This ain’t no cowboy song: writing through grief with music

This is a bit left-field for this blog. Usually, I’m writing about books and fiction. But creativity doesn’t always stay neatly in its lane. Sometimes it spills out in unexpected ways.

A few months ago, I wrote a song. Not just a throwaway lyric or a fragment of melody, but a fully formed country ballad. It’s called “This Ain’t No Cowboy Song”.

How long before AI writes a Bestseller? A Literary Thought Experiment

How long before AI writes a New York Times bestseller?

It’s a question that lingers like a subplot, unresolved, faintly unsettling, impossible to ignore. Earlier this year, a publishing data analyst sparked headlines by predicting that an AI-written book could top bestseller charts by 2030.