5/12 #WritingWonders
Do you think your story will make your readers cry at some point?
It's possible - but most likely in this story as part of a flashback and not something that's happening right now. This story is more likely to evoke feelings of unease.
I find it interesting that so many of us entertain ourselves through artforms that open uncomfortable emotions.
Really have no words for this stance taken by OTW’s LEGAL CHAIR on AI.
I read the section “Can I archive original fiction” of their TOS FAQ multiple times, and turned and tossed all night, debating whether I should post my original fics on #AO3 before I started doing so (yup all characters and plots original).
Deciding whether to pull them off the site will be much easier, I suppose.
'Why AI Is the Most Important Issue in the Writers' Strike'
AI isn't just central to the WGA strike either — it's the first battle in a much larger war that will affect all Americans.
I spoke with everyone from WGA Board members to Damon Lindelof about how the alarm bell about #AI was first run within the Guild and why it’s an existential threat to our industry (and countless American industries).
Learn about the whys and hows of inclusive language...on your own time, with loads of information and ideas to explore! I've made parts of the first two weeks available as samples at the course site, if you'd like to find out more :)
Quote from article: As individual writers, you answer to yourselves. Whenever you are making decisions for your business, you should be acting like the WGA and trying to harness the future. You need to make educated guesses about which rights to protect and which ones to sacrifice. You need to assume that you will have a future. For your intellectual property, that future will last for your life plus 70 years.
That’s a long time. You need to defend it for yourself and your heirs. (Don’t have heirs? Designate a charity—a large one, because small ones can’t manage something like a writer’s lifetime of work.)
But you also need to read contracts and terms of service the way that the lawyers for AMPTP do. You need to make sure you leverage the language in the contracts to benefit your business and maximize your profits.
into the deep end
looking up at the soft light
Grasping for a hand!
*I nearly drowned as a child. I was thrown into a lake before I could swim. Sinking, it was quite beautiful after I let go of the panic. Until they brought me up for air!
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Anything more would make the whole undertaking a rampaging animal house of debauched frivolity bordering on the indecent and profane, readers lost forever to the suffocating weightlessness of cheap laughter.
Anything less and the work becomes a moribund snore of soullessness from which a guileless reader might not fully recover, their very souls enraptured by a mindfuck of a bleak and humourless seriosity.
Hey there. I'm an Australian flash fiction author. I've been working on a novella which I'd like to share.
In the fifth instalment of the 'New Beginnings' series titled 'A mother's love' Lee's worst nightmare has come to fruition and the move to Malandra has thrown her life into chaos. She is hanging on by a thread as she contemplates the worst thing that a parent could imagine. Mick, the local constable goes on the hunt for the children, fearful of what he may find out.
While you're there, read the rest of the 'New Beginnings' series and browse through my other stories.