Category: Music
Happy New Year!
2026 promises some big changes in my life. I will be helping some family members moving into a smaller place. Also, I will dealing with some new and different writing challenges. I have three WIPs, all in different genres/settings, plus a different approach to marketing my work. Fingers crossed!
Merry Christmas!
Happy Thanksgiving!
We did a thing, me and the AIs:
Music Monday: The Kitchen Waltz
The world needs some kind of inoffensive ear-candy music to take up the slack between Halloween and Thanksgiving, so it’s not just swarmed with premature Christmas carols. So, I went to Claude for lyrics and style prompt ideas and Suno for execution: https://suno.com/s/3MZ5QvkgofdaIB0G
State of the Author, 4Q2025
It’s been roughly three months since the last State of the Author, so here’s where I’m at:
Continue reading “State of the Author, 4Q2025”It’s Midjourney Monday! And Suno Monday! And Cheesy Music Video Monday!
I’m kind of proud of the fact that it only took me about three hours to do this in the free editing software Kdenlive. What actually took longer was generating the different source clips in Midjourney one weekend in September when the end of the Midjourney billing period was approaching, and the words weren’t coming on Hunter Healer King 3. I’ve told the story behind the song before: I went to Claude asking it for a Suno prompt for a certain kind of music, and then I went and pasted the prompt into the lyrics area in Suno instead of the prompt area. I ended up liking it better than the songs I got with Suno prompting “properly” for what I wanted. (I believe I already had at least some of the footage, and felt like this song had a good tempo or rhythm that worked with the clips.) Anyway, silly little car chase with a fantasy premise that excuses some of Midjourney’s weirder tendencies. Never forget: we live in an age of wonders. Horrors, too, but we can’t forget the wonders.
Hunter Healer King 3 is Finished
67000 words, so a bit longer than my usual. Usually, I’m pretty happy to wrap things up with whatever set of characters I’m working with, but for some reason, I feel like I’m going to miss Chloe and Maxim. Maybe it’s just because the dual first person POV put me in their heads in a more intense way than any of my other characters. The fact that I managed about 20000 words on other writing projects in the eleven months or so it took me to write this one can probably be attributed to the new workflow. Current publication target is “before the end of the year,” but I have relatives who are gearing up to move and who may need my help, so publication is kind of a moving target. I’ll keep you all posted. In the meantime, not one but two triumphalistic Bollywood songs are in order:
Music by Suno Monday
So one time I put the style prompt in the lyrics area for Suno, and got one of the most fun songs it’s ever generated for me: https://suno.com/s/R77XahFygGLviyWC
Happy May the Fourth: Tarkin’s Song
Since today is Star Wars Day, I figured this would be as good a time as any to post this. Basically, one day I got bored, gave Suno some lyrics consisting of Tarkin’s dialogue leading up to the destruction of Alderaan, and had it turn them into a song.
