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there is nothing quite like being interrupted while absolutely immersed in whatever you're writing. i think this must be how fish feel when they're snatched out of the water by a bird of prey

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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y'all it's about to get really fucking humid and hot

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You know what's more existential than philosophy? Typing out a word, having that red squiggly line appear, questioning if you actually know how to spell, realize you DID spell it right, then wondering why tf the program thought it wasn't a word.

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writing is hard. you’re doing it anyway. you’re basically a god. a really tired, under-caffeinated god in pajamas.

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I love that psychic powers are still "allowed" in science fiction. They're an acceptable part of the aesthetic. Like you can't have magic, but you can have brain magic, because it's more Science.

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someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

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You know what I'm gonna COMPLAIN!

Vanilla sex isn't "wholesome sex"! Sex is not more pure just because it's done within the framework of a monogamous relationship and free from elements of kink!

"Person is so pure they probably don't even know what sex is." Purity isn't defined by the distance from sex! As if the more a person encounters sex in any context the less pure their soul becomes!

You🫵are not immune to propagating the beliefs and ideas of purity culture!

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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I am not a "content creator" I am a writer and artist. I do not make the works that an audience demands, or that I think will be popular. I make the works that I'm passionate about, when I'm passionate about them.

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when I was a kid I read a sci-fi story where some researcher discovers that all crocodiles since prehistory have had the same congenital heart defect, so they set about curing it. when they do, suddenly their research specimen starts getting stronger and healthier and growing rapidly and developing new appendages, and it turns out all crocodilians were actually stunted sickly forms of dragons. that story really stuck with me because it's basically an expression of the "what if I went to the doctor and they discovered I was deficient in one special vitamin and then I took a pill and all my problems and ailments vanished immediately" fantasy.

unrelated, I started taking daily antihistamines this month for the first time in my life,

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Editing is expensive. A lot of authors can’t afford it, especially on books that are unlikely to make much money. The next best option is to self-edit using beta reading feedback. While most beta readers don’t have an editor’s expertise, they can at least give you genuine reactions that are similar to what readers will have. 

Using an LLM to “edit” your work is basically making a bunch of random changes and then counting on your ability to tell the good ones from the bad. If you have the skills to do that, then the random change generator is probably unnecessary.

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if your story makes you feel things, it will make someone else feel things too. that’s the magic.

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"Would anyone want to read --" Listen, imma stop you right there. Yes. YES, someone would want to read that. You write that weird little fucked up story. Or that domestic little slice of life story. That drabble or that 300k monster.

I promise someone wants to read it.

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My kettle arrived today and it's lovely.

But most importantly, it came in a coveted box of packing paper. War has broken out.

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Every unhinged fic writer needs an equally unhinged friend who "yes ands" their ideas and encourages them to write all their most far fetched and insane stories.