Hey, #WritingCommunity, I have a grammar question that research hasn't answered. Would you say, "each step takes him further away from the house" or "each step takes him farther away from the house"? #grammar
I am looking for the most privacy friendly way to buy ebooks.
Every shop and platform I've looked at would index and sell my purchase and a lot of other information.
I can get my ebooks in different ways but I explicitly want to pay the author for their work without me and my behavior ending up a resell product for which ever platform I use to complete this purchase.
I haven’t found ChatGPT’s composition to be all that compelling or well-done. I mean, it’s impressive that the technology can do it at all, but does anyone have an example of anything like a 3k word story that is well-written and fun to read with a unique voice? Not saying this could never happen (with future models), but every time I’ve prompted a story it’s pretty weak and obviously AI-generated. What am I missing? #ChatGPT#WritingCommunity#fiction#AI#MachineLearning#LLM
It is 100% hilarious but it never occurred for me to mirror my content to #Medium until @justin wrote this.
As a reader this makes a lot of sense as I can financially support as many authors as I can with one payment. I wish more #Substack writers will consider mirroring their content to Medium so I can help support them.
If you're on Medium, and you write essays (no politics, however) or fiction, please let me know. I'm planning to be a Medium subscriber this year to support writers.
Also if you're not there, I hope you can be - it's just an economical way for me to support you as my currency is shite :)
What other #writing tags does everyone like besides #writingwonders? Wanting to get back into mastodon and want multiple options so if I don’t have an answer for one I still have something to answer daily. Please tell me who hosts it so I can follow them! #writingcommunity
Reply and share who you are, what you write, and where we can find it. I’ll share some of you all in an upcoming newsletter. Please #boost to share the word.
#PennedPossibilities 85 — MC POV: Tell us a quick love story. The story must end badly. CW: Um, frank talk?
I thought he was dead. The only guy who'd ever had a crush on me. My lieutenant from my days in the mob. He'd been bleeding when I'd shoved him through the /Interstellar/ apparition a year ago. When I'd escaped through the same working ten minutes later, the street it was anchored to in Home City was abandoned—but for Praetorian guards too frantic to notice me because Director Rainy Days had roared through only half a minute before, in full battle mode, without any of her guards.
A year later, Rainy Days cornered me. To convince me to stay, she'd baited her trap with him. She'd made him a cadet in her Praetorian guard, and oh my—my—my, did he look good in that uniform. He stepped up to me, no longer blushing or stuttering, not able to say those words that he liked me. No, he stepped up to be, cupped my chin, and kissed me deeply.
My knees nearly gave out, despite my worst enemy standing less than a dozen standards away from me. My heart racing, I returned the kiss, warming up, and letting him put a hand behind my back.
Rainy Days said something like, "She should get a room."
I stepped back, a hand on my lieutenant's chest. I looked at her in complete shock, but I couldn't think of anything sufficiently sarcastic. I flashed her a hand-gesture instead, then grabbed his head and kissed him back until he moaned. I expected that evening would be sweet.
He fought alongside me against Rainy Days, the strongest thaumaturge to ever live. We nearly died.
That night, after lots of events too numerous to enumerate, and me agreeing to work with Rainy Days as her minion (long story), I had to deal with my roommate. She was the first person I'd acknowledged as a friend since childhood. I had used her in a sting operation to catch a crime boss and for various reasons—including that she had never ever gotten laid because of who her mom is—was bummed out.
I "gave" her my boyfriend to cheer her up.
They took me literally. Loudly, I might add. You'd think an ivory tower would have better sound insulation, but you'd be wrong. I left as soon as I could the morning after as they were still at it.
Over the last decade, I’ve focused on reading that which most influences my writing. I read wide, but typically pass on cozies, erotica, hard sci-fi, & anything that’s preachy.
It’d be more accurate, though, to say that I avoid certain content like graphic violence, lengthy/numerous fight scenes, explicit sex scenes, poor writing & probably more that I’m forgetting.