#editing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #editing, aggregated by home.social.
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Start with lower stakes and then escalate as the book progresses. Forcing the characters to choose between their original goal and a new one creates the friction of indecision that you can use to power the plot.
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EditLens: Quantifying the extent of AI editing in text (2025)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154
#HackerNews #EditLens #AI #text #editing #2025 #machine #learning #research #innovation
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FINAL HOURS!
My latest resource, "The Speculative Fiction Writer's Self-Edit Checklist," is included in the Free Books For Authors giveaway. This isn't a collection of inspirational quotes; it's a rigorous framework for refining work across genres like SF, horror, and urban fantasy.
It's one of a dozen books available right now. If you're serious about your craft, take a look: https://books.confluentpress.com/free-books-for-writers/v7h1sr637b
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FINAL HOURS!
My latest resource, "The Speculative Fiction Writer's Self-Edit Checklist," is included in the Free Books For Authors giveaway. This isn't a collection of inspirational quotes; it's a rigorous framework for refining work across genres like SF, horror, and urban fantasy.
It's one of a dozen books available right now. If you're serious about your craft, take a look: https://books.confluentpress.com/free-books-for-writers/v7h1sr637b
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FINAL HOURS!
My latest resource, "The Speculative Fiction Writer's Self-Edit Checklist," is included in the Free Books For Authors giveaway. This isn't a collection of inspirational quotes; it's a rigorous framework for refining work across genres like SF, horror, and urban fantasy.
It's one of a dozen books available right now. If you're serious about your craft, take a look: https://books.confluentpress.com/free-books-for-writers/v7h1sr637b
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FINAL HOURS!
My latest resource, "The Speculative Fiction Writer's Self-Edit Checklist," is included in the Free Books For Authors giveaway. This isn't a collection of inspirational quotes; it's a rigorous framework for refining work across genres like SF, horror, and urban fantasy.
It's one of a dozen books available right now. If you're serious about your craft, take a look: https://books.confluentpress.com/free-books-for-writers/v7h1sr637b
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Some blooms from the #garden
#Editing today. I will be repeating this sentence for months. Also tinkering with a new story idea that will probably be my next project.
How's your day? #writingcommunity
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A grammarian treat to start your week!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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A grammarian treat to start your week!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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A grammarian treat to start your week!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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A grammarian treat to start your week!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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A grammarian treat to start your week!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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Today's editing fuel (for Melting the Ice Queen)!
As usual, I used this recipe -
https://lovingitvegan.com/vegan-chocolate-cookies/
-but doubled the amount of non-dairy milk. (And I've heard from friends that it works well with dairy, too!)
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Writing prompts that actually lead to a story #amwriting #writingcommunity #editing #writer #writingmuse www.amazon.com/Storystarters-...
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The jouissance of writing
From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:
Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc
Nothing is more entertaining
Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangementI really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.
It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.
The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.
Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:
Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification
When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.
#creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing -
The jouissance of writing
From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:
Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc
Nothing is more entertaining
Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangementI really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.
It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.
The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.
Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:
Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification
When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.
#creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing -
The jouissance of writing
From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:
Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc
Nothing is more entertaining
Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangementI really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.
It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.
The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.
Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:
Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification
When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.
#creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing -
The jouissance of writing
From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:
Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc
Nothing is more entertaining
Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangementI really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.
It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.
The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.
Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:
Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification
When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.
#creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing -
Ah yes, the #vi family—because who doesn't want to juggle arcane incantations just to edit a #text file? 🤹♂️ Surely, nothing screams "cutting-edge" like a 50-year-old #editor that's harder to learn than a Rubik's Cube on steroids. 🙄 Enjoy your #retro #tech, hipsters!
https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/ #editing #programming #hipsters #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, the #vi family—because who doesn't want to juggle arcane incantations just to edit a #text file? 🤹♂️ Surely, nothing screams "cutting-edge" like a 50-year-old #editor that's harder to learn than a Rubik's Cube on steroids. 🙄 Enjoy your #retro #tech, hipsters!
https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/ #editing #programming #hipsters #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, the #vi family—because who doesn't want to juggle arcane incantations just to edit a #text file? 🤹♂️ Surely, nothing screams "cutting-edge" like a 50-year-old #editor that's harder to learn than a Rubik's Cube on steroids. 🙄 Enjoy your #retro #tech, hipsters!
https://lpar.ATH0.com/posts/2026/05/the-vi-family/ #editing #programming #hipsters #HackerNews #ngated -
Really useful tips for adding effects in KDEnlive
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Our short film's is a bit over 27mins long. But since most local festivals have a limit of 20mins, we had to trim it down a bit.
Wowa and I spent the past few weeks choosing what to cut and what to keep, and now we've landed exactly at 20mins flat. Not a single frame more or less.
It hurts a bit to know there are some shots I'm extremely proud of that won't be seen on the big screen. But nobody ever said it's easy to kill your darlings.
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Our short film's is a bit over 27mins long. But since most local festivals have a limit of 20mins, we had to trim it down a bit.
Wowa and I spent the past few weeks choosing what to cut and what to keep, and now we've landed exactly at 20mins flat. Not a single frame more or less.
It hurts a bit to know there are some shots I'm extremely proud of that won't be seen on the big screen. But nobody ever said it's easy to kill your darlings.
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Our short film's is a bit over 27mins long. But since most local festivals have a limit of 20mins, we had to trim it down a bit.
Wowa and I spent the past few weeks choosing what to cut and what to keep, and now we've landed exactly at 20mins flat. Not a single frame more or less.
It hurts a bit to know there are some shots I'm extremely proud of that won't be seen on the big screen. But nobody ever said it's easy to kill your darlings.
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Book Editing Services for Authors: Professional Book Editor in Orange County, California #editor #amwriting #anahem #irving #editing #writingcommunity #california inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Professional Book Editor in Or... -
A connexion asked me to explain how I use AI in my writing, so I captured my publication workflow in a blog post with a podcast summary: 👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/11/how-i-use-ai-in-my-publication-workflow/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
I've shared several blog articles on the topic over the years: https://philosophics.blog/tag/ai-writing-2/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
How about you? 🧐
#writing #ai #llms #editing #workflow #philosophy #partnership #authorship #production #support #blog #podcast
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My #current list: :blobcatbook:
#editing
* Manuscript by Layla Hagen
* Assessing submissions to Hot Tree Publishing#reading
* "The Eyes Are the Best Part" by Monika Kim#listening
* "The Eye of the Bedlam Bride" by Matt Dinniman -
Thanks for joining stream! I showed how I edit my clips and hope you learned something from it.
VOD:
https://youtube.com/live/fd1HuECaaOo
https://spectra.video/w/bFW65c3k2UM4J2xG9kAPbSI raided ItsPenni after: https://www.twitch.tv/itspenni
#MonzMont #MonzVODs #PHVTuber #ENVTuber #VTuber #PNGTuber #VOD #CoWorking #VideoEditing #Editing #JustChatting #Chatting
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The Writings of Patrick S. Smith @patrickssmithauthor.wordpress.com@patrickssmithauthor.wordpress.com ·Weekly Update #239
Hello Readers.
One problem about living in the South is the “Yellow Plague.” For those of you who don’t live in the South, I’m referring to pine pollen, and most people in the South blame it for allergies and sinus infections in the spring. Because of the “Yellow Plague,” my sinuses are playing havoc with me.
In this drained state, I focused more on revisions rather than creating.
I finished my initial round of revisions to “Stains” and it is ready for a read through.
After completing the revision to “Stains,” I started reviewing “Dear Fate, Why Must I Choose,” and “After A Ghostly Millennium, I Am Heard.” I’ve only started the review process, but it is keeping me busy.
Finally, I pulled out an old project I started a few years ago and set aside. “The Bizarre Case of Jeffry Gobbler” is my attempt at a police detective-mystery and is one of the few stories my youngest is interested in me finishing. Hopefully, I can make a good push and get the first draft done.
That is it for this week, take care everyone.
Interesting in buying one of my books? You can get more information here.
#author #books #creativeWriting #editing #fiction #knitting #Poem #Poems #Poetry #publishing #readers #reading #vlog #WeeklyUpdate #weeklyupdate #writer #Writing
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Down Shakespearean Halls
When you step into Shakespeare’s world, it’s not just old words and dusty candlelight. The place feels alive. You can hear the tension, the emotional fireworks, and you see all kinds of human mess practically laid out on stage. Even after four hundred years, writers still roam those halls, trying to capture some of that magic for themselves. Whether they’re writing the next bestselling novel, a screenplay, poems, or just clever posts for social media.
Shakespeare gets people. His characters aren’t stuck in distant history with fancy language; they have ambitions that spiral out of control, jealousy that eats them up, love that happens way too fast, and fears that sneak up on them. Macbeth wants power so badly it destroys him, Hamlet can’t make up his mind, Juliet falls in love in a blink and pays the price. Modern stories do the same thing, just in different settings. The heart-thumping emotions — those are pure Shakespeare.
Then there’s his dialogue. Shakespeare had this knack for writing lines that sound poetic and real at the same time. You remember his words because they took ordinary speech and made it sing, but without losing the grit. Writers today are still chasing that balance. They want conversations to feel true, but with a little extra snap or style. Every time you hear a line in a TV drama or read a passage in a novel that sticks with you, there’s a bit of Shakespeare lurking underneath.
He also made his characters complicated — not just cardboard heroes or villains. Almost nobody in his plays is all good or all bad. That mix is key in modern writing. Readers and viewers want characters who struggle, who make mistakes, who aren’t squeaky clean. The antihero? Shakespeare had it figured out ages ago.
What really made him stand out was his willingness to take risks. He blended genres, messed with structure, made up words, and just did whatever felt right for the story. Now, writers working in digital platforms, streaming series, interactive games face the same kind of wild territory. Shakespeare’s lesson? Don’t play it safe. Push the borders and see what happens.
Following in Shakespeare’s footsteps doesn’t mean copying his style. Nobody needs to write in verse or dream up speeches about castles and ghosts. What matters is the guts he had, that urge to tell the truth about people. That’s what sticks, no matter how much the world changes, or how many trends come and go.
Those old halls are still open — anyone trying to say something real about people and imagination can walk right in.
Okay all of you bards and bardettes…Get back to those darn keys! Thank you so much for your continued readership and support. Until next week…Blessings and Peace!
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#WritingFormulas #WritingInspirations #academicWriting #Books #ChristianAuthors #DowmShakespereanHalls #Editing #education #fiction #Hamlet #Macbeth #publishing #reativeWriting #TipsForWriters #VanGogh #Writer #WriterSTips #writers #Writing #WritingTips -
Book Editing Services for Authors: Professional Book Editor in Southern California #amwriting #editing #proofreading #sandiego #losangeles inventingrealityediting.com/2...
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A grammarian end of the week treat!
Everything you ever needed to know about apostrophes!
https://kathybrysonblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/apostrophes/#blogging #Writing #amwriting #writingtip #editing #publishing #punctuation #grammar
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Even before the advent of LLMs, translation was a precarious profession, literary translators were at the lower end. Insights into the markets in GB, France, and Germany. The article shows why humans are better than LLM but also that companies prefer the cheap way, degrading humans to badly paid proof readers. In #science as well as in #literature. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/08/being-human-helps-despite-rise-of-ai-is-there-still-hope-for-europes-translators
#translation #translators #bookstodon #LLM #editors #editing #jobsInDanger