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Pray for me, writeblr, I'm migrating from KDP to IngramSpark.

#YOU CAN DO ITTT !!!!! #other writers

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remember when you used to be able to play snake with the… hold on what’s it called

hmm. don’t think i’ll be calling it that. anyways i was gonna say remember when you could play snake with the buffering circle on youtube but. now i have other concerns

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Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Ah, yes, it's giveaway time! My first ever giveaway! Woohoo!

To celebrate the ebook/paperback release of SUDDENCE, I will give a paperback, along with freebie stickers and a mini frame prints, to one winner! To enter the contest:

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Fill out this google form

That's it! Easy peasy! One entry per person, one winner will be chosen, contest will end Monday April 29th midnight PST.

#dear god im feral #i wont it 🖐👁👄👁🤚 #other writers #boost!!!

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when the academic article is so good it has you giggling and kicking your feet

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I think all computers should have cd slots and all phones should have headphone ports send tumble

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

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dating simulator where it starts normal but it slowly becomes clear that all of the romanceable characters are attempting to cover up an extremely specific murder they committed a year ago before you arrived

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she needs to put down the thesaurus

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If there's any character in this world who suffers from literary Ken-ification it's Patroclus. Especially in the zeitgeist of today (thanks tsoa), it's always Achilles AND Patroclus, never just Patroclus. Who is he? Why does he exist? He is Achilles' boyfriend! What's his job? Death! In the sense that he just. Dies. That's just his job now. Death. Death and Achilles' boyfriend. That's it.

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things to ask yourself when designing a female character:

how much blood is she covered in

are her eyes filled with madness

can she rip things to shreds with her fingernails

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did you guys know about this oc stuff. you can just make a guy. big if true

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unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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When I say "you need to read the article" or ask "did you read the article," I mean literally nothing but "you should read the article."

Screenshots are not sources. Headlines are not the full story.

That's all I mean.

(Now if you wanna hear me out and then go "it's behind a paywall, asshole," that's completely legitimate, and I do have answers to that but I don't have the spoons rn to talk about tips and tricks for getting around pay walls).

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Repeat after me:

Good rest is required for creativity

I am allowed to rest in order to restore and rejuvenate my creative well

I am not lazy for resting

My WIP will benefit from the rest I give myself and my creativity

My writing requires rest just as much as I do in order to flourish

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