Photo of a little parakeet amigurumi on top of a bunch of pink flowers

Blirbo enjoying the flowers too 🌺🩵

#crochet

All THAT said, I believe there’s a GIANT difference between AI slop and AI collaboration for brainstorming/editing/beta reading, etc.

It’s a 🌶️ take, I know.

#WritersOfBlueSky, I’d love to hear your thoughts and opinions about #WritingWithAI 🤔

Jokes aside, not everyone has access to critique groups or professional editors. AI can fill that gap in a meaningful way. Maybe it’s time we talk about how to use it responsibly instead of pretending it’s not happening.

#AuthorLife #WritingCommunity

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#Writers question: what’s your go-to thesaurus these days? I lost my good Roget’s paper thesaurus in a move years ago, and no online tool I’ve seen yet can keep up with evolving language. What do YOU use to help you find that perfect word sometimes?

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Me flirting

goodnight horror fam 🖤😈🫶

A photo of a tree sillhouette with the moon and Venus to the left

the moon and venus looking beautiful tonight 🌒

So I’m relatively new to Blue Sky. Are there any feeds I’m missing? Like secret menu items that an Old like me might not find right away?

The way I felt this in my soul during my college days. 🫠

Oooh, I do enjoy a slow-burn friends-to-lovers! Might I recommend the “Heralds of Valdemar” trilogy, especially “Magic’s Pawn” by Mercedes Lackey. That’s a personal favorite.

If there ever was a symbol for the status of this economy, it’s the house we saw today with the garage door held up by a single 🩼.

Funny, I thought I’d left “done to death” in my comment but I see it didn’t make the cut! 😂 D’oh!

But yes, I fully agree with you.

I mean, look at Hallmark.

I absolutely dislike the “enemies to lovers* trope. Recently I read an apocalyptic zombie novel that I thought was going to be awesome and whoops! Enemies to lovers. I read it, but I rolled my eyes until the very last page & was left in a state of extreme unwow.

I absolutely love this! 😍📚

I was shocked. When I heard about this, I went down SEVERAL Reddit rabbit holes.

Enlightening, to say the least.

91 Percent Human: The Shy Girl AI Scandal When I was nineteen, I wrote a poem about flowers that never blossomed.

Somehow, I had missed the entire Shy Girl - Mia Ballard controversy until today. Found an enlightening essay about it, and I might look for more later.

For anyone like me for whom this story is new:

open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

This is exactly what I’m hoping to accomplish with my own writing. 📚

Thank you very much. ✨

It sold well, until the public outcry. It racked up 4900 reviews on good reads.

It was briefly published by one of the Big 5!

Isn’t that wild?

I mean, people are taking back the em-dash.

I myself have started looking for them in books published prior to 2022.

What a time to be alive.

As my partner says, “AI trained on something.”

And then we have the “Shy Girl” AI controversy:

#Booktok hit & author cancelled for failing to disclose use of AI. When called out, she blamed it on a “new freelance editor”.

But here’s what I find interesting about that-

The book was a HIT. 📚

Still, that’s the problem.

You can’t always tell and if you point a finger & are wrong?

There’s a MILLION discourses all over Reddit (my main source of info-I love Reddit) 😃 about what AI markers ARE and how to spot them and I’m over here like…

But what if some people just *write* like that?

But I’d bet a 💵 to a 🍩 didn’t didn’t disclose AI use.

I don’t know why I think that, but I do. Call it a hunch.

Might I be wrong?

I might be.

But I don’t think I am.

A disappointed otter

Writing this after reading yet another e-published short horror story today w/GLARING AI markers. 😒

That said, I didn’t immediately quit reading because I wanted to find out how the story ended.

Spoiler: not great.

At the same time, when I *do* see such AI markers out in the literary wild…

Polarizing thought OTD:

Writing with AI is like peeing in the shower.

Lots of people probably do it…

but very few will admit to it.

Dog imitating Penguins 🤣

A light tan cat with a serious expression and a larger ghostly image of its face in the background. Transcribed Text: "I can laugh even in serious situations, but when I’m hungry, nothing is funny."

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