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    River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images
    River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images
    River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images
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    River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images

    By Will Bontrager

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    About this ebook

    I am a writer who also uses AI software to generate images. An AI-generated image captured my attention.

    On a whim, I had asked for an image of a river running through a prairie.

    The result triggered a creative thought inside me related to the likelihood of a deep hole somewhere in that river. I made more images.

    The gist of the story flowed into my head. It is a short story, fast flowing (mostly). The AI-generated images interspersed within the story have all been resized and many have had tweaks for sharpness and lightness.

    The story is about a greenhorn who takes a solo vacation to a river running through a prairie.

    Within an hour of arriving, he almost drowns, having ventured into the river in a shallow area, or so he thought, still wearing his backpack.

    The incident instilled respect for the river into the essence of the person he was.

    It took him until the next day to dry his clothes. He caught his first fish in his sock feet. With the fish grilling on his campfire and smelling better than best food he has ever experienced, he concludes that, yes, this will be the best vacation he has ever had.

    It is a straight-forward story, filled with AI images.

    Rather than the images supporting the story, the story is inspirect by the images.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWill Bontrager Software LLC
    Release dateAug 28, 2023
    ISBN9798223998976
    River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images
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    Will Bontrager

    Will Bontrager was raised Amish in Iowa and Wisconsin, USA. (There's lots to say about the Amish, but that's outside the scope of this particular profile. If interested, do a web search for "Old Order Amish".) At almost 17 years of age, during year 1970, he left home to go to high school and experience the world outside the Amish community. He never returned to the Amish lifestyle. His primary interests, other than interacting with people, are cooking, writing software, and writing both non-fiction and fiction. He has been cooking pretty much all of his adult life, and is now writing about it. He has been writing software exclusively for websites since 1997. The software website with a lot of his non-fiction articles is Willmaster.com. His non-fiction Amish recipes, fiction stories, tools for writers, and other interesting content are at the WillBontrager.com website. Life is too fun to slow down.

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      River Through the Prairie; A Story Inspired by AI Images - Will Bontrager

      About This Story

      This River Through the Prairie story was written from pictures. This is how it happened:

      An AI-generated image captured my attention.

      On a whim, I had asked for an image of a river running through a prairie.

      The result triggered a creative thought inside me related to the likelihood of a deep hole somewhere in that river. I made more images.

      The gist of the story flowed into my head.

      Generally, when images accompany a story, they are presented to support the story. With this book, it is the inverse. Images inspired the story that is presented.

      As noted, the pictures are images provided by AI-image generation software. The cover image was generated with the prompt that is the title of this book, River Through the Prairie. Other images were generated with the same prompt or a form of those words, generally with additional words prepended or appended to the prompt. (More details are in the Appendix.)

      Most of the images the AI generated looked somewhat like photos. A few emulated paintings or other methods of creating art.

      The cover image and all the images included with the story were edited or enhanced after the AI created them. Most were sharpened up a bit. Some

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