@servelan@newsie.social2026-01-12 04:25:51
Jacinda Ardern quits Adelaide Festival's Writers Week appearance
https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/12/jacinda-ardern-quits-adelaide-festical-writers-week-boycott-randa-abdel-fattah/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-11 19:26:06
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-11 19:25:52
Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's Expert Review feature, which gave editing suggestions "inspired by" real writers without permission, after backlash (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-12 15:10:21
Great news.
Akenfield is wonderful book, as was the BBC film based on it (possibly available at BFI).
British Library acquires archive of rural life writer and essayist Ronald Blythe | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-01-10 18:08:07
Writers Advice Podcast
A weekly podcast that dives into the creative process of authors from around the globe and provides an insight into the industry of publishing with interviews from publishers and agents...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/writer
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu2026-02-11 11:06:34
Writing: the art of staring at a sentence until it behaves.
People think authors glide into inspiration. I trip over it, apologise, and pretend it was intentional.
#writersofmastodon #authors
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-02-11 14:58:19
Come April, I'll be out of freelance work. Anyone need a freelance writer? I only talk about my erotica here but I am a biologist with a uni diploma and I have a background in biotech and pharma.
So I'll write something sexy or something educational or both, I'm your ho.
#Fedihire me?
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-10 12:31:47
#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 10
How informal is your prose? Is there a limit to informality?
I think that, even where you don't have a first-person narrator, prose in fiction should express the personality of the point of view character -- be similar to but just a little more formal than their normal way of speaking.
To preserve the plausibility that they might have writt…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-10 04:15:43
SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations with Hollywood begin for actors; the 2023 post-strike deals are set to expire on May 1 for writers and June 30 for actors (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/media/hollywood-ac…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-10 11:50:48
Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory, Richard Osman, and ~10,000 writers publish Don't Steal This Book, an "empty" book to protest AI companies using their work (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202