The blue Jay has learned how to imitate the call of a hawk to scare away other birds. This dove flew back after seeing it was only a blue jay.
Walt Williams writing as W.B.J. Williams
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Author, Poet, Unicorn expert. #writingcommunity #writer #author #secretidentityofauthor. Ghost Writer. Also InfoSec "leader" see @walt-williams.bsky.social
I could use some help, looking for good fantasy novels where the protagonist's battle is internal (as in he/she/they is the antagonist but not a villain) Google only shows me novels where they become a villain. Would help the most if the book was published in the last 5 years.
Found a frog in the house, not a unicorn
Visited Provincetown MA for the first time yesterday to see an exhibit of Avital Sagalyn’s paintings. Worth the LONG drive. wbjwilliams.wordpress.com/2026/07/25/a...
Avital Sagalyn’s paintings
There is an exhibit of her paintings at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum through early August. I heard about it through one of WGBH’s many interviews. (bucket list goal: get them t…
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Oh dear, this poor thing has a limp.
[The bigger an AI model is, the less it improves with each added parameter, and so it must be made bigger at a faster rate just to sustain steady progress. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any.]
Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
A shockingly inefficient trillion-dollar project
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On net gallery? So is my book! www.netgalley.com/widget/11244... Get away from 2026, and leave a review!
Example A of how stupid AI is.
My poem charismatic indecency after Robert Pinsky's poem Misrule Music: wbjwilliams.wordpress.com/2026/07/03/c... See youtu.be/bZx-uX2yjew?... for a performance of the poem.
Currently having absinthe, for research purposes. Absinthe and Alchemy in the query trenches. After all, I have to get this right.
Miranda Keskes has an excellent article on Jane Friedman's blog on beginnings and endings. janefriedman.com/start-with-t...
My old nemesis. I often think, speak, and sometimes write long sentences with comma splices. Proust would be proud. Today, I'm hunting for this creature where it lurks needlessly in my manuscript. Somehow this was missed by two editors and 4 beta readers. I noticed it lurking yesterday.
Great review of my Johnny Talon and the goddess of Love and War www.instagram.com/p/DZi01kHD-Y...
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Before H.G. Wells, time travelers slept, dreamed, or got knocked out. Stories like Rip Van Winkle and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court moved people through time, but usually by magic/accident. He changed everything by turning time travel into a machine. #SciFi #HGWells #TimeTravel
This was captured by my eldest daughter of me reading from of Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War as part of the Boston Writers Salon at the Sea Hag. It was wonderful hearing the audience laugh at the humor in my work! Turn up the volume she was sitting in the back. youtu.be/xJJWiYeh_zM?...
Surreal Reading from Johnny Talon and the Goddess of Love and War
YouTube video by Walter Williams
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writing is a dangerous thing. in reworking a scene, i started to cry. I guess I wrote it well. I miss my parents.
Want to escape 2026 for a bit? Spend some time in the 13th Century! Copies will be available @readercon.bsky.social! @readercon.org They make things happen.
Woke up to this bit of good news: Hi Walter. Really loved this poem and would be more than happy to feature it in the next issue of 100subtexts, issue 46 will be out in early June.
Woke up to this good news: Hi Walter. Really loved this poem and would be more than happy to feature it in the next issue of 100subtexts, issue 46 will be out in early June. If you are happy with all of the above, then I am happy to feature you in the next issue, no problem. John
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