Just Another Pretty Unfamiliar Face

Meet Clarisse
created with the AI program thispersondoesnotexist.com

One of my favorite things is in coming up with new characters for my stories. Or just coming up with characters in general, that I then offer to my fellow writers because someone out there might be able to give them life. But I found a really cool tool that has helped me in my character quest. It's called This Person Does Not Exist and it's an Artificial Intelligence program that creates faces of people who don't exist.

I was led to this site by a gentleman by the name of J.A. Taylor. He is one of the creators of a little pub called Centina Pentina on the Medium.com platform. They publish stories of 50 and/or 100 words each. I've been a huge fan of the publication for several months now and have had several pieces published through them. 

One of their prompts was to go through this site and find a picture of someone and create a story around them. It was a blast. I was lost on the site for 3 full hours before I remembered what I was supposed to be doing. I also noticed something a bit...odd. In some of the pictures, the computer hadn't gotten it quite right and there are weird abnormalities. For example, I found a picture of a guy with the partial face of someone sitting beside him. The thing is, she had an eyeball looking out of her MOUTH! It was odd...to say the least.

This creeped me out
Made with AI program thispersondoesnotexist.com

However, in that 3 hours, I met a whole new community of potential characters. And the thing is because they're not actual people, I can let them be whoever I want, or should I say, whoever they want to be. A lot of the pictures just seemed to have a name when I'd look into their eyes. 

One of the other places that Mr. Taylor turned me onto is the sister site of this one, called This Word Does Not Exist. Yep, you guessed it. It's an AI program that creates words that don't exist in a dictionary-esque way. The program will create new words, along with their meanings, as though in a dictionary. Or, you can invent your own words and upload them to have the program create the definitions behind them. It's a blast. 

I invented this word and this is the definition given by
the AI program thisworddoesnotexist.com

I love making up new words, but don't always have an idea of what they mean. Or I have an idea but not sure it works. This program is a blast if you like to invent words. I came to realize that most of the words I invent sound like either language dialects, ancient cultures, or medical conditions/treatments. I found that rather interesting. The one posted above was the only one I created that was defined as a game. A strange game, but a game nonetheless. 

So, hey, check them out and see if you can't get lost in a world of imagination. If you do check out This Person Does Not Exist, watch the little box that comes up at the bottom of the pages. It will lead you to another program that creates works of modern art. I loved that one.

Have fun and Happy writing!!!

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Where the Hell Have I Been???

Image by cosmix from Pixabay

Hey Kids,

Miss me? Did you even notice that I was gone? No? Oh well. 

So, it seems I last posted here about 8 months ago. I'm proud of myself for not making it a full year, but I still have some splaining to do. So, just where the hell have I been since last July? I've been creating an empire. 

Okay, so not an actual empire, but I have been working myself silly putting together some rather awesome blogs. As of this posting, I have built like 5 blogs from the ground up. And I've had a ball. Not blogger blogs like this one, but actual Wordpress blogs. 

Now, that being said, I have NOTHING against Blogger. This was my first blogging platform almost 20 years ago and I will always have a special place in my heart for it. I love Blogger. But I wanted something more. I already owned the domain name GRAVESPUBLICATIONS.COM so I used it and went with it. 

I put together that blog, then started 2 more sub-sites from there. I also own the domain name COLLECTEDKEEPSAKES.COM and put that one together as well. I have another one, but it's not doing much at the moment. I'm not sure how to go about using that one, but I'm going to keep it just in case. 

As of right now, I have:

GravesPublications.com
CollectedKeepsakes.com
ParaMythic.gravespublcations.com
GodBlog.gravespublications.com
MultiVerse.gravespublications.com
OnlineDealsandSales.com

I've also put together a free wordpress blog:

MedbsLibrary.wordpress.com

I've had a blast putting these sites together, but I find myself getting bored...again. I kept thinking that I needed to make myself a site where I could just post my own poems and stories, and not care whether anyone stopped by to read them or not. Then it dawned on me. I already had a place I could do that. Right here.

I've had Priestess of Words for about 10 years now. It's been a place where I could post anything I wanted and not feel guilty about it not being in the right "category". This site has never had a real "category" about it. It was just a place I could be me. And here I am again.

As usual, I have no idea where I'm going to go from here, but I'm going anyway. I will always have a place where I can put my thoughts down and get them out of my head. It helps me think clearer, get my ideas in order, and even helps me come up with new ideas. 

What about you? Do you have a place where you can just be you? If not, I urge you to do so. It doesn't matter if anyone comes by to read it, it only matters that you give yourself a space to free your mind. Go ahead. Be free.