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Poetry? More like CROWETRY!

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if you say "as one does" after any phrase nobody's allowed to think you're weird anymore. cheat code bypass for all standards of social normalcy

#c'est pas faux

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it’s just me and my hairy legs against the world

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A cowgirl puts a nickel in an El Paso parking meter to hitch her pony, October 1939. Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic

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The Mice at Work, Threading the Needle painted by Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943)

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deactivated / inactive mutuals I miss u and hope you're living your best life far away from here </3

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#going back in viking iceland with a recorder to get some myths and sagas firsthand #so lost media

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Did Howard Shore's LOTR score become a deeply-ingrained part of your personality or are you normal

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So, there's a dirty little secret in indie publishing a lot of people won't tell you, and if you aren't aware of it, self-publishing feels even scarier than it actually is.

There's a subset of self-published indie authors who write a ludicrous number of books a year, we're talking double digit releases of full novels, and these folks make a lot of money telling you how you can do the same thing. A lot of them feature in breathless puff pieces about how "competitive" self-publishing is as an industry now.

A lot of these authors aren't being completely honest with you, though. They'll give you secrets for time management and plotting and outlining and marketing and what have you. But the way they're able to write, edit, and publish 10+ books a year, by and large, is that they're hiring ghostwriters.

They're using upwork or fiverr to find people to outline, draft, edit, and market their books. Most of them, presumably, do write some of their own stuff! But many "prolific" indie writers are absolutely using ghostwriters to speed up their process, get higher Amazon best-seller ratings, and, bluntly, make more money faster.

When you see some godawful puff piece floating around about how some indie writer is thinking about having to start using AI to "stay competitive in self-publishing", the part the journalist isn't telling you is that the 'indie writer' in question is planning to use AI instead of paying some guy on Upwork to do the drafting.

If you are writing your books the old fashioned way and are trying to build a readerbase who cares about your work, you don't need to use AI to 'stay competitive', because you're not competing with these people. You're playing an entirely different game.

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i love you air dried hair i love you no makeup i love you comfortable clothes made out of soft fabrics i love you short nails

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via indiarosecrawford Get ready with Frog - Pride & Prejudice edition! ❤️🐸 I'm pleased to introduce you to Frogzwilliam Darcy ✨

Jean-Yves Thibaudet • Marianelli: Dawn

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

#my heart #it's melting

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Part 1 of doodles for HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES which is a whole ass novel with so many excellent scenes I need to draw I will be stuck on this for weeks. Holmes is showering Watson with compliments in the beginning for SOME REASONNNN and I can’t stand it

(pt 2) (pt 3) (pt 4)(pt 5) (pt 6) (pt 7)

(This is part of the Watson’s sketchbook series)

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Robin F. Williams (American, 1984) - Trolling (2021)

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#age of mythology #war crimes

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no but really, like 

i know that some folks love telling creative people that “you should be doing it for fun because you love it not for the compliments” but creative people thrive on feedback whether it’s critical or just complimentary

so when i write fanfiction and don’t get any actual feedback i feel like i spent all that time and energy doing it for nothing because i’m not getting feedback from the people i wrote it for 

doing something you’re proud of and then presenting it to the sound of utter silence is like the worst feeling on earth