Shop Update, September 2024—new paper mache listings
Update 28th October: The two Forest Walkers are now available via The Vault in Wellington. New creations in the shop! Bring a touch of magic to your space. Available now :).
Minu Freitag
August Writing Update—Layering Revisions, part 1
Progress on the House and insights to layering revisions Progress on my revisions for The House The revisions for The House, the second book in The Spheres Series are moving along, and I write every day, no matter what. I…
Using Claude, the AI Chatbot by Anthropic, as a Line Editor and Critique Group
Artists, Writers and AI, Part 2 Using Claude AI as a Line Editor and Critique Group This is Part 2 in my series on Artists, Writers and AI—my musings on how artists and writers can use AI without losing what…
The Thing About Social Media, Part 4—Enshittification, dis-enshittification, and silver linings
Cory Doctorow’s 2024 Marshall McLuhan lecture “Seizing the means of computation: a better internet is run by and for the people who use it” There is a lot to take away from Cory Doctorow’s 2024 Marshall McLuhan lecture, “Seizing the…
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…
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…