Unsolicited writing advice, no: 175:
No-one ever promised it would be easy. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no: 175:
No-one ever promised it would be easy. Anyone telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something.
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It’s time for allies in the media industry to speak up for LGBTQIA+ people
www.wearequeeraf.com/its-time-for...
Out this week!!
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
AI narration has been a thing for years. And yes: it sucks.
Who would include it?
Kathleen Lonsdale (1903 – 1971) was an Irish crystallographer, pacifist, and prison reform activist. During her career she attained several firsts for female scientists, including being one of the first two women elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. #CelebratingWomen
May (or may not) contain me.
BBC News - An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here too. It's very welcome...
And likewise!
Good to hear the wise and articulate @tracychevalier.bsky.social standing up for authors against AI on the Today programme this morning...
Tonight at 7.00 I'll be here at the North Light Gallery, talking about VIANNE, chocolate, and the terrible freedom of travelling with the north wind... to-be-read.co.uk/books/an-eve...
And this morning the Shed is a carving, deep in the bark of an ancient tree…
I know you're already sick to death of me going on about it but look the thing is that we've nearly raised a grand for @mariecurieuk.bsky.social already. Thirty more quid will do it. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...
Interesting point...
This is launching this week, and I'm starting to get pictures from friends who already spotted copies out in the wild!
This excellent cat would like you to know that he appreciates you all very much, especially when you bring BISCUIT.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 – 1762) was an English medical pioneer, writer, and poet. She is known for introducing smallpox inoculation in Britain. Her writings address and challenge contemporary social attitudes towards women and their intellectual growth at that time. #CelebratingWomen
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A copy of VIANNE in paperback on a scarred old work bench, with old books and chocolate-making parapernalia...
THREE DAYS TO GO!!
I'd be very grateful of you could predorder this. In the UK, Speedy Hen has the best hardback price (plus free shipping - an excellent deal). @severnhouse.bsky.social
Gorgeous.
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 6230:
Writing is freedom. You are free to write whatever you like, in whatever way you like. You're free to take advice, or not. You're free to describe the real world, or to build it differently. Your successes, your mistakes, your decisions belong to you. Own them.
Awaiting news of finance: not a good time for making plans, apparently. Fingers crossed...
And this morning the Shed is a constellation, marking the course of those lost at sea…
I’m in the best company!
Fox buffet, I'm afraid... :-)