HeyJaredBeyond the Trope
Articles from the mind of Author - Jessica Barberi, who believes the most compelling stories grow not from worn tropes, but from the rich soil of human complexity.
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Rewriting Fire from Ashes: Why I’m Taking My First Novel Offline (opens the original)
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On AI Book Covers: A Complicated Confession (opens the original)
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I have been mulling this one over for weeks now and it feels like a timely moment based on what is circling around again over on X, so let’s get into it! I want to talk about AI book covers. It’s one of those subjects I have genuinely complex feelings about, and I think the best way to explore that is to just be honest about the contradiction I’m sitting in.On one hand, there’s the reality that when I first started out, I used AI covers myself. On the other, there’s the reality that as a reader,
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