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I also wish there were more diversity and competition in both publishing houses and in distribution channels. (I.e., I wish the Big Four and Amazon didn't have such a chokehold on the industry.) 3/3
#WritersCoffeeClub day 9: What incorrect assumptions might a reader make about you?
That I still live in San Francisco.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 9: What incorrect assumptions might a reader make about you?
That I still live in San Francisco.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 10: What encouragement would you give writers younger than yourself?
Not sure why it needs to be ones younger than myself. Is that supposed to indicate ones who are "less experienced"? Because if so, it's hard to even *find* writers less experienced than myself. I'm a beginner. 1/2
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 10: What encouragement would you give writers younger than yourself?
Not sure why it needs to be ones younger than myself. Is that supposed to indicate ones who are "less experienced"? Because if so, it's hard to even *find* writers less experienced than myself. I'm a beginner. 1/2
Encouragement that I'd give any writers, then, would simply be: Don't write what you think you're "supposed to", or what you think will sell. Write what *you want*, write as often and as genuinely as you can. 2/2
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Encouragement that I'd give any writers, then, would simply be: Don't write what you think you're "supposed to", or what you think will sell. Write what *you want*, write as often and as genuinely as you can. 2/2
#WritersCoffeeClub day 11: If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
Women in Refrigerators. I'd like to see writers forced to come up with other ways to motivate their (male) characters.
I nearly chose Forced Pregnancy, because I *HATE* that one, but I think WIR is more prevalent, and banishing it would have a greater effect on the next century's stories. (Sexy Lamp was another close runner-up: give us more fully-featured female characters!)
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 11: If you could banish one trope for a century, which would you choose?
Women in Refrigerators. I'd like to see writers forced to come up with other ways to motivate their (male) characters.
I nearly chose Forced Pregnancy, because I *HATE* that one, but I think WIR is more prevalent, and banishing it would have a greater effect on the next century's stories. (Sexy Lamp was another close runner-up: give us more fully-featured female characters!)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 12: What kinds of love appear in your writing?
Quite a few! I'm tempted say "all of them"...
* Romantic love
* Parental love for children
* Blood-sibling love
* Companionate/BFF/found-family love in a siblingly manner between people who aren't related by blood
* People's love for their City
* The City's love for its people
* Love of abstract ideals, like freedom, equality, or doing the right thingSome plain, carnal lust may also make an appearance; we'll see.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 12: What kinds of love appear in your writing?
Quite a few! I'm tempted say "all of them"...
* Romantic love
* Parental love for children
* Blood-sibling love
* Companionate/BFF/found-family love in a siblingly manner between people who aren't related by blood
* People's love for their City
* The City's love for its people
* Love of abstract ideals, like freedom, equality, or doing the right thingSome plain, carnal lust may also make an appearance; we'll see.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 14: Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
"Why don't I write in a shorter format?" thought the aspiring novelist whose draft currently stands at over 85,000 words when it's roughly a fifth of the way done. "Yeah, I'll get right on that. 🙄"
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 14: Why do you write in the form you do? Why not in another format? (poem, short story, novel, etc)
"Why don't I write in a shorter format?" thought the aspiring novelist whose draft currently stands at over 85,000 words when it's roughly a fifth of the way done. "Yeah, I'll get right on that. 🙄"
#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
I try pretty hard to keep them from doing so; I don't want to do what the Turkey City Lexicon calls "Dischism". (https://www.critters.org/turkeycity.html, roughly 40% of the way down the page — I have no idea why that list isn't alphabetically sorted.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 15: How do your immediate surroundings influence your work?
I try pretty hard to keep them from doing so; I don't want to do what the Turkey City Lexicon calls "Dischism". (https://www.critters.org/turkeycity.html, roughly 40% of the way down the page — I have no idea why that list isn't alphabetically sorted.)
#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
I think the hardest lesson for me to learn will turn out to be "how not to overwrite", and I sure as hell haven't learned it yet.
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 16: What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn?
I think the hardest lesson for me to learn will turn out to be "how not to overwrite", and I sure as hell haven't learned it yet.
#WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?
I think they should only worry about it to the extent that they'd previously have worried about proving that their work wasn't plagiarized. Like, if seriously challenged (usually by one's publisher, not by some rando), it's good to be able to produce prior drafts or other artifacts of creation.
But that's about all. 1/6
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#WritersCoffeeClub day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM?
I think they should only worry about it to the extent that they'd previously have worried about proving that their work wasn't plagiarized. Like, if seriously challenged (usually by one's publisher, not by some rando), it's good to be able to produce prior drafts or other artifacts of creation.
But that's about all. 1/6
I definitely *DON'T* think writers should try to avoid using em dashes, or the "not X, but Y" structure, or lists of three things, or anything else that some idiots are trying to push as "signs of LLM writing". For one, it's constricting your own style. For two, it's doing so specifically in a way that caters to some of the judgiest, most hyper-critical readers. You might as well also look up some lists of "writing do's and don't's" and… 2/6
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I definitely *DON'T* think writers should try to avoid using em dashes, or the "not X, but Y" structure, or lists of three things, or anything else that some idiots are trying to push as "signs of LLM writing". For one, it's constricting your own style. For two, it's doing so specifically in a way that caters to some of the judgiest, most hyper-critical readers. You might as well also look up some lists of "writing do's and don't's" and… 2/6
…try to follow every item on them, without fail. Like "never use the word 'like'", or "never use adverbs, at all". Or go into r/writing and/or r/writingadvice, ask, "What are some tropes you don't like?", and then make sure to avoid *every single one* that anyone lists. (Spoiler: you won't be able to.) 3/6
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…try to follow every item on them, without fail. Like "never use the word 'like'", or "never use adverbs, at all". Or go into r/writing and/or r/writingadvice, ask, "What are some tropes you don't like?", and then make sure to avoid *every single one* that anyone lists. (Spoiler: you won't be able to.) 3/6
And in the third place, it's a moving target! "Signs of LLM writing" are likely to change by next spring, but your writing will hopefully last for longer than that. So if you distort your style to mollify this year's crop of AI-accusers, people coming to your work fresh in a few years will just say, "Hey, I think this must be AI, because it uses tag questions in dialogue", or hyphenated compound adjectives, or whatever. You'll have scarred your writing for no purpose. 4/6
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And in the third place, it's a moving target! "Signs of LLM writing" are likely to change by next spring, but your writing will hopefully last for longer than that. So if you distort your style to mollify this year's crop of AI-accusers, people coming to your work fresh in a few years will just say, "Hey, I think this must be AI, because it uses tag questions in dialogue", or hyphenated compound adjectives, or whatever. You'll have scarred your writing for no purpose. 4/6
It's a losing battle, and it's one that isn't worth fighting in the first place, because the only people you're trying to convince are ones who *can't even recognize decent writing when they see it*. They're people who can say, with a straight face, that *lists of three* are signs of AI‽ As if they haven't heard every Tom, Dick, and Harry talk about "baseball, motherhood and apple pie" or "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" before? 5/6
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way to tell me you're a bleepbloop without saying "I'm a bleepbloop" smh
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I worked at Microsoft in the 1990s. One of our customers was Pacific Bell, the local telephone company. Dilbert author Scott Adams still worked at PacBell at the time, although he was rarely there. His mostly unused cubicle was in the same area that my contacts there worked, and it was a big ritual to bring newcomers to see his desk.
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Stamattina mia moglie aveva da fare cose a Imperia, così siamo andate al Lidl.
Ho guardato se ci fosse il Millechiodi in offerta, ma non c'era.
Così ho preso mille viti.
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Proteste in Iran, le vittime del regime potrebbero essere migliaia. Von der Leyen: “Terrificante, presto nuove sanzioni”
@news
https://www.eunews.it/2026/01/13/proteste-in-iran-le-vittime-del-regime-potrebbero-essere-migliaia-von-der-leyen-terrificante-presto-nuove-sanzioni/
Si inasprisce ulteriormente la repressione delle proteste da parte degli ayatollah iraniani. Le vittime verificate sarebbero oltre 600, ma le ong avvertono: "Secondo alcune stime, potrebbero essere più di 6
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Il bianco muove di Daria Menicanti (Piacenza, 1914 – Mozzate, 1995)
In via delle Lanterne il Caffè
è quasi buio. Nell’angolo stretto
alla vetrina il bianco muove ed è
scacco ... https://cctm.website/daria-menicanti-poesia/#DariaMenicanti #poesia #cctmwebsite #anoipiaceleggere #leggere
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@matt it's the worst slack crime (and Slack enables many new crimes).
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@futuroprossimo @esilvia
Premessa: l'ambiente apple non mi è mai piaciuto, ma la deriva presa dal post Steve Jobs mi ha fatto allontanare ancora di più da loro. Non so, magari sbaglio, ma erano più "genuini" prima, ora vedo solo sfrenata sete di guadagno e poco ingegno e innovazione...
