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Canadian—but in Germany!
Joined December 2021
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Happy Sunday, #writingcommunity! After almost a year of website maintenance, I'm back! But ... was I ever really gone? Check out my blog to find out what happened!
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As a Canadian living in Germany, I couldn't be more thrilled about Canada becoming the first ever associate member of the EU!
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Treena McCabe - Professional Fiction Editor retweeted
Writers, please trust your own human voice, flaws & all. The kinks & quirks in your own writing are endlessly more interesting than the flattened, hollow voice of AI. I think a fifth of our flash fiction subs are AI-generated right now & these pieces are so flat & empty.
#QuickTipsTuesday
Use a text-to-speech program while reading your manuscript to catch errors that silent reading would cause you to overlook. Many word processors have this feature, or you can use Balabolka, which is free, doesn't require an account, and doesn't use AI!
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This morning, I had two emails from people with AI-generated manuscripts. And they didn't even try to make it seem like a human wrote them.
More fodder for my upcoming article about AI in the publishing industry, I suppose ...
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DO NOT hire a human ghostwriter, then feed their work into an AI to "edit" it. And especially don't afterward ask said ghostwriter to implement the "edits." It's ridiculous that this even needs to be said.
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Today, I learned that the term "scot-free" dates back to the early 1500s. And no one named Scott was even involved.
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My newest ick in the writing community is editors using obviously AI-generated scripts in their YouTube videos. If someone wants writing advice from AI, they can do that themselves. Can we please stop focusing on pushing out content in favour of providing authentic value?
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#writingcommunity Endlessly posting some kind of "buy my book" doesn't get you sales. It gets you an annoyed audience. Social media is meant to be *SOCIAL.* Readers don't want to be sold to. They want to connect to the material and the person who created it.
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Post about your life as a creative, your successes, your stresses; post about what your characters would do if they were real; post about convincing your editor that, yes, that really is a stylistic choice.
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Treena McCabe - Professional Fiction Editor retweeted
anyone who creates an AI writing tool does not want you to write better. they want $10 a month
I saw BTS live! But they changed my life years before their Arirang concert. I wouldn't be the writer and editor I am today without their influence. Check out my blog to learn more—or just to see the photos and videos! 💜
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Treena McCabe - Professional Fiction Editor retweeted
I just figured out how to highlight dialogue in Word using the find/replace feature. I can't wait to use it for editing.
Treena McCabe - Professional Fiction Editor retweeted
Completely personal pet peeve, and not a hill I will ever die on during an edit, but it drives me bananas when people say/write "fell to the floor" or "hit the floor" or "on the floor" when they are outside. That is not the floor; it is the ground!
Treena McCabe - Professional Fiction Editor retweeted
Authors of X
Before anyone on this platform hands over money to an editor, cover artist, book marketer, or any other service provider, please do basic due diligence:
1. Check that the LLC is current and registered at the address they advertise (If they are using one).
2. Note the country the LLC/Account is operating from and where their X account appears to be located.
3. Look at their own work. Does it actually perform?
Also paying for reviews even as part of a service is one of the fastest ways to get kicked off Amazon. Don’t do it.
Cover artists share their portfolios. Editors can point to books they’ve worked on. In all the years I’ve been here, I have yet to meet a book marketer who is genuinely succeeding with their own titles, let alone someone else’s.
If you really want professional book marketing help, go to a legitimate local advertising agency and work with someone who holds proper qualifications (AQF 3/4, Advanced Vocational Diploma, Technical Certificate, or the equivalent in your country).
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