Cappuccino Girl

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In fiction, less is more. Don't be too literal, don't lay out everything, according to this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M29_fnEQhWI

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How to Tell If Your Writing Is Bad

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Three methods to start writing your novel.
No, not:
Outline   
Worldbuilding   
Plot   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_Urtn1vzrw
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First Novel? This is What No One Tells You

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I started writing this short essay a while ago, but left it and finally came back to it and finished! I hope someone will enjoy it🙂

"Dark Academia: From Escapism to Resistance"
https://wordsmith.social/cappuccinogirl/dark-academia-from-escapism-to-resistance

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Dark Academia: From Escapism to Resistance

How dark is Dark Academia? As dark as the society we live in. Beyond the comfort of its moody, sometimes haunting ambience, Dark Academ...

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Use dual timelines or timeline and POV shifts to your advantage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWj6xfC8wg

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The Plot Trick Every Bestselling Author Knows (That No One Teaches)

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Been going through a zillion Fediverse-connected blogs to find ones to highlight on FediFollows and the best ones are those that are a bit rough round the edges. On those blogs you can most easily tell it's a human doing it, and that's the most valuable quality a blog can have.

If you're doing a blog, don't be scared of it looking a bit amateurish! Ultimately blogs are supposed to be about humans reading the thoughts of other humans. The more obviously human-created your blog is, the better 👍

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The withering away of patriarchy? Would that be possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsvMrDldOpQ

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The Patriarchy's Secret Weakness | Why Withdrawal Works

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Gulp. Goodbye thinking and writing.

https://dailynous.com/2026/02/17/grammarly-is-a-cheating-machine/

Via David Hitchcock

Grammarly Is a Cheating Machine - Daily Nous

Grammarly is sometimes thought by instructors to be a relatively benign writing tool app, akin to a sophisticated spelling and grammar checker. That may have once been true, but as Kieran Barker, an educational associate for academic AI initiatives at Carleton College, shows in a new video, it is now an AI-powered cheating multitool. As

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5 Cringe Dialogue Red Flags (And How to Fix Them)

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Who is Bowie’s ‘Major Tom’ character? 👨‍🚀❤️

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