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Unlikely Allegiance Coming soon

New Year! More Renaissance Fairs

2025 was a blast! This summer, we’re confirmed at Utah Ren Fest (May 9-10, 16-17, 23-25), Beltane (Jun 6-7), Mystic Realms Fantasy Fair (June 28-30), Thornshire (Aug 7-8, 14-15, 28-29), and Central Idaho Renaissance Fair (Sep 11-12). We’ve applied to be at the Idaho Renaissance Fair (Oct 10-11). Come find me (there’s even some freebies to be found!)

The Artificial Intelligence Conundrum

Witchhunts ravage the land! They’re burning books, banning authors’ rights to sell, and condemning technology to their own peril! Here are my thoughts on the subject. We’ll start with a post with excerpts from the United States Copyright Office, and explore my ruminations from there.

I recently stumbled upon a great video, one that I wholeheartedly agree with. What saddens me is not the pace of change. Some choose comfort over curiosity, call it maturity, and sneer at anyone who still learns out loud. I hear the same refrain dressed in different outfits: “This is dangerous.” “This is cheating.” “This is the end.” Sometimes it is caution. Often, it is fear with a better vocabulary. Automation has always, will always, remove the mundane from our lives. Innovation does not steal meaning. It clears space. The question is what you do with that space. Do you build skill, discernment, and agency, or do you fill the quiet with outrage because that is easier than effort?

If you feel threatened, stop defending stagnation like it makes you principled. Study what you dismiss. “Know thy enemy,” Sun Tzu said. Knowledge, not blind resistance, will save you and the pursuits you love. Learn until the tool stops feeling like an enemy, then determine for yourself how it fits in your world. Leave mine to me.

For transparency sake, I posted a revised forward to self-published works.

There is a growing sense of fear about AI and our future as a species. Not all of them are unfounded. There are tons of predictions about how artificial intelligence will take over. Not all of them are right. Will AI take our jobs? Here are my thoughts.

I’ve come to realize that writing is not about technique. It’s not about sentence structure, anomotopea, or any of those grammatical terms scholars like to use. Authentic prose is about life, connections, and experience. It’s The Voice of AI.

I learned about new releases, especially, and frighteningly, a platform that researches topics, composes prose, and produces audio-visual documentaries all from a single prompt. In response, I conducted an experiment.

In a recent contest announcement, they disallowed “artificial-assisted” work without defining what that meant. It got me to thinking.

WIP

Works In Progress is where you will find odds and ends, the chaotic mind of the author, in random musings across the spectrum of his art. Be sure to check out my voice acting bloopers! I understand the need for transparency. If I used AI in creating a work, you may want to know that. That’s fair. What I hope follows is equally fair: judge the work itself, the choice of words, the structure, the ideas, the things that actually matter. Don’t let the label “artificial” cloud your view before the writing has had a chance to stand on its own.