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"you're the writer, you control how the story goes" no not really. i wrote the first sentence and then my characters said "WE WILL TAKE IT FROM HERE" and promptly swerved into an electrical fence.

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How to use Em Dash (—) and Semi Colon ( ; )

Since the ai accusations are still being thrown around, here's how i personally like to use these GASP ai telltales. 🦄✨

Em Dashes (—)

To emphasize a shift / action / thought.

They're accusing us—actually accusing us—of using AI.

To add drama.

They dismissed our skills as AI—didn't even think twice, the dimwits—and believed they were onto something.

To insert a sudden thought. Surely they wouldn't do that to us—would they?

To interrupt someone's speech. "Hey, please don't say that. I honed my craft through years of blood and tears—" "Shut up, prompter."

To interrupt someone's thoughts / insert a sudden event.

We're going to get those kudos. We're going to get those reblogs—

A chronically online Steve commented, “it sounds like ai, idk.”

Semi Colons ( ; )

To join two closely related independent sentences / connect ideas.

Not only ChatGPT is capable of correct punctuation; who do you think it learned from in the first place?

Ultimate pro tip: use them whenever the fuck you want. You don't owe anyone your creative process. 🌈

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🩷💛💙 Books for Pan Pride Day 💙💛🩷

🩷 Sammy Espinoza’s Last Review - Tehlor Kay Mejia 💛 Bad at Love - Gabriela Martins 💙 A Shot in the Dark - Victoria Lee 💙 The (Un)popular Vote - Jasper Sanchez 💛 Beating Heart Baby - Lio Min 🩷 How to Find a Missing Girl - Victoria Wlosok

🩷 Back in a Spell - Lana Harper 💛 In the City of Time - Gwendolyn Clare’ 💙 The Mirror Season - Anna-Marie McLemore 💙 It Goes Like This - Miel Moreland 💛 Get it Right - Skye Kilaen 🩷 Summer at the Scottish Castle - Rachel Bowdler

🩷 Scoreless Game - Anna Zabo and L.A. Witt 💛 This Rebel Heart - Katherine Locke 💙 The Adventures of Isabel - Candas Jane Dorsey 💙 Ben and Beatriz - Katalina Gamarra 💛 Pyre at the Eyreholme Trust - Lin Darrow 🩷 Love & Other Disasters - Anita Kelly

🩷 Chef’s Choice - TJ Alexander @tjalexandernyc 💛 For Never & Always - Helena Greer 💙 Extra Witchy - Ann Aguirre 💙 Loveless - Alice Oseman 💛 Miss Meteor - Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia 🩷 A Dark and Hollow Star - Ashley Shuttleworth

🩷 Court of the Undying Seasons - A.M. Strickland 💛 The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab 💙 In the Ravenous Dark - AdriAnne Strickland 💙 For the Love of April French - Penny Aimes 💛 Drag Me Up - R.M. Virtues 🩷 One Step at a Time - Lily Seabrooke

🩷 Pretend Girlfriend - Lily Craig 💛 Verona Comics - Jennifer Dugan 💙 Count Your Lucky Stars - Alexandria Bellefleur 💙 Liar’s Guide to the Night Sky - Brianna Shrum 💛 Man O’ War - Cory McCarthy 🩷 The Unconquered City by K.A. Doore

🩷 Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith 💛 Dark Soul - Aleksandr Voinov 💙 On the Other Side - Carrie Hope Fletcher 💙 A Darker Shade of Magic - Victoria E. Schwab 💛 Superficial - Diane Billas 🩷 Crownchasers - Rebecca Coffindaffer

🩷 The Brightsiders - Jen Wilde 💛 Stars Collide - Rachel Lacey 💙 Final Draft - Riley Redgate 💙 This Is Me Trying - Racquel Marie 💛 Always the Almost - Edward Underhill 🩷 Perfect on Paper - Sophie Gonzales

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plotting my novel like a sane person (lying). actually drawing red string connections between a recurring pigeon and the concept of memory.

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I'm going to say something so controversial and so brave right now-

queer fandoms have gotta stop acting like the only path to queer happiness is through a relationship. It's reductive and exclusionary. It's bad enough in a fandom context and worse when it bleeds into real life. Queer joy comes in many different forms and that's what makes it beautiful. Take your ship goggles off for a second and expand your horizons

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being a symbolism enjoyer should humble you because at the end of the day no matter how eloquently you articulate it youre essentially saying "i love it when things have meaning"

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Every writer should try a co-written wip with a bestie some day it is good for the soul

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Btw when people say "if you want to be a writer you need to read a lot of books" that means bad books too. This applies to all creative mediums and also even if you don't want to make it you should immerse yourself in some mediocre slop here and there and even abysmal dogshit on occasion. As a fan of the medium. If all you eat is perfect A5 wagyu prepared by a Michelen star chef youre gonna end up thinking a well cooked and seasoned grocery store ribeye is basically dog food and this is the path to spiritual rot

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I’m in love with this worldbuilding, @malcolmschmitz !!! I so badly want to develop a fantasy world with this kind of depth!

Do you have any tips for coming up with fake country/city/god/people names? Did “Cymera” come from “chimera” or from somewhere else?

It's very #problematic of me I'm sure but if they must do either I really desperately prefer authors coming up with fancy always-italicized elven words for being gay or trans than having preindustrial warrior aristocrats and barely-socialized monsters have a vocabulary that casually includes 'demisexual' and 'enby'.

This is only slightly a principled stance (queernorm fantasy worlds are very obviously not trying to have any sort of realistic political economy of gender, which I only slightly judge them for), mostly just painful aesthetic mismatch.

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Some idiot: "Why are you reading your own fic, that's shallow and stupid"

All fanfic writers and writers everywhere: "Who the fuck do you think I wrote it for?!"

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writers who use second person. what do you mean i open the door. what’s in there. why did you do this to me.

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I just think everyone should take a moment to consider the question "what is your visual shorthand for cruelty?" and then follow it up with a critical "and who taught you that?"

specific examples include but are not limited to

why is an evil timeline character design disabled? (why do the heroes go through equally punishing battles and never lose an arm, a leg, an eye?)

why are the futuristic scifi terrorists uniformly darker skinned? (why are the heroes so much lighter?)

why is the greedy boss fat? (why are the heroes skinny?)

why is the criminal mastermind heavily scarred? (why is the brooding, traumatized hero unscathed?)

why is the predatory creep a bearded person in a dress and makeup? (why are none of the heroes trans women?)

who taught you that this is how things are?

how long do you plan on repeating it?

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Not gonna lie the way some of y'all put words on a page is....whoagh. there really is magic in this world.

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🩷 LESBIAN BOOKS FOR EVERY READER 🩷

QOTD: What’s your favourite book with a lesbian main character?

It’s lesbian visibility week and that means it’s time to add some lesbian books to your tbr!

No matter your favourite genre, I’ve got you covered with this rec list, so no more excuses for not reading lesbian stories!

Please note that a main character is the character(s) whose POV the story is from, not love interests or other key characters.

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Books pictured:

Slide 2: Romance:

- Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers

- Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao

- Not Just Gal Pals by Elizabeth Luly

- How You Get the Girl by Anita Kelly

- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blame

- Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Slide 3: Fantasy:

- The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

- Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

- Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson

- Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

- Skysong by CA Wright

- Enemies to Booksellers by Laura Catherine

Slide 4: Romantasy:

- A Crimson Covenant by Aimee Donnellan

- Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

- Mortal Follies by Alexis Hall

- Pinned by Love by Elaine J Daniels

Slide 5: Sci-fi

- Countess by Suzan Palumbo

- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Slide 6: Horror/Thriller/Mystery

- Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

- My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen

- Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth

- Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall

- Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Slide 7: Historical

- The MoonStone Girls by Brooke Skipstone

- Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

- Winter of the Wolf by Amanda Willimott

- Devotion by Hannah Kent

Slide 8: Comics/Graphic Novels

- West Coast Avengers by Thompson, Caselli and Farrell

- I Hated You in High School by Kathleen Gros

- Shades of Magic by VE Schwab

- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemarey Valero-O’Connell

- Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley

Slide 9: Young Adult Romance

- Lover Birds by Leanne Egan

- Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield

- The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes

- Some Girls Do by Jennifer Dugan

- Dancing Barefoot by Alice Boyle

- Furious by Rebecca Podos and Jamie Pacton

Slide 10: Young Adult Fantasy/Romantasy

- A Dark and Hollow Star by Ashley Shuttleworth

- These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

- Gentlest of Wild Things by Sarah Underwood

- Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

- Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron

- The Merciless King of Moore High by Lily Sparks

Slide 11: Young Adult Horror/Thriller/Mystery

- The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

- Into the Mouth of the Wolf by Erin Gough

- You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight by Kalynn Bayron

- This is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde

- The Killing Code by Ellie Marney

- Every Exquisite Thing by Laura Steven

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when you listen to a song and it gives you inspiration to daydream an answer to the plot hole in the story building inside your head