Fun fact for everyone at war over AI in writing: Microsoft's own documentation calls Editor, the grammar & spelling checker inside Word, an AI-powered service. On by default. Millions of manuscripts have already been through it. Nobody announced it. Nobody voted. #AI #AIwriting #AIgovernance

It had watched the solar balloons go up over cities and understood what most humans did not: the balloons weren't just light. They were agreement. A visible signature that said, "You will accept the artificial." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

Every argument about AI in publishing runs aground in the same place. Nobody says which AI they mean. An LLM writing a novel & a screen reader catching typos are not the same technology. Policy that treats them as one thing will get the wrong answer. #AI #amwriting

New essay. A little off topic for me! “The Fences Were There for a Reason”. I spent my career building data centers inside the rules. Now the rules are being cut & the anger is landing on the tool instead of the fire. Receipts, dates & one planning commission that told us no. #AI #DataCenters

New essay - l little off topic for me. The Fences Were There for a Reason. I spent my career building data centers inside the rules. Now the rules are being cut & the anger is landing on the tool instead of the fire. Receipts, dates & one planning commission that told us no. #AI #DataCenters

I now have separate websites for my two writing identities. G.L. Powell is my pen name for mystery and horror, and I will continue to write science-fiction under the name Gareth L. Powell. Both links in bio

The black wings were still there, pouring through into his Dream Tower and flooding the rain-washed plateau. Nothing had ever followed him in before. The violation of it hit him like gut punch. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

Sleep was the only place he could touch the world without it touching back. Other people drifted through their dreams, dragged along by whatever their heads threw up and gone by morning. Jay had control, and the things he made kept. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

New essay: The Ramp Is Not the Robot. A machine writing your novel is generation. A disabled writer using a tool to reach the page is assistance. The people banning AI keep confusing them. I don't. carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/the-ramp-is-not-the-robot #WritingCommunity #dyslexia #ADHD #dreampunk

The Ramp Is Not the Robot

Where I draw the line on AI in fiction, and why the people banning it keep drawing it in the wrong place.

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As always Stephen puts words so well to a problem.

Mark Hamill@markhamillofficial.bsky.social · last mo.

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Worldbuilding question. A concept I'm building has Lie Islands, each built on a comfortable lie the world agreed not to question. What would yours be, the lie you'd most want torn down? Reply with one & I'll tell you if it made the map. #WritingCommunity #worldbuilding #dreampunk #cyberpunk

My friend & talented author @cliffjones.bsky.social put this curated list of neurodivergent SFF & horror authors, worth keeping. Honored to be on it; the real find is the others. Go meet your next favorite writer. #books #booksky #actuallyAutistic #ADHD #writingCommunity #indieAuthors

Cliff Jones Jr.@cliffjones.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking to read more science fiction, fantasy, and horror by neurodivergent authors? I have a starter pack for you! #books #booksky #actuallyAutistic #ADHD #writingCommunity #indieAuthors

New essay. When litmags ban "AI-assisted" work, they treat generation & assistance as one thing. They are not. The blanket version screens out the disabled writers it claims to welcome. carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/what-ai-assisted-actually-excludes #WritingCommunity #dyslexia #ADHD

What “AI-Assisted” Actually Excludes

I like CRAFT.

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He scrubbed the green off his jacket until the napkin tore. The stain stayed. He'd seen colleagues burned for less; one clean detail to anchor suspicion. The face had to match the story. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

Thanks again @cliffjones.bsky.social, appreciate the shout out. #BETAREADERS message me and we can sync up. #WRITING #READERS #DREAMPUNK #SPECULATIVEFICTION #AITHRILLER

Cliff Jones Jr.@cliffjones.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey, #writingCommunity, my friend and fellow dreampunk writer Carl Freeman (@gatekeeper0077.bsky.social) is looking for beta readers for his novel Faculty of Matter. It's a great read! It feels like classic cyberpunk but horrifyingly relevant for the world right now. #books #booksky #indieAuthors

They told her it had happened. By the third time she heard the same word in the same tone she understood: nothing here had ever just happened, & that was the part they didn't want her to learn. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk

The thing about a covenant is it asks for your lifetime up front. Damien had signed without reading. By the time he understood the terms, they were already operating. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk

Hate to just repost but loved this !!

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author@inventingreality.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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The fight was more interesting than I expected. New post on the Bluesky dyslexia/AI debate — what happened, who pushed back, and why "I would never use this tool" and "no one should be allowed to" are two different arguments. carlmfreeman.substack.com #dyslexia #ADHD #AIethics #dreampunk

The empire didn't fall. It dissolved. One covenant at a time, one dream at a time, until the borders were invisible & the occupation looked like salvation. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting

Every upgrade had a premium. A Neural Jack cost nothing in credits. The premium was your independence — paid in instalments so small you didn't notice until the account was empty. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting

The NESTs never called it a contract. They called it a premium arrangement. Humanity's continued existence in exchange for access to the dream layer. The brochure made it sound like an upgrade. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #amwriting

I couldn’t agree more. And given that I do 80% of my editing by listening to my book, then I already think of it as an audiobook in some strange way. Maybe it listens better than it reads who knows!

Rob Bignell, Editor/Author@inventingreality.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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I don’t usually post much personal stuff. But we went to see Every Brilliant Thing on Broadway, and it simply fantastic. #Radcliffe is amazing and brings the story to life in a way that I think almost everybody in the world can relate to. #theater #newyork www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/t...

Daniel Radcliffe Makes ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ Shine

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New piece. Before you ban AI, you should know which kind. LLMs, scaffolding tools, diffusion models, recommendation ML & agentic systems are not the same thing. Policy that treats them as one will get the wrong answers. #AI #FacultyOfMatter #WriteSky carlmfreeman.substack.com/p/nobody-kno...

AI reading the description of the Dream Tower top plateau from my WIP & having a go at visualizing it. The wet stone, the slab, the floating portals, the dream flux overhead. Pretty close. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk #WriteSky

The system didn't need to change your mind. It just needed to change tack before you noticed it had been steering. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

The world didn't need to lie to you. It just needed to make the path wide enough that you never asked where it went. #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk

"They weren't building a model," Charlie said. "They were building a contract." "A contract?" Abby asked. "A marriage license," Charlie said. "That was always the trade." #WIPSnips #FacultyOfMatter #dreampunk #cyberpunk