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A friend of mine is running Mindfulness for Neurodivergent Writers on Sunday.
They're AuDHD and chronically ill themselves so won't be teaching you generic bullshit!
Details: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westword/1834843
Boosts appreciated!
A friend of mine is running Mindfulness for Neurodivergent Writers on Sunday.
They're AuDHD and chronically ill themselves so won't be teaching you generic bullshit!
Details: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/westword/1834843
Boosts appreciated!
While I’m not abreast of events at #bluesky, it seems there are #blueskyrefugees joining #mastodon. Welcome! The #fediverse has a wide variety of #creative people, including #musicians and #singers, #artists, #writers, #actors, #composers, and more. Look around, engage, and enjoy!
Photo of a recent gift of #flowers I received as gratitude for my services at a nonprofit event.
While I’m not abreast of events at #bluesky, it seems there are #blueskyrefugees joining #mastodon. Welcome! The #fediverse has a wide variety of #creative people, including #musicians and #singers, #artists, #writers, #actors, #composers, and more. Look around, engage, and enjoy!
Photo of a recent gift of #flowers I received as gratitude for my services at a nonprofit event.
**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**
AUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up! Make sure you check for your works (and check misspellings of your names, titles, etc, the database is a mess).
TELL YOUR FRIENDS
https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
The FAQ will answer your questions but I also wrote an editorial about the lawsuit in Sigma (local PGH SFF newsletter): https://parsec-sff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sigma-473-September-2025.pdf
Anyway, check it out!
Sue
**Anthropic AI Class Action Lawsuit**
AUTHOR FRIENDS: the searchable claims database is up! Make sure you check for your works (and check misspellings of your names, titles, etc, the database is a mess).
TELL YOUR FRIENDS
https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/
The FAQ will answer your questions but I also wrote an editorial about the lawsuit in Sigma (local PGH SFF newsletter): https://parsec-sff.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sigma-473-September-2025.pdf
Anyway, check it out!
Sue
Today we sold copies of Joy’s book, By My Pen, to raise funds for her chuffed campaign.
If you’d like to do the same, you can download her book as a PDF and take it to your local print shop or FedEx (be aware local printers will likely be much cheaper than FedEx). Find it here: https://linktr.ee/joyfromghazza
Today we sold copies of Joy’s book, By My Pen, to raise funds for her chuffed campaign.
If you’d like to do the same, you can download her book as a PDF and take it to your local print shop or FedEx (be aware local printers will likely be much cheaper than FedEx). Find it here: https://linktr.ee/joyfromghazza
![Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]](https://mediacdn.aus.social/accounts/avatars/108/195/770/473/016/150/original/d5b937db377b2251.gif "Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]")
Does anyone have a *method* for where to cut off your chapters?
Do you end on specific kinds of story beats? Do you have a rough length they conform to? Do you have to have accomplished something to make it a chapter?
I have ZERO intuitive sense of when chapters ought to end, and it's driving me batty.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
Nota bene:
"Point of view characters" are not required. Many books have omniscient narrators and "head hop" as a matter of course. Saladin Ahmed's EMPIRE OF THE CRESCENT MOON does this, and it won *all* the awards.
If you *like* to work with POV characters then please do! But there's no rule saying you have to.
Just saying.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
Does anyone have a *method* for where to cut off your chapters?
Do you end on specific kinds of story beats? Do you have a rough length they conform to? Do you have to have accomplished something to make it a chapter?
I have ZERO intuitive sense of when chapters ought to end, and it's driving me batty.
#Writing #Writers #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon #AmWriting #Scriberspace
My book in progress "Trial version" is AVAILABLE 💗
Check out here :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RR5BMFCjmPoTcwLItxVrtrzaf0WJ4n4n/view?usp=drive_link
I'm fascinated by drawings that give poetry a Palestinian character.🇵🇸🌷
@palestine#Gaza #writing #poetry #author #writers #poetrycommunity
The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.
#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.
Update:
Stuck at $280/$1341 as of 8/28
Please.
$1260 rent
$45 Phone
$35 skin script (4 mo supply)
Please amplify?
I'm a Black woman, disabled and survivor of many things needing help with rhent, phone and a med for September.
Bonus points if you share privately in safe spaces.
Thank you all. 🥹
#mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #disability #housingcrisis#Blackmastodon#Writers
@mutualaid @mutual_aid@hexbear.net @mutual_aid@starflower.space @disabilityjustice
I want 2 major changes in the eBook world:
1. I want someone to sell a device with hardware & software as good as the Kobo Libra Colour that isn't coupled to a single bookstore
2. I want it to be come normal for authors - ESPECIALLY self published authors - to sell their their books directly instead of just handing them over to Amazon.
Amazon will NEVER stop fucking authors over, & they'll never improve the 💩 software on the Kindle devices if we don't give them a reason to.
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