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La Bene Vita

by Brandiwyn🎶Sprinting

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #1411600

The Good Life.

I am a professional musician

, worship leader

, small business owner

, songwriter

, aspiring author

and freelance nonfiction writer

with a chemical engineering degree

.

But that's just my resume.

My profile of qualifications is only one of the ways in which I am unique. Here I chronicle my personal and professional goals and my efforts to achieve them. Occasionally I fail. Mostly, I take daily baby steps toward all my long-term goals. Much like the stories I pen, the songs I compose, and the businesses I run, I am always a work in progress.

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Jay O'Toole

about an hour ago
In response to "I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor"

I especially like the one about the Rubik's Cube

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Storm Machine

about an hour ago
In response to "I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor"

now we HAVE to find a rogue Furby.

2 Like

Storm Machine

a day ago
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

Agree with Jeff.

Will add that there are authors who are copyrighted? because they have published novels, at least on Amazon if not other places, where chunks or more have been written with AI.

I'm sure as some of those lawsuits are decided we will learn more about this whole thing.

Jeff

a day ago
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

Generally speaking, using AI for research purposes is not considered copyright infringement. Using AI output in the creative work itself can be considered infringement, depending on the AI model used and the data it was trained on. Pretty much every major AI model is currently defending against multiple active, ongoing lawsuits over copyright infringement for training their model on other people's intellectual property without permission.

In your specific case (and with the caveat that this is not legal advice), I personally think it's relatively low risk because common phrasing is generally not copyrightable. In order for someone to have a legitimate claim of copyright infringement, they first have to demonstrate that they own the material in question... and I don't know that anyone can claim to own generic, nonspecific, widely-used slang or idioms.

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tj gives thanks for all things

a day ago
In response to "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

I say that if the information is there for public use, then it's not protected under copyright laws. My thoughts, not facts.

Dave Ryan

Nov 9, 2025 at 5:31am
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

A few years ago I read a novel - An Instance Of The Fingerpost

- which, on the surface, was a historical whodunnit told through the eyes of four unreliable narrators. It was in four sections, each written from the point of view of one of the narrators, and it was only when you got to the final section that you realised that, not only was the last narrator actually pretty damn reliable, but there had been something "other" going on the whole time and the murder that had appeared to be the central event was in fact a bit of a side-show.

I did not see it coming, and when I realised when it was all about, I was initially a bit annoyed by it. But, on reflection, it was very well done and didn't telegraph the ending it any way. So it can be done, but it'll take a lot of hard work to do it well, especially if you're making frequent POV switches.

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Soldier_Mike

Nov 8, 2025 at 10:16pm
In response to "Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing"

I've never tried writing anything from more than two perspectives - and that only rarely. Your situation, though, reminds me of the 2008 political action thriller Vantage Point. Parts of the action are revealed from the vantage point of Forest Whitaker's character, who was videotaping the event with his hand-held camcorder. Interesting, to say the least.

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Storm Machine

Nov 2, 2025 at 6:37am
In response to "Dear Me 2018: Foreshadowing"

I recently revisited a Dear Me (2018) letter, and it made me glad I've come so far in my life. I'm really glad you have the proper diagnosis and that you're finding yourself doing the things that make you happy. Overachievers and scope creepers unite!

Robert Waltz

Oct 27, 2025 at 10:06pm
In response to "Why I Never Finish Anything"

Or maybe it's that there's no such thing as a happy ending; there are only stories that you stop telling too early.

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Storm Machine

Oct 27, 2025 at 9:35pm
In response to "Why I Never Finish Anything"

That's not why you never finish. It might always be bigger but you could choose to sculpt it smaller. But who I am to say anything? I, too, scope creep short stories into novel series.

November 20, 2025 at 9:16pm

#1102062

I Asked Google Gemini For a More Current Metaphor

I asked Google Gemini:
Are there any gadgets, tools or toys popular now that might be a more currently relevant metaphor than diving into a pool full of thumbtacks or razor blades

Here are the suggestions. They're so delightful that I just had to share. Feel free to use them (see previous post "Can I Copyright My Work If I Use AI?"

for more info.)

Diving into a pool of spam bots.

Hitting the 'Like' button on every cringe post from 2012.

Having your AirPods die right when the bass drops.

Swiping through your entire camera roll in reverse.

Stepping on a floor covered in Clickeez/Magna-Tiles.

Doing a collab with a rogue Furby.

Trying to solve a Rubik's Cube after someone switched the stickers.

I'm eagerly anticipating your 2025 "pool of tacks" updates.

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