it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don’t even know if it’s just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.
Talking with writers online
Their stories: Amazing grammar, soaring vocabulary, beautiful imagery and prose which flows like a river.
In chats: no capitalisation or punctuation, swears like a sailor, misspellings everywhere, acronyms and abbreviations every five words, idek
#listen #listen do u know how much braining it takes to make the words go? #it is a lot #it’s like wearing fancy clothes all day #and then when you’re at home and comfy #u just put on ur pj’s ( @feynites)
I have never related to a statement more than “do you know how much braining it takes to make words go?”
still amazed that like. 7 years later. this post is still going. it gets like 5-12 notes a day
it’s a heritage post, is what it is.
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New Episode Alert: “Just write it down and do it.” (Gently) Taking Authors To Task - CLeighWrites
Sandra and Kasey were delighted to welcome Candice, known as @cleighwrites, back to the podcast. Candice recently returned to writing SPN fanfic after a year-long break and has been working on some original writing. She graciously accepted the invite to be taken (gently) to task on her original fiction journey. Find Candice on AO3.
Listen on Spotify
Watch on Youtube:Chapter Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:07 - Our first chat with Candice awhile back
00:01:49 - What’s Candice been up to during her year long FanFic hiatus?
00:02:59 - Original fiction world-building
00:04:20 - First draft fanfare
00:06:03 - The editing process begins
00:07:03 - The gift of a longtime beta
00:12:56 - The road to getting a story ready for publishing
00:14:09 - The decision to try and get traditionally published
00:15:48 - The audience age-range for Candice’s original fiction
00:16:24 - Queer does not equal different in Candice’s novel
00:17:43 - Deciding on the genre
00:18:22 - Writing original fiction versus fanfic
00:19:28 - Backstory importance and when does a writer make the audience aware
00:20:30 - Revisiting a story after the first round of editing
00:22:27 - Does Candice have to add or take away after a first draft?
00:24:23 - Candice’s current word count
00:25:27 - Writing scene by scene
00:25:57 - The writing bug is in Candice’s family
00:30:27 - The itch to write fanfic
00:33:33 - Being able to get twisted with our boys
00:34:33 - Fanfic as writing exercises
00:36:52 - The frustration of not knowing your original characters
00:38:04 - Is Candice writing a series?
00:42:04 - Taking a break
00:42:48 - Revisiting old fanfic writings
00:43:07 - Fanfic AND original authors
00:48:00 - Rebranding socials for author marketing
00:50:55 - Marketing
00:52:51 - Bringing it back to Supernatural
01:00:32 - Kasey’s questions
01:05:30 - Candice’s writing words of wisdom
01:08:58 - Closing thoughts and outro
Hey y'all!! I did a podcast interview with @idlingintheimpalapodcast back in January! The interview is now live on Spotify or YouTube. Check it out!! We talk books, my novel in progress, and a surprise secret question!
“If your writing doesn’t keep you up at night, it won’t keep anyone else up either.”
― James M. Cain
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you desire love but push away affection? what are you? written by Dostoevsky?
No, written by eric kripke actually
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hi, a lot of you need a perspective reset
- the average human lifespan globally is 70+ years
- taking the threshold of adulthood as 18, you are likely to spend at least 52 years as a fully grown adult
- at the age of 30 you have lived less than one quarter of your adult life (12/52 years)
- ‘middle age’ is typically considered to be between 45-65
- it is extremely common to switch careers, start new relationships, emigrate, go to college for the first or second time, or make other life-changing decisions in middle age
- it’s wild that I even have to spell it out, but older adults (60+) still have social lives and hobbies and interests.
- you can still date when you get old. you can still fuck. you can still learn new skills, fashionable, be competitive. you can still gossip, you can still travel, you can still read. you can still transition. you can still come out.
- young doesn’t mean peaked. you’re inexperienced in your 20s! you’re still learning and practicing! you’re developing social skills and muscle memory that will last decades!
- there are a million things to do in the world, and they don’t vanish overnight because an imaginary number gets too big
I’m finishing my first novel at 40yo… It’s still in the wee beginning stages of editing… Only the gods know when it’ll be ready for public consumption …
It’s never too late, don’t give up on your dreams!!
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Re-blog this if:
- you’re gay
- can read
- support gay people
- want to hold a match between your fingers as you wander the halls of an ancient castle because it’s your only source of light amidst the ghosts of people long past
- are an antelope
- or want a chocolate bar.No one will know which applies.
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Seek Shelter ch2
Just added a second chapter to Seek Shelter. See what dinner and dessert look like for Briana and Jensen on Ao3
