Sophie's World now joins the long list of known books in which the author makes one of their characters read parts of the story and gush about how amazing it is. Look, we're all ravenous for praise, but this is a little embarrassing.

Tip Tuesday: Ideas always seem simpler when they’re in our heads. Check how complex your story is by writing absolutely everything down. Then to keep the story simple enough for readers to understand, see what you can remove or combine without breaking your plot.

Has anyone else encountered sentences in novels that felt like clickbait? Especially one-liners. With. Extra. Periods.

wild when they just say it outloud like that.

this is an unethical trap to lay for recovering English majors

One of the slop age’s many curses is that busy cover illustrations now seem inherently off putting, not because of the image itself, but because being super busy is something slop cover images do a lot.

Need a Frankenstein type story about how humanity created the post-credit scene as a fun easter egg but then it turned on us and now we don’t know what’s happening in the show if we stop the episode when it appears to be over.

Is this the same guys actually running the AI companies though? Sometimes the Altmans of the world will use doomer rhetoric but I wasn't sure if they were actually believers.

We can’t be asking politicians about their favorite nerd stuff. It’s gonna put me in the position of supporting a blue control player and that’s not acceptable. Every incidence of Counterspell should lose you 10,000 votes.

Got a marketing email from (seemingly) OpenAI about how we should pay to put ads in ChatGPT. So basically, the LLM company stole our traffic and now they want us to pay them to get a sliver of it back. There aren’t enough middle fingers.