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This has been a topic in one of my discord groups today and I’m so curious what everyone’s approach is as a writer.

Writing linearly means starting at the beginning of the story and writing each scene in chronological order from beginning to end.

Writing non-linearly means you might start midway through the story and write the beginning later, or you might write scenes at random and join them up later, or you add in placeholders as you write to go back to later (like “add action scene here”).

Outlining means coming up with a sequence of plot points to guide the story - i.e. planning/mapping out what the main story beats will be throughout it.

Personally I’m a linear writer, and I don’t outline. I have a loose idea of where the story is going to go, but that’s it. And I can’t skip scenes or use placeholder text — my brain starts shrieking at me lmao.

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chat the youths are using ai to literally write comments on fics for them. we are so fucking cooked

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Ngl I totally forgot fandom discourse was a thing. I don’t care man, I have car payments

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You need to move off of Google Docs!

I know some people have seen the news recently and may be doubtful of it. To the uninformed, Google Docs has started using AI to find "inappropriate" and "problematic" content, scraping your documents and deleting it. I know some people are unsure if this is real or think this is not going to affect them.

I regret to inform you that this is real.

As I was on a call with some writers and we were moving our documents as a precautionary measure, one person discovered entire pages missing that they did not delete themselves. This is happening to us, it's not a hoax or a rumor, it's happening right now. You need to move everything if you want to preserve it.

If you're a writer with writer mutuals, please reblog this so they know. I rarely write on Google Docs anymore, but I started my fanfics on there, and I would be devastated if I lost works more than ten years old because people decided marketing appeal is more important than creative freedom.

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We’ve seen a number of writers sharing stories about suddenly losing access to their Google Docs today.

It’s still unclear what’s causing this, but if you’re concerned about big tech creeping in creative tools and spaces… you’re definitely not alone. (We’ve written about de-Googling and censorship before.)

You should be able to write freely—without fear of deletion, censorship, or extraction.

All writing should be safe. It should stay yours.

We want to help build a space where writers are in control:

Ownership of your work. No surveillance; no surprise removals.

Sync, share, and collab, without scraping or data-selling.

A writing tool that you know is safe, now and in the future.

Please stay informed. Back up your work. And don't be evil (👀 Google).

~ the Ellipsus Team xo

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Happy Birthday to Yang Xiao Long!!!

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who else remembers "i'm going to make it my mission to destroy everything you love...starting with her" like was that not CRAZY? LOOKIJNG BACK IS THAT NOT THE CRAZIEST LINE OF ALL TIME? LOOKING BACK, DESPITE WHAT WE WERE CERTAIN OF OR FELT DEEPLY AT THE TIME, ISN'T IT FUCKING INSANE THAT THAT LINE WAS A LEGITIMATE DECLARATION OF WHO BLAKE'S ROMANTIC INTEREST ACTUALLY WAS? HELLO CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME

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"Don't worry, this isn't the first time I've disabled Atlas security."

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your story doesn’t have to make sense right now. neither do you. just put a guy on a horse and make him sad.

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"how am i gonna be an optimist about this?" was actually the craziest thing to have in the chorus of a pop song

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ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

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I haven't updated anything in a looong time and while I'm hoping to get back into the writing groove soon (since RWBY is allegedly returning from the war?!), I did want to share a teeny update about the latest collab my wife @saigamiproject and I have been working on. I don't usually post personal stuff here, but this one is something I'm too excited to NOT share-- especially since this fandom was basically how Seny and I found each other in the first place! 💖

Anyway, about our newest and greatest collab yet...

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when you think about it rwby reviving is like rooster teeth dying passed along the maiden powers to viz media and that's why rwby is technically unkillable

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I love how kerry can be like “I opened final draft 🥰” and we’ll all be losing it dining out on that for the next six months

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Kiersi!

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VOLUME 10 CONFIRMED!