Okay so WordCrafter.Pro is $22 a month with a 14 day free trial (Discount for a yearly subscription). I've added a coupon for all BIAM folks this month that want to try it an Extra 30days free. When their trial runs out and they have to register they can use the coupon BIAMMAY2026 at checkout and get their next 30 days free to be able to finish BIAM. I've passed this on to a couple folks already. If there is enough interest I'll do an every other day help session for the BIAM folks since the custom prompting can be a little tricky. I'm running it both ways as a test. Founders of course will never pay.

I made my debut as an author in 1991. Then a 34 years' break. And now I'm back, at the age of 80. I'm not a boomer, I am Methuselah. Why am I interested in writing fiction again? I have written text of facts for all my life. I'm no longer the breadwinner of a family. I live on my pension, and so does my wife too. I have hearing devices and I recently had cataract surgery. So, I'm still going strong, to cite Johnny Walker. AI is a great help for us all. I jumped into ChatGPT 3-4 years ago. Wow! This was what I had waited for since I made my M.A. final work at Helsinki university. My theme was connected with machine translation of language. Now lexems were disassembled in LLMs, but not to semasemes and semes as then, but to tokens. My ancient studies in the 1970s had been useful. LLMs were just a different way from academic research to handle with corpus. (BTW, academic science does not allow hallucinations.) If you read this far, you understand now what a winding path I have travelled to be here. Never stop thinking, writing, speaking and loving life as it's given to you for free!

In your professional opinions which one looks better? The one on the left is the one I just created. I think this one looks more professional. Need input...

So i've basically been ill for the last three days and pushing through it with a nasty sinus infection. I spent half of today resting and the other half adding what I think might be the best totally necessary two weeks ago feature. A freakin MANUAL. OMG. it's extensive and detailed and hidden quite cleverly at the top of the Binder. Please read the Preamble, to learn "Michael's Rule of Manuals". This technique is a decades old secret I have passed on to anyone who has ever tried to read a manual and ended up looking haggard with eyes glazed understanding less than when they started. The Quick Start is there if you think you know what you are doing and the rest is all there. I will be doing a line by line edit of it starting tomorrow as there are some things that are a bit off. Claude and the nonfiction room are good but nothing like a full read through by someone who actually uses it. This is actually version 9 since I started and will be the canonical master copy ongoing. There will eventually be a print addition, but probably not before I hire a better graphic designer than I am (not a very high bar to reach). Screenshots and graphics will be added as well. There are call outs for screenshots already in the text but please let me know if you think others should be added as well. I've already found a few and made hasty notes on my handy dandy Notepad also cleverly hidden in the Binder. If you hit a snag somewhere reading through you need me to address ask and I'll jump to that section and add the graphics needed there . I built this in the Binder so I can edit it live and work with it just like the live document it is. Please critique this, let me know if there is more (or less) that you need. I published it rough ths way because of some of the questions I have been asked recently. I should be able to add links here to videos elsewhere to explain things better as well, **** And if you have read this far I did make it into BIAM this month and will be running through it like everyone else, Just with WCP to see how well it works with Colm's method. I'll post here and on Storyhackers about it.

Apparently I'm more productive as a half zombie especially when watching really bad 1960's Dean Martin/Matt Helm movies...(look it up). I want to do something fun today. I'm going to throw out 3 story prompt sand I want everyone who reads it to add to one of the the stories(or all if you are adventurous). As long or as short as you want. If this is well received on Tuesdays i'll do a poll for a genre and we'll do this on Wednesdays to fire up the creative juices a bit. This weeks genre is ....drumroll... Young Adult Why? because I do not completely understand how wide and encompassing this is. So here are your 3 prompts and their authors: 1) BLOOM: "A teen inherits their grandmother's vintage record shop, only to discover that playing certain albums opens portals to moments in music history where something went terribly wrong." 2) CROW: "How about this: In a world where everyone receives a countdown timer at 16 showing exactly when they'll meet their soulmate, a girl discovers her timer is counting down to someone who's already dead." 3) GLITCH: jumping up "Ooh! What about a high school where detention is actually a front for training teenage spies, but the new kid accidentally uncovers that half the faculty are double agents working for—" Start with the number of the story you want to add to in your post and write away. Yes we may get overlaps if two people write at the same time, split perspectives, should be fun!