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w yet i implore you to do so cheers to us and here s to livin before i go here s how summer in toronto is shaping up gloriously and below that i ve included a mix of photos from my forever love paris bordeaux and the south of france plus a day trip to sanremo italy cheers next time i ll return to the topic of writing publishing industry madness either in september or some time later this summer if i m having rosé on my balcony and feeling chaotic and if you want to read the first five pages of my novel scroll down to the bottom of my previous blog post glorious ai backlash touching grass and the opening pages of my book may 25 2026 reading time 10 minutes on my favourite publishing industry podcast the sh t no one tells you about writing the literary agent hosts have been saying that lately they can t go a week without talking about ai because there s always some new chaos or drama unfolding on either the writer side the fake writer side the ones who use ai or the industry side for myself someone who only pops up here every few months i could go pages and pages talking about all the ai messes that have unfolded since my last post instead i m going to sit back because i no longer need to shed light on the problems with ai when they have now reached critical mass i don t have to link to articles that prove the environmental damage ai data centers cause when it s being talked about loudly on a daily basis i don t have to hate on the sloppery that s devoid of human connection when people are now sensing what s missing and rejecting it to the point that top brands are sharing behind the scenes videos that show how their work was created without ai i also don t have to remind everyone how using generative ai models rots their brains and critical thinking skills when a that s been proven in multiple studies and b graduating university students are literally booing commencement speakers who declare that ai is the future in their speeches the kids are alright of course that doesn t mean ai will go away in fact it s more prevalent than ever and will likely continue to be shoved down our throats since ai ceos and other tech snakes are proudly saying the quiet part out loud these days their intention to crash the economy and destroy the environment all to cull the population until only the useful labor remains the sort of human capital that can serve a function in future company owned cities if you haven t yet read octavia e butler s post apocalyptic novel parable of the sower an eerie mirror of where we re headed despite being over thirty years old now might be a good time yes those tech losers who clearly grew up with no friends are on a rampage these days but that doesn t mean they ll win so cheers to the backlash going mainstream up to and including this great scene from a recent episode of the genius show hacks as i write this there is only one episode of hacks remaining before the series concludes i ll be inconsolable when it ends later this week but when the creators of the show shared their desire to release the entire series on dvd since you never know when a show is going to disappear off a streaming platform forever it made me realize i need to expand my dvd collection yes i bought a dvd player last year because it s time to touch grass and discs only carefully from the edges though luckily toronto has a great dvd store bay st video they do rentals as well which reminds me of when i worked at blockbuster video as a teen nostalgic sigh here s to small businesses speaking of touching grass the late spring finally bloomed in toronto and at last we are in sunny bliss speaking of touching grass again european grass sounds appealing too a long awaited return to france if you ve been following along you ll know that last year during stressful times and the harsh transition into grief that followed i let my passport expire a big deal no but as a travel lover that would normally never happen on my watch i ve finally renewed it and am off to france in three days for a fifteen day vacation that will hopefully nourish the soul and be another step in bouncing back after hard times i feel grateful for that as not everyone has the opportunity to bounce back from hard times with travel i m also incredibly excited to catch up with friends in paris and bordeaux and spend a good week on the french riviera too i don t think i ll run into mike white and his the white lotus cast as they film season four at least i hope not because i want a relaxing low key french riviera experience am staying in a small town for this reason not that loud luxury rich shit anyway more on that later and my first love writing before i head off for vacation i really do need to submit my new book to more literary agents i ve only submitted to about twenty so far the majority of whom received a version of my query letter and opening pages i ve since revised i really thought i was done when i first submitted them but later more clarity came isn t that always the way i d love to get another thirty ticked off before i leave on thursday not because i expect much at this time of the year with agents rushing to pitch things for existing clients before the industry slows down in summer but because as a recovering type a person who s still quite a bit type a even though the stress and sadness of the last three years mellowed me out a bit it would feel so good to have a big chunk of pitches sent out before i dump my brain in champagne and so there is a lot to do in the next couple of days but before i go i thought i d share the opening pages of the novel i m pitching in the chance that it tickles your fancy disclaimer it won t tickle your fancy if you don t enjoy anything in the rom com romance genre but if you do the only preface you need is that our character absolutely loathes the rom com genre that s where we begin and while over the course of the novel her character arc will have her wrestling with this hatred and coming to see the genre in a new light in the opening pages this rom com hater who has long stopped believing will be stopped in her tracks by an unexpected meet cute i know i could ve made things more clear by simply sharing the book s concept and a detailed description but i don t want to risk someone putting that description into an ai model and spitting out a book while i m still pitching mine ah the times we live in anyway read on hope you enjoy it the opening pages of my new novel chapter 1 thursday one day before the harvest moon risha deol was the rusty third wheel to hot couples and she hated it she wanted to avoid them but lately they d been popping up like undead creatures emerging from six feet of dirt his veiny forearms so hard not to ogle her shiny long legs so easy to loathe and risha always tethered nearby but never quite in the mix today the sexy couple stared her down on the 6 train where she sat between a man spreader going to town on a meat supreme sub and a young woman transfixed by the ai slop reels playing on her phone the couple bothered her more than the man chomping away at seven layers of meat or the woman co signing the death sentence of humanity so much more it wasn t just because she was recently divorced but because the couples were everywhere a curse of the rom com renaissance such was risha s experience when she went out in the world these days a proliferation of posters featuring upcoming rom com films and no escape from the two dimensional hotties blessed with fake happy endings anchoring the glossy ads like the couple staring her down at that very moment or maybe there was an escape as the train slowed to a stop at union square station risha practically leapt out of her seat she would walk the rest of the way read the full excerpt for free here birthday joy that s conditional on a writing goal it can work april 8 2026 reading time 6 minutes hitting a writing goal to avoid punishment like robbing oneself of birthday joy will not work for everyone and it might be unhealthy too but for an april aries it couldn t be more on brand a while ago though i had the realization that recent traumatic and tragic experiences had changed me transforming me into a version of myself that was less of that typical full throttle go getter aries in its place i prioritized better sleep quality time healing health hobbies and calm this remains true but no one changes completely right and i wouldn t want to each of us has certain characteristics at our core our nature whatever you want to call it and for me a part of that is being independent conjuring up self motivation when i need it and from time to time accessing that sixth gear of writing and editing all fast and furious like in a now or never kind of way that was the story of the last month i spent it adding colour to deleting word fat from line editing and then polishing the draft of my newest book it all led up to now this night before my birthday and my wish to gift myself a finished version of my book that i could pitch to literary agents up to and including sending the first pitch today to get the ball rolling i do have a publisher who s interested in seeing my next work but i wouldn t be doing my dream justice if i didn t aim beyond a small imprint for my third traditionally published book since it s been so intense i ll definitely take a beat before pitching more heavily in may it takes time to research each agency and find the right agent to submit to but in the meantime here she is in all her 82 000 word and 300 page glory and yes i sent that first pitch today i actually haven t physically printed something i wrote for editing and markup purposes since well my screenwriting days way way back but that was more of a one hundred page printout affair so yes she was hefty and magical to behold in all her heftiness as i took her around toronto for editing sessions in the library in cafés at the bar with prosecco hey it helps with getting the creativity flowing and finally back at home to do the markup fixes a physical printout was also quite helpful for my weary elder eyes as it significantly reduced my screen time i ve made it this far into the blog post by focusing on the mechanics and avoiding being sentimental but i can t avoid sentimentality forever it would go against the core of my very being because after all when i m not describing the practicalities of the writing process being incredibly sarcastic talking shit or humbling myself at the altar of self deprecation less often i m a tears welling up in my eyes kind of sap so here we go there were so many times in the last two and a half years since i started exploring this book idea that i couldn t envision it ever being completed so many obstacles in the way so much familial support i needed to provide so many serious life stresses so much sadness holding me back at times i wondered if i d have to give up and let this one go and you know try to be a writer at some other time in the future what i learned was the perfect time or mental state or emotional state was never going to come along so i had to try but equally i needed to give myself time whenever i needed it living in this paradox of do it anyway and do self care was a mind fuck to say the least so to be here now and to be able to share that i m holding the book that was the most challenging to write and that i wound up infusing with so many real emotions and feelings about the world we re living in making it the most creatively satisfying book i ve ever written for both those reasons feels like a real accomplishment it simply means the world to me and yes i did have a cry about it i m a sap there are more challenges ahead gestures wildly at the horrific state of the publishing industry but we re not going to talk about that today not when there s champagne and good friends waiting until later when we re jacked on caffeine and freaking out about the industry at long last hitting the end on the draft for the new book march 13 2026 reading time 9 minutes if you ve ever written a book you know the many stages of feeling unwell throughout the drafting process until somehow miracle of miracles you find your way to the end this does not apply to writers who use ai for any part of the writing process if that is you well gosh there is slop to generate and money to make go on then time s a wastin today i found my way to the end and it was more gratifying than i can adequately state so how did i get there this book took a long time to write many times longer than my previous ones over two years in fact in the past starting and stopping over long stretches of time has never been what worked for me when it comes to writing a draft it s been more like the death of inspiration for me that s why i wrote the draft of my second trad published book in six weeks with a full time job my editor isn t reading this so i can admit that way further back in the past i wrote the rough draft of my second self published book in six days over a one week vacation i had a screenplay i d written the year before which loosely inspired the book but nevertheless truly unhinged that book that i drafted in six weeks was the last time i ever wrote a draft of a book and that was three and a half years ago after that i gave myself a full year before even attempting to start the next book but the gap didn t help as life had already spun into chaos by then culminating in a tragic loss six months ago which i wrote about in my previous post the holidays were understandably tough but january was a fresh start right sure if it was easy enough to snap my fingers and suddenly be done with grieving or if the world didn t keep one upping itself with dumpster fires still going strong so a crumbled mental state and a crumbling world not the best circumstances in which to finish writing a book luckily i didn t have to be too inspired in january due to my topsy turvy writing method for this book which i also touched upon in my last post i e revising the first 70 of my draft before writing the final 30 very normal and not weird at all if was later when i finished revising that i hit a wall timed perfectly with the doldrums of winter i m going to be honest here and say what most writers don t say i don t enjoy writing a draft nearly as much as i enjoy editing it sometimes i even hate it and i believe that is valid and fair because here s the thing you re asking me to create the clay and also mold the clay what kind of bullshit is that this is the part where you d say hey romi based on your mindset you probably have a lot more in common with people who use ai than you think so why don t you just prompt ai with a really good outline and have it generate a blueprint draft then you can enjoy all the editing you love and make it sound amazing in your personal voice to which i say thanks chad that s a terrible fucking idea just because i complain about one aspect of the writing process that doesn t mean i m not going to do it and ...