THE BLOG · DONOVAN M. NEAL
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AI Won’t Kill Human Creativity. It May Make Human Craftsmanship More Valuable.
What happens to the value of human craftsmanship when creative work can be produced at enormous scale?
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The Birth of God: Prologue reveal!
Prologue "Only in Heaven could such evil be spawned. Only thy bosom could conceive such audacity. For it was you who seeded man to know sin, and by thy hand was iniquity discovered. Ye...
Cover reveal for The Third Heaven: The Birth of God
I am happy to announce the cover reveal to the sequel to my Amazon best selling novel the Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars is done. Ladies and gentlemen, the Third Heaven: The Birth...
More thoughts about the Third Heaven
One of the benefits of writing is that I get to let my fans peek into my world. To give them a sense of how I come up with things. What moves me to write, and what some of my thinking is...
19 differences between Exodus and the Biblical text.
I had the chance to take in the new Exodus movie last week, and to say I was disappointed was an understatement. While the cinematography was epic in scope and scale. The acting...
How to Develop an Author Platform: Part 2
In part, one I stated what an author platform was “Platform is the means by which you connect with your existing and potential fans.” Platform by Micheal Hyatt That a platform does three...
What Peter Jackson taught me about writing epic battles
[embedyt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAgTiBrrDA[/embedyt] I read a recent article about some of thinking that Peter Jackson uses in thinking through the epic battles. I thought I'd...
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