The Horse With No Name: Blog

Comilitones, in nomine Caesaris, avete!

It seems there is some upheaval about authors using AI lately. Now, let's put aside the sheer stupidity of that idea, after all, the writing itself is the purpose of the Exercise. I wouldn't ask a machine to boink my wife, so why should I ask a machine to write my stories?

So, here's the disclaimer you've probably read a couple of times today already. There is no AI being used to produce my stories. As a matter of fact, it would probably be obvious to anyone who bothers to read my stuff anyway. English is not my first language, so if my stories would suddenly be perfect, people would notice. I'm way too proud to have produced close to a million words worth of stories in a foreign language to let some piece of software have all the fun.

Mock me for using strange wording or weird grammar at times, or give me honest criticism and hints at how to improve my English, but I'm certainly not going to let some piece of electronic trickery take the fun away.

Cheers folks.

I've been in IT for over twenty years, but today I am feeling like a right ol' fool.

For quite some time I've been annoyed with the seemingly stupid spelling mistakes in some of my stories, despite the fact that I proof-read all stories at least three times before posting. Now, English is not my native language, so the odd misplaced punctuation or a rather odd selection of words here and there can hardly be avoided, but writing 'top' instead of 'too' is something that shouldn't happen to someone who thinks that he has a rather solid grasp of the English language.

I finally found the culprit. I finally checked the Autocorrect settings and found that it was turned on. As one great philosopher once said: D'oh!

The formatting bug in the latest chapter of "Leaving on a Jetplane" has been fixed. Thanks a lot to the site-admins for the prompt reaction.

Chapter 13 of my story "Leaving on a Jetplane" came out all mangled. I used the new 'SMS bubble' feature, but it seems it is not quite bug-free yet. I'm working with the site admins on rectifying the problems.

For goodness sake! You open up your comment section and it takes all of two days for people to swear at me in the comment section because not all sex in my stories is heterosexual with the man lording it over the woman as is told by the invisible bloke in the sky. Seriously people, if you think that a woman looking out of the window means her leash is too long - stay the hell away from my stories. I have no time to deal with that BS!