSA box, I’ll need to make lots of vegetable stock this summer, and I have to make sure I actually use it.

Then, I sat down and wrote the new opening of I WILL BE DIFFERENT, which I really like. I did a rough assembly of the scenes. It was 152 pages, far too long to be a produce-able play. I went through and did another draft, getting it down to 142 pages. I cut one scene entirely, and also tightened some internal beats.

These are just script pages, not counting the cover page, character/scene breakdowns, author’s note, etc.

I either have to cut at least 22 pages (probably closer to 25 or 30) to keep it as a single play, or split it and make it 2 smaller plays, each that run without intermission. I may need to add a WWII scene into the Alice section, and it probably means I can’t end the first play where I now have the first act, after the Milly/Ron party scene. Or maybe, with that scene, I can. I still feel that’s the right place to add either the act or the play. If it’s two separate plays, each one will need some restructuring, since it’s not just about breaking them up and that’s that. If I go that route, I also need to weave in some more events on the larger scale. In the current script, I have both World Wars, the depression, Roe v. Wade, and the ability for women to finally have their own bank accounts, credit cards, etc. I may also need to layer in other events that had a ripple effect.

There’s room for double/triple/more casting, but it still needs a big cast.

But at least I’ve completed several drafts. Nothing is submissible yet (I remember rolling my eyes whenever I was a script reader and someone dumped 150-page script on me, especially if I wasn’t paid extra – no, just no. Make the cuts before submission). I might send the Great Big Bundle of Script Pages to a couple of Trusted Readers who know my work well enough to focus more on character arc and overall flow rather than in how produce-able it is at the moment. Because in its current form, it is not produce-able. The questions I have aren’t about making it fit into schematics, yet, but other specifics that I will list for them. It is kind of cool to see the 20th century unroll through this lineage of mothers and daughters.

That took all day, with interruptions for elder care issues. I cooked dinner (drunken noodles, which turned out really well again) cleaned up, and went to bed early.

I woke up just after midnight from terrible nightmares, and had a bad time getting back to sleep. I was just dozing off again when Charlotte and Tessa started fussing.

Up at the usual time on Monday, morning routine. It was bucketing down rain and quite cold.

Slogged through way too much email. I’m very unhappy with one of my smaller clients, and need to consider options in the coming months. We’re being pushed in a direction I feel is unethical, and they’re allowing some freelancers to hoard work instead of spreading it out, the way it used to be under the previous owner.

Oh, and by the way, no one buys yet another fake assassination attempt in DC. Especially when they practically announce them ahead of time now.

Sent off an LOI for a position slightly out of my wheelhouse, but that I think I would love (and also be really good at).

Finished the reading and the notes for the literary committee meeting, and sent my notes.

In the afternoon, it brightened up a bit and warmed up a bit, but it was too late for me to start sewing.

After a mostly rough weekend on the elder care front, things were a little better on Monday.

Made us turkey burgers for dinner, read in the evening while functioning as cat furniture.

Slept well into this morning (for a change), although Charlotte started fussing at me around 3 AM. I refused to get out of bed until 5:30, and start the morning routine. It was very foggy in the morning, and it’s supposed to get up into the low 80’s.

Charlotte hurled a fur ball onto the pile of clean sheets, because of course she did. So at least the top one will go back into the laundry this week.

If I split I WILL BE DIFFERENT into a duology of plays, I may play with ending the first play with the Amanda scene where she learns about Milly’s (her mother) attempted suicide, and then start the second play with that same scene, using it as a bridge. Right now, the scene is the top of Act II. It’s not a good idea to end a play on a cliffhanger, though, especially since they will often have to be submitted separately. Ending it where I end Act I now, after Milly and Ron’s dinner party, is a better ending perhaps. It’s somewhat ambiguous, but not a cliffhanger.

I mean, if I just cut a whole lot and it’s one play, it won’t be an issue.

Bookending everything with the start being in January of 1900 and the end on New Year’s Eve 1999 works, though, and I like it. I may combine what I have as the second-to-last scene with the final scene, because there’s some repetition in there that I can cut if I integrate the scenes.

Also, if it’s a duology, I have to come up with catchy titles for each one!

If I was good at titles, I’d be earning money as a caption writer.

On today’s agenda: work on BETTING MAN, work on I WILL BE DIFFERENT, a quick run to the library to drop-off/pick-up books, ghostwriting, yoga. A day that needs focus, even though it will hopefully have fewer moving parts than some other days. I also have some more follow-up to do from last week’s Small Business Resource Expo.

I’m thinking about what I will pack for next week, when I stay over after the staged reading. It’s one night, so I don’t need much. I just like things packed ahead of time, so I’m not running around like a chicken with my head cut off the night before. Once I decide what to wear for the reading, and comfortable clothes in which to drive home in the next day, I’ll be all set. I’m keeping an eye on the weather predictions so I can make those decisions.

I hope you’ve had a good start to your week!

Trying to make more dinos in this style:
https://mastoart.social/@enriquericos/116563204271439082

Conveying feathery dinosaurs with limited visual information is difficult. Low resolution relies on the viewer: I suggest something and you project what you know onto the image. Anyone will see a T. rex clearly on a few pixels, but a feathered raptor? It can be done, but I don't think I can pull it off

#sketch #process #pixelArt #dinosaurs