You can't write to please somebody in a TikTok, or to worry about trends - they come and go with regularity (believe me, I've been doing this for over thirty years - I've seen all subgenres of Romance die and be reborn).
You write to please yourself, and tell the story of your heart.
That's all.
Choose the POV that fits the story that you want to tell. You'll know it when you find it. Trust me. When you find it, when it clicks, the words will come; the pieces of the story will fall into place. And readers - if they're meant to be your readers - won't care whether it's 1st person POV or 3rd.
I still feel 17 inside, and my own days of being new at this game don't seem that long ago, but the truth is my first book was published in 1993, so I'm truly Officially Old, and I've been doing this long enough now to have Wisdom to share, and it's this: write however you damn well want to.
I haven't actually read the article in question, btw, because the last thing I need is another subscription to anything, but several of the trusted people whom I follow recommend it:
Went out for dinner tonight and the restaurant's signature cocktail was called Naked and Famous so I gave it a go and am still seeing faintly double as I sort through the discussion here of a paywalled article by which I'm learning that by writing alternating 1st & 3rd POV I'm irritating everybody 👍
thank fuck for some small bits of good news
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
(Polio. It's polio)
I dont like the way this video read my entire life like this lol
To be fair to the AI bros, we’ve only known about the ELIZA effect since *checks notes* … 1966.
It’s about time someone said it out loud on a national news show.
Major Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.) — on Trump’s interest in putting boots on the ground:
“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”
61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.
"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."
"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".
Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...
I am Very Tired of reboots, James. 😔
kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.
Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.
I’m not happy about that one, either, but I actually meant THIS one (so many of them…)
Oh, yay, another reboot.
Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.
he's a better man than I am for not just quoting back at them from that shitshow Oval Office meeting and then hanging up
An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die.
May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.
Mystery flower
The Kingdom of Kent countryside is waking up
Who knows which tree flower makes an entrance first around here?
❤️🩹"I'm at home, in my native Ukraine... Help the other guys return home, because they are also waiting for them," - the first words of the Ukrainian defender, released from Russian captivity.
Zelensky: HOME 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Isaac Chotiner absolutely can simply walk into Mordor, sit down and interview Sauron, and then a few hours later after he’s gone Sauron looks and goes “Well when you say it like that it looks bad.”
You'd THINK if you were a CEO of say a toaster company and your toaster coaxed a guy into killing himself so he and your toaster could finally be together only after failing to get that guy to LITERALLY MURDER YOU you would say hey maybe we should stop making these toasters & putting them in schools
A political cartoon showing a banquet hall with several small tables labeled “EDUCATION,” “SCIENCES,” “ARTS,” and “HEALTHCARE” (with a red cross). The people seated at those tables have mostly empty plates and little food. In the foreground, a soldier in a helmet and uniform labeled “WAR” sits at a table piled high with food and money, while tuxedoed waiters and officials serve him large overflowing platters.
#withalttext
> This was created by political cartoonist Yuliy Ganf and ran in the 10 February 1953 issue of Krokodil magazine...
A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
French President Macron told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez that France supports Spain and shows European solidarity after U.S. economic threats.
