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Jun 10
Authors: What do you think?
Anthropic stole 7 million books from piracy websites to train its AI. A court agreed it was theft. The payout? $3,000 per book (the deal authors received).
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Been feeling bleak for the past week after I read an essay saying the market for middle-grade books has collapsed because kids can no longer read them. Two long-time publishers of middle-grades have shuttered, with more to come. We don’t appreciate what a crisis this is.
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"An MIT professor says AI writing isn't just plagiarism — it's students 'paying someone else to learn for them.' And students couldn't even quote back their own AI-written essays."
AI use "destroys the cognitive training writing is meant to provide."
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What if the biggest threat to your novel isn't failure?
It may be endless preparation.
How to get started:
aliventures.com/idea-to-nove…
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AI can write for you, but it can't give you the growth that comes from writing and creating the work yourself:
janefriedman.com/be-so-good-…
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10 Sep 2025
Awesome teacher!
10 Sep 2025
A moment those kids will never forget.
Third grade teacher promised her class hot chocolate if she made this shot.
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29 Aug 2025
I woke up to an acceptance for 2 poems I wrote a while ago. It's a very small thing in a huge world of challenges but that doesn't stop me being glad. 🦋
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29 Aug 2025
Congratulations, Bruce. Good luck!
29 Aug 2025
Got my first-ever book signing tonight! The nerves are giving way to excitement. I've practiced my short little talk & I am ready to do this!
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28 Aug 2025
I had the strangest dream last night. Something about the light we perceive in the stars being akin to the neuroactovity in our brains. We perceive time as now, but what we’re living is already a memory to heaven. Like living on a delay. Anyway, in the dream, time caught up and heaven and matter became one in me. It was neat.
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26 Jun 2025
Agree.
25 Jun 2025
Hearing a teenager use the word "unalive" in the library this morning makes me wanna unalive myself. I know language evolves, but MY GOD THIS IS EMBARRASSING FOR EVERYONE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD
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26 Jun 2025
Love this.
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25 May 2025
Hi consider this your friendly reminder to do physical things (ie: work in the garden, clean, go for a walk) when you’re feeling stuck with your WIP because, inevitably, ideas will come the second you stop actually *thinking* about it
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26 Apr 2025
The struggle is real💀😭🤣
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26 Apr 2025
Trying to sell some books! Wish me luck!
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