New #blog post!

#writing #dogs #pets #vet

https://polydactica.neocities.org/posts/2026-10-13-Tia

A quotation from Jean Kerr

I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.

Jean Kerr (1922–2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1968 ca.), “I Don’t Want to See the Uncut Version of Anything”, Dramatists’ Guild Bulletin

More about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/86398/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #comedy #humor #laughter #play #stage #theater #writing

If you know someone who wants a real person to write technical content, or edit text - especially medical, technical or academic - or translate from German to English please pass my details along or get in touch with me.

I'd love to work with plagiarism-averse clients who don't like their content being in or from an AI's training dataset.

Looking for short or long term projects with flexible hours, not a salaried position.

#writing #editor #translation #freelance

When Physics Runs Out of Answers, Does Metaphysics Have Any? Does science explain reality, or merely describe it? And what happens when our questions outlive the frameworks that make them intelligible?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/when-physics-runs-out-of-answers?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #science #writing #video #epistmology #language #ontology #realism #physics #limits #knowledge #blog #substack #podcast

the cat’s not so suave
when it comes to feeding time
which is ev’ry hour

#Haiku #Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
#MastoPrompt
#Suave
@stevencudahy

"I’m not aware of anyone who gets to write a sixty-thousand-word magazine piece these days." David Schurman Wallace for The Baffler on John McPhee, journalism, nature, and attention https://thebaffler.com/latest/up-a-creek-wallace #journalism #wilderness #environment #time #attention #longreads #writing

Our latest Longreads Questionnaire features award-winning journalist Erika Hayasaki, who writes an essential newsletter for freelance writers, THE REPORTED ESSAY:

https://longreads.com/2026/10/08/questionnaire-erika-hayasaki/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Interviews #Writing #Reading #Journalism

Well, it's not JUST stuff, it's stuff within stuff within stuff... It's Stuffception 😁

@galacticwriters @bookstodon @joinin
@writingbooks @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop

#WritingMemes #Meme #Humor #Humour #Geek
#Author #IndieAuthor #Indie #Writers #Writing #WritingCommunity #WritersOfMastodon

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Writers explaining their story In their head: complex, emotional masterpiece Out loud: so... stuff happens

Not really here nor there in my AWOLism but I just #medium ed an article about Medium's #ai useage #writing #statistics post, and I also found that link to that big educational study I referenced without citation to someone the other day which they hadn't heard of.

https://medium.com/@screwlisp/sloppity-sloppity-slop-medium-ai-authors-in-2026-b41fcf047af0

If you lost your link to that study or Christine's slopbobsled article, this article certainly has those two links.

For those of you who are writers, how do you get good feedback on your work?

#writing #feedback

Hey lovely people.

Tomorrow I'm going to be running an online Social Media for Creatives workshop that's focussed on keeping safe, sane and even having fun on social media.
October 6, 9am NZT.
Pay What You Can
Video Available on demand for 2 weeks after.

https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/social-media-for-creatives-tickets-1997303395221

#art #writing #music #film

OpenAI joins Anthropic with a new text watermarking system. @9to5Mac explains how it detects AI-generated writing and how effective it can be.

https://flip.it/R3pYTI
#OpenAI #AI #Writing

Our Top 5:

ㆍHumanity, lost (The Atlantic)
ㆍLife, accumulated (Oxford American)
ㆍMemories, flooded (Electric Literature)
ㆍParenting, practiced (Thew New Yorker)
ㆍSleep, unoptimized (The 19th)

https://longreads.com/2026/10/02/top-5-627/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Reading #Journalism #Essay #Nonfiction #Writing

I share my perspective on composite characters in fiction writing using my own work in progress as a focal point. It's on my Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/composite-characters-in-fiction?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#books #novels #fiction #writing #reading #author #substack #blog #biography #sexwork #work #addiction #drugs #characters #RidleyPark #process #hashtag

being a #writer with #adhd: I edited the wrong book today...

#writing #writingcommunity

Madness, poetry, love, and rage.

Solae, constructed to be the Jade Emperor's spy, flies out on a secret extended mission. Between command directives that bind them, assassins, traitors, and the mind- and body-stealing Thanarchs, they struggle to control their ever-burning curiosity and whiplash emotions.

https://books2read.com/u/ba7oNv

#sci-fi #writing

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The cover of the novel "How Deep the Light of Stolen Suns" by Mary Holstege. The image is dominated by a bright halo of golden light. Clumps of stars fall towards it, made dark by its brightness. Just coming into frame on the left is the silhouette of a spaceship. It has a large bulb at the front and a long thin tail. There are a series of delicate petals perpendicular to the shaft, fanned out into a flower or star.

I've resumed writing the manuscript for an (obviously) unfinished piece of fiction. As it stands, it might be best categorised – if one is so inclined; I'm not a fan of the limitation of genres – as literary fiction, and more particularly as a biographical novel in the tradition of transgressive realism.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/needles-edge?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#writing #reading #books #fictionbooks #biography #novels #realism #literature

https://medium.com/@screwlisp/001beginnings-as-consuming-as-possible-and-no-consumer-by-screwlisp-c5d4036a3976

Continuing my #medium #writing, I suppose this short note is about #software #education, #lisp and a few #bookstodon recommendations.

"Job one, for anybody writing a book—for anybody writing a story of any kind, of any length—is to get the reader to that last word." Earl Swift on proportionality for the Creative Nonfiction Podcast with Brendan O'Meara:

https://longreads.com/2026/09/24/proportionality-earl-swift/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#craft #writing #creativenonfiction

"No one likes to be told how to feel about something. And if you doubt that, just go ahead. Try and tell someone how to feel." Alexander Chee recounts his time as Annie Dillard's student for The Morning News https://longreads.com/2026/09/22/annie-dillard-workshop-alexander-chee-wesleyan/ #writers #writing #creativity #art #artists #longreads

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept 21:
What's the latest in the writing process you've found a mistake?

After mass-market paperback publication.

(I'm trad published: there used to be an opportunity to fix typos up to about two months after first hardcover dropped. But once it was in MMPB, everything froze forever. Of course, the mass market no longer exists, so … )

#Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersofMastodon

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman is neither a self-defence of heteronormativity nor a salacious lesbian romp. I finished reading this over the weekend.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/i-who-have-never-known-men

The piece is a critique of the book. I liked and very much recommend it, but it had some challenges.

#philosophy #literature #writing #reading #critique #harpman #humancondition #speculativefiction #fiction #sciencefiction #scifi #psychology #sociology

A quotation from Richard Steele

An author, when he first appears in the world, is very apt to believe it has nothing to think of but his Performances.

Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1711-03-05), The Spectator, No. 4

More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/86170…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #author #ego #pride #selfcenteredness #selffocus #writer #writing

Originally posted at: https://www.jesseskinner.com/blog/avoid-the-rewrite/

#blog #software #legacy #rewrite #decluttering #writing

Oops, I did it again…

#books #writing #networking

https://www.bosatsu.net/blog/posts/modern-networking.html

Put Whitehead's Science and the Modern World to bed. It has some good ideas, especially for its placement in time (1925), but he ends up too mired in indefensible metaphysics.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Hl38sR9htBKpdwOlT7yD8?si=7yAdqZQ-SGCxiK0rZ_aSxA

I discuss him in the context of other thinkers.

#philosophy #language #reading #writing #blog #substack #whitehouse #benatar #ligotti #zapffe #teleology #optimism #pessimism #metaphysics #cats #existentialism #nihilism #science #podcast

A quotation from E. B. White

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

E. B. White (1899–1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/85914/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #civicduty #conformity #dissent #duty #freedomofexpression #patriotism #positivity #tone #writers #writing

"The translucent corona is a white-gold halo—a hypnotic vortex drawing me into the black disk."—Rudi Zygadlo for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/on-tour-with-the-eclipse-chasers/?src=longreads

#longreads #solar #eclipse #astronomy #reading #writing

#PSA Here's Victoria Strauss on what's happening today with the Anthropic settlement.

(Reminder: if this is of no interest to you, feel free to mute the hashtag or me; hundreds of authors deserve a chance to make sure they aren't scammed out of this money)

#AnthropicClass #AnthropicSettlement #Authors #WRiting

https://writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/anthropic-copyright-settlement-publishers-are-making-incorrect-claims-on-authors-payouts/

#PSA #AnthropicClass #Writing

Another day, more #AnthropicSettlement threads!

Courtney Milan: ":the system is buggy because the people setting up the system did not consider the fact that books could have two authors and zero publishers."
https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3mus2rxo6dc2j

Victoria Strauss on rights reversion (its shitty news):
https://bsky.app/profile/victoriastrauss.com/post/3mus3i4m2l225

KJ Charles on cash-grabby agents:
https://bsky.app/profile/kjcharleswriter.com/post/3mur5bszt322r

Courtney Milan on how to deal with cash-grabby agents:
https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3mus3qe6xks2a

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Bluesky post by KJ Charles: "Hi @greenburgerlit.bsky.social! Could you explain, for the audience, what the maths are behind you putting in for 25% of Anthropic compensation on books you agented? Why is it 25% of the full sum, and not, say, 15% of the author share? Why should you get anything?" Timestapm 2:40 PM · Sep 5, 2026

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Bluesky bio for @greenburgerlit.bsky.social, showing that they are in fact Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, a literary agency established in 1932, and who should absolutely know the fuck better than to do this shit.

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Bluesky post by Courtney Milan: "Hi @greenburgerlit.bsky.social! A bunch of us authors were wondering what the basis was for your claiming 25% of the total amount for any books your agency remotely touched in the Anthropic Settlement." Timestamp 2:39 PM · Sep 5, 2026

I accidentally typed #SilentSinday instead of #SilentSunday and now I want to make that I thing

How are you spending your #SilentSinday, eh?

Me, I'm murdering another immortal in my WIP #writing

Would Alexandre Dumas have used an LLM? I asked an LLM. It said yes.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/would-alexandre-dumas-have-used-an

Dumas is famous for having authored many books: The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask, and others, but as some people use AI, he sometimes got ideas from others; he also had others write in his name. Sound familiar? He's not alone.

#writing #books #classics #literature #author #Dumas #french #llms #blog #substack #authorship #ai #creativity #ghostwriting

#PSA Counsel in the Anthropic Class say that today September 4 2026 is the day for every author in the class to get emails--please make sure to check what Courtney Milan and Victoria Strauss are reporting about this on BlueSky (check their timelines, follow the links above in this thread), because there are a lot of issues for authors, and you may need to upload contracts and dispute percentages and so on.

#AnthropicClass #AnthropicStettlement #Writing #Authors

And Courtney Milan has yet another thread going, a Q&A on right reversion and publisher claims as it pertains to the Anthropic settlement; at this point, the thread is ongoing, as she answers more questions on the topic.

#PSA #AnthropicClass #AnthropicSettlement #Writing #Authors #Copyright

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3mumfr5rnrk2g

So apparently publishers are trying to get paid for books that have reverted entirely to the author. Courtney Milan has another thread on how to check what the assholes are doing, and how to fix it. Do not let the fuckers get a dime of your hard earned settlement money!

#PSA #AnthropicClass #AnthropicSettlement #Writing #Authors #Copyright

https://bsky.app/profile/courtneymilan.com/post/3muliuk4uts2k

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

A transition from an author’s book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1750-05-05), The Rambler, No. 14

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20141…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #author #celebrity #complications #creator #fandom #inperson #interaction #person #personality #perspective #reality #writer #writing

@futurebird 🎯

I remember well my self-finding periods as a teenager by writing "horrible" #diaries. No stuff to be read by others but what helped me to become me.
Very late in life, I relearn how much it can help to write little #diary notes against the feeling of being overwhelmed. Each crooked selfmade sentence helps hundreds of times more than chatting with a slop bot.

#noAI #writing #wellbeing #WellbeingWednesday

A quotation from John Adams

The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/35775/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cursive #handwriting #idiosyncrasy #writing #legibility

My new book is out!

In Drift is a romance that does not follow the usual patterns. The characters question the whole relationship drama, explore their feelings, express their love without falling into the trap of owning each other, and try to find their own little spot in the world.

A book about people who are weird and vulnerable and do not fit in, but are lucky enough to find each other.

http://drift.t3x.org/in_drift/

#books #romance #writing

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The cover of the book "In Drift", depicting the silhouette of a female dancer against an abstract background. The dancer stands on the toes of one leg, the opposite foot touches the knee. She stretches one arm up and the other up and to the side. The pose looks light and effortless.

According to Pew Research Center, around 10 percent of 500,000 English-language webpages from the last five years were written or substantially edited by AI. The organization determined this using a tool called Open Pangram, which checks text for language patterns, identifying words, phrases and linguistic quirks that are considered typically of AI. When their data is filtered for content published after the release of ChatGPT, signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages. Here's the full story.

https://flip.it/hrgkQr

#Technology #AI #Writing

New post: I'm Using My Brain

https://lanie.work/advocacy/i-am-using-my-brain/

#Ai #Disability #Assistive-Technology #Ableism #Accessibility #Writing #Advocacy

"If you’re doing something complicated, you have to think about how the reader is taking it in. Is this clear to the reader? Is the reader going to want to read the next paragraph? Where is the momentum?"

—Rachel Hartigan in conversation with Brendan O'Meara for the Creative Nonfiction Podcast

https://longreads.com/2026/08/18/bucking-expectations-rachel-hartigan/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#craft #journalism #writing #reporting

The Sorcerer's Apprentice prefigures the perils of Modernity.
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/sourcery-of-modernity
#philosophy #modernity #history #literature #writing #reading #blog #podcast #magic #disney #fantasia #competence

Writers: here are ten free and easy ways to add a dash of visual interest to your blog posts without resorting to AI imagery (which signals to readers that your blog post is probably also AI and there’s no need to bother reading it):

1) A thoughtful photo you’ve taken yourself — a nice sunrise you saw, a cool angle spotted on vacation, your pet curled up on the couch, flowers. Play with your phone photo app’s filter settings to nail the tone. It doesn’t need to be particularly related to the post, it’s related to you as a person.

2) An image from Wikimedia Commons that’s somehow related to the subject matter — there are unfathomably many, you can search by keyword. Remember to credit. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

3) A screenshot of a scene you made in a sandbox game such as Minecraft or Animal Crossing

4) A scene you made with toys such as Lego (you can also use free Lego design software such as Bricklink Studio) https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/main.page

5) Play with the effects in whatever image editor you have access to, using your own photos or free-to-use images, to create something a bit abstract and avant-garde

6) Even if you can’t draw or paint very well, you can probably make some pretty cool abstract or collage imagery with whatever art supplies you have around. Dampen some paper and randomly dip watercolor paint onto it and see what happens

7) Those stickers you stashed and never used? Yeah you can make something with them. If they’re individually cut, you don’t even need to peel them, you’ll still find the One True Way to use them one day, I’m sure

8) Shelfies. None will dare question your competence after they see you have a real paper copy of Subject Matter Tome Volumes 1 through 6

9) You can get a lot of mileage out of compositing pre-made video game assets into an image. A good place to start is Kenney’s free and generously licensed 2D assets: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/category:2D and the Tiled editor which is specifically meant for assembling images out of video game asset tile sheets https://www.mapeditor.org

10) the most ridiculously amateurish thing you can scribble on a post-it note or in MS Paint is preferable to AI imagery because it clearly signals a real human cares about the post.

#writing #writingcommunity #collage #blog

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A pink, purple and soft blue collage created with paper and stickers I had lying around my room: a little robot mascot from Ace Attorney is advising “You don’t need to be ‘a good artist’ to create a unique and interesting image for your blog.”

Vol 07 of my newsletter just dropped. Lots of cool stuff about design, code, accessibility, privacy, and antifascism.

https://markwrites.io/nano-bytes-07

If you want to know when I publish new stuff, grab the RSS feed or subscribe to the email list. Or don’t. Whatevs.

#NanoBytes #Newsletter #Writing #Design #Code #Privacy #Antifascism

These are the common forms of modern, #academic #writing:

• quick reference handbook (QRH) / survey paper
• expository article / introductory book
• in-depth monograph / comprehensive reference manual (CRM)

Of those, the most difficult to master is the mid-sized introductory form, which demands of the author a thorough grasp of the material, a deep experience in teaching novices, and a refined sense of editing.

On the other hand, the brevity of the QRH form shields the author from most criticisms, and the breadth of the CRM form obfuscates the shortcomings in the author's taste and style.

New post: What Good Days Look Like

https://lanie.work/advocacy/what-a-good-day-looks-like/

#Disability #Chronic-Illness #Fatigue #Writing #Advocacy

A quotation from Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 3 “Reading” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thoreau #walden #authors #books #heritage #influence #writing

#poetry #poem #amwriting #books #poets #writing

#Writing #AI

@dramypsyd

Nifty. 👍

"I screen recorded my writing"

So it has come to that already: humans must prove they are human, at least regarding their contributions. 🙈

I had a perfect verse while showering. By the time I got out and was writing it down, half of it disappeared from memory.

The mind is a funny thing!

#life #writing

Story acceptance! 🥳
#writing

This is less what I am reading than what I've just finished, but you can check out what I'm up to by following the link to Goodreads.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/08/10/what-am-i-reading/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

That I am reading a book is neither a recommendation nor an endorsement. There tends to be an overrepresentation of fiction titles because I listen to these when I work out and to fall asleep, which in each case burns through many chapters. They also tend to be shorter.

#reading #writing #blog #books #goodreads #diversity

When you write a thousand words in just one hour and then spend another three just to get a single sentence right.

#writing

This week's #longreads Top 5 includes:

-Behind the blockade (Associated Press)
-Splendid scribbles (Eater)
-Greenest green (The New Yorker)
-New nuptials norm (New Lines Magazine)
-Tasteless tomatoes (Offrange)

https://longreads.com/2026/08/07/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-620/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social

#longreads #top5 #reading #writing #essays

Friends, I have a confession to make.

I've been thinking a lot about it, and I don't want to sound rude, but I think a lot of other people need to think about it too. The thing is...

If the guy trying to murder me with an axe was gone tomorrow, I have to know, what would I do?

I mean, I don't want to sound axe-murderer-happy, but he's been trying to murder me in the most bloodthirsty possible manner for so long that I just don't know what I'd do without him.

It's only been 21 hours, but it feels like a lifetime! You know what I mean, right ladies?

For the last forever he's been such a disruptive part of my life! I really feel like I'm a different person now. After having to rip out the gas line on my stove and light it with the barbecue stick my husband keeps to start the pilot light nearby, and then flambeeing the bastard with my own improvised flamethrower, can I really ever go back to a pre ax-murderer life--

One sec, bear trap.

There, that's done. But after he sawed through the door of the Rat Museum I was hiding in, forcing me to run through hallways full of rats in order to escape him, will I ever live a truly rat-free existence? Without them? Without him?

I just don't know anymore. Really, is anyone complete without an ax-murderer at their back? Has anyone ever been? I don't think anyone would even want to go back to the way they were before.

Anyway, signing off, I've got a pit of acid behind me and an inadequate railing keeping me from falling into it, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

XOXO

#llm #parody #ai #writing

Story idea: we discover an anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background that we pull the thread on and discover that it is significantly easier to accelerate in one direction in the Universe and basically impossible over long distances in the other.

This leads to one half of the universe being an empty backwater (where we are) and the other end being an overcrowded mess, with a civilizational gradient.

Humans being human we decide to attack The Density from The Sparse.

#story #writing

"The real world is both tiring and tiresome for him, Lewis went on to explain: too many unwritten rules, too many norms that don’t quite make sense." —Eve Livingston for Dispatch

https://dispatch-media.com/meet-britains-hikikomori/?src=longreads

#longreads #introvert #autism #anxiety #reading #writing #family

New post: The Pipe and the Voice

https://lanie.work/technology/the-pipe-and-the-voice/

#Disability #Ai #Writing #Accessibility #Caregiving #Assistive-Technology #Personal #Technology

"Whatever the reason, it’s now de rigueur to be regular."—Linni Kral for Taste

https://tastecooking.com/this-too-shall-pass/?src=longreads

#longreads #poop #BM #diet #influencer #reading #writing

A quotation from Schopenhauer

But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.
 
[Aber freilich suchen viele Schriftsteller gerade unter dem Wortüberfluß ihre Gedankenarmuth zu verbergen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #schopenhauer #arthurschopenhauer #communication #content #eloquence #logorrhea #loquaciousness #pithiness #thought #verbiage #wordiness #writing

A quotation from E. B. White

I know of one gifted crackpot who used to be employed gainfully in the fields of humor and satire, who has taken a solemn pledge not to write anything funny or lighthearted or “insignificant” again till things get straightened around in the world. This seems to me distinctly deleterious and a little silly. A literature composed of nothing but liberty-loving thoughts is little better than the propaganda which it seeks to defeat.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/85184/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #badtimes #earnestness #gravity #humor #propaganda #satire #senseofhumor #seriousness #war #weightiness #writing

A quotation from Propertius

And should I fail, my courage brings its commendation:
greatness aimed at is enough.
 
[Quod si deficiant vires, audacia certe
Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sat est.]

Propertius (50-16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 2, Elegy 10, l. 5ff (2.10.5-6) [tr. Holcombe (2009)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/propertius/3221/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #propertius #writing #aspiration #attempt #audacity #boldness #courage #daring #determination #endeavor #enterprise #failure #fallingshort #goal #honor #intention #praise #praiseworthiness #striving #will

🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧🍥🌀🎠🤸🏿‍♀️🎡🤗(For where jealousy!*& selfish ambition exist!*there will be disorder!*& every vile practice!)👉

(James 3:13-18)
#Wisdom #from #Above #We #Are #Called #by #One #Vocation #UNITY #GOD #JESUS #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Understanding #Love #One #Another #Harmony #Journey #Eternity #Sweet #Healing #Wings #Angels #WRITING #JEWISH #AND #US #ALL #ON #EARTH

🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧🍥🌀🎠🤸🏿‍♀️🎡🤗(Who is wise?!*& understanding among you?*By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom!)👉

(James 3:13-18)
#Wisdom #from #Above #We #Are #Called #by #One #Vocation #GOD #JESUS #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #Harmony #Journey #Eternity #Sweet #Healing #Wings #Angels #WRITING #JEWISH #AND #US #ALL #ON #EARTH

🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧🌐🌍💗💦🕊️🤗(Servant JAMES OF GOD!*& JESUS CHRIST SAYS!*Who is wise?!*& understanding among you?*By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom!)👉

(James 3:13-18)
#Wisdom #from #Above #We #Are #Called #by #One #Vocation #GOD #JESUS #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Love #One #Another #Harmony #Journey #Eternity #Sweet #Healing #WRITING

🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧🛩️🎡🏖️⛱️🤗(Servant JAMES OF GOD!*& JESUS CHRIST SAYS TO US ALL ON EARTH!)👉

(James 3:13-18)
#Wisdom #from #Above #We #Are #Called #by #One #Vocation #UNITY #Prayer #Amen #GOD #JESUS #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #One #Another #Harmony #Journey #Eternity #Sweet #Healing #Wings #Angels #WRITING #JEWISH #AND #US #ALL #ON #EARTH

🤗☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧🦋⛵🌞🤗*Wisdom from Above!🤗🌐🌍💗💦🕊️💒❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑💌👐🫂🏩🫶🩵🫧☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽🤗

☁️🌈☁️🪽😇🪽💦🕊️❤️‍🔥✝️🛐👑👉

(James 3:13-18)
#Wisdom #from #Above #Devotional #We #Are #Called #by #One #Vocation #UNITY #Prayer #Amen #GOD #JESUS #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Savior #Light #World #People #Pray #Believe #Christian #Heaven #Hope #Peace #Faith #Truth #Goodness #Kindness #Hospitality #Gentleness #Understanding #Love #One #Another #Harmony #Journey #Eternity #Sweet #Healing #Wings #Angels #WRITING #JEWISH #US #ALL #ON #EARTH

The AI-authorship debate is bollox.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/human-factors-in-authorship

The LLM-versus-human debate has been raging for several years now, and there seem to be two principal camps: human exceptionalists and agnostics. I suppose there may also be a small, misanthropic faction, but its members are remarkably quiet.

#philosophy #blog #substack #podcast #pangram #authenticity #quality #facticity #dashboard #authorship #writing #publishing #media #language #llms #artificialintelligence #debate #exceptionalism

"What shall we say of today? Better yet, what shall I say of today? That I will try to do better, perhaps. But Beckett hasn’t much patience for such resolutions." Robert Zaretsky for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/beckett-the-prophet/?src=longreads #samuelbeckett #godot #theater #art #writing #longreads

A quotation from Schopenhauer

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
 
[Viele Worte machen, um wenige Gedanken mitzutheilen, ist überall das untrügliche Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; das des eminenten Kopfes dagegen, viele Gedanken in wenige Worte zu schließen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

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"This is surely the most exciting development in the field of ancient history in many years." —Carlos Noreña for Aeon

https://aeon.co/essays/uncovering-a-global-ancient-history-beyond-greece-and-rome?src=longreads

#longreads #greece #rome #ancienthistory #reading #writing

✍🏼✍🏿✍️📝💁🏿‍♀️*Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers👉

#Writing #Ideas #Art #Ideas

Hemingway’s Advice on Writing, Ambition, and His Reading List of Essential Books for Aspiring Writers – The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/01/04/with-hemingway-arnold-samuelson-writing/

interesting times
nuanced the same as ever
perhaps, or never

#Haiku #Poetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity
#MastoPrompt
#Same
@stevencudahy

eat, drink, sleep, cuddle
sometimes I wish
I was my cat

My ink drawing of this cute kitty is also available combined with this lovely haiku.

Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg

#haiku #poem #poetry #writing #ink #drawing #handmade #MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #cats #CatsOfMastodon #caturday #cat #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #catstodon #kitten #kitty #kittens #katze #CatsOfFediverse #BuyIntoArt #ArtForSale #giftideas

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eat, drink, sleep, cuddle sometimes I wish I was my cat Sweet dreams is a minimalist black and white ink drawing by artist Karen Kaspar. A cute kitten lies sleeping on the floor. It seems to be smiling and having sweet dreams. This work, a combination of painting and haiku, is a joint project by Karen Kaspar (© art and artwork) and Marjolein Rotsteeg (© Haiku). A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form consisting of three lines. Here the ink drawing was supplemented with the haiku in English

Only two more weeks to enter your sci-fi stories for the Protopian Prize, given to works that imagine positive futures for humanity, w/tech that serves the public interest. (I'm one of the judges!) Two winners get $5000 US each, and publication in an anthology from MIT Press! #scifi #future #writing https://protopianprize.com/

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect, compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worse, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Source (1750-03-24), The Rambler, No. 2

More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/24197…

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Solarpunk Magazine announced that they suspect two stories from their last issue were a) written by the same person and b) were done using AI. Reflecting on that issue, I felt like there was something off about the two stories. They felt like they lacked some spark. The stories felt too similar. Like they were solarpunk pastiches with just the right mix of elements to make it recognizable.

Additionally, I tried looking up one of the authors and I found almost no footprint anywhere online. An author with zero social media or online presence?! Possible in this sort of community but highly unlikely to have NOTHING.

Great that they magazine took accountability for it and I hope to read more wonderful, human created stories about the future.

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/we-unknowingly-published-ai-slop-and-were-taking-accountability/

#Solarpunk #Clifi #Bookstodon #Fiction #SolarpunkMagazine #AI #Writing #SciFi #ScienceFiction #SSF

A quotation from Cicero

For indeed it is possible that a man may think well, and yet not be able to express his thoughts elegantly; but for any one to publish thoughts which he can neither arrange skillfully nor illustrate so as to entertain his reader, is an unpardonable abuse of letters and retirement: they, therefore, read their books to one another, and no one ever takes them up but those who wish to have the same license for careless writing allowed to themselves.
 
[Fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit; sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec inlustrare possit nec delectatione aliqua allicere lectorem, hominis est intemperanter abutentis et otio et litteris. Itaque suos libros ipsi legunt cum suis, nec quisquam attingit praeter eos, qui eandem licentiam scribendi sibi permitti volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 3 (1.3) / sec. 6 (1.6) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

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@alebensform #writing is another big one.

"A new initiative is asking #Canadian #Jews to make history by #writing #essays about their childhoods that will be stored in Canada’s largest #Jewish archive.

The Canadian Jewish Life Writing Project is meant to empower Jews to #write first-person accounts about the diversity and undocumented realities of Jewish life in Canada. The Association for Canadian #JewishStudies (#ACJS), which runs conferences, lectures and an #academic journal for Canadian Jewish #scholars, launched a call for submissions at the end of April 2026.

ACJS executive director #JoshuaTapper says the project was inspired by a #Polish writing contest from the 1930s that collected more than 600 #autobiographical #stories from Polish Jewish youth. Members of #YIVO, an organization that has preserved Jewish cultural heritage since 1925, created what Tapper calls “an incredibly rich resource for scholars today” by “going to the people” for their #stories."

https://thecjn.ca/arts-culture/a-new-online-archive-hopes-to-preserve-canadian-jewish-identity-through-storytelling/

You want to read my books and can't afford to buy them.
Then just ask.
Honestly, just ask.
I'll happily send you an e-copy.
And if you want to give something in return, you can write and post a review. That by itself is more than enough.

#Books #Writing

"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads

#longreads #prom #ukraine #russia #war #reading #writing

"Someone once sent me a model of the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared into the ocean. But the best gift? What a terrifying question. My college education? If anyone ever gives me a human skull, that will be it." Elisa Gabbert answers the Longreads questionnaire https://longreads.com/2026/07/08/longreads-questionnaire-elisa-gabbert/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social #authors #writing #interview #creativity #longreads

A quotation from E. B. White

A writer should cultivate only what naturally absorbs his fancy, whether it be freedom or cinch bugs, and should write in the way that comes easy.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84883/

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A quotation from E. B. White

A writer should cultivate only what naturally absorbs his fancy, whether it be freedom or cinch bugs, and should write in the way that comes easy.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84883/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #author #gowiththeflow #interest #literarystyle #subject #topic #writer #writing