The Shortlist is out! Thank you to all the authors who submitted stories. One more week of stressful decision-making, and then it's the Winners List!
https://medium.com/.../first-line-fictions-final-six-the...
#firstlinefiction #writingprompts #WritingCommunity #writer #fiction #shortstory #creativewriting #writingcontest #flfcontest
I think programmers overestimate llms in creative tasks while there’s no ambiguity in code but multiple interpretations of creative writing and art in general. I do believe that chatbots will replace SOME of programming jobs but creative work produced by humans will be only better. #ai #art #CreativeWriting #chatgpt #Claude #mistral #llm #HumanArt
Since I can't rely on Meta getting an injunction against me and creating a Streisand Effect I'll do this the old-fashioned way.
New! By me! P-AI-perback Writer!
Can AI really produce creative writing?
*Youtuber voice* Please like and share!
Escape goat or A doggy-dog world Let’s celebrate our #linguistic quirks together—without blame, just pure creative joy #Wordplay #LanguageLovers #blogs #CreativeWriting #Lingo #Puns #Lit #Text #Eggcorns #Malapropisms #subscribe
https://jiteshbalakrishnan.blog/2025/03/13/eggcorns-dive-into-the-witty-world-of-misheard-words/
Started reading Jack Dann's "The Fiction Writers Guide to Alternate History" published by Bloomsbury Academic. #writing #creativewriting #alternatehistory
Just sent another newsletter out, this time packed with fun and free CPD ideas for fellow translators, copywriters, and other freelancers.
One I think looks great is Tim Clare's 'Couch to 80k Boot Camp', a free podcast that'll help you flex your creative writing muscles over 48 episodes (8 weeks). 
And if that one's too short for you, you could give his '100 Day Writing Challenge' a go. That'll keep you busy for just over 3 months.
I'll start listening today. Will you?
AI 
OpenAI’s New Model Excels at Creative Writing
CEO Sam Altman says OpenAI’s latest model is “really good” at fiction writing. Altman shared a sample story about AI and grief, praising its metafiction accuracy. OpenAI's focus on creative writing hints at significant model improvements.
Finished a short story, it was too samey to others I'd written so I ended it quickly. #writing #shortstory #creativewriting
After years of struggling with figuring out how I want to write, I've finally found myself. And it's just like they say: I'm always in the last place I've looked. #authors #creativewriting #indieauthors #books
http://mutantpizza.net/2025/03/11/nice-prose-nerd-a-writers-journey-of-mental-self-flagellation/
@stevencudahy #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
#MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #poetry
#Prompt: #lick
From my 17yo poet-son - https://www.poetry.com/poet/Dylan+Miller+-+Writer?fbclid=IwY2xjawI6mKBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSMnJ3fJs8kygENPWTcBSVdz45osP3xdAtD3YptwfFlz9klZXis2DTReXQ_aem_ely7BKtMpuqzxPBU5ro8pg - (give him a like or two on his poetry page!):
John's insane today,
What's he been doing? Licking
Walls, I guess. Oh, John...
@stevencudahy #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
#MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #poetry
#Prompt: #Prod
From my 7yo daughter:
Prod brother
Really bad
Ow! brother
Dylan Miller my brother
@stevencudahy #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
#WritingChallenge #MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #poetry #Haiku
#Prompt: #Prod
Fluff on the carpet
Prod it to see if it moves
Spider runs at me
5 years ago I began developing ideas that became a commissioned work for #Aerial Festival, #Ambleside, UK.
'Is This Just One Day?' an #evolving #ambient & multi-layered #soundscape of a journey through the #LakeDistrict.
Words by #EmmaNuttall.
Can you imagine the rain running down your cheek?
Does it wash everything away?
#landscape #fieldrecording #soundart #poetry #romanticism
#scafell #langdale #kentmere #grasmere #skiddaw #sheep #skylark #creativewriting
https://taylornuttall.bandcamp.com/track/is-this-just-one-day
Wir schreiben #Solarpunk
#Augsburg im Neruda
Neue Fiktion schaffen philosophieren träumen . . .
Dienstag 11.3.25 19-22 Uhr &jeden 2. Dienstag im Monat
Texte sind hier zu finden: https://paper.wf/solarpunxaux/
Diesesmal mit Gedankenaustausch zu Solarpunk Backups:
… calling Yorkshire…
Harrogate festivals announce three bursaries for under-represented writers to visit the festival and take part in creative writing workshops. Applications by 18 April:
https://harrogateinternationalfestivals.com/news/the-jane-gregory-bursaries
#books #reading #writing #fiction #CrimeFiction #CreativeWriting #DEI #UnderRepresentedVoices #bookstodon @bookstodon
@stevencudahy #WritingCommunity #CreativeWriting
#MastoPrompt #Challenge #Poem #poetry
#Prompt: #prime
From my 7yo daughter:
Proud
Red
Ink
Mint colour
Amber
Ruby red
Yellow
Some #CreativeWriting books I really love that I think the #WritingCommunity should pay more attention to:
* Wonderbook, by Jeff VanderMeer
* About Writing, by Gareth L Powell
* Steering The Craft, by Ursula K. Le Guin
