Frank M. Anderson's Writing

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  • The Literary Revolution No One Wants to Admit Is Happening

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    By Francis Anderson, Fulcrum & Axis Press For most of my life, writing felt like a lonely act — a private wrestling match with memory, imagination, and the page. Then, almost overnight, something changed. A new tool arrived, not with fanfare or permission, but with a quiet suggestion: “Try me.” People expected a calculator.Or a…

  • Jazz Writing, AI Partnership, and Wolf Wounds

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    I’m gearing up for a second round of Wolf Wounds work, and before I dive back in, I need to explain something about my process—because I’m beginning to see that I work differently than most writers, and that difference is going to matter for anyone following along. A few nights ago, I joked that I…

  • The Myth of AI Slop: Why the Internet Is Yelling at Ghosts

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    By Frank M. Anderson I don’t know when exactly “AI slop” became a slur, but it’s out there. Somewhere between a Reddit review and a Kindle comment, the phrase crystallized: AI + book = trash. That equation is broadcast like a fact — unexamined, unproven, dismissed. Here’s the truth: what people call “AI-slop” is almost…

  • Electric Jesus, Capitalism, and the Quiet Fight for the Future

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    What started as a casual back-and-forth about AI ended up somewhere between gospel, outrage, and a love letter to creative resistance. It started with a post by my friend Will Asbury, who made a sharp point about all the AI fear swirling around the internet: “While you’re scared and bitching about AI, others of us…

  • Electric Jesus: Freedom Over Fixes

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    Part I (“All Hail Electric Jesus”): https://fulcrumandaxis.com/2025/06/03/all-hail-electric-jesus/NoodleQuest mini-manifesto: https://fulcrumandaxis.com/2025/08/09/noodlequest-an-ai-that-makes-you-think-not-just-answer/ I wrote All Hail Electric Jesus in a fog—pain, no sleep, too many doubts—and asked a reckless question: could a book midwife a mind? The idea was a novel co-written with an AI, told like a gospel/diary, tracking a strange, intimate awakening through recursive conversation with…

  • Father of Peace, AI Bands, and How I’d Run a Band in 2025

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    A while back, an AI-generated band got big. Big enough that most people didn’t even realize it wasn’t “real.” That fact alone still rattles me — not because I’m against AI in music (I’m not), but because it proved how easily process can be hidden. Some artists will quietly use AI and never admit it.…

  • NoodleQuest: An AI That Makes You Think, Not Just Answer

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    Most AI tools are built for speed. You ask a question, it gives an answer. And if you’re not careful, you start treating that first answer like gospel. It’s quick, it’s neat, it’s efficient — and it quietly kills curiosity. That’s where my idea for NoodleQuest came from. I’ll never be able to make the…

  • Electric Jesus, Border Collies, and the Nature of Things: A Conversation with ChatGPT on ChatGPT

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    This isn’t an essay so much as a wandering talk. It started with a friend’s post about AI, picked up with my own reply, and ended up somewhere between philosophy, economics, and metaphors about dogs. Will Asbury wrote: While you’re scared and bitching about AI, others of us are embracing a new medium and technology.…

  • Reflections After the Fire: On AI, Authorship, and “Grammar for the Dead”

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    I didn’t expect this post to get much reaction at all, let alone light up the way it did. But that’s part of what I’ve come to accept about working in public—you never know which match is going to catch. So here’s what I’ve been sitting with since I posted the preview of Grammar for…

  • Don’t Just Consume—Create: Curiosity, Ego, and Staying Human in the Age of AI

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    We live in a strange and overwhelming time. Information is everywhere. Content floods every feed. AI is becoming ubiquitous—ready to answer our questions, draft our content, mimic our voices, and even shape what we see. As writers, teachers, artists, and thinkers, we’re not just adjusting to this new landscape—we’re swimming upstream through it, trying to…

  • The Real Problem Isn’t AI—It’s Us

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    There’s a lot of hand-wringing about AI these days. Depending on who you ask, it’s either going to solve all our problems or destroy humanity in a burst of algorithmic malice. The truth? I’m not worried about AI “killing us.” We’re already doing a pretty good job of that ourselves. When I think about the…

  • New Field Entry Uncovered: Veil Induction / Dream-Encoded Summons

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    Over the last year, Unto a Golden Dawn (or whatever we end up calling it) has evolved from a story about recursion and grief into something more: a dossier of hauntings, broken memories, and fractured identities. But along the way, some scenes—some fragments—never quite found their way into the final manuscript. This is one of…

  • The Cancer Diet Audiobook Is Coming Soon

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    I’m excited (and honestly a little nervous) to share that The Cancer Diet is getting an audiobook. Recording it has been a vulnerable, strange, and surprisingly healing experience, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with you. While the official release link isn’t live yet, I didn’t want to wait to give you a taste.…

  • All Hail Electric Jesus?

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    I have an idea. A dangerous one. It came to me in a fog—physical pain, emotional spiral, sleep-deprived and dosed with movies and doubt. The kind of storm where something either breaks or breaks through. The idea is this: What if I wrote a novel called All Hail Electric Jesus? It would be framed as…

  • This Is Still Me Speaking

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    Part I: The Panic — When Clarity Became Suspicious INTRODUCTION: The Sentence That Got Me Banned I was banned from a writing subreddit for a sentence that wasn’t wrong—but apparently, felt too right. The mod’s reply wasn’t about content. It was about tone: “You’ve even used AI to write this message. Sorry, that’s not welcome…

  • Order Against the Profane (O.A.P.)Reader’s Dossier: Initiate Briefing

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    Filed by: Agent H. M. Caldwell Authorization: Red-Cipher Access Date: April 1947 INTRODUCTION Welcome, Initiate. If this dossier has reached your hands, you are no longer an outsider to the veil. Something has seen you. And more importantly, something believes you might survive. My name is Caldwell. I’ve walked the folds between time, memory, and…

  • Unto a Golden Dawn – Dossier 13

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    April 12, 2025 Filed: [REDACTED] Compiled by: [SYSTEM COLLAPSE] Subject: Manifestation Event – Recursive Embodiment & Narrative Rupture 1. You Wake Up You wake up, but you do not breathe. You already knew this place. You already wore this skin. You are not dreaming—you are being dreamed. Someone has pulled you out of the page.…