Oh, this is fun, ADDICTING fun, and enlightening, and encouraging. I write well - I have a voice! My writing needs "tightening" but not "fixing." Is flattery a tool of AI to get us

ChatGPT, it seems to me, is stripping away more details than it needs to. As if "generic" is the goal. That said, ok, yes, I admit it: "AI" is improving my fiction. 30-March-2-26, from

Today, 30-March-2026, replying to a completely different thread, you happened to mention "naming" and this novel you finished reading only last night. Gotta love #synchronicity!! The Names by

Another rewrite from ChatGPT, 30-March-2026, and some kind words about my "voice," but, but, in everything I've subbed to an AI for a rewrite, my "voice" (raw emotion) gets stripped

Ok, I've gone to the Dark Side. I've asked AI how this freewrite could be rewritten as a short story. You’ve got a wonderful core here—what’s missing isn’t content, it’s control of tension. Right now it

I save passwords in Chrome - then get told my password is incorrect. When I have never knowingly changed it. It happened with our banking and other accounts. It's been happening for as long as I've had

Wow, when did crypto plummet? Last time I'd checked, I had more $2,000 in the wallet. Today: The estimated value is based on an average value of Hive in US dollars. $728.52 What the heck!

It was.... it comes and goes... I need to come back more often to Hive! I'm always too late to upote your posts. Still haven't figured out how Google Chrome, where my passwords were stored, somehow changed

I am, and will steadfastly remain, an anachronism. Yesssss!! Me too. "I come from the 1900s," as Nate Bargatzi tells his audience. I've been dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st C cyber

Old tech at Goodwill - yes! We donate old computers and other gadgets. SOMEONE WANTS THIS old tech. Tim still has the first TI calculator his parents bought in 1972. Now we need to go find out if it still

Fascinating! Water likes to dance and play on its way to us. No wonder our cat demands MOVING water, not water sitting in a bowl. Thank you Sam for documenting (with photos!) your experiments and the amazing

Your work with frequencies, electricity, energy, and EVERYTHING from gardening to crafting things - always amazing, Sam! I need to check in more often at Hive. This post is month old. You're the first

No photos coming through - but Facebook is down, so many Hive is on its way. Nashville, so you can "snowbird between my upstate New York home in the summers, and my not-quite-so-cold home in a warmer

Oh how I'd love to join you and Deirdyweirdy in Mexico! Looking forward to hearing all about it!

Wow! You pack a lot into a small space. I feel the narrator's pangs at leaving behind the village, the pastry shop, and moving on to the next dangerous mission. I wonder if Glenn is a schlub and deserves

Well said, Owasco, and well-written, Aisling! The mom needs a dose of that Mel Robbins best seller, "LET THEM," a book I have not read, but it's all the rage. Let them go, Let them be, Move on...

Cliff, I have read literally hundreds of manuscripts, some published eventually, some not. So yes, I'm interested. "Naked newborns" are my specialty - your first draft is safe in my hands. First

Thanks for the links, and sorry it's taken me so long - The rapist story. A brutal read. I just read a 400-page manuscript for a friend of 15+ years and questioned some of the characters behaviors -- she

Have you published anywhere? Do you have a blog? A website? .... an excerpt from a story I began working on last fall. I made some minor edits to the beginning paragraphs and tacked on the final paragraph

Laughing at a funeral - it happens! And this is IN PUBLIC, not just a private reaction to a phone message. You really capture how natural the reaction was, yet how horrifying to be called out for it. Sadly,