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David Wilson-Burns
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Sr. Tech Writer / Java Dev @ Kondra | Novelist | Music Ed @ OU | Lyric Baritone & Tubist | Book Lover | Foodie | Movie Lover | 🌈 Ally | Spiritual| Liberal | Sober davidwilsonburns.com davidwilsonburns.substack.com
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An opera singer and a sharp-tongued principal clash while fighting for a transgender student’s right to star in the musical. But when she sees him command the stage, sealing a performance with a breathtaking kiss, admiration replaces irritation, turning their reluctant bond into unexpected romance.
The Puccini Kiss - Chapter 1
Seriously Serial Fiction
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My knee was telling me thst weather is coming. Checked the forecast. Coming in tomorrow.

SCIENCE
Next week in Oklahoma, hell is freezing over.
Yup. Hard to feel good about it.
Out at Othello’s to share some pasta
There are different reasons to grab a book—all valid.

1. Escape reality
2. Understand reality
3. Hit someone on the head with reality

#booksky #booknerds
I don’t have enough confidence to assume that a gorgeous, young yoga instructor wants to follow me on social media.

I’m assuming their a pasty Russian hacker named Vlad
Every Gen-Xer has a spot on impersonation of Michael McDonald.
A remarkable quality of art is that there is no bad time for it. In fact, the bad times are the best times for it. This is the gift God gave us to turn sorrows into beauty.

When you’re unsure what else to do, sing, paint, write, play your instrument, act, sculpt, create…and have a glass of water.
When I need a break in my home office and slip on my VR set to fish for salmon and catfish with my brother (who lives hundreds of miles away) on a snowy bank of a secluded Korean lake so real that my mind and body believe I’m there…

I cannot understand why EVERY household does not have one.
Like all good protagonists in the story, I had an antagonist—or perhaps it’s fair to say a nemesis; although he did not likely know it until many years later...
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Tea and Halibut
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I’m not opposed to using AI as a tool, but I do not wish to read or publish anything that was actually generated by AI.
When you apply for a copyright it should be something you certify. AI generated works cannot be copyrighted. But its honor system.

If I indie publish again I’ll put one of these on the cover
2 things

1. We add a stamp on books certifying that they were not written by AI
2. That the world’s appetite for reading fiction will EXPLODE
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 7: What are your biggest hopes for the writing world in 2025?

More real people and less computers doing the creative things.
#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 7: What are your biggest hopes for the writing world in 2025?

Fewer attempts of people sucking money from creatives.

Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
So, I'll echo someone else here: HAVING FUN!
On stage in a Puccini opera
How’d I hit the Oklahoma bestselling list? Sold a stack books at a signing. That list comes from the independent bookstores and you can guess how many books they sell in a week. I’d feel like a fraud calling it a bestseller.

Sorry for the mope. Feeling discouraged and isolated.