no idea why people use Chat GPT. It’s like talking to a toddler. “artificial intelligence “ more like a distracted toddler with a mind of its own. Oxymoron. Idiot savant.

the reason I started writing was because I was unhappy with the #SWTOR game story. I found the romance options and the story lacking, so I started fleshing it out and creating my own headcanon. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #StarWars #theOldRepublic #Originalstory #WownomoreLegacy #ArchiveofOurOwn

back to the grind in #SWTOR playing through the story again to get some new perspective and hopefully some new inspiration for the next generation. #WritingCommunity #RP #AmWriting #StarWars #theOldRepublic #SateleShan #WownomoreLegacy

ok i’ll play 1. Peanut butter 2. Chocolate 3. former coffee (i’m a Coffee snob) 4. David Tennant 5. Allan Cumming 6. Animals 7. purple 8. Black 9. Period costumes 10.Violin

Get to know your follows 10 random things you like Cats Mango Guitar Sleeping Discworld Metal Reading Meditating The hush of a winter's night Tea @machinaezer0.bsky.social @typhaneyb.bsky.social @agnes-bunnypants.bsky.social

#WIPSnips for 11/15: progress I had to be very careful about posting this, one paragraph higher would have been a MAJOR spoiler. 😱 Have I mentioned that Naldumiel and his snark is my favorite character in the book? Cuz he’s my favorite character in the book. #Writesky #UrbanFantasy

definitely before for me. i wrote two historical novels and both required a lot of research. I even studied french for one so that it would be as historically accurate as possible. #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub

#WritersCoffeeClub 15/11: Does the bulk of your research come before starting a work? During? Or not at all?! Well, since TLC is the first WIP where I’ve actually done extensive research on, and I’m doing it while already neck-deep into it, I’d say during. #Writingcommunity

G'morning #WIPSnips! Progress is being made on TLC, but it feels so slow-going, in stark contrast with how fast things seem to be going inside the story right about now. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Last chance to grab tix for today's "5 Secrets of Storytelling" masterclass event with ElfQuest creators Wendy Pini and Richard Pini! Head here: shopstands.com/collections/... @stands.bsky.social @charliecapen.bsky.social

They lost Elara. Where did she go? Wait, was that movement in the darkness of space? 😮 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #SciFiWriters #sff

Rory liked to travel by foot across the various regions, well, by paw or hoof, depending on the species of mount he had, instead of using the fast travel points to #transport his character. He liked the world, the scenery and the random encounters. there was a serene beauty to the place. #vss365

#WIPSnips Oof! Looked all over my books and was uninspired by all my “progress”s that weren’t spoilers. So here is chapter 2 where we meet the butler’s POV and encounter his first challenge on the page…

#NovemberWorldbuilders There are 3 rivers cutting across the Fens that keep the area flooded and squishy most of the year, but the most important one is the Mountmouth River, with flows south of Fenholt. It is a highway for goods and people, as well as being a defensive feature. #Wrencer

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #writingprompt Duels of Blood (and two exhausted menaces)

BIG shout out 2 @authorsabb.bsky.social who r kid lit activists across the US organizing against BS book bans which dont protect kids, they actually harm them. They been going w/ no dough. If u can, peep em & donate www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/ #bookbans #kidlit #authorsagainstbookbans

#WIPSnips "Progress" from Fight or Flight Molly shares a big ancestral secret with AL - that the great War between humans and Fae was, in fact, a revolution. AL has a thought or two about that.

I've always been annoyed by the assumptions people made about the victims at Pompeii based on where they were found, their position or connection to others. Making up relationships, assuming genders, etc. Nice to see that dealt with by science; www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

With ‘The Big Feat’ very close to finishing, I’m running through ideas for the next one, ‘House Rules’, which is about a new school of magic being set up in my world. It will be an inclusive story that is, in no way, an analogue of any other literary magic school. It will have a Sorting Cat. 🙄

“Having this language that is spoken by so very few, I feel that we carry a huge responsibility to actually preserve that. I do not think we are doing enough to do that,” she said, not least because young people in #Iceland “are surrounded by material in English, on social media and other media”.

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Honor or results? If it came down to it would your character choose to maintain their honor, or would they break their oath/promise/the rules to accomplish their goal? How would they feel about it? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Fun idea so i’m borrowing it. Ask Lord Borias anything and he will answer. #LordBoriasWownomore #WownomoreLegacy #AwesomeCharacters

somebody is always going to find you annoying, dumb, cringe, weird, or whatever. But who cares, bro? Who fucking cares? There are other cool freaks out there for you.

#Swtor #TheronShan

From Carpathians II. Little flashback to the not so good ol days... #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips 14. "Week" *ominous piano plays* #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #CaptainNitara #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

of course!

#WIPSnips for 11/14: week Tim…has some baggage. #WriteSky

I guess i won’t be on any of these bubble things since im an introvert and don’t know how to talk to people. Apparently you have to do a lot of interacting. I was never good at that. Being autistic doesn’t help either.

Oh! I gots something for this! CW: Severe flesh wound. Context: scene moments after giant Snipdragon Alpha absolutely obliterates the gunpod Sam was in with its barbed tail. #WritingPrompt

Happy book launch day to author Brad Ricks! Just look at that cover by Maarten van Vuuren. Almost as good as the interior of the book. :-)

Share a snippet of a fucked up injury from your book/wip! Remember to use appropriate content warnings or I'll blast you with laser beams #WritingPrompt

We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.

Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Take care of the vulnerable and in need. We need to work together to get us all to the other side of this because there will be an other side of this someday.

Because my stories are driven by relationships, they are always properly motivated by love. Deep, meaningful, unconditional love (yes Hodari, you too) #Lovember #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

In my #Atlantis trilogy, Mireia & Kena do get married in Book 3 ❤️ Also, every one of the previous 44 incarnations of the Sea Mother & Sun Father got married too, except for one pair (they died at 15yo). So Mimi & Kena keep up the tradition 🥲 (@khonri.com knows, lol)

There is now a box of "little words of kindness" in our staffroom. My good nature is fighting with my irreverent satirical side as to whether I can appreciate this or not.🤔 I hope it helps the people it can help I guess! #librarysky

this gives the term “climbing trees” a whole new meaning. #NatureSky #Trees #Nature

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters What makes your character angry? Are there specific people, circumstances, actions, or words that cause them to lose their temper? What does losing their temper tend to look like? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

for Lord Borias it’s taking away what he loves the most. Never piss off a Sith. #AwesomeCharacters #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #SWTOR #OriginalStory #WownomoreLegacy #ArchiveofOurOwn from “I do it for you”

#NovemberWorldbuilders 14 - Demon King Daughter - Moral Differences - demonic culture on the Demon Island is mostly about self-mastery and gaining power. Less violence from hate, and more violence as a means to achieve power. #yafiction #fantasy #demons #witches Print/eBook/KU: a.co/d/c4RtAOj

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But don’t worry! KOSAL will resume soon, and now’s the perfect time to start reading or catch up before Ch5 drops. KOSAL is the prequel novella to TCT and SoS, set 300 years earlier. It tells the story of the Alumivari Shalik (glimpsed in SoS) and the rise of the Azantium Empire (from TCT).

🧵 3/ So far in KOSAL... Queen Selania of the Lumani reels from the Azantium massacre that claimed her husband’s family. Meanwhile, Azriel faces growing threats to his sacred Chrysillium tree grove—and a dangerous new bond with his Sentrient, Thelinth. Read now! open.substack.com/pub/mycelial...

✨ Kingdom of Shadow & Light Update ✨ I wish it wasn’t so, but I’m pausing Kingdom of Shadow & Light Substack posts for just a bit while I finish getting Star of Shalik ready for ARC readers. It won’t be long—just a week or two—I've hit a crunch and can’t manage both at the same time. 🧵

Okay. #WritingCommunity, would you every let others write in your settings/worlds? Why/why not? Under what circumstances/rules?

love is their main drive in my stories. It always is. probably because i’ve never had it IRL.

Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity: How motivated is/are your character(s) by love—romantic, familial, social (e.g. fame or approval), or otherwise?

November 14th – week Anthropomorphic, today! Ray chats about staffing shortages with a colleague. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips Sergei discovers an old memory as he searches a junkyard with Blake for parts to restore the gas station sign. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #AmWriting