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  1. I dreamed about three of my characters, two I played in one ttrpg and another was a mmo character; anyway - the story the dream spun out was 100% different for the characters, and I kinda enjoyed the drama and setting it played with - but now I'm looking at it, it'd be a whole book on it's own and ... [sighs] too many ideas, not a real writer, ya'know?

    #writing #dreams
    (maybe I should hashtag it as #notwriting ?)

  2. When One’s Not Writing….

    Career Authors
    "When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach." --May Sarton
    When One’s Not Writing…. Quotes We Like…
    careerauthors.com/when-ones-no

    #Quotes #MaySarton #notwriting #poems #poetry
    @indieauthors

  3. This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

    eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

    It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

    If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

    Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

    #LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

  4. This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

    eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

    It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

    If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

    Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

    #LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

  5. This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

    eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

    It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

    If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

    Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

    #LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

  6. This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

    eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

    It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

    If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

    Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

    #LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

  7. This article (which is what we used to call actual idea-containing blog posts), called "The Rise of Whatever", has been making the rounds over the last few days.

    eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-ris

    It is, frankly, excellent. It is closer to my own feelings about "AI" / LLM than anything I've seen written by anyone else. I have despaired over the last couple of years as I saw the number of people I respected who somehow started accepting what this article refers to as the beige sludge that LLMs produce.

    If you're an engineer or software developer, it's a must read. Or if you use "AI" in your own work, or in your own personal time. Or if you listen to the hucksters selling "AI", which you must be doing, because it's bloody impossible to go a day without hearing some fucking stupid thing that Sam Altman has shat onto the internet and called it wisdom.

    Basically, everyone should read it. Unless they're actually three LLMs in a trenchcoat.

    #LLM #AI #whatever #RiseOfWhatever #SamAltman #huckster #fraud #hype #bubble #NotArt #NotWriting #wisdom

  8. Apart from a very short poem that kept me awake last night until I wrote it down, my current writing is the legalese text for a lasting power of attorney, the first draft of an annual report for a disability charity, a packing list, and notes for a conversation about funeral planning and choices for a terminally ill friend.
    None of which is fiction.

    #NotWriting

  9. I should be editing my novel, but my morning's walk has worn me out, so I'm going to crochet instead
    #NotWriting #crochet #WritingCommunity

  10. Day 22-31. My brain stopped working and while I coasted for a while, I finally stopped writing. I'm okay with that. I still want to finish the story.

    Meanwhile, ooh something shiny! I want to write about an alien isekaied into a telenovela (I have an outline, this is a real threat), and also do a version of AU-gust.

    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting #NotExactly

  11. Day 22-31. My brain stopped working and while I coasted for a while, I finally stopped writing. I'm okay with that. I still want to finish the story.

    Meanwhile, ooh something shiny! I want to write about an alien isekaied into a telenovela (I have an outline, this is a real threat), and also do a version of AU-gust.

    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting #NotExactly

  12. Day 22-31. My brain stopped working and while I coasted for a while, I finally stopped writing. I'm okay with that. I still want to finish the story.

    Meanwhile, ooh something shiny! I want to write about an alien isekaied into a telenovela (I have an outline, this is a real threat), and also do a version of AU-gust.

    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting #NotExactly

  13. Day 22-31. My brain stopped working and while I coasted for a while, I finally stopped writing. I'm okay with that. I still want to finish the story.

    Meanwhile, ooh something shiny! I want to write about an alien isekaied into a telenovela (I have an outline, this is a real threat), and also do a version of AU-gust.

    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting #NotExactly

  14. Day 22-31. My brain stopped working and while I coasted for a while, I finally stopped writing. I'm okay with that. I still want to finish the story.

    Meanwhile, ooh something shiny! I want to write about an alien isekaied into a telenovela (I have an outline, this is a real threat), and also do a version of AU-gust.

    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting #NotExactly

  15. Day 20-21. Nope. I am going easy on myself. Tomorrow I will play some Xenoblade X and dream about a small amazon taking on an enemy fortress.
    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting

  16. Day 20-21. Nope. I am going easy on myself. Tomorrow I will play some Xenoblade X and dream about a small amazon taking on an enemy fortress.
    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting

  17. Day 20-21. Nope. I am going easy on myself. Tomorrow I will play some Xenoblade X and dream about a small amazon taking on an enemy fortress.
    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting

  18. Day 20-21. Nope. I am going easy on myself. Tomorrow I will play some Xenoblade X and dream about a small amazon taking on an enemy fortress.
    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting

  19. Day 20-21. Nope. I am going easy on myself. Tomorrow I will play some Xenoblade X and dream about a small amazon taking on an enemy fortress.
    #Julytober2024 #NotWriting

  20. My current approach to figuring out a good angle for my paper is to go for a walk and sit on the bench overlooking this fantastic meadow.

    It's totally not working, but it's a very pleasant way of getting nothing done. #bloomscrolling #notwriting #academia

  21. I can stubborn my way through editing with a fever; I can stubborn my way through editing with both kids at home; but apparently I can't stubborn my way through editing with a fever AND with the Pokemon TV show playing loudly five feet away. Alas!

    #NotWriting

  22. Why is it that my mind comes with wonderfully entertaining prose with exciting plot and style WHEN MY HANDS ARE BUSY COOKING AND I CAN'T WRITE IT DOWN?!?

    I mean nice we got food prepped for a week but WHAT HAPPENS TO MATT IN THE FOSTERSYSTEM THO, WHY IS ONE OF THE PARENTS A LITERAL WIZARD, AND WILL PERSONIFICATION OF LITERAL FATE GET IT'S 🪅🪆🪁🧨 TOGETHER??

    #writing #fantasy #kidlit #NotWriting

  23. Today, I was able to recover some documents created on a Mac OS 7 almost 30 years ago. I think it was written in MacWrite.

    The format was weird, but LibreOffice opened them with no issues. I have now recovered a story cycle from my college days. Soecifically, these are all the stories from universe 4 Numbers I.

    This is archeology, not writing, but it could lead to more writing.

    #NotWriting #4NumbersI

  24. Today, I was able to recover some documents created on a Mac OS 7 almost 30 years ago. I think it was written in MacWrite.

    The format was weird, but LibreOffice opened them with no issues. I have now recovered a story cycle from my college days. Soecifically, these are all the stories from universe 4 Numbers I.

    This is archeology, not writing, but it could lead to more writing.

    #NotWriting #4NumbersI

  25. Today, I was able to recover some documents created on a Mac OS 7 almost 30 years ago. I think it was written in MacWrite.

    The format was weird, but LibreOffice opened them with no issues. I have now recovered a story cycle from my college days. Soecifically, these are all the stories from universe 4 Numbers I.

    This is archeology, not writing, but it could lead to more writing.

    #NotWriting #4NumbersI

  26. When you go to work on a thing you need to write and discover you’ve already written most of it a while back but forgot.

    That. Happy days! 🥳

    #NotWriting

  27. I’ve been trying so hard to write something today, but I’m a bit sick and my brain refuses to come up with any coherent thought whatsoever. I guess it’s time to call it a day and settle in with a nice cup of tea and a good book.

    #BrainFog #SendTea #NotWriting

  28. I did surprisingly well today for very little sleep. I managed a bunch of appointments, phone calls, a gym workout, and even made supper. I plan on getting some writing done tomorrow. Hopefully, I can make up for all the lost time this week. I’ve been itching to write for days and the fates conspire against me. #Writing #NotWriting

  29. Feels like another one of those days where I'm like "I want to write!" and "I want to read!" and "I want to start outlining my novel!"

    And my brain is just like "eh, nah."

    The scheduling my day thing isn't breaking through it either.

    #ADHD #Neurodivergent #NotWriting

  30. This is why I am not going to resume writing my #WIP right now: sugaring.

    For those unfamiliar it is the act of making maple syrup. Which requires paying attention to the weather; at the right time drilling holes in the trees and tapping the, ah, spigots and hanging the buckets and emptying the buckets and boiling down the sap 40 gallons to make one gallon of syrup.

    But February thinks it’s March so today I tapped 20 trees the earliest ever.

    #writingcommunity #vermont #maplesyrup #notwriting

  31. It's impressive, the bubbling optimism of someone doing their first ever round of novel queries. If only they knew. After twenty years of querying novels, and failing, I've given up. A novel is a massive time investment for something that goes nowhere. It's poetry, articles and non-fiction for me from this point on. Admission of failure or acceptance of reality, take your pick. #writing #notWriting #fiction