I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided to go back to one of my old anonymous pen-names and knock out yet another trashy novel instead. A novel which I hopefully wont have to use my brain too much for to write.
The reason is I need to get my brain out of the infinite loop it seems to be in on as I try and fit a particular twist into my serious plot. It is really hard to describe how frustrating this is, but I guess the easiest way is to look at the picture on the left, (and a favourite tee-shirt of mine) where you can never NOT look at the chicken and therefore can NEVER win the game. Stupid I know but that’s why I need a distraction to break the loop.
So now with my mind firmly out of the loop and open to all things again I have a bit more time to focus on other areas such as my trashy novel, where I am going to (again) mix up a couple of genres that are (and probably should) not normally be mixed up. I wont give too much away as it might reveal my other shadowy/risqué nom-de-plumes, but think of Harry Potter meets Desperate Housewives targeted firmly at the demographic that cannot read more than 500 words without a picture, or hold more than 4 characters and one plotline in their heads. (Yeah, that’s most of us I guess!)
Anyway, while looking at how my main character is going to do the Harry Potter magicy bits I realised that all these wizards are basically just prompt engineers, probably with an advanced AI listening in and controlling some sort of Star Trek matter converter like a transporter. Of course you could do all of this in a Star Trek holodeck too, and if the world we live in is a simulation well magic may be possible with the right words to break the big LLM in the sky!
Of course following this train of thought through to its logical conclusion, it seems J.K Rowling and Reymond E. Feist actually predicted the the future of humanity better than most Sci-Fi authors.
Basically magic is just prompt engineering and our distant ancestors will all be wizards.
Who’d have thought!
