#ScribesAndMakers 3 Apr 'How do you answer if someone asks you what you do? Is your answer different in person than it is online?'

I'm a retired teacher who writes writes novels for teenagers aged from 9 to 99.

IRL and online.

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#ScribesAndMakers 3 Apr
Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

The way I do it it's mostly destructive.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 3: Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

To cooking there can be. To the eating part, maybe if you make a performance of it.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 3: Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

If my chef daughter who works for Disney World has anything to do with the dish, yes. Me cooking, not so much.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 3: Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

If I have the bandwidth for it, I'll try a new recipe or see if I can put something together, so sure, there is a creative element to cooking and when it comes to presentation and things that are worried about on cooking shows, it can be there.

But for the most part is it a safe food? Does it require energy to make? Those are my criteria.

#ScribesAndMakers Apr 3: Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

I won’t say there is not, but I will say it’s more trouble to inject a creative element into it than just to consume in the routine humdrum manner. Which is what I do.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/31/the-new-york-times-drops-freelance-journalist-who-used-ai-to-write-book-review

Since NYT is not immune to #LLM - I asked the free version of Gemini to write a NYT-style book review of "A New Faith" and it was completely unsurprisingly vapid stuff getting some things right and many wrong. And in the quest to keep me hooked, it wrote nice things about the book which do show why it can lead to psychosis. This stuff is just not good!!

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#ScribesAndMakers 3. Do you think there is a creative element to eating?

Not to put too fine a point on it, there is the potential to create both fat and shit.

A transformative experience, then.