Mrs Claus has thoughts on Santa's diet

As flash fiction goes, it's hard to beat Carly Simon's "Baby sneezes, Mommy pleases, Daddy breezes in" for capturing a slice of life / mood.

Extreme Writing! An experiment (last week) where 2 co-writers needed to wrap their heads around a new novel / new voice.
They borrowed from the world of software engineering and copied the technique known as extreme programming / paired programming.
Here's how it went. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I just asked ChatGPT (on a bit of a whim) to give me a "Save the Cat!" style beatsheet for Clovenhoof (the 1st novel written by Iain Grant & me). It came back with a pretty solid beatsheet. I guess it means that ChatGPT more or less has *all* novels somehow

My son (early 20s) tells me that none of his friends knew what a nailbrush was. Of all the things that would mark me as an middle-aged person, I did not expect it to be this...