You Can Speak To Other Writers For Advice. You Can Post Snippets And Get Feedback. You Can Trouble Shoot

you can speak to other writers for advice. You can post snippets and get feedback. You can trouble shoot on social media.

Writing groups were a thing long before generative AI entered the picture. Why do people act like this is no longer a thing?

The thing that really gets me about the NaNo AI thing in a this-would-be-funny-if-it-weren't-so-frustrating/infuriating/tragic way is that yes NaNo is about writing and creativity, building habits and creating etc.

But it's also about community and a lot of the bullshit reasons they cite for promoting AI tools are problems that are solved inherently through community. Things like "some people struggle with certain aspects of writing" and "some people don't know what do at this point" etc.

They say you need AI because you can't afford certain services but you can speak to other writers for advice. You can post snippets and get feedback. You can trouble shoot on social media.

Obviously they fucked up with their forums but prior to that they had tonnes of resources for structuring, editing and the craft in general - both technically and creatively. They could have focused on rebuilding that instead of pushing AI tools that scrape people's work and aren't anywhere near as nuaced as humans are.

Community on the internet is dying so I'm not saying it would be easy (see every single post by a fic writer on tumblr for the past three years as fandom is treated more and more like a commodity) but a large org like this should be better placed to try right?

Summary: A series of moments in the lives of Sonic and Sally, showing the reflection of their childhood selves in their later relationship. The more things change, the more they realize what they had all along. Continuity: Sonic SatAM (with a little bit of game stuff where it fits) Tags: Fluff, Friendship/Love, Then and Now, Slice of Life Relationship Tags: Sally/Sonic

7: Transformation Through everything, she still knows him.

What can I say? SatAM didn't have any transformations outside of roboticization, but the first two things I thought of when I saw this prompt were "Super Sonic" and "the werehog." So this is me shoehorning them into implied plot. (And I still manage to reference roboticization anyway.)

Also I just keep getting longer with these things (aside from #5).

So... I found this and now it keeps coming to mind. You hear about "life-changing writing advice" all the time and usually its really not—but honestly this is it man.

I'm going to try it.

My teenager told me recently that she learned from a source online that the original Japanese version of this scene is more akin to “This is too easy, which is fine by me.” Suddenly this clip makes a lot more sense. Still going to make fun of it, though, because I’m just like that.

(gif via Tenor)

Bonus goof: I will never not read this stage title as “Space Groget.” It’s just...such a bad font choice.

Seconding this, but also adding that it's very helpful to both PC and mobile users to set the image size to scale with the browser if you're using image links.

<img src="insert image url here" width="75%"> is a good way to do it (note the percentage used for the width).

If you do it this way, the image will always scale to 75% (in this case) of the width of the text area, no matter how large or small the browser window is. 75% is what I personally recommend, but for taller images, it's better to use something around 50%. Use "preview" to check how it looks.

I feel the need to tell you that you can insert images into ao3 via certain html commands. You can also have hyperlinks.

<img src=”insert image url here”>

Oh thank you for letting me know! May have to edit the fic to do this when I have time

Summary: A series of moments in the lives of Sonic and Sally, showing the reflection of their childhood selves in their later relationship. The more things change, the more they realize what they had all along. Continuity: Sonic SatAM (with a little bit of game stuff where it fits) Tags: Fluff, Friendship/Love, Then and Now, Slice of Life Relationship Tags: Sally/Sonic

8: Fate Sonic the Hedgehog is not a fan.

And that's the last one. I had fun with these! (Also, if anyone is curious, I think #7 is still my favorite of the bunch, but this and #1 come in tied for second.)