Vacation and emails

I actually took a real vacation. 

Not just a weekend away or an evening off, but an honest to goodness get on a plane and run away kind of vacation.

It's been almost 10 years since I did that. There's probably a whole blog post in there about that. 

My phone is connected to my email so I could monitor my clients and make sure all was working but otherwise I ignored things. 

Today I came back to work. And the amount of AI garbage in my feeds is astounding. You don't really notice it on the daily, but a week's worth of slop is obvious. 

I get that it's easy to play with AI and sometimes fun, but it's stealing the same content over and over. And it's not human so there is no soul in any of it. It's all bad. 

I just deleted dozens of messages but now I have a mental list. If I keep seeing the same stuff I'll be unsubscribing and changing what I allow into my inbox. 

I am a creative. I only want to follow and hang out with other creatives. The Polin fanfic and art community is adamant about no AI. I wish the professionals in my life were as militant. 

Snapshot

 

I just eked out a Polin story. I wanted to play along with Polin week. And I had an idea that didn't fit other places so I got it to work with a prompt. Tagging these numbers to see if a meh story helps or hurts me. It's been months since I last published. 

But even as I type that sentence I'm know that at the end of the day that I am writing for myself. If other people enjoy things that is great. But this whole process has become an exercise in deadlines and creative thinking. Can I write my other idea now that I've learned so much writing fanfics? I don't know. 

UPDATE on May 3. Yes posting a new story helped my stats. The new story only has 491 views but my total hits went up 893. And I've had some fun comments and gotten one more subscriber. 

And it turns out I have two more WIP now. Maybe three :)  Gonna focus on the modern story to finish it, I'd written a lot more than I remembered. And then back to my Burke-Polin crossover and then maybe one more crazy idea. Or maybe another prompt will catch me.