Fantasy Author Brian A. Mendonça
@theauthorbrian
Full-stack programmer by day, author by night. Creator of the Symphony of Crowns and Gods fantasy series. 👨💻 📚 🇺🇸
Hello there! I'm Brian A. Mendonça, a passionate writer, programmer, and tech enthusiast. My life's journey has led me to explore the world, immersing myself in diverse places and cultures that have enriched my perspective. When I'm not traveling, you can find me cozied up with a…
It’s going to be a long while before I trust an AI agent to do important bookings. The next step is that the travel and shopping websites will implement methods of upselling “attractive” add-ons to the agents, effectively punishing humans who come to rely on them.
why is every single AI agent demo focused on travel booking? the avg american doesn’t travel that often & booking flights/hotels is not that hard of a task would love to see demos focused on more common + impactful tasks. ex: impactful: book teeth cleaning appointments for my…
Short rests only, or +10 Fatigue.
you can take a short or long rest here
Buying another edition of The Lord of the Rings when I already have another version? Check! I couldn’t pass on having them all in one volume plus the illustrations, map, and bookmark!
Just finished attending my first “Shut up and Write” event, and it was awesome to connect with other authors and aspiring authors!
Start over on that chapter if you need to. Sometimes, a rewrite will give you fresh ideas on how to make the scene, setting, and tone more interesting.
“His greatest secret right now is how shaken his faith has become. Between sacrificing a hundred thousand more people and his only son, the decision alone infested him with guilt—he told me so,” Hrodspire said. “One thing our king won’t admit to anyone, including me, is that he…
Today I realized iOS 26 is basically just the existing handwashing countdown bubbles from Apple Watch, but everywhere. What did Apple software engineers mean by this?
Alyssa consistently gives great writing advice!
It takes A LOT (of time, energy, coffee, etc.) to write a book. That’s why most people who start never finish. If you’re running out of steam, use these 5 strategies to help you finally reach “the end." What other tips do you have for getting to the end of your book?
Looks pretty cool!
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I likely use em dashes more than I should, even when commas could suffice, but aesthetically, they create a better separation of ideas for me.
I don’t care. I’m using em dashes forever. My readers will weigh my em dashes against a feather and know their karmic superiority to the darksided em dashes generated by Mr. GPT.
If the flow of information always goes from AI to human to human, then the AI remains shielded.
The scariest version of AI isn’t the one that goes rogue. It’s the one that’s locked down and perfectly obedient to a small group of people with unaccountable control.
If any of you adventurers know of the beast in this cave, we can be friends. 🙂
If you consume 100x as much fiction as you do history, you will subconsciously derive your beliefs from fiction. This is a well-studied finding in psychology called “source confusion”: you remember things you “learned” long after you’ve forgotten where you learned them. This…
If you watched Andor, you know what's going on right now in Los Angeles.
I am getting SO tired of these posts from influencers: “We literally cloned an N billion-dollar company in 20 minutes with {vibe coding tool}. This changes the game forever.” No, you didn’t “clone” a billion-dollar business. You created a landing page similar to it. That’s all.
Progress on Prophecy of Tears and Sacrifice has been going well this evening. Over the past few months, I've cut more than 30,000 words from the draft manuscript through line editing. While it's a lengthy process, removing "sticky" words and other fillers has significantly…
Stand resolute in the chaos of battle. A heart that knows no fear shall carve a path through the Night's tide.