Writing About Writing Vol. 17
Before I get started, I will say that I absolutely stuck with the established-for-the-topic image on this post… Okay, let’s boogie. For the past several years, I have led True Story©… off with an image loosely related to the story, usually related to the very topic of the tale itself but sometimes to the punchline of the story when I was feeling particularly funny. For the month of March – well, for the three out of five stories in March I made after this was presented to me – I started to employ AI image generators to make those images. For the YEARS prior, I would simply Google search terms somehow related to the story, then I would scroll and sift through the image search results and simply steal and use whichever one humorously partnered with my story of that week. … and I prayed that the rightful owners of the images never said anything. Thus far they have not. The ...