I use AI in polishing my work. I give it strict rules telling it what to find. Since I have been tracking it, AI has helped me find and resolve over 2,000 cases where I have broken my own rules. Writing makes no profit for me. It is only a passion. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Changed my opening paragraph for the zillionth time. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I found myself drawn into some beautiful paintings until coming to realize they were AI. What makes art...art? The universe filtered through the accumulated lens of being. With no consciousness behind those decisions it comes to feel like staring into the void. #writingcommunity

I did a day of edits on the wrong version of my manuscript. At least it was just one day. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Imposter syndrome alarm going off. I've missed some obvious flaw. Anyone who knows what they are doing will see it immediately. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Getting stuck on tiny details. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I understand Tomi Adeyemi and I do not. It's exciting to have your work adapted into a film, but then it's not yours anymore. If I wanted to make films, I would make films. Would I turn down a stack of money on principle? #writingcommunity

I personally witnessed a UFO move from a dead stop to the horizon in less than a second. #ufo #uap

I highly recommend The Friendship by Mildred Taylor, an amazing author. #writingcommunity

At this point, I don't even remember writing my novel. All I remember is the endless editing. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Huh. I just found a whole new category of error in my novel. That's a good thing? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Imagine having the best day of your life getting signed with a literary agency...and then that agency is Europa Content. #writingcommunity #nightmarefuel #aiwitchhunt

I loved the writing part of writing my novel. Took me three months to write about 70,000 words. Was a joy to write, I knew exactly what needed to happen. Of course that was two years of revisions ago. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

We are living through a weird age of AI Satanic Panic. #writingcommunity

This character is very different from me. What do I know about being X? Insert: a woman, trans, Black, Asian, or another dimension I have no personal familiarity with. I am writing the real world. There is no world without human diversity. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

The romantic in me would imagine myself as Diogenes the writer. Not really with living outdoors on purpose. Or desiring nothing. Or the rejection of society and material comforts. Or demonstrating belief through action. But all the other parts. Diogenes with Netflix. #writingcommunity

Writers have to go through the baby naming process...a lot. Keandra? Maybe Keedra? Kandra? Kanderly? The woman smiled. "Hi, I'm Kanderly." ...eh.... The woman smiled. "Hi, I'm Jane." #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I just wrote a beautiful filler chapter. Has everything but tension. Can I just call it cozy? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I hear people use the term "GenAI" and I think of everyone who will grow up with AI as an ordinary fact of life. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

I once was browsing through a book store in Portland, Oregon when a group of White supremacists burst in marching and chanting, then left. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

Gentle, positive, constructive criticism. Meanwhile me: That paragraph is ugly as sin. Ugh. Did I have to go to the bathroom when I was writing that? Okay, okay, got to pee...but one more sentence... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I once read an unnamed book - a great book - with a sentence repeated. I almost cried. I felt so affirmed. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I heard him say it, your honor. He confessed. He killed a darling. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

My novel keeps packing on weight like No Face with every chapter restructure. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Re-reading a not-all-the-way-there scene and feeling like I pooped in the yard. I'll just clean that up before anyone notices. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

I am happy to say the chapter is out of surgery and in recovery. I will need to keep monitoring it, but the restructure appears to have been a success. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Going through revisions, I need to be much better at Jenga than I am. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

Convention is a siren's call for me. Doing a thing no one else does probably means they understand something I do not. Doing a whole lot of those things, even more so. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

There is a certain liberation accepting that my work will never be famous or lucrative. It means that the craft choices I make are solely because I believe in them. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

No matter how good my book is, I will spend much more time, money, and effort than I will ever recoup. The lowest paying job in the writing business is the writer. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting