News and feature articles
by Ray Taylor
News, reviews, retrospectives, opinion and feature articles on a range of subjects including technology, art and developing the writer's craft.
Part of my ongoing research into use of artificial intelligence for writers, this is an article about psychopaths who are not violent offenders, written with my AI buddy's assistance.
Stars join writers in pay and AI walkout
New Scientist is baffled by how to deal with the threat of AIs like ChatGPT running off with the publisher's valuable content. The answer is simple.
I thought it would be fun to interview an AI application so did just that and here are the results
What can we learn by interacting with an artificial intelligence application? Key finding from the Interview with Bing's GPT application
How to use AI tools like GPT to help boost creativity and to support your latest writing project
Amid all the horror stories about AI, what day-to-day uses for this kind of technology are there?
How to
How to write a story in 100 words (or less)
Not as tough as it may at first seem
Illustrating online stories with images from Unsplash or Pixabay might be a safe option but is it the best?
How to write witches and witchcraft and what are the conventions when dealing with this form of fiction?
How to write like Pulp Fiction
The script of Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction provides an object lesson in how to write good dramatic action
Trying to dream up a storyline is often a mistake. You could be trying too hard
Art
Looking up at art one: Constable
First part of a series of articles - Looking up at Art - discusses how we can look more closely at paintings and learn more about the story behind the picture. Constable, The Cornfield, provides the example
Looking up at art two: Francis Bacon
Part two in the series considers love, loss, alienation and meaning in Bacon's enigmatic Triptych August 1972
Barbara Hepworth is best-known for her signature sculptures of the human form abstracted in organic, polished stone, wood and other materials. She was also a painter and this article takes a closer look at her study of figures preparing for a surgical operation: The Hands
Exhibitions
Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life
Hepworth exhibition at Tate St Ives in Cornwall, South-West England brought together sculpture, painting, archive film with her theatrical costumes and set designs. A truly remarkable event.
Reviews
If you enjoyed reading this roundup of some of the best recent stories in the new Vocal Media Art community, you might also like:
Part One of Ray's roundup of Art community stories. Some fabulous work as the Art community is launched.
Second in a series of reviews of some of the great stories in the Vocal Media Art community
Two Stephen King reviews, one Raymond Chandler, and a Conn Iggulden, all of which show us how to write great stories
This week's review slot (number seven if you are counting) takes a look at a bumper collection of fright night stories from 22 great authors. If you love a creepy quick read, this is for you
A wolfy theme to this week's reviews - sixth in the weekly series. Real wolves, mythical wolves, and plenty of great writing
Week 5 of Ray's short story and other reviews
Week 4 of Ray's short story and other reviews
Week 3 of Ray's short story and other reviews
Week 2 of Ray's short story (and other) reviews
A very brief roundup of the latest short stories in fiction. The original review space
SHORT STORIES
About the Creator
Raymond G. Taylor
Author based in Kent, England. A writer of fictional short stories in a wide range of genres, he has been a non-fiction writer since the 1980s. Non-fiction subjects include art, history, technology, business, law, and the human condition.
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Artificial intelligence, whatever that means, has been much criticised of late. AI is a thief, a cheat, a hoax, a way of passing off another's work as your own. Worst of all, it has even been said that it will one-day bring about the extinction of the human race. As if we didn't already face enough Armageddon scenarios, from climate change to nuclear war, we now face another from AI, The Terminator.
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