The end of 2025 was frenetic and stressful, mostly because I have serious impulse control issues. Pumping out NeoTokyo Dead before the manuscript was really ready added to that, but it was a huge learning experience. So, what can be expected from Bryan Beal in 2026? I have two major projects in the writing at…
The temptation to join the crowd and use AI (which are basically just Large Language Models with the intelligence of a hedgehog, if we’re being generous) can be fairly intense. A lot of “authors”, henceforth I will refer to them as “users”, are pumping out books, among other artforms, through varying use of LLM’s. The…
In the on-going effort to turn a short story in a full novel, there have been a few forced realisations. Callous Sky would have been about 17,000 words a the end of the short story, but with enough floating about in my head for probably five or six times that. Making those changes to an…
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