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Mortified2021: How I'd Make the World Better.

Produced by WBEZ in Chicago, this clip from the Mortified event in 2021 showcases an essay Robert Kingett wrote in the second grade about how old people can save the world by paying their taxes.

Mortified is a show where people showcase their most embarrassing art on stage they made when they were children.

Robert Kingett is an author and you can find him online at robertkingett.com

Robert Kingett – A fabulously blind romance author.

robertkingett.com
#humor #writing #Disability #author #essay

Hey there!

I'm CKMo, and I'm a taiwanese high fantasy indie author. I'm trying to bring more works with #eastasian influences into western culture via my novels.

You can find all my publishing sites, social media, and discord server in my bio!

#indieauthor #indiebooks #indiefantasy #fantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #writing #novel #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asian #asiancreator #writers #book #books #fantasybook #bookstodon #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon

#book #books #writing #fantasy #writers #bookstodon #novel #asian #indieauthor #eastasian #indiebooks #indiefantasy #selfpublished #webnovelist #fantasyauthor #taiwanese #asiancreator #fantasybook #webnovel #highfantasy @bookstodon group

A truly spectacular AITA here, relevant to writers and #writing.

If "hobosexual" is not part of your vocabulary, it should be.

reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/com…

[ETA: Lots of folks saying this is fake. It could be, yes. But I know many authors, especially women authors, especially romance authors, who get treated exactly this way over their "silly little books."

"Enough small biz money to pay the bills" is serious business, no matter what the business is.]

Reddit - Dive into anything

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OK, trying an experiment with my Programming Languages class!

• Have an AI generate some of your writing assignment.
• Critique its output. Call BS on its BS.

Assignment details in screenshots below. I’ll let you know how it goes.

(Here are the links from the screenshots:)

Raw AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/7b68…

Comments on AI Text:
gist.github.com/pcantrell/d51b…

(Better) Human Text
gist.github.com/pcantrell/f363…

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered
#swift #proglang

Project check-in 2: Shred the AI Due Friday by 6pm I asked the ChatGPT AI to explain the core concept behind our Swift optionals activity. The AI produced an answer that was very impressive…for an AI. For a human, the answer would be pretty bad writing: fastidiously grammatical but verbose, full of fluff and waste, repeating ideas instead of synthesizing them, and sometimes just flat-out wrong. Here is what the AI wrote Links to an external site.. Here are my comments on its response Links to an external site.. (Don’t worry: I won’t be this detailed or this harsh with your writing. I want to be as critical as I can be, and I know I won’t hurt the AI’s feelings.) Here is my own attempt at a better answer to the same questions Links to an external site.. The fundamental problem with the AI’s answer is that it doesn’t really know what its main point is. It meanders around the relevant concepts, but it never quite manages to get to the heart of the central idea at hand. It is parroting fragments of the words of others, hoping that somehow they will coalesce into a coherent new thought. (They don’t.) It’s uncanny how much it’s like bad student writing. If I didn’t know this was written by an AI, I would probably think it was written by a student (or maybe an employee at a web content farm) trying to fill out their minimum word count at the last minute based on nothing but hasty web searching.
You all can do much better than the AI! Instead of doing a traditional pre-submission project check-in, I have a challenge for you: ask an AI to write a few paragraphs of your paper, and then critique its output. Here’s what to do: Use an AI (ChatGPT or other) to generate a few paragraphs of your final project. You can use the AI to generate English text or code, whichever is appropriate to your project. You can use ChatGPT or a different AI. The OpenAI account you need for ChatGPT is cheap but not free, and maybe a little intrusive. If you don’t want to set up an account and generate text yourself, let me know your topic and I will happily generate some text for you. Just ask. Save the raw text the AI gave you. Write comments about the AI’s output, much like the ones I wrote above. You can write your comments inline like I did, or use the Comments / Suggested Edits features of Google Docs, or use the Review / Track Changes features of MS Word. Consider the following: What is correct, a good point? What is wrong? What is missing? (This is the hardest one.) What is useless, just filler language? You do not have to be as detailed as I was with the AI. Quick notes are fine! Please send me (1) the original AI text and (2) your comments.
You do not have to create the “better human version” like I did. Of course, doing so might help you write your paper. If you choose to do that, however, don’t let the AI decide your paper’s structure for you. It might give you some good ideas for things to talk about! It might point out some ideas and resources you hadn’t considered! But it might also mislead you into a line of argument that is wrong (as the AI did with my response above), or into a structure that doesn’t make sense. Don’t switch off your own good sense — not for a computer, and not for a human either. Not ever. JUST TO BE CLEAR: Using an AI to help write your assignment would be cheating in most circumstances. Don’t let the fact that we are doing this as an exercise confuse you about the ethics of coursework in general! If you think an AI would help you with an assignment, you need to ask your instructor. Hopefully you already know all that, but I do not want to leave any confusion about it.

Raw AI text.md

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#AI #education #writing #swift #chatgpt #highered #proglang

My favorite outcome so far: a student remarked (paraphrasing here) that she didn’t realize how much she had to say in her paper until she saw how wrong the AI was, how much it missed the point.

Observing her own reaction to BS about her topic made her realize she’d underestimated the extent of her own newly-forming knowledge. That…that is the sort of outcome an educator dreams of.

#ai #chatgpt #education #writing #highered

#AI #education #writing #chatgpt #highered

#books #writing #words #dialogue #italics

Italo Calvino was born today (10/15) in 1923. A good day to read some of his stuff then later name drop in your own writing! "The heavily illustrated Magical Rites from the Crystal Well was my favorite even if the numerous guided meditations did make it seem as if Italo Calvino was your Dungeon Master." #quotes #writing
Italo Calvino gives advice in the year 2000: Memorize Poems, Do math, Embrace the ephemeral nature of life.
#writing #quotes

Once upon a time, there was a community called Little Details on LiveJournal. It was a place where fiction writers of all kinds could ask for help with their fact-checking and research. It was a huge, amazing resource before the collapse of LiveJournal took it down.

I recently decided to try resurrecting it on Dreamwidth. It's now open and ready for questions. Come check it out, and boost if you're so inclined!

little-details.dreamwidth.org/

#writing #fanfiction #fandom #dreamwidth

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little-details.dreamwidth.org
#writing #fanfiction #dreamwidth #fandom

This seems like a good time to plug my new novel. The Poisoned Chalice is Book 4 in the Sempronius Scipio series. This one covers the bloody events of the Year of Six Emperors, so Scipio has his work cut out, especially as he has to contend with devious Senators, murderous assassins & angry soldiers led by a vengeful Emperor.
The book is available from Amazon in paperback & Kindle formats.
#HistoricalFiction #Rome #Writing #Books
Cover of The Poisoned Chalice by Gordon Anthony. The cover shows a golden chalice partly buried in a sandy desert, along with the book title & author’s name.
#books #writing #HistoricalFiction #rome

this was a very interesting read! although us-centric, the same effect can be seen all around the world, as literature programs in so many countries are modeled after the trends arriving from the usa. so give it a read, even if you hate us politics.

executive summary for writers: don't just fucking show, but also TELL!!!

currentaffairs.org/2022/04/how…

#writing


How Creative Writing Programs De-Politicized Fiction ❧ Current Affairs

In the shadow of the Cold War, the rise of creative writing programs and ‘show don’t tell’ philosophy drained fiction of its political bite.

Current Affairs
#writing

An #anthropologist attends a #CPAC conference ( #conservative #RightWing #America) and reports on their findings of the attitude towards #trans folks.

This being @SAPIENS_org, it is well thought through, fully supportive of trans folks and focused on debunking some of the #myths that the right perpetuate.

I'm really pleased to see serious #academic #writing focused on supporting trans folks. Will the right wing read this? Probably not. Will people who are unaware of the attacks trans folk experience every day read this? Quite probably. Will it help to increase understanding, empathy and allyship? I sincerely hope so.

sapiens.org/culture/transphobi…


Two Myths Fueling Transphobia – SAPIENS

An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.
Emily Sekine (SAPIENS)
#trans #writing #conservative #academic #anthropologist #cpac #rightwing #america #myths @SAPIENS

Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!

#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:

* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation

fedimeister.onyxbits.de

@fediversenews
@fediverse

Screenshot of the composer window, showing the text of "Alice in Wonderland" broken down into a thread of posts.

Fedimeister

The Mastodon desktop client for creators
fedimeister.onyxbits.de
#linux #opensource #Mastodon #java #Windows #twitter #writing #journalism #MACOS #fedimeister @Fediverse @Fediverse News

#a11y #writing #readability

#amreading #AI #writing #reading #amwriting #publishing #writingcommunity #eBook #chatgpt #techbros

#a11y #writing #webcontent

#writing #tips

#AI #writing

#writing #readability

Hi everyone! I'm checking out Mastodon. I'm a writer with 29 published romance novels. My book just out is The SEAL's Christmas Dilemma #writing #Promo, #AuthorPromo
#writing #promo #AuthorPromo

People, stop saying "just self publish" when writers share their stress about querying. They know self-publishing exists. They've chosen to query agents/publishers for a reason. Self-publishing is difficult and expensive; you are starting your own business if you choose to go that route. Not everyone wants to, has the capacity to, or can afford it. #Writing #Publishing
Image of a stop sign.
#writing #publishing

I started writing on Substack to talk about the process a manuscript takes in traditional publishing, and how to navigate the process without losing the book's soul.

It's a happy story that starts at the end of many rejections, and I'll post some threads in case the takeaways are faster/easier to get here vs. Substack. The site is The Bird's Eye, and it's completely free and goes to folks' inboxes every other week.

sarahcypher.substack.com/

#writing #publishing #WritingCommunity #author #novel


The Bird's Eye

A longtime writer and indie book editor shares notes on debuting with a Big Five publisher. Click to read The Bird's Eye, by Sarah Cypher, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.
The Bird's Eye
#writing #publishing #writingcommunity #author #novel

Good evening! I just switched instances, so I guess a brief hello is in order. I'm Terryble, #ftm guy from Poland living in Austria, trying to deal with my recently realized disability and an awful job. I'm into #writing, #books especially #fantasy and #sf, #sailing and #socialJustice. And probably several other things when I'm not that tired. Also #dogs, meet Baton too
Baton, a handsome chocolate-brown medium size dog (mixed breed pointer and labrador) with golden-brown eyes, lays in a sphinx pose on a green carpet next to a wooden desk and office chair. He's holding a rubber chicken he played with just a moment before between his paws and looks with an alert expression to his left.
#books #writing #fantasy #dogs #ftm #sf #sailing #socialjustice

A bit more info:

1. I am a #TraditionallyPublished #author of #books for #teens
2. I believe in more #equity in #TraditionalPublishing, especially when it comes to payment, marketing, and support for #BlackAuthors
3. I try to be #positive online, but #publishing is a hard, hard industry to be in
4. I'm trying to hold on to the joy of #writing regardless ... 💕

- 1st book (out now): WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU (ronnidavis.com/books2/when-the…)
- 2nd book (Spring 2024) THIS NIGHT IS OURS

display of 5 different versions of the novel WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU German, paperback, hardcover, ARC, and Book of the Month edition

when the stars lead to you | Ronni Davis - Author & Editor

Ronni Davis - Author & Editor
#books #writing #publishing #author #positive #blackauthors #TraditionalPublishing #equity #teens #traditionallypublished

[time for a #reintroduction! #introductions #introduction]

I'm Flo (he/him), a #queer #author of #lgbtqia #fiction.

Primarily I write #sliceoflife, #comedy, heartwarming & lighthearted, #gay #romance in a variety of settings, such as #hopepunk, #scifi, #fantasy, #steampunk, #horror, #gothic, annnnd the list goes on~ 😅

Some more things about me:

— I'm currently pumped for #NaNoWriMo!

— I like #writing, #reading, #drawing, #art, #gaming, #movies, #books etc.

— I dabble in #learning #mandarin and #tokipona (which i don't tend to talk about here).

— I am #agender, #asexual, #aromantic, (thus #AroAce) #disabled, #ActuallyAutistic, and a #demiguy

— i have a wishlist (mostly full of very, *very* gay books): throne.me/u/drowsy/wishlist

— alt accounts at @ghost@weirder.earth & @floghost


Throne Gifts - The Gifting Platform for Creators

Throne is gifting platform for content creators. Safely receive gifts from any online store while keeping your address hidden.
throne.me
#books #introductions #gaming #art #drawing #introduction #nanowrimo #lgbtqia #movies #queer #actuallyautistic #scifi #fiction #horror #writing #reintroduction #fantasy #reading #Disabled #hopepunk #comedy #Gothic #romance #author #sliceoflife #gay #steampunk #learning #mandarin #tokipona #agender #asexual #aromantic #aroace #demiguy @Flooooo @ghost@weirder.earth

Just bought a license for Typora, a gorgeous markdown viewing/editing application that seamlessly renders your markdown in place as you write it.

It’s by an independent developer and also runs on Linux.

#markdown #writing #typora #indie #dev

Screenshot of Typoria showing the Kitten README file. The markdown is editable yet appears as it would render. There’s a file menu at the top.
Screenshot of Typoria showing the Kitten README file with the outline sidebar active. It has quick jump links to the various headings in the document.
Screenshot of a modal dialog box that has the Typoria icon and reads “Typoria Activated. Thanks for your purchase.” It Close, Deactivate, and View License buttons.
#dev #indie #writing #markdown #typora

OSINT: "The Internet Is Forever"

Featuring Internet Archive / WayBack Machine

#Video #OSINT #OSINT #Research #Journalism #Writing #Article #Tutorial #WayBackMachine #InternetArchive #privacy

Watch on #Peertube:
tube.tchncs.de/w/eccM1zPQuuSQ1…


Internet Is Forever: WayBack Machine + Internet Archive (OSINT)

Internet Archive + WayBack Machine Allows You To Find Hidden Internet Content + OSINT Tips. In Today's OSINT + Privacy Demonstration Support Content + Read (Public) Tutorials / Posts: https://buymeacoffee.
tchncs
#privacy #peertube #video #writing #journalism #tutorial #research #OSINT #internetarchive #article #waybackmachine

Question to the #writing community:

I co-authored an illustrated short story from the glider.ink/ project, about 4.5k words. No magazine we sent it to was interested in publishing, so we'd like to put it somewhere on #creativecommons .

What's the best place to publish it? A subpage of glider.ink ? Wattpad? Medium? Somewhere else?

Glider Ink

Glider Ink
#writing #creativecommons

#twitter #Ukraine #introduction #stream #film #boardgames #writing #Funny #comedy #losangeles #creator #mountainbiking #substack

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