This reminds me exactly of this time like 14 years ago where I made some tumblr post like “all you need to do to be a writer is actually write” and someone got VERY upset saying Actually, people who don’t write are the best writers of all because their ideas are too beautiful for them to pin down
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Shannon Sanders
This anonymous quote really shocked me—all the tasks listed here are like the absolute essence of what writing is. If you hired a person to choose words and draft scenes for you, you would have to pay them as a ghost writer. The fact that you reviewed it afterward does not mean you wrote it!
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Like, love yourself. You don't need it to look amazing. You need it to be yours.
I may not have implemented all of the ideas I wanted for the latest drawing I made, but I can still make it clear that I made it myself.
"I feel like we are nearing the end of times. We humans are losing faith in ourselves."
(They aren't. Even today, I find myself revising or regretting some past ideas)
...but because I am a lazy ADHD man who plays video games to pass the time.
But I'll still write. I may not enjoy it, but not writing at all is worse to me.
@heysawbones.bsky.social did a nice little portrait of me astral projecting to space, we all had a lot of fun.
and i still manage to write a bunch of them anyway so rip to those people but i'm different
These are the shallowest, least interesting chimps on the planet, balancing a parsley sprig on their Hot Pocket and calling themselves Gordon Ramsay. I ain't even mad, they're just cringe.
Couldnt hide behind a pithy letter count to sound slightly more reasonable. Crazy on full display.
"Making grammatical corrections," --what, like spellcheck?
"Reviewing my passages," isn't that what an editor does?
just post “picture a beautiful woman standing alone in the rain on a brick-paved street” and let people imagine her number of fingers
THE SAME PERSON then said AI prompts are a real skill because you have to know the right words and the right order.