Who the fuck taught people how to pen business emails? Holy Christ on a cracker! Absolutely nothing creams my corn more than having to actively translate what these professional suits are typing to me. I just received an email that was 5 paragraphs that essentially boiled down to, hey, I really liked your report you sent last Monday. Can we schedule a Zoom call tomorrow? Yes or no? I am so tired of professional communications. I am frankly exhausted with having to translate professional sludge. Why in the healthiest of hell is it OK, even desirable, that our society likes this kind of mind nummingcommunication? Everybody calls it professional but I just call it a gigantic fucking headache. And who the hell came up with professionalism anyhow? I’m really starting to hate the concept of professionalism and professional writing styles. No wonder everyone has meetings. No one can write. No one can string together a competent business sentence without 90,000 corporate qualifiers. You can have perfect grammar and perfect spelling and in fact be the worst writer. Can we change what it means to write professionally? Because this is a level of hell that I never noticed prior to getting away from corporate offices. #Writing #Business
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The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…
@bookstodon #author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #scifi #sciencefiction #sff #sciencefantasy #scifi #actionadventure #fiction #books
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The arch-demon, Pride, leads demon-kind in an ancient plan to open a gate between worlds, so vast demon armies might march forth and conquer, but opening a portal requires both energy equivalent to a nuclear explosion and the cooperation of a half-demon, to stabilize it. However, the only half-demon available has made it her life mission to kill all demons.
@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #actionadventure #fiction #books
So this #solarpunksunday you can get an advance readers copy of my new novella, The Blossoming of the Big Tree, on BookSirens. It's the story of an old woman who has to organize the defense of her decentralized nation when a colonizer invades, to steal a technology that makes her national a solarpunk utopia. Here is the link https://booksirens.com/author/K5YAEKD/KZWYELM
So @TheGuardian is now posting stories with AI slop pasted in?
That's what this reads like to me:
Specifically, check out the para after "The rate in Glasgow had been edging towards 30%, and exceeded that in the latest week after several years of lower office attendance." ,
which reads like a straight copy/paste of some ChadGPT output 'facts'.
#AISlop #AI #Journalism #Writing #News #NewsPapers #TheGuardian
Torn from her quiet retirement of apple trees and market stalls by an awakened amulet, Dragonslayer Kadara cuts her way across Aros to face its greatest threat: the truth.
#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon #writing #SORS #KnowYourSlayBCs #EpicFantasy #FantasyNovel #Dragons #EpicAdventure #WritingCommunity
I am one of the nearly 10,000 authors contributing our names to Don't Steal This Book; a protest launched today at the London Book Fair.
If AI developers wish to use our work in their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
This is how copyright operates.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. For the UK government to even consider allowing this to continue is a disgrace.
Attention author beings:
I offer a variety of editing services at The Duke of Editing, including proofreading, copyediting, manuscript reviews, and more. I specialize in genre fiction, too. #writing
If that's what you're looking for, get in touch!
Different models of story structure in creative writing:- Three-act Structure (most common in Western works)- Four-act Structure (me: best for live-action)- Five Elements Plot (me: best for novels)- KiShōTenKetsu (most common in CJK works)#writing
Different models of story structure in creative writing:
- Three-act Structure (most common in Western works)
- Four-act Structure (me: best for live-action)
- Five Elements Plot (me: best for novels)
- KiShōTenKetsu (most common in CJK works)
On the rare occasions that I’m not taking pictures of my #cats (see: almost all my other posts), I make a podcast called The Worst Writer in the World
My co-conspirator, Howard, has spent his life writing badly. Now we try to bring his stories to life, and maybe make them better
We laugh a lot. Our listeners do too (or so they tell us)
There’s over 250 episodes, all free, and - most importantly - they don’t have ads. We do it because we love it
Maybe you will too
How I write – in conversation with Imtiaz Dharker
19 March, free online (optional donation)
Imtiaz Dharker will discuss her work, career, & creative routines with poet & Chair of the Society of Authors Poetry & Spoken Word Group, Dean Atta
@writingcommunity
https://societyofauthors.org/event/how-i-write-in-conversation-with-imtiaz-dharker/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #ImtiazDharker #writing #writingCommunity