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CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

Reka: Bright Emerald Green
Tala: Burnished Gold, (Changed once for a spoiler reason via Henet’s Magic)
Mary: Bright Sky Blue
Arlo: Dark Hazel
Henet: Black of the Night Sky, with wisps of Purple and Blue.

Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 20h

What eye color(s) does your OC have? Do they alter their eye color by using contact lenses or magic? 👀

#dailyocs

December 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

I don’t know how writers on here show their WIPs like a lot of digital artist do, so I am just going to start posting the lines from my book that I think are particularly good.

#booksky #writing #WIP

December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

I have ruined entire parties this year by not being able to shut up about the silly little people who live in my head, I can’t wait for the rest of the world to get to know them.

Josh Foreman @josh-foreman.bsky.social · 24d

Tumblr user nocryptographer:
I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation.
A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written.
AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence.
Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same.
There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that.
I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it.
If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene...
then it's real.

December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM

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Lady Emily ☄️

@ladyemily.nebula.tv

Have yourself a yuri little Christmas
Make those bitches gay

December 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM

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Ian Bell Danskin

@innuendostudios.bsky.social

until morale improves

a sign on a shelf in a bookstore says FICTION CONTINUES

December 24, 2025 at 3:49 AM

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Shapeless Ink

@shapelessink.bsky.social

Advice to all writers from my most fucked up character.

Amelia is pointing a gun at the viewer, text over her reads "Get writing, bitch. Infinite worlds cry out to be born and you are to be a god."

December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)

@iwriteok.bsky.social

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 10d

We can do even more.

December 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

- Henet
- Reka and Arlo
- Tala and Mary
- Henet again.

Shen Comix @shenanigansen.bsky.social · 19d

every operation needs:

- the brains

- the brawn

- the cute one who does nothing

- the one who is counterproductive to the entire operation

December 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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John Scalzi

@scalzi.com

100% certain my work was copied, in more than one language, which means that in addition to my work, the work of translators was copied, so that's a double theft right there

The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Aug 19

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.

All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.

For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

August 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

So the beta read copies of the book got here and uh… yeah imma need whoever’s cutting onions in here to stop right now…

August 19, 2025 at 10:20 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

Woke up too close to the alarm to go back to sleep, guess it’s time for a little chapter work before the real job.

-CGS

August 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM

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Indie Book Spotlight

@bookspotlight.bsky.social

‘Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone’

Article gift link for you all: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

But the tech industry’s all-out artificial intelligence push is fueling soaring demand for electricity to run data centers that dot the landscape in Virginia, Ohio and other states. Large, rectangular buildings packed with servers consumed more than 4 percent of the nation’s electricity in 2023, and government analysts estimate that will increase to as much as 12 percent in just three years. That’s partly because computers training and running A.I. systems consume far more energy than machines that stream Netflix or TikTok.

A June analysis, from Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University, found that electricity bills are on track to rise an average of 8 percent nationwide by 2030 and as much as 25 percent in places like Virginia because of data centers.

In some places, it is happening already. Starting in June, the electricity bill for a typical household in Ohio increased at least $15 a month because of data centers, according to data from a major local utility and an independent monitor of the electric grid that stretches across 13 states and the District of Columbia.

August 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

Roderika: ⚔️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🍃
Tala: 🐱🥷👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩
Arlo: ⚔️💪🏾☺️
Henet: 😈🧝‍♂️🧐
Mary: ✝️👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏥

Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · Aug 14

Describe your OC using 3 emojis!!

#dailyocs

August 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM

CG Stewart

@ninechronicles.bsky.social

Roderika, Tala, Henet, and Mary all showed up with their names more or less, and Arlo got his name from my fiancé saying she really liked the name.

-CGS

Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · Aug 10

How did you come up with the name for your OC? 📝

#dailyocs

August 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM

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RS Benedict

@rsbenedict.bsky.social

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

August 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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