Terra Fading
Happy Friday #poetryfriday people!
This week I have an Artificial Intelligence question for you all and a little sci-fi story to end your week on. Let’s get started!
interested in AI & writing?
I’ve heard clearly over the past few weeks that people are interested in learning more about how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be used by writers.
As some of you know, my day job is helping companies reimagine their business and work with AI. Daily, I dig into how work is being done by businesses and explore what an “AI enabled workforce” would look like.
Writers, AI isn’t just for the corporate world. It’s for creatives too! And just like in business, being AI enabled can take many different forms. But you have to know the tools to get inspired in how to use them.
I’m considering building a workshop about how to use AI to accelerate writing and break writer’s block. If you would be interested in learning more, please let me know in the comments section. I’m thinking this would be a 100 level course where we use AI to:
build our “Idea Store”,
use AI ethically and understand what that means for storytelling,
write some of the story,
and write some advertising content for the story.
I use AI writing tools at work frequently for articles like this: The State of Human-Machine Collaboration in 2021 and this: How Automation Can Provide Agency to Today’s Employees and Employers (I don’t pick the titles :( )
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
In other news…
I’m setting release dates for my next two novels due out in 2022. I’ll announce here as soon as they’re ready for external eyes. I can’t wait for these to come out!
One is a YA fantasy/sci-fi novel-in-verse about Artificial Intelligence (hmmm…a theme this week? :) ) and a rogue social networking company.
The other, is a YA fantasy/horror novel-in-verse about “magic”, discovery and the cost of getting what you wish for.
Stay tuned for more!
Thanks to the Planetary Society for this image : https://www.planetary.org/space-images/gullies-in-gasa-crater
Terra Fading
Home isn’t blue anymore,
it’s a white dot
this far away.
I watch as Earth fades into the
splatter of stars out the window.
Something stinks…
The smell leads me to Mom.
She’s making
Martian Mac & Cheese tonight.
She’s trying the local food
of our new home
but I don’t want to try.
What’ wrong with delicious
blue Kraft Mac & Cheese?
Why do we need to try stinky
red Martian Mac & Cheese?
Mom says we need to get use to
cooking with an OmniCooker.
Why don’t they have microwaves
on Mars?
Because Mars stinks.
Living in a big habitat dome stinks.
Wearing a clean breather all the time stinks.
Having to move stinks.
Marian Mac & Cheese stinks.
Mom says work will be better here
and we can have a good life
but what was so bad
with blue skies
and basketball courts?
Our little apartment was good.
When the smog cleared in the morning
fresh air was good.
Kraft Mac & Cheese was good.
The white star ahead of us
turns red
as we get closer.
Mom sniffs the air
and winces
then buries it
with a smile.
“Who knows, you might like
this foreign food.”
She holds up a spoon
of dripping brown sludge.
I watch Mars approach.
”Uh-huh.”
Pinching my nose,
realizing
Mars is going to stink.
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Thanks to Matt Forrest Esenwine for hosting poetry Friday. Make sure to check out his blog. Thanks to Wikimedia for the header image : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars_landscape_dry_wet.png
