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Diving deep into the shadows with First Draft. Their album An Instant Before the Promise of Dawn is a beautiful, crushing journey through post-punk and post-rock landscapes.

Don't sleep on this duo.

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“The original version of this article has been retracted. I used an #LLM to write the #FirstDraft, though this had come after many hours of planning and going through the data and analyses to identify the points to be made, as well as me going through the post line by line, editing into my voice and verifying the wording and scope of the text was accurate. However, many people still felt like the #LLMSpeak bled through in ways that felt uncomfortable. Given this, I and other members of the #RustProject have decided to retract the post in its entirety.”

Good writing is hard. It is also a metric used to measure a writers abilities to identify and express ideas. In software I use it as a yard stick. No issues expressing a mea culpa.

#software / #rustlang / #JackHuey / #VisionDocGroup <https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/>

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Popular genre fiction runs on a recognizable emotional engine. We come to these books for a specific feeling. Tension, wonder, desire, fear, catharsis, justice, escape.

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2026 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 2

Get your writing started right in 2026 with the Get Started Right Writing Challenge. The second day involves actually writing.
The post 2026 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 2 appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/2026-get-started-right-writing-challenge-day-2

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I dreamt that I was in a forest fire. I was safe because I was a ghost, but no one else was. The trees blazed all around me, and I felt the heat of their passing. Animals fled past me, wide-eyed and panicked, predator and prey united in terror. Firefighters sprayed water that turned to steam. Flames jumped from crown to crown. The wind was hot and stank of ash and endings.

I walked unhurt but not unmarked to the edge of a sullen lake whose entire surface had gone black with ash. I watched its lazy undulations for a while, like a pool of oil disturbed by unseen forces.

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The Anti-Perfectionist Rule That Helped Me Draft a Novel in 5 Weeks

Stop letting your inner critic and squiggly lines break your writing rhythm Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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Getting bigger than I expected

For the last three weeks, I've been writing almost every day for at least an hour. I've had some ideas and needed to go back and re-work some older bits, and I'm really happy with the direction things have taken. [...]

https://writing.deadtom.me/getting-bigger-than-i-expected