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I agree, but you have to remember that 99% of people don't read. They're almost all fantastic.

I understand and agree with what you are saying, but, I’m not sure it applies to the self-help genre. And maybe business writing.

"Coupled with the fact that everyone has language and everyone participates in economic transactions and structures, then most people believe that the nature of these things, and what should be normative about them, can be understood through little more than intuition and introspection." (2/2)

This doesn't happen to relate to - just guess - and incredible dullards opinion of Terry Pratchett does it.

Very nice wording. 🤣

I was good at technical writing in college. I just hated it.

Wait, what? Do you mean to say you don’t just pull it all out of your butts?

That sounds just like the wishful thinking of someone who thinks that LLMs can "democratise" the writing process.

I came here for the comments. I usually learn something. This time it was about myself. Will I share? Oh, HELL NO!

My sister is a mystery writer, and I would add that most writers pay more than middling attention to detail and have extraordinary powers of observation

To quote Olin Miller: “Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”

Hope they like it!

I mean.... The repost button is kinda right beside that heart thing you did

Many syllables bravely sacrificed themselves for the content of this post.

Reminds me of the folk who complained that David Sedaris's ostensibly biographical narratives weren't 100% factual; like he might have accidentally wound up on bestseller lists because of hilarious things constantly happening to him.

And that a lot of the time we spend away from writing is still spent studying things we really don't have to I'm currently digging at how to play shogi, a game that I have no actual interest in playing or knowing how to play, just because a character I am soon going to be writing happens to LOVE it

Courtesy @hausofdecline.bsky.social, writers:

You just sayin’ dem der fancy words.

What do you maen?

Umm, ya know, the people you’re talking about in the first half of that paragraph may not understand the second half of that paragraph.

See also: infinite curiosity. The vast majority of my writing time is not spent banging out words. The vast majority of my time is actually spent on obscure websites (sometimes procuring obscure books) researching the minutiae of something that only appears for half a paragraph… but I *must know*.

Writers say the darndest things!

Lol what? No! I hate every word I write, I'm genuinely terrible

And driving

Also. No. I am a teacher. Everyone I work with thinks they're terrible at the job, including me. I think it's even true of my colleagues in other faculties (Except Julie she's kind of full of herself)

Didn't The Naifs have a hit in the 50s?

Do any of those folks happen to think they say clever things on social media? Things that turn out to be... uneducated?

Isn’t saying clever things without understanding how the world works what LLM chatbots do?

What, No ?

Listening to The Human Division and it's part detective novel, and part sci-fi adventure. All in all the story and characters are 100 percent right there for me.

Shit; I’ve a whole data science degree intertwined with my novel work.