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Write fifty thousand words to get out, sounds simple, right? But what if you don't feel like it?

The Lurker is a meta-humor novella about the struggles of writing a first draft.

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Writers Literary

Yet. Another. Fake. Literary. Agency: Writers Literary. Among other things, totally false claims about authors and books repped, and images of supposed staff are stock photos. They're sending out fake publishing offers to writers writersliterary.com

#Writingcommunity Learning how to give critique is in itself a skill. Just like writing its something to work at by doing.

Advertise your book with cover and content warnings only.

The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall: This book is intended for adult audiences and contains blood drinking, paranoia, sexual repression, blood drinking, and sexual content.

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ok it did not share with an image rip so i’ll do that too

Oh that's awful! I hope it turns out okay

A charcuterie board with the following: Cranberry orange muffins shaped like bugs and flowers (our MMC’s deep dark secret). Crackers with fig jam and goat cheese (to represent our love interest’s history with one another) Roasted carrots and potatoes. (for a medieval slant, and for the royal purple hue for our FMC) Red flowers made out of chorizo, white roses out of provolone, and rosebuds/small flowers made of colby jack. (cause flowers are a thing in this book and charcuterie should have meat and cheese) Assorted fruit: blueberries, grapes, tangerine butterflies, strawberries (because the mages of this universe must consume fruit to recover when they do a lot of magic).

Some people make mood boards, I make mood food. (Description of book/food in alt text)

👑 Courtcraft and Mages 🐝

#UnhingedPit #A #R #F #WIP #Writesky

I couldn't think of a good #UnhingedPit so I let my muse introduce himself.

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Ooh I'm excited for this!!

I love this question! Years ago, I tried cowriting with a romantic partner who wasn't really into writing to begin with and just wanted to turn everything into erotic roleplay. I don't even write erotica! I'm never cowriting with someone whose vision doesn't align with mine again.

Writing Tip:
You are in control of how time works in a scene. This is a great power, but also a great responsibility. If your characters sit down for a five minute conversation and have a chat that would normally last over an hour, your readers are going to notice.
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It's a common conspiracy theory to claim "big pharma" is bribing medical professionals, but the standard of care in many European countries is similar, and "big pharma" wouldn't benefit from that. Massive amounts of peer-reviewed studies support evidence-based medical transition

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. Daily questions and answers based on chapter titles. Treat it like a book club and log your progress on Pagebound! Filter Pagebound posts by % or pages read to avoid spoilers and discuss specific chapters. After party announcement of the preorder campaign for The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar!

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28. Ch 1. Thou Shalt Not Trust a Two-Faced Bitch: When were you the villain in someone else's story? Ch 2. Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Capitalism: What is the most creatively unhinged thing you've ever done for money? Ch 3. Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Butt: Most impressive mental gymnastics you've done to deny a gay thought? ch 4. Honor Thy Liner and Thy Hoops: What is your "fashion armor"? ch 5. Make Unto Thee Non-Racict Friends: What's your most unhinged high school betrayal? ch 6. Thou Shalt Procure a Pseudo Suitor: What's the most creative way you ever convinced someone you were straight?

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28. ch 7. Thou Shalt Divert Thy Mother's Gaydar: What is the biggest tell you were queer that you and everyone else somehow missed? ch 8. Thou Shalt mind Thine Own Business. Bitch: What is the weirdest rumor that ever spread about you? ch 9. Thou Shalt Not Self-Sabotage: How do you tend to sabotage yourself? What's one way you want to give yourself a better chance? ch 10. Thou Shalt Not Drink and Call: Most embarrassing moment? ch 11. Thou Shalt Bear False Witness Against Drunken Voicemails: Ever sent a message to the wrong person and made a full recovery? How? ch 12: Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Brother's Life: Are you the golden child, the scapegoat, or the forgotten middle? What is one upside to your category?

A graphic that reads: The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School Re-read party! #LesbianaRereadChallenge. June 2-28. ch 13. Thou Shalt Confess Thy Sins--Selectively: Two truths and a lie. Go! ch 14. Make Unto Thee a Fat Wallet: If you were given enough money to pursue any business venture you wanted, what would you do or create? ch 15. Thou Shalt Not Adulate False Idols: Have you ever had a "don't meet your heroes" moment? ch 16. Thou Shalt Not Foster Petty Grudges: Pettiest grudge you ever held? ch 17. Remember Thy Ancestors. Keep Them Holy: How do you connect with your ancestors? ch 18. Thou Shalt Not Commit Adulting: What is the biggest scam of adulthood?

SO FREAKING EXCITED to share the #LesbianaRereadChallenge details!

I'll be posting my answers here and would love to see yours too! Feel free to join in whatever capacity you can. You can log your progress daily on pagebound if you want the full book club experience here: bit.ly/3FsFMwM (part 1)

I, for one, am pro-pineapple and there's nothing anyone can do about it

YouTube video by Author Susan Rich Author Susan Rich talks about every writers' misery

Author Susan Rich's Misery of the Week
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I agree with this! A common one I see is people adding emotion tags to dialogue that already clearly conveys the emotion. Like:

"I hate you!" she said angrily.

Yeah, that makes more sense because it actually can be optimized. Even if some people respond differently, the purpose of advertising isn't to express a particular feeling from the author; it's to generate sales. And you can optimize for a maximum amount of sales

There's also a bit of game theory involved. A certain amount of familiarity with a theme or concept or style can enhance the experience, but if the market gets inundated with a certain element, people get tired of it. So "good writing" is constantly changing

Different people have different favorite authors because everyone has different preferences for tone, prose style, tropes, themes, comedy, balance, etc.

It's not like chess, where there can be one objectively best move. There's no objective "best" for writing

Lengthy, Charles Dickens-style prose used to be considered ideal, but now most people prefer concise writing. But many don't!

The "chosen one" was seen as a timeless trope in the 90s and 00s-- until people got sick of it. But some people still love it.

That's the tricky part-- with writing, there is no "best" response. Every reader will respond a little differently, and even that response changes over time.

There's definitely "worse" and "better" and sometimes prose fails to convey what an author wants to convey. But there's no single "best"

That's why I'm not impressed with LLMs for writing. Machine learning is capable of so many amazing things, but the tech we're building now doesn't lend itself to the type of creativity that creates the kind of innovative, transformative experience most people want. It's the wrong tool for the job

I mean... somewhat. I'd argue that writing is qualitatively different from something like chess because there's no one "best" way to do it. Different people have different tastes, genres and tropes fall in and out of style, and most people prefer to see novelty and even some rough edges in art.

That's awesome! Sometimes I also have to stop and figure out how to write things

LLM-generated prose tends to read like a college sophomore trying to sound "academic" or "writerly". At best, it often sounds like a Redditor.

If you really want to write something that's uniquely YOU, the best approach is still to do the work and develop your own writing voice. There's no shortcut

Watching three separate LLMs spit out nearly identical responses to creative questions is revealing.

Well-trained AI involving LLMs could be useful in other circumstances, but using it for writing will drag you down, especially in this age when people are craving FRESH, creative ideas.

But LLMs don't remix things in creative ways. They generate the most probable next word, which is basically the opposite of creativity.

I've done some work involving AI and data sourcing issues aside, I don't trust LLMs as they exist now for creative uses.

s'mores cupcakes in a pan. Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow cream frosting, topped with graham cracker crumbs. Each one has a toasted marshmallow and a bar of Hershey's chocolate pressed into the frosting.

s'mores cupcakes in a container. Chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow cream frosting, topped with graham cracker crumbs. Each one has a toasted marshmallow and a small bar of Hershey's chocolate pressed into the frosting. The top row of three have the chocolate on the left and the marshmallow on the right, while the rest have the marshmallow on the left and the chocolate bar on the right.

I made s'mores cupcakes!
Chocolate cupcakes with graham cracker crust, milk chocolate ganache filling, marshmallow cream frosting, graham cracker crumbs, toasted marshmallows, and Hershey's chocolate.

#cupcakes #baking #chocolate #s'mores

Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine tree at Mt. Goliath, Colorado. Photo by Ana Carolina Barbosa.

Here's mine for Taxonomy Recognition Day.

Pinus aristata Engelm. (Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine) at Mt. Goliath, Colorado. Photo by my Brazilian colleague, Ana Carolina Barbosa. 2/3 🧪 #NameItToSaveIt

"Beyond Dark" Excerpt of the Month (May 2025) From the killer's perspective...

This month’s excerpt switches to the killer’s POV before the climax. Can she outsmart the determined profiler dead-set on finding her and bringing her to justice? Or will she slip away into the darkness from where she seemingly appeared? #readingcommunity #BookSky
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