One of those starts to the day. Five random emails from people’s AI bots all fishing for me to write back and pay them $$ to do something or other with this book or that. Here are the opening lines of each one:
I hope your day is unfolding gently and that the creative space around you is giving you a bit of calm. It’s 5.40 in the morning, so nothing has yet unfolded, and better to substitute ‘a bit of’ for ‘a little.’ Much more suitable for someone pretending to know about writing.
I recently came across your work and was struck by how confidently you blend atmosphere, tension, character psychology, and… lots of other things I’ve not read, but have had my AI guess at from the blurb, ’cos if I randomly send out 200 of these a day, someone, one day, will bite.
I will be glad to got a positive feedback from you. I have no idea why this one started with such a random giveaway. I.e. (no disrespect) but clearly English is not a fore language, because a) that sentence is not a way to begin an email, and b) the email then went on to use flowery and ridiculous AI prose.
I recently spent time with *Other People’s Dreams* and was completely drawn into the blend of Greek island beauty, emotional tension, and the unsettling pull of obsessive desire. Yeah, right.
Hey there! I’m just circling back. OMG, dear Symi Dream reader, how I long to reach out to you and interface about these AI-generated spam emails from chancers. Perhaps we can find time to de-layer this issue and curate some answers. I’ll circle back in the morning…
Meanwhile, in more important news, someone left a boot on the lane to St Nicholas (Kataraktis), and it can be found on the wall near the big corner.
And, along with the village Christmas decorations, someone has been busy painting over my favorite graffiti wall outside the Chinese emporium. Shame in a way, but looks nicer and is less embarrassing for boys with bits that resemble space rockets from 1950’s B movies.
In my news, though, a collection of Clearwater shorts should be out before Christmas – more news on that later. More dentistry later today (maybe just advice), a package to collect, and a decision to make nearer the time. There’s to be a very bad storm on Thursday night/Friday, and the map still looks like this for the wind forecast:
All very rainbow and that, but representing a force 7-8 B storm and who knows how much rain, on Friday morning. I will check again on Thursday and see what the boats are doing. I don’t mind getting wet, but I don’t want to get stranded and have one of those ‘the boat won’t now be leaving until 2.00 in the morning’ situations. As they say, we shall see.
