David McDannald

Here's a list of lit mags accepting long prose. (I made the list when I had a short story with a page count that got out of control.) I've put the list online: davidmcdannald.com/litmags-accept…

@DHTheWeatherNut Been mixed in Leverett for the last 90min or so.

Mix zone where the bright banding is evident at 5pm in Hampden and Worcester counties

@TomSharpsays @emollick Ask it to tell you what's wrong with the work, not to redo it.

@dkmcdannald @emollick Say more, please. Does the new, improved model not understand the kind of questioning that the older, less intelligent model —and all other LLMs— had no problems with?

One reason I wish more humanities-oriented people would engage with AI is that models are writers, trained on words, producing words. There are strengths & weaknesses in the models that can only be seen if you engage deeply with them as writers. They do not show up in benchmarks

@TomSharpsays @emollick You didn't ask the right question.

To be honest (I wrote 7 books, 2 of which became national bestsellers in Holland), my first impression of ChatGPT 4.5 is not much better that what I saw with 4o. I asked it to improve my draft newsletter, make it more engaging, persuasive, and more creative and unique. Instead, I got more of the same standardized boiler plate text. Still pretty cool that an AI can even do this, but I didn't yet experience the jump in quality that we were promised with 4.5

@PhilippeduCol Pick five. Wait for responses. Do another edit. Pick five more? That's how I approach it. Many will be closed. Paris Review is open for fiction at the moment but can close at any time.

Here's a list of lit mags accepting long prose. (I made the list when I had a short story with a page count that got out of control.) I've put the list online: davidmcdannald.com/litmags-accept…

@brecht_dp @stephenRB4 Nairobi - 9/30/2000 (met my best friend) Brooklyn - 1/27/2016 (met my wife)

@dkmcdannald @stephenRB4 That makes my curious... Which places, when? 🙂

If you could be 18 and live your life again, knowing what you do now, would you do it?

@eternalpenances @_ryanruby_ I had other inquiries into Jameson this morning and need a period of unconsciousness to generate additional Jameson-inquiry credits. (Thus, I neither concur nor reject concurrence.)

@_ryanruby_ @eternalpenances Punctuation dismissiveness as the ultimate insult.

@brecht_dp @stephenRB4 I’d just make sure to be in a few places at exactly the right time.

@stephenRB4 Absolutely f****** yes!

@aliner I marvel at your ability to post and also be productive with your work. I feel like even partial phone-centrism brings down the average of everything.

@dkmcdannald 🫶 I hear that

“Having any sex in the world is having to have sex with capitalism.” - Kathy Acker

@aliner Blocking social media was an election-year-survival necessity! It’s nice to know you’re still holding the conversation together here!

@dkmcdannald Good to see your face David.

@_ryanruby_ Art as profit sharing?

I’m a Luddite at heart, but it is revolutionary to be able to argue with AI in Spanish (to practice Spanish) about whether Fredric Jameson romanticizes the art of the past by denigrating the art of the present as commercial.

@LucasESchaefer I read this at first as “there is an unusable cesspool of despair…” And I thought, wait, nearly all despair is usable!

This is an unusable cesspool of despair. It’s unfortunate!!

@mattyglesias Why did the watchmaker withhold from humans the horse’s ability to drink and breathe simultaneously??

Conspicuous waste of a (crypto) potlatch: consistency, not transformation.

BORDERline behavior of Vanity Fair writer casting himself into the role of Cormac McCarthy (prose, guns, horses) down to the “thousands of hours” he spent with his “muse” in 9 months, which has only 6,480 hours.

Western-hero (cliched) domains of excellence: 1. guns, horses, sexuality 2. fighting, tolerance, roping 3. Spanish, engines, fiddle The piece on Cormac & Britt sets her at level one. I'm half-surprised Barney didn't claim she can shoot a smiley face in a tin of Copenhagen.

Perhaps not surprising that Cormac McCarthy's reclusiveness was not all about the virtue and marketing of the enigma but a strategic motivation of the legal.

@sethwieck Amazing pic, straight from the 1880s.

The things I see while driving.