We all agree, right?

• AI to write your novel is wrong
• A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay

Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can't use chat-GPT

I've been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea

Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin

despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea

so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream

Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down

we have a historical version of "couldn't remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute", and the song he wrote down made him "Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil's trill" it's usually played by 2 violinists because it's evil difficult,

now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day.... 150k of the best prose and plot you've ever seen in your life and you have to remember it

chatgpt is evil, but that's just mean

This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

So Nanowrimo is functionally dead

Been a while since I used this account. Honestly, there has been nothing to say. November came and went and it was a bunch of sponsor run events. It seemed like Nanowrimo had already died in the fire, and it’d been revived as a shambling corporate zombie.

The Zendesk went down today. With the Nanowrimo Facebook account now redirecting people to the Zendesk, there is no way to contact support, apart from emailing (which has not received any recent responses)

The socials are dead. Nothing is being approved.

Oh, and they forgot to renew their charitable status, which means they legally can’t accept donations.

(They still are)

Unless something changes, my last post will probably be when Nano goes offline.

I can’t say I’m mad about this. Only about the lack of accountability for any of the leadership in this mess.

foreshadowing done well makes me go feral like there’s NOTHING better than getting to the end a book or an important storyline moment and realising that the author laced information so intricately into their writing that weren’t noticeable upon first read but when you read back sections they’re light giant red flags like wow writing is amazing

the best stories contain two stories: the one you read the first time, and the one you read every time after that

Empathy: I feel you

Sympathy: I feel for you

Lycanthropy: I feel awoo

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing

tumblr will never count as social media to me. This shit a secret hideout and we just all happen to see each others thoughts