Category: Blog

Just listenin’ to the Beach Boys’ song “Hawaii”… in Hawaii. No big deal.

This year Deep Sky Anchor took a big step forward and released 9 all new, original pieces of fiction and one non-fiction essay! If you’re reading for awards or just for fun, we’d love to have you read them.

Here are links to all our original releases from 2022, along with their genres, approximate word counts, and the month they were released: Continue reading “Awards Eligible Stories in 2022”

I finally finished watching the 5 hour walk-through of Star Trek: A Final Unity, the video game I couldn’t figure out how to beat as a kid. I’ve been watching this thing in five minute chunks here and there for months now.

It… uh… still seems like not a great video game.

My kids will be going on their first airplane flight tomorrow. The 15-year-old is worried about all kinds of contingencies like the plane crashing in the ocean. The 9-year-old? Not worried, in fact, feeling totally prepared because they’ve played a Roblox game about that.

Well, this is a new problem—the main character in the novella I’m writing has so many siblings that I lost track and accidentally added an extra one. So, I’ve had to go back and remove that sibling.

Fortunately, I caught it before that involved changing more than one sentence.

People who hate the idea of AIs making all kinds of art clearly don’t have nearly as many EXTREMELY SPECIFIC types of art that they want to have exist in the world that are largely failing to do so.

I don’t have time to write and draw and compose all the art I want myself. Continue reading “More Thoughts on AI Art”

In the time between hearing Owl City’s first single and his latest, I’ve had entire friendships rise and fall — meeting, becoming close, drifting apart, falling out, and letting their presence in my life fade into the dull wispy ache of a memory of what we once were… Continue reading “Owl City Music and the Passage of Time”

I used to watch Pluto cartoons as a kid, and I thought the silly yellow dog was funny but didn’t know anyone like him.

Then I had a dog named Trudy for sixteen years. She had a lot of the same funny quirks, expressions, and behaviors as Pluto, but she was infinitely more real… Continue reading “Pluto Cartoons and the Passage of Time”

Art doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If you write a poem and immediately burn it without ever showing it to anyone else, you’ll still have been in conversation with every poem and other piece of art you’ve ever encountered just by writing it in the first place.

Art is the language humans use to communicate feelings and experiences and beauty. Art is fundamentally about connection, whether it’s between someone who creates art and a separate person who experiences it… or even if it’s just a way to communicate more deeply with yourself. Continue reading “Many Thoughts on AI Art”

You know how someone can find a song that speaks to them and be excited to share it with you, because it captures something about what it feels like to be them, even if they’re not the one who wrote or performed it?

AI art is like that, and that’s how I know it’s not soulless. Continue reading “Spark of Recognition”