You are my target audience!!

It was also fun for me to dig out my current stories - 2 forthcoming this year, 2 in submissions - and evaluate their 😈🪝✨

Thanks for these notes, I'm in an era of passionately reading short stories right now as well, and I'm really enjoying your remarks!

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

Change is possible for everyone, cats and people!! I'm hoping our very boundaried, noli me tangere permanent adult cat will be able to gracefully adapt to us keeping one of these kittens... they have so far only grumbled at each other through a door... 🤞

Witnessing cat family dynamics up close makes me see how much their emotions/relationships are completely not like humans' - yet my human projections are the inescapable framework I bring to living with them. 🤷 Splitting up this family feels so morally wrong, even though I know it's right for them!

conversely, the novel which should
have been a short story is maddening in a special way

As a writer/editor as well as theater maker, I have gotten to experience the larva-to-butterfly cycle of creative production from many vantage points. Whether it's 📖 or 🤸‍♀️, an outside eye who will lovingly but objectively encounter your work-in-progress is the highest gift.

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

I loved this, thank you for sharing!

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dang wish I could time travel for Philly tix! ty for the new album it's amazing

Ironic that the LLM ingested incalculable amounts of natural language - books, articles, forum posts - and is offering me their summary, but won't let me access the juice it fed on. 🌊🔏 As a writer I'm an LLM too. It construes me as both client and competitor.

And honestly for that purpose (yes, lizards have hips!) Google's AI summary is useful. But often I want from Google searches is less factual information and more "do people naturally use language this way?" and unfortunately the AI-ification of #search is TERRIBLE for that.