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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social · 8h ago
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC March 16: What's the largest cast you've ever written? What made it challenging? I think my #WIP has the most personae of any work so far. The biggest challenge I'm seeing is remembering who is in the room in a given scene and what they should be doing. #Writing #WritingCommunity
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 22h ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/16. What's the largest cast you've ever written? What made it challenging? In a single volume, probably MONSTERS. It was a challenge because every major character (maybe ten of them, I forget) had their own throughline and everything had to meet up in a single incident at the end. #writing #writingCommunity
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop · 2d ago
So lovely and so on-point as I head out into the forest to get grounded and create. #writing https://substack.com/home/post/p-188696015
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@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org · 2d ago
"Even worse was the suggestion by Grammarly’s A.I. version of me to replace the first sentence of the news article with an anecdotal opening describing a fictional person named Laura whose privacy had been violated. “Laura, a patient searching for relief from a chronic condition, clicks through her hospital’s website to schedule an appointment. In just a few moments, her most private medical details — her reason for visiting, her doctor’s name and even the treatment she seeks — are quietly sent to Facebook, without her knowledge,” the bot suggested with a button allowing the user to paste that excerpt straight into the article. Replacing a factual sentence with an imagined story about a person who doesn’t exist is not only bad editing. It’s a deception that could end my career as a journalist (or the career of any journalist who took that terrible advice). And this is the problem with A.I. It doesn’t know truth from fiction. It doesn’t know an investigative news article from an offhand comment. It flattens all content into word associations. What Grammarly made wasn’t a doppelgänger. As the writer Ingrid Burrington wrote on Bluesky, it was a sloppelgänger — A.I. slop masquerading as a person. And it must be stopped." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html #AI #GenerativeAI #Copyright #Writing #Hallucinations
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 2d ago
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/14. Do you think readers want new experiences in structure or narrative, or do they prefer what's familiar? The vast majority want to read the same thing again, but different. #writing #writingCommunity
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 3d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 3/13. Our featured creator writes both novels and short stories. How do you feel about short fiction? Do you read short stories as often as novels? I can't write short. Literally can't. When I try the story just gets bigger. I haven't read short stories in years. #writing #writingCommunity
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@TechDesk@flipboard.social · 5d ago
Grammarly is nixing its "Expert Review" AI feature — a paid option to have your work "reviewed" by AI clones of experts, living and dead, without said experts' consent — after overwhelming opposition from just about everyone. Here's @theverge@flipboard.com's story. https://flip.it/QL-vTT #Grammarly #Technology #Writing
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · 6d ago
"What's hard is hearing the laughter from the [writers'] room down the hall and not being able to go in. If you've ever been lucky enough to be in that room, you will always want to be in that sound." -- Stephen Colbert's acceptance speech at the WGA awards last week --- Hearing him say this really hit me with how much I do miss that right now. Because I've been in that room. Not his writers' room, not in anything close. There are many of this room, up and down the scale, for audiences as few as tens to hundreds to thousands to millions. I've been mostly in rooms for audiences of hundreds; a few times lucky enough for audiences of thousands. And let me tell you: when it's a good room, there really isn't much else like it. #writing
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · 6d ago
#ScribesAndMakers 3/10. Reveal the answer to yesterday's poll I was a bit mean because the song is "State of Independence" by Jon & Vangelis, and Jon Anderson is known for writing obscure lyrics so attempting to choose what sounded most right was going to be tricky. One third got it right. So the line "State of life, may I live, may I love" was followed by "Coming out the sky, I name me a name" The other lines are: "Midnights become my afternoons" ~ Anti-Hero by Taylor Swift "Got me so blind I can't see" ~ Black Magic Woman by Santanna "It's a god-awful small affair" ~ Life on Mars by Bowie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-BHs7rcL_g #writing #writingCommunity
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social · Mar 10, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC March 9: Do you prefer to write complex, intricate plots, or more straightforward ones? I prefer to write complex, indicate plots, but usually all I can actually manage is something simple and straightforward. #Writing
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@Manoj@flipboard.social · Mar 10, 2026
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@BondieLa@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 09, 2026
Spring clean, spring schmlean! Or something. I've no interest in actually housework but that's only the tip of the iceberg... https://nickybondramblings.blogspot.com/2026/03/reinventing-spring-cleaning.html #writing
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 09, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/9. Do you prefer to write complex, intricate plots, or more straightforward ones? Depends on the book. #writing #writingCommunity
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@tiefling@bardicperspiration.club · Mar 09, 2026
RE: https://kinkycats.org/@tiefling/116197257717831305 If this gets 1 billion likes I'll spicy @VulpineDruid@bardicperspiration.club in the backseat of my car next time she comes here. ...to VISIT. You pervs. #writing #erotica #nonfiction #sex #nsfw
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@sifaseven@mastodon.social · Mar 08, 2026
#writerscoffeeclub Day 7: What have you given up in order to write? Time for other hobbies. #writing #writingcommunity
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 08, 2026
#eroticMusings Week 41. (March 8-14) Craft: Are you self-taught, or have you been trained or mentored in your craft? Would you like more? When I first started writing (50 years ago) I had no idea what I was doing but the "feel" of a story was in me from having read so much. I taught myself to play the guitar from a book. I wrote songs knowing what songs were supposed to sound like from listening to so many. My writing was honed by being journalist/editor for over 20 years, early on I suppose you could call the feedback "mentoring". Writing sex scenes was easy (they're just action scenes), but learning the sequence of increasing intimacy was a valuable tool I got from a blog. When it came to screenwriting, I read books, screenwriter blogs (especially Bill Martell). For 3D rendering I had my grounding in Computer Science, screenwriting, and movie making and I studied lighting to fill in that gap. There's always more to know. #writing #writingCommunity #3dRender #noAI #3dArt #art
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@adaddinsane@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 08, 2026
#ScribesAndMakers 3/8. Is there a country other than your own that influences your creativity? I don't think so. Though the past is a foreign country. #writing #writingCommunity
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@Klepsis@indieauthors.social · Mar 08, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC March 7: What have you given up in order to write? I don't take on apprentices anymore. Which generally means that I have to cook, clean, and feed the monsters myself. #Writing #WritingCommunity
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Mar 07, 2026
Help! An Editor Just Accused Me of Using AI Why we can't trust AI detectors, according to a tech expert Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative » https://writingcooperative.com/help-an-editor-just-accused-me-of-using-ai-5b724b8b96a #careers #technology #writing #ai #creativity
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@bgrier@universeodon.com · Mar 07, 2026
Somebody's taking a reputation hit by trading on someone else's reputation. Reading: Grammarly is using our identities without permission | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/890921/grammarly-ai-expert-reviews #AI #Writing #journalism #Technology #grammerly
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