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Half Goblin, half Hobbit.

Goblit.

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

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lydia davis

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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

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/throws up hands in Tumblr-hates-entrepreneurs-and capitalism-ish/

The saddest thing about being on writeblr is that I see all of these wonderful worlds made by my fellow writers, these wonderful stories and fascinating characters... but I can't just buy a book to read about them or something! I have to wait! I have to content myself with snippets!

grrr

#one way to get the content you want #is to buy it #and support the creator #writing #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #writers #writblr

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Saw my first post with someone admitting they used chatGPT to ‘write a fic’ which they then shared here on tumblr and on Ao3.

To be clear, using AI to churn out a piece of fiction is not writing.

Using a bot (possibly one that was trained using a scrape of Ao3, that is to say, the theft of work from every writer who has posted their work on Ao3) is NOT WRITING.

It is theft. It isn’t creation. It’s a regurgitation of the consumed collective work and effort and heart and time of every writer who has shared their work on Ao3.

‘I’m not a good writer’ is no excuse.

Want to be a writer? Put in the time everyone else does to practice.

Don’t feel confident in your work? Open yourself up to the same vulnerability and risk that the rest of us do.

You don’t get to use a fucking bot to vomit out an approximation of a story and pretend you’ve got skin in the game.

The sad thing? This bot-assembled fic wasn’t bad. It was bland, but it had internal logic, some passing context to character and canon. It wasn’t like those early AI art pieces that had surreal compositions and extra fingers. It wasn’t immediately obvious it was made by a bot.

In this instance the person who posted it admitted they had used a bot. Which, actually, I have some respect for. But it probably isn’t the first and it won’t be the last.

I don’t know that there’s a solution to this, but it is both hurting my heart and enraging me.

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Lovely book art.

Lost in the Pages

Between Two Tomes

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BONUS STORY TIME!

I took the same stupid phys ed class as @avaantares, four years earlier. I was also told that my equestrian sports did not count as physical activity.

Then I went for a tracked weight lifting session with two guys, both athletes and known to said football coach (one had been one of his players the year before, but quit for another sport). And yes, the two guys out-benched me easily, of course. But on the adduction machine, I lifted nearly double anything they could do.

So I took those numbers to the coach and showed him my legs stats and pointed out that I was out-lifting his athletes in the area of my sport (wish I'd also had a way to quantify balance and proprioception), and suddenly my stupid horse-riding was a real activity because my success was embarrassing to his program and he didn't want me bringing it up again in class.

And yet he picked right back up on the "not physical activity" as soon as the evidence was out of sight.

This is why we get defensive.

I always thought it was like an exaggeration when horse people would talk about how silly it was for anyone to think that riding a horse does not require any particular level of skill or balance or anything, or even that they "drive themselves" (???) but just the tags on the reblogs of that "can you ride a bike and/or horse" post from me alone are demonstrating how overconfident some people are in their (often entirely theoretical!) ability to stay on an alive and moving animal with a will of its own.

#ideally good riding is nearly invisible #But people think Hollywood is a valid source #And then authors copy Hollywood #And what a compounded lot of misinformation #horseback riding #equestrian sports

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Write as if no one will ever read it.

Then share it with the people who want that sort of thing.

life's too short to write for an imaginary critic that you fear will hate what you wrote

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AMERICANS! EASY WAY TO DO GOOD!

SAVE THE HORSES!

If you're not familiar with the practice of "soring" in certain segments of the horse world, well, it's horrific. The short and least-graphic version is, they smear a horse's legs with corrosive chemicals and wrap them to burn for hours or days, so that the horse steps higher in pain for the show ring.

For years, practitioners have avoided legal action and protested legislation against the practice, because... Well, they have.

Now PAST (Prevent All Soring Tactics) ACT is up in the US Senate as S.4004. Please ask your senators to support it, and please share the word for others to contact their senators as well.

For most of us, your senator's last name dot senate dot gov will get you to an easy contact form.

There are no downsides to ending animal cruelty in the name of display and ego.

(I want a horse image for attention, but I'm using a fun gif instead of a topical pic. Please act anyway, so we don't have to flood a feed with awful things to prompt the right thing.)

#animal welfare #easy political action #horses #save horses #end animal cruelty #horse plinko

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Unsolicited but accurate advice: It doesn't matter.

If the antagonist is just now starting to talk, you're in the first draft. (It doesn't matter how much/how many times you've written other parts -- it's the first draft of your antagonist's character.) First drafts are for feeling things out, just like you're doing; they are not for getting it nailed down and finalized.

Bringing in committee opinions too early is one of the fastest ways to wreck a draft and stifle your actual creative productivity.

There is more than one way to write, of course, but I never really know my characters until I've written them for a while. This mirrors real life, right? We don't understand people except by watching what they do in various situations and listening to them talk and seeing how sometimes their words and actions might align or conflict. Why should fictional people be any different?

So you're going to want to write that antagonist for a while to discover what they really sound like.

Go ahead and write the stereotypical anime villain; you can smooth off the excess later. Go ahead and put [evil threat] in brackets and come back when you know how he'll actually phrase it because you know more about him. Go ahead and write the scene knowing it's too weak because you can always crank up the stakes and tension in the next pass.

Above all, don't succumb to the pressure to get public approval on your first draft. First drafts are not for public approval. First drafts are not for the public or for approval. First drafts are assembling the pieces.

If you're out of your comfort zone because you're doing something new -- congratulations! -- then give yourself space to practice and experiment. You wouldn't call in a panel of judges to score a kid's first time on a bike, right? Why would you do that to yourself and your writing?

Have so much fun doing a new-to-you thing. :D

whoa hey look it's me needing help

the antagonist of songbird elegies is actually starting to talk, and i'm a little worried that it's being characterized a little to stereotypical anime villain or whatever. i don't want to post the full scene because i feel silly posting so much of my writing in one day, but can anyone hop in my dms and look at it and tell me if it feels cool or whack?

i don't usually write actual antagonists. like villain-y types. i don't know i'm out of my comfort zone. also you'll get a peek at some actual tension and not just scott and edgar cuddling and eating snacks.

#first drafts are not for sharing #if they are for sharing #it's for enthusiasm only #not for critique #leave first drafts and Brittany alone

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REVERSE TROPE WRITING PROMPTS

Too many beds

Accidentally kidnapping a mafia boss

Really nice guy who hates only you

Academic rivals except it’s two teachers who compete to have the best class

Divorce of convenience

Too much communication

True hate’s kiss (only kissing your enemy can break a curse)

Dating your enemy’s sibling

Lovers to enemies

Hate at first sight

Love triangle where the two love interests get together instead

Fake amnesia

Soulmates who are fated to kill each other

Strangers to enemies

Instead of fake dating, everyone is convinced that you aren’t actually dating

Too hot to cuddle

Love interest CEO is a himbo/bimbo who runs their company into the ground

Nursing home au

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Ooh, congratulations!

GUYS I HAVE GOOD NEWS

GUYS SO I SENT IN A PIECE TO GET PUBLISHED A FEW MONTHS AGO AND THEN THEY CAME BACK TODAY AND SAID THAT THEY WOULD PUBLISH IT IN THEIR MAGAZINEEE wvrbhisjk;BfiuesaBVui

ISTG IM SO HAPPY RN UBFSOV :)

also I just want to mention that it's not a novel, just a piece for a competition.

anyway tyy for listening to my rant <33

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Feedback: "I don't like these names; foreign names are too hard to keep track of. And I thought this town name was a person name because they start with the same letter. You should change them."

Ah, yes, I remember now. This is why historical fantasy can be harder than second world fantasy.

(For the record, I'm not changing any real names or place names. I'm actually kinda proud that my historical fantasy is good historical fiction as well as good fantasy.)

#wip #writers #am writing #writeblr #historical fantasy #historical fiction #historical figures #kitsune tales #only the dead face north #fantasy #writing #am writing fantasy