Ana Hansen 🌈 📚

it's so sad to see, because audio text generation has come a long way and that's great for accessibility, but what's not great for accessibility is garbage captions that are unreadable. nothing can ever really replace careful work by people who understand and apply human context.

it was a short stop for me long ago and idk anything more, but the people i knew who used to do these were insanely smart former court reporter ladies with impeccable reference sheets of athlete names from every country. they would be so sad about this.

briefly during covid, i worked for the company who is contracted by NBC to do Olympic captions. used to be done by a curated team of 10 employees with full benefits. since bought by a shady VC company who has aggressively sold the dream of cutting costs through AI and firing everyone all the time.

thank you so much! they're beautiful

oh my god, where did you get those? the "Christmas present for wife" part of my brain is lighting up

all i know is that they shouldn't have given me anti-venom in arena

i can't be trusted with anti-venom

me reading through my fingers, trying to avoid reading a post where someone's boyfriend makes them give away their lifelong pet 🫣

die mad about it as a lifestyle!

whenever i get too mad about grammar, i remember Arabic scholar Sībawayhi, who lost a grammatical debate about wasps in 796 AD and got so mad about it that he went home and died

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

me telling an author not to worry about knowing dangling participles and focus on DRAGONS

clear up some mental hard drive space, get an editor

flecks in their eyes? shit is about to go down

i can tell quickly in a draft if a character is about to get important to a story, because the author starts describing their eyes real sexy

and they should THANK YOU

the greatest editorial feeling in the world is when your suggestions cause an author to add the word "chittering" to a line that didn't have "chittering" in it before

I simply think beyond all the environmental and moral factors AI is just for losers

your darlings went to a farm upstate and they really like it there

there is sunshine and so much room for them to run around

trust? no. want to read their book? absolutely.

more if they split their forms and become multiples! like cell division

perhaps will o' the wisps or other follow traps?

they must go TO the swamp to find you

why so many posts about how to find a good editor and never posts about how to find a dark and arcane editor, barely contained to the human form?

labeled diagram of a suit of armor

take this on your travels today

think of the PLOT CONSEQUENCES

if you imply that something might happen in your book, why not let it happen? should your characters almost get in a bar fight, or should they get in a bar fight?

So easy to share kind words about such a beautiful, dynamic collection!

eSign and Dropbox both have options where you can create signing fields for clients, both free (eSign free up to 3 a month)

Adobe Sign will let you do it for free but it will hassle you about it and pretend like it won't

try not to take critique to heart from author groups, betas, or early readers that are not your target audience or natural readers of your genre. any opinions can be valuable through the right lens, but you do not want to tailor your book to the tastes of people who do not want it or understand it.

depends on the story! also sometimes dragons are animals