D.S. Duffy

Finished my First Draft. 90k words. Trying to follow the advice books and letting it cool for a while before revising

Crossed 70,000 words. 12 scenes left to go before first draft is done. #amwriting

Over my winter break I wrote nine scenes and about 17,000 words.

Fifteen more scenes left to write before my first draft is complete.

#amwriting #writinglife

a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a computer and a phone . ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk in front of a computer and a phone .

Today I've learned about wigs. Men's wigs.

The wig offered a practical solution to a universal plague of the eighteenth century: head lice

#HistoricalFiction

I have learned a lot about 18th century dentistry today.

Trust me: you probably don't want to know too much.

#HistFic

Word Processing inalterably changed writing half a century ago. It's practical to not allow wholly-generated AI works. But there will be (and probably already are!) good AI-aided stories and there will be (plenty of) bad ones. Just like there are plenty of bad human-only-made stories right now.

How about when I use NotebookLM to summarize my research about a particular moment? Is that disqualifying? How about when an author dictates a sentence? What about when Grammarly suggests a comma? Or spellcheck fixes a typo? We live in a cyborg world where technology enables us all the time.

You can't use AI to help figure out a plot point? Polish your writing? Fix your grammar? Do research? We hire human beings to help us with these things all the time. Is it disqualifying to have a human editor polish your work?

I've been researching and writing my historical fiction novel for 8 years. Yesterday, I learned a major piece of background *by accident* that absolutely changes a major character.

If I would have been a faster writer, I would've published years ago...and have been very wrong. #histfic #writinglife

That's a really interesting use of AI. How are you doing that? What's the prompt?

When you're out of practice, writing every day is exhausting.