Sorry if this is useless but I read above and tried some new names. I think they're somewhat clean from previous usage.
Earth's Twilight
Heavenly Twilight
The Twilight Grows
The Twilight Spirit
The Twilight Chronicles (album from 2006)
Chronicles of the New Christ
Hey Kdot. I like the lightning bolts and the dark irises.
The final pic is definitely unearthly or inhuman. The halo glow on the first image is better. I imagine that Gemini improvements will help with that.
I don't know if it's the eyes, but the second image is more zombie-ish.
Welcome to the site. Definitely, fill out your profile info. I want to know what kind of genre you like. Also, start posting if you can or start reading to see if there are others with your interests.
Nice looking cat. The far-right pics of the top row show the cat looking at its name. He must be pondering what it means.
Great job everyone. These contests are fun. Let's keep on doing them.
Good name. What is the shortened version? Beige? Gandalf? The?
Now you need another pet and name it Balrog.
Part of the reason we do these posts is that we learn what is acceptable. Therefore, I will pull my post down. I don't want to cause animal lovers angst over my attempt at a poem.
George FLC
A few decades ago, when I was precollege, my family had two cats:
Nino (little boy in Spanish - the 'n' is pronounced like the 'ny' in canyon)
Puff - okay that's perhaps a little weak.
How about - Three or Third, since this is perhaps his third life out of nine lives. The first was pre-shelter, the second was at the shelter and the third is with you.
Jaws? Naw. How about Nibbles?
Elvis? Hey Randall, that's interesting.
If members of TNBW are going to start relying on AI to do reviews, I think I'll bow out.
This isn't even a debate. I enjoy aspects of author's writings. And I want to let the author know what I think.
At times I've changed my style or approach based on how others write. I want to grow as an author. How can I do that if an AI is doing everything?
I love to learn and create. I want to keep on doing that.
George FLC
I experimented with ChatGPT and found it did a very good job summarizing a 340,000 word trilogy into 500 words—which I used for a query letter.
Wow. I'm impressed. How long did it take to generate the 500 words?
Hey Marilyn,
Ouch. Sorry to hear it. This definitely is one for your Bless this Mess writings. Infact you could almost cut and paste it into a chapter. Very easy. Get better and don't worry about reciprocation right now.
Keep on healing.
George FLC
Yeah. Dirk is real good at finding mistakes. I keep him busy!
A few decades ago, I worked in AI. I considered a career change into doing AI. But I didn't which I'm just as glad. I'm behind the current state of the art but I'm not convinced that creating a computer program that can create is possible. It's one thing to know what an apple and the earth are but it's another to get hit on one's head and come up with gravity and calculus like Newton. A computer can know about space and time but to come up with the space/time continuum like Einstein is another.
AI will be another tool like computers, phones, fire, wheels, etc.
So, keep on writing everyone!
George FLC
>>instead, Connor's descent into evil will be a gradual thing from the beginning of the trip onward until he's cured in the water
There can be advantages to a gradual descent into evil. If your reader is analytical then they can get caught up with the agony of watching it occur. 'Oh no! Connor really is changing!' Or they're lulled to sleep and get a shock at the end. 'Connor's the AC?!?!'
I was wondering about the age of the child priests and nuns. This reminded me of the Children's Crusade. This is from AI - The children involved in the Children's Crusade, which took place in 1212, were primarily between the ages of 10 and 18.
Is that the general age you plan to use? I couldn't find a range of child priest ages in what you wrote.
George FLC wrote:I'm an optimist - No! It's not too late. How can we just give up? If we aren't striving to adjust and improve then we have big time problems.
I get the optimism—we really need it. But hope alone won't save us. Every time someone pushes for real change, there's a crowd of people who are too lazy, too cynical, or too entitled to help. They'll argue online all day but won't actually do anything. They act like they know everything but won't plant a tree, clean up trash, or even recycle. They expect someone else to handle it.
Well, those "someone elses" are gone. We've pushed away the people who kept our food system running—field workers, laborers, the people who actually do the work—and now farmers can't find help. The privileged class won't step in because they think manual labor is beneath them. They'd rather complain online than get their hands dirty. Our supply chains from other countries no longer exist thanks to a man who never got past page 1 in Economics 101, the part where tariffs are explained in detail... that says tariffs levied on other countries only mean higher prices for the consumers of those products, which of course are you and me. Example: Mexico just cut off their supply of tomatoes to the US due to imposed tariffs, while the US sits with fields of tomatoes rotting on the vines because there are no workers to pick them. Wonder how that happened? This only means that for Thanksgiving dinner, you can expect to pay $10 for one tomato, if you can find one.
We've got a "leader" (somehow that word doesn't feel right) whose only plan is "drill, drill, drill," selling off public lands to the highest bidder. Goodbye, Yellowstone. He doesn't care about conservation or climate change—just money and power. And we've got corrupt judges, including Supreme Court justices, who've been bought and paid for. Corruption is so bad it's basically official policy now. And goodbye, Big Bird and Ernie... PBS was just slashed because it didn't feature anyone with an orange face. Kids grew up on Sesame Street, which taught them how to do good, how to be neat and tidy, how to care about others, how to be a friend, and how to live in these times. For some kids, that's all they had because their parents are too busy for them. But no more. No more Public Broadcasting System. Gone by the wayside, soon to be replaced with only one TV station, and for those of you who are smart, you know who that TV station will feature non-stop. Ask North Korea what that's like.
So yes, George, you're right in that we shouldn't give up. But let's be honest: we're not just fighting climate change and trash. We're fighting greed, laziness, entitlement, and a system that's falling apart because nobody cares anymore. If we don't start being real about what we're up against, we'll just sit here watching everything fall apart, wondering how it happened.
Where is that asteroid when you need it most?
Oh, yes, about those temperatures... we are back to normal today, but that's because it rained last night and it's raining here today with thunderstorms, gigantic cracks of thunder and lightning.
Good comments, Marilyn. You and I have tangled with issues before, and I think discussing these topics is crucial. I watch CNN and Fox just to make sure I'm not totally slanted one way. Of course, it's strange at times - things are great, things are terrible, and repeat. I plan on not becoming bipolar by watching those two outlets. :-)
I'm confused about many things. I don't understand why other nations can impose tariffs on us, but we cannot impose many, if any, tariffs on them. Our factories are shutting down. Check the rust belt.
And I've worked in the automotive industry, utilizing computer models. You've got to make sure those models are really good BEFORE you start cutting steel for tooling. How good are the climate models? I've read conflicting things.
I don't understand why we have to pay so much to protect nations, and they didn't have to pay their fair share. Fortunately, our current leader has secured NATO's commitment to increase efforts.
We were told that nobody is above the law. But I guess illegal immigrants are above the law. And why are farmers hiring illegals? Isn't that illegal? Let's increase the number of people we let in legally.
PBS gets 15% of its funding from the federal government and 8% from universities (whatever that means). Can't they adjust and survive?
We should fund fusion and nuclear. Take some of those billions of dollars that are fraud, waste, and unknown-where-it's-at and fund these things more.
And just think, it's only been 6 months! Has it been perfect? NO! The 51st state and Greenland stuff was bad. The Gulf of America? Really? I don't know how great it was to go after all the tariffs at once, but it seems to be working. Our economy increased by 3%!!!!
George FLC
My big problem with climate change is with the models. They are better but are they good enough to plan massive solutions around?
The next problem is with politicians. They have constituencies that will want solutions that don't require inflation, unemployment, or too much cost/pain. The politicians want to keep their positions without causing grief to their constituents and hence lose their positions.
The next issue is anecdotal. Doesn't it seem like it was colder when we older people were growing up? Now it just seems warmer. But are these just natural fluxuations?
When will AI be unleashed to solve this problem? But then, it might just say to get rid of the human race...
Dirk B wrote:All it would take to fix everything that's wrong with the Earth is a monstrous asteroid. I'll allow your imaginations to fill in the blanks. :-)
First, I'd say we here in the US would have to get rid of the huge hemorrhoid first. Then we could prepare to the asteroid. :-)
Bill
If I understand what you're saying, then be careful. We're having a decent conversation and don't need to throw stuff like that around. I could say things, too but would rather not.
George FLC wrote:We need to be good stewards with what's been given to us.
We're a bit late for that, don't you think? Try to find a piece of land, a river, a lake, a tree, a crop, an animal, a teabag(!), etc. that isn't contaminated by micro-plastics or other industrial pollutants.
Years ago, I thought about writing a story about some chemical/pollutant/GMO crop/etc. that causes all the men on Earth to become sterile. That eventually morphed into the faulty vaccine in Archangel Syndrome that brought civilization to its knees. Good thing too, as the world was running out of trees for toilet paper. A disaster of biblical proportions was narrowly averted thanks to Professor Elroy Winkley and his time travel equation: N=jc^2.
I'm an optimist - No! It's not too late. How can we just give up? If we aren't striving to adjust and improve then we have big time problems.
Let's get technical! Good stuff. I've never heard of the Milankovitch cycles. Very good.
I try to be a pragmatist. I don't want to spit in the water and give it to my children. We need to be good stewards with what's been given to us.
Are we getting global warming and y'all are getting global cooling? That's not fair!
I think we only hit 93 degrees, 34 C.
How was Canada Dirk?
Perhaps the biggest difference is the centrality of the ring compared to the dagger as you mentioned. The entire LOTR is centered on the one ring. Not so with the one dagger. The ring controls the story the dagger is a tool in the story.
And it does look different when two holy or crazy people snatch it compared to an obsessed lunatic creature biting off Connor's finger.
How about
"The Dark Coming of the Holy Emissary"
"The Coming of the Unholy Emissary"
