I want to try something new today, both in terms of content and in terms of blog format. This is an experiment, and I’m not sure my WordPress skills are up to it. Here goes, and let’s just see if it works!

What I want to do, and I’m not sure exactly what form it will assume in terms of format, is begin sharing my creative writing on my blog and including a PDF of the entire ChatGPT chat that accompanied my creative process from the casting-about-for-ideas stage at the very beginning all the way through the final revision stage of putting the finishing touches on phrasing and word choice.

What may derail me is my ability (or, rather, my potential lack thereof) to add PDFs to my WordPress media library and then link to them from a blog post. So that, my friends, is the goal of today’s blog post: to share both my story and my ChatGPT conversation via embedded PDFs. This experiment may be a dismal failure. In that case, I can simply “unpublish” my blog post to remove it from online existence. But if you are reading this post via email (because you’ve “subscribed” and they’re delivered to your inbox), I can’t “recall” it, so then I’ve stuck you with a dud. Apologies in advance!

All right, here goes (fingers crossed!).

First, HERE is the PDF of my short story, “The Blind Pig.” It arose from one of my writing group’s exercise assignments.

And HERE is my entire ChatGPT creative conversation. It’s long and meandering, but it may have some value if you’re interested in seeing how I wrote the story, at least the “trail” left behind by my “chat.” (I also did a lot of work on my own, outside of the chat, however, FYI.)