The Post I Didn’t Write
I’m invoking my one-strike rule. My mind is racing all over the place, and I can’t keep up. I am in despair; I am full of hope. I am on a precipice poised to fall. The air current is trailing…
Minu Freitag
July Writing Update—#ShutUpAndWrite, 2024
Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion Reset—putting writing before marketing and promotion. During the last weeks, I have been realigning my habits with my main aim when I started this project—becoming a better writer and storyteller. I stopped looking at…
The best of times, the worst of times—Artists, Writers and AI, Part 1
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season…
Minu Freitag’s Crazy-Cute, Joy-Sparking Sprites, by Elizah Leigh
Elizah Leigh, the Curatorial Creativity Connoisseur and Contributing Author at Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, wrote a beautiful article about my work for Quirky Fox. I don’t see myself as somebody others might want to write—or read!—about. This might sound like an…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 3—Light on my feet
Time to think and re-set. I feel so much better now, thank you. With my already lighter social footprint*, the rat-race pressure to post and post and post is gone … I only now realise how much strain it added…
June Writing Update—#ShutUpAndWrite, 2024
I might just be able to pull this off! Revisions on the House After a solid six weeks caught in my scene wrangling spreadsheet, I returned to my scrivener manuscript. The task ahead is daunting, but I feel I got…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 2—Thank you, but no.
Thank you for your offer, but no. I quit. The AI revolution is here, and it will not go away … … I still believe that artificial stupidity would be a better term. AI can be useful—I use ChatGPT for…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 1
So … where do we go from here? Delete Forever. Rinse. Repeat. I spent last weekend deleting hundreds of posts from Instagram and still have to do so on Facebook. I am not surprised that Meta believes training their AI…
Look inside—The Cloud @ Quirky Fox, Hawera
Take a closer look at my new work included in The Cloud. The theme of the exhibition is a contemplation—if a humorous one—on the resilience of the spirit in the face of adversity. In a dreamlike realm, enigmatic creatures are…
April Writing Update—#ShutUpAndWrite, 2024
The first writing update in ages and #drumroll … writing has happened! Revisions on the House Writing has happened! Mostly in a spreadsheet, though. The second revision got stuck once again in the dreaded middle of the manuscript, and I…