not won any literary awards? give yourself literary awards. book of the year. best book of all time. best writer of all time. literally nobody can stop you

Are you serious about finishing your book? Deadlines, writing plans, and small daily goals can change everything. Learn more on the Writing Mastery blog! vist.ly/4kwwe #WritingTips

🤔 pondering ... are there any Bluesky #authors who are NOT on Amazon? Thought we might start a mutual support group/page/listing or something. We need to find alternate venues; share experiences; promo our books and support other authors. ✨ BONUS: there's no need for introverts to leave the house.

So starting Jan 15th Twitter is adding to their terms AGAIN. The TLDR; You will no longer be able to opt-out of Grok or AI training. Having a Twitter account will automatically grant Twitter full license to anything you post and will be fed to AI training. Period. Not just AI scraping, but full-on.

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Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum. We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.

Happy New Year everyone!✨ Here's to making many more stories!

Winter Solstice #ocsky

Don’t forget to rate and review books after you read them. Real authors need your help to beat the AI bro wannabes!

What are we comfort watching tonight, friends? Continuing a rewatch of Fringe, The X Files, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for reasons totally unrelated to a new story idea~ ✨

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

What’s especially galling to me about seeing prompts left in a generated text is that not only could the “author” not be bothered to write the piece, they also couldn’t be bothered to *read* it!

The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.

Would it be remiss to name a character who interacts with a meteor briefly at the start of the story "Rocky"? 🤔

🌟Commissions Open🌟 [with SECRET OPTIONS + CONTEXT] These are a little special! tldr: there's a big bill coming up that will take a huge chunk out of my funds 😢 Closes Dec 1st or until I fill all 3 slots. Please lmk if you have any questions or have a weird idea 👀

Happy unaffiliated National Novel Writing Month! I hope everyone is going rogue with their own homemade tracking systems, outlines, meetups, sprints, and getting those words out :D

Don't know why I'm surprised that Microsoft is scraping our Word documents to train AI (apart from them having said they wouldn't) but I've just caught up with this. How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents - by Lauren Casey share.google/OUWBKAks0v10...

Commish of Robby and Gossamer for @lucasstarkid.bsky.social !! 💪

write stories that make unimaginative people say 'oh my god!!! whoever wrote this must have been on drugs!!!!!!'

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

Ahh, what a man!🥰 #scifi #cyberpunk #cyborg #scifi #artdeco #artsky #ocsky

This only happens to you once

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You want marketing for your game/book/thing? Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever. This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol

We're coming up on the debut anniversary of Nuketown, my first self-published novel! ✨ Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤 #AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...

Two OCs from my space opera story Nebula Prime, Sidney Waters and Prince Jorzyn #digitalart #characterart #ocart #art

Do people using gen AI in their 'books' realise that every single post about these 'authors' now has comments saying, 'This is what you get with self-published work' and folks are now swearing it off? It took us years to fix the stigma and you brought it back. Thanks. 📚💙

True of writing books too.

They used my book as well. If they used my book which has sold <300 copies in 4 years, they probably used yours.

Where's a good place to submit poetry? 🤔

Creators, don’t stop pitching queer content to editors, producers, etc. because you’re afraid it’s going to be stifled going forward. That just helps the bad guys. Don’t pre-censor yourself or the industry you’re in!

Forward to the future!✨

The worst thing about being a creator w a published book out is knowing that my book sales (and livelihood) depend on me being my own unpaid full-time production company & marketing firm, posting on every platform, and still may never see a single royalty check. Please buy our books, we’re so tired

Detective #sci-fi #noir #cyberpunk

Can't stress this enough: a random story you write on a lark may end up being the one that gets you the most recognition while the one you really love may get few reads and/or your worst reviews. Don't overthink it. Publishing is a gamble. You'll win some; you'll lose some.

A thinky thought!

A list of reasons to make art: -horny -spite -for the bit -if you don't who will

Angus McKie, "Starship Enters Witchlight." Sometimes the title of an artwork really elevates it.

get in da writin mood by havin hot choclety milk

Google search: How to get my brain to stop wanting to rewrite/change things in my WIPs over and over again...😔

Gillian Anderson at the Series Final Wrap Party for " THE X-FILES", 2002.

In better news, the reviews are in; Nuketown is officially a 5 star novel! Pick up a copy and see for yourself! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐ t.co/I4BZFuCXWw

We are all just memories in the end. Let's make some good ones!

Profoundly hurt and dismayed by the direction this country has been heading. All the more reason to continue fighting for what's right in any way we can. Now more than ever the world needs our voices to drown out hatred, fear, and ignorance.

If I made a sci-fantasy web comic would anyone read it

More concepts from a potential sci-fantasy I've been too afraid to commit to do let me know if y'all are interested pls

Peace for those who are scared, peace for the most vulnerable and marginalized among us May we all hold onto each other and hold strong, I was working on this long before last week to make something for the holidays, but it feels even more apropos after everything Stay safe and stay strong🕊️