It’s been a long and not particularly productive couple of weeks, mostly due and birthday season at my house and various illnesses. In my spare moments, I’ve been trying to write a bit each day, and I’ve been thinking about various issues surrounding publication. I think that’ll be another post, though!
I’ve also paid a few visits to one of the JAFF boards, 50 Miles of Good Road, where there have been some interesting discussions about possibilities for different kinds of sites in the JAFF community. I’ve been thinking about this on and off for the last year or two, not coming to any good conclusions but wondering about different options. When AI became independent again, we discussed various ways for AI authors to interact with their readers, and these blogs are the beginnings of that. There’s still exploration to be done in this format, like posting stories in blog form with comments as reply, similar to the way some writers post stories on Facebook. So AI is meandering off in its own direction, but I’ve been intrigued by the discussions. Read the rest of this entry »