Damyanti Biswas

Do Walks Make a Difference in Your Life? #IWSG Writers and readers, do walks play a big role in your life? When was the last time you went for a long walk and where?

Do Walks Make a Difference in Your Life? #IWSG - damyantiwrites.com/walks/ by @damyantig.bsky.social

This auction (opens soon) is full of cool things, but I want to highlight this AMA with @mikechenwriter.bsky.social. Not only is Mike a great writer and kind person, but he also has a rich, varied background in publishing. Talking to someone like Mike would have been so valuable for early career me.

Definitely looking for accountability!!

Both as an editor and an author, I treat rejections as paving stones on the path to the right home for the story/ essay/novel. They're unpleasant but necessary, and like all such things, best gotten over with as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I think AI will do a bang-up job as the replacement of a corporate head honcho who doesn't have the faintest idea of how the creative process actually works.

For all writers who send their work out.

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” Baldwin.

Definitely.
And double yay if they're reading books by my friends! (My friends write the best books.)

An author trashing bibliophiles is like a priest hating on the faithful.

Any reader, reading any book at all, is a star.
If they're reading my books, yay!
If they're reading books I don't much like, yay!
If they're reading books that I don't understand, also yay!

Reading is redemption.

The Bezos Bunker-Buster Wedding, and Big-Time Women Relegated to the Happy-Face Sidelines If men have become addicted to the manosphere, their female counterparts are endlessly distracted by the glamosphere.

Incredibly funny, visceral, painful take on Women and Power:

tinabrown.substack.com/p/the-bezos-...

Congratulations!!

On Why I've been Feeling Raped as a Blogger: AI image

Unless #AI goes the way of crypto-currency, as some think it will, dystopia is here.

It will be at your doorstep sooner than you think, just as it has come to mine.

On Why I've been Feeling Raped as a #Blogger: damyantiwrites.com/ai/

Sending the best vibes and light. Hope you feel better on all counts soon.

Terrific #BookGiveaway for #thriller lovers!

Do You Miss Small Talk and Building Community? #IWSG Are you part of a community based on your hobby and profession? Do you think it is important to emphasize our commonalities ?

Do You Miss Small Talk and Building Community
real-life, real writing skills for the #WritersOfBsky, courtesy of our scribble sibling, @damyantig.bsky.social
damyantiwrites.com/community/

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To which I say, "hey, philosophy professor, when did they give us the option to opt out?"

COVER REVEAL: If she can’t find a cure, she’ll have to kill the boy next door.

MARYNEAL 1962 by @abigailtaylor.bsky.social

Find out more here: wild-ink-publishing.com/abigail-tayl...

Dear media, please stop saying AI is “training” on copyrighted works. AI is “stealing” copyrighted works. It is “plagiarizing” copyrighted works. It is “breaking multiple laws.”

Who Are You, Dear E-Mail Subscriber? Are you a subscriber? Does your blog have subscribers and do you interact with them regularly? How do you find subscribers?

Human interactions are becoming so impersonal, I’m only keen to bring the personal back into our daily living: I look forward to hearing from you.

damyantiwrites.com/subscriber/

Who Would You Like to Be? #IWSG What are your personal goals? If you could be anyone or anything at all for a day, who or what would you rather be?

Goals
#WritersOfBsky dream talk, courtesy of author @damyantig.bsky.social
damyantiwrites.com/goals/

So true. Spent most of my day at a library today. They are the last refuge from all the chaos that is our world, available to all without discrimination.

Loved loved this story by Victoria Cano. So much said via empty spaces. Such emotion. What a poignant and brutal collision of the past and present.

The Blue Bar by Damyanti Biswas is on a 0.99 GBP Kindle Deal

Who Would You Like to Be? #IWSG - go.shr.lc/4hgEMZb

Your One-Sentence Summary A powerful technique for writing a novel is to write a one-sentence summary of the story. Learn how to jump-start the process.

Your One-Sentence Summary: https://buff.ly/3P9lR70 by Randy Ingermanson #wkb87

Are Your Emotions Regulating Your Life? How do you handle an emotion? Have you developed a personal practice to not let your negative emotions take over your life?

Are Your Emotions Regulating Your Life? damyantiwrites.com/emotion/

Guess who got a lot done today?

Not me, but congratulations to someone out there who did.

#authorsky

Peace is such a fragile promise.

Why do we humans forget that so often?

Breakthrough Scholarships | Curtis Brown Creative Our scholarships provide regular funded places on our courses to talented writers facing barriers to entry.

Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others.

Details in the link.

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