Ramona Depares

I don’t usually get such a colorful wake up. Typically it’s coffee in bed & the morning news, which to be fair isn’t such a bad start, either. But I was happy I forgot to remove my alarm on holiday.
Something about an urban sunrise that gets the magic flowing.
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Thanksgiving isn’t big where I live but then again this sounds like my typical weekend 🙈🙈

Women are partly to blame if raped while drunk, a fifth of Maltese say One in three say women make up or exaggerate rape claims

Let me tell you a story, about the country I live in. It's a bunch of misogynists. The end.
Also, gotta love how if a man is drunk it's a legit defence, while when a woman's drunk it's the victim's fault 🤷‍♀️
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Does anyone else forget about mundane things like food or grocery shopping when on a writing roll? Weeks like these are when I’m thanking my lucky stars for a better organized SO than me. Walking to the kitchen & finding this after I hit 10k… *chefs kiss*
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Sure, if you’d like to believe that 🤷‍♀️

Not to mention these are publishers, the very people who are supposed to appreciate the depth of these professions the most. It’s such a pity.

Yup, goodbye editors, designers, translators etc. 2 reasons why I care - firstly, these are colleagues whose considerable skills are being relegated to AI. A human edits sensitively, with nuance. An AI editor ticks boxes. More selfishly, authors are the next obvious step. It’s all connected

Maybe I'm a pessimist but I see it as putting focus on AI rather than authors. How soon before we don't need a human author to write a book?

Next up: New publisher aims to disrupt industry by burning books.
Forgive the blatant sarcasm, but can we stop using the term 'disrupting' to legitimise what's obviously a stupid idea?
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It is ridiculous how people have started applying the term 'distrupting' to anything that is plainly a ridiculous idea in the hope of giving it legitimacy

I was once employed by someone who insisted that I use Grammarly for all copy-writing. That didn't last long... Never understood this obsession with such tools, there's zero nuance.

Monday blues? What be those? Today I’m going to do some writing here & then go for a nice, long walk in the sunshine. Happy to give up security, sick leave & all, for the freedom to plan my life the way I want to. Could do without that 🏗️ in the distance though 😂
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What he said 👇👇

The simplest of things inspire a new story. It’s been a while since I sat down to write for the sheer joy of it, but a walk within an old palazzo in my hometown of Żebbuġ, Malta, got my mind wandering happily again.
This is one of the photos, a folly overrun by gorgeous greenery.
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I fully intend to steal this when I get writer's block and need to amuse myself 👌

That's all we need, an invasion here too. Yikes 🤮

Hello, writer from Malta here, trying to build a like-minded network 👋
Sharing my new short story, Absinthe & The Friendship Absolute, published on the University of Malta journal. You can read it for free here:
www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...
Comments welcome, please be kind 🫶
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Making my first post here count ✌️🥳