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Emily King

@emkingma.bsky.social
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Writer. Knitter. Geek. Cornwall, UK. Retraining in cybersecurity. BSides Exeter steering committee member and Press Officer. Opinions my own, not my employer's. Culture and tech blog geryow.com Links chim.page/emily

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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you don't go to a cinema with a Infinity Vision screen, you only get 3/4 extra scenes in Avengers: Endgame Encore. That is some BS. Nowhere near me has that. Went last night, watched what I thought was Encore, head home, watch an analysis video oh, there's 4 scenes. #AvengersEndgameEncore
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G.Face @damdonjulio.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
#Sinners
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BlogMyWiki @blogmywiki.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just a few days now until everything currently under the suppertime dot co dot uk domain vanishes, possibly for ever.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This iced coffee interview debate thing is weird to watch from the sidelines as someone who had a crazy long week at the start of the summer doing in-person interviews. Only 2/6 interviews offered me water. During one of the hottest weeks of the year. Every interview I've had in-person in earlier
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mother in law just showed me her phone & said ‘this is what we used to live like’ & it was an AI image of an over nostalgic street scene with an old lady handing out cakes to kids - typical nonsense. I said ‘but that’s AI, that’s not real’. She said, and I quote: ‘but that doesn’t matter’.
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Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
ALT: Girl's Intense Scream at Doctor's Office
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last night, I started playing the new Wolverine game. This is despite all the unhappy grumbling I've read online about it. I played about two hours. I enjoyed those two hours. I'm probably going to play it some more during the evenings this week. But I am in general an X-Men a d Logan fan.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The challenge of trying to figure out what to wear based on what office temperature likely will be versus the temperature outside when you have no form of climate control in your office.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Remember folks, take notes here: ✅ When your company hacking another one helps with marketing, its "OMG rogue models gone wild hacking other companies." 😱 ❌ When a hacking incident doesn't raise your valuation but shows you to be massive thieves, it's an internal "ah nice"


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OpenAI's President Greg Brockman, when told his company had hacked the NYT paywall to scrape the site, responded with "ah nice."

That's a straightforward criminal violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. OpenAI executives in jail.

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woah. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. 
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Not good, OpenAI. "Read this NYTimes" article.. "Summarize" this NYTimes article... (NYT content in red). /3
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Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here:
 "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

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The character of Defendants' conduct weighs further against fair use.
The transgressive and deceptive nature of Defendants' efforts to acquire Plaintiffs' content confirms that their purpose in doing so was fundamentally to avoid the cost of acquiring lawful
copies. OpenAI employees devised and implemented strategies to circumvent paywalls without
detection when scraping websites. For example, when Nick Ryder informed Mr. Brockman about
, hack to get around nytimes paywall" to help with Mr. Brockman's efforts to "scrape[]" The
Times's site, Mr. Brockman responded "ah nice." SF791. OpenAI's corporate representative on
the subject was unaware of any "method for detecting paywalled content" in its da…
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This evening, I've been catching up on the Marvel comic books I'm following at the moment. So, two issues of Daredevil, an issue each of Avengers Armageddon, and Jeff The Land Shark: Superstar. #marvelcomics
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I am not enjoying the introduction of Gorr as a duellist in Marvel Rivals. I mainly play Quick Match and his introduction has definitely made it less fun this weekend.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I think I need a study of the Bluey episodes most likely to make people cry.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This evening I started knitting a new hat for kiddo that probably won't get worn until later in October. Per my report on geekyknittingexperiments.tumblr.com I am working through Jack Reacher season 4 and Daredevil season 3. #Knitting
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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Good few matches here and there this weekend on Marvel Rivals. This morning, I managed to make it to MVP twice, once as The Punisher and once as Cyclops. Even had a good game playing as Daredevil where I mopped up the other side, gaining lots of assists. #MarvelRivals #videogames
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good match, this evening. I don't get MVP very often in Marvel Rivals. (I am by no means an incredibly skilled player, I'm just on it having fun.) #MarvelRivals #gaming #videogames
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Been down in Penzance with fam today. Went to the arcade, won enough tokens that I could get some decent items for kiddo (because we had zero luck on the claw machines). #Cornwall
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Plot bunny went and marched into my skull at lunchtime. Had to start making notes on my phone while the fam and I headed home from a visit to Trelissick. Maybe I'll actually write something based on this?
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Yep, watched the eclipse. That was cool. But have you caught the season finale of X-Men '97? Omg 😱
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just got back from Spider-Man: Brand New Day. OMG! THIS FILM! One of the best comic book movies I have had the pleasure of watching. End credits, yes. Also, someone at Marvel must love TV On The Radio. Daredevil: Born Again and now Brand New Day?! Taste. #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Marvel
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Less than a week until I see Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Trying hard not to vibrate into another dimension from all the hype.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
During lunch breaks at new job, I've been working on a blog post about playing Marvel Rivals as a newbie. Hoping to get it posted in the next week or so.
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Apropos of nothing... a series of Pride and Prejudice memes.
Meme of a drunk guy yelling at an unimpressed girl in a nightclub; the caption reads "I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the right honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh"
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Setting up for a large gathering at home today, snacks and drinks are in, to... ... Play a day long DnD session.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
So, X-Men '97 season 2: Age of Apocalypse. New Marvel Rivals season 9: Shit going down with Apocalypse. Both kicking off within a week of each other. Just sayin'. #xmen97 #marvelrivals
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Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com · 30/06/2026
a widely-known meme comic of a dog wanting a ball to be thrown without giving it up, but it's edited to read: "hit videogame? no studios! only hit video game"
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Went to see Disclosure Day this evening. I enjoyed it, but could not shake the feeling that you needed to have: - Watched most of Spielberg's aliens work, including the TV series Taken - And watched most of The X-Files In order to appreciate it. I am someone with that context, most don't have it.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I have no idea what I'm doing in Marvel Rivals. I'm somehow level 9 now. The whole thing feels like some kind of anxious REM dream. It's been about a week. (I press buttons and hope for the best.) #MarvelRivals
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Something for the weekend? New short cyberpunk story available on Geryow: The Vault. "What will Morgan find under the depths of the flooded River Thames?" Read it here: geryow.com/the-vault/ #cyberpunk #writing #shortstory
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just as I'm about to head into Agile on the Beach, completely unrelated, but I've posted a new short cyberpunk story to my Geryow site. The Vault What will Morgan find in the depths of the flooded River Thames? You can read it here: geryow.com/the-vault/ #cyberpunk #shortstory #writing
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The Vault
What will Morgan find under the depths of the flooded River Thames?
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Rosalie ✨ @littlerecordgirl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Guys, it's fine. If they want us to go purely digital we can always buy a PS5 SSD, as they're affordable, right? Oh. Never mind that, I'll build a gaming PC instead! Oh. Well, the Xbox used to be known as a budget-friendly modern gaming option, so I'll just buy a Series X/S instead. Oh no wait.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...
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Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Well, that's some expected but still horrible bullshit. Considering the recent moves to stop games being killed, not succeeding in the EU, this sucks. blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...
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Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles
In response to shifting trends in consumer preference, new games will be released on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital formats only.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Just as I'm about to head into Agile on the Beach, completely unrelated, but I've posted a new short cyberpunk story to my Geryow site. The Vault What will Morgan find in the depths of the flooded River Thames? You can read it here: geryow.com/the-vault/ #cyberpunk #shortstory #writing
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The Vault
What will Morgan find under the depths of the flooded River Thames?
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Tried out Marvel Rivals for the first time ever this evening. After completing the tutorials, it took me a while to realise what I had to do in order to get into any matches. Partner said he had a similar issue when he played Fortnite once. #videogames 1/2
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Can't believe I'll be talking at Agile on the Beach next week, for a second time 😱 Talking about about "dependency hell" at a micro software company. Friday, 3 July, 11:55 AM. There's gonna be references to Talking Heads and They Live, so bring your sunglasses. #AOTB #AgileOnTheBeach #AOTB2026
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Decided to pull together some thoughts on the proposed under-16s social media ban for in the UK. You can read it now on Geryow: geryow.com/the-under-16...
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Well, looks like Disney+ is having some issues in the UK at the moment at least...
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Playing the remaster of Alan Wake on my PS5. It's been a long time since I completed the original version, back on my old Xbox 360. (Also probably my first time gaming in over a month.)
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Hire people to tutor kids on free school meals, hire people to support their parents with child care, with job finding/training, with (unnecessary) adulting tasks. Pay them enough that they can do these things well & happily. Create jobs, care, and human networks & relationships.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Just come home from an epic DnD session where long running plot points came to a head, and the true identity of an NPC we've repeatedly encountered was revealed: he was my betrothed... Right before my patron snapped his neck! 1/2 #DnD #DungeonsAndDragons
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Something for the weekend. In my latest blog post, I talk about what the hell happened when I let myself write 57,000 words in 31 days and what it taught me about my writing practice when it comes to my original fiction. Free-walled to stop the bots: geryow.com/learned-writ... #writing #AmWriting
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What I learned from writing 57,000 words in 31 days
Writing 57,000 words of fiction in a month can be tough, but not always. Here's what Emily learned from doing just that.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Google AI search results are so fecking accurate. Yeah. Not. This is me trying to find out the BBFC rating for Pixar's Hoppers before pre-watching it to see if it's okay for kiddo. Google AI: It's a PG BBFC: It's a U Bit of a big difference. But the AI results give an immediate, incorrect, answer
Some Google results that lead with BBFC link to Hoppers rating, but the Google search gives an answer straight up... PG, which is wrong.Hoppers page on BBFC website. Shows the film is a U.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Pokémon Blue
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Pokemon Game Boy Battle: Pidgey & Charmander
ALT: Pokemon Game Boy Battle: Pidgey & Charmander
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I knew if you aren't using LLMAI to create resumes it apparently disappears into a void, this...😬 I also know that I had my only EVER "okay Boomer" moment with my Dad* recently on this topic Him: you just have to APPLY to get jobs! Me: It's...not that simple, now. Him: Of course it is! Me: ...
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Doesn't happen very often, but just seen that the organisers of the Royal Cornwall Show have had to cancel the final day of the show. Wasn't planning on going but Saturday is usually the busiest day. The weather really is appalling at the moment. #Cornwall
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I have heard from writer friends that editors have directly told they don't want queer books right now, or have asked them to alter/remove queer characters, etc—a state of affairs which is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. Queer audiences exist and need to see themselves reflected in literature!
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Fuck.
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Emily King @emkingma.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Something for the weekend. In my latest blog post, I talk about what the hell happened when I let myself write 57,000 words in 31 days and what it taught me about my writing practice when it comes to my original fiction. Free-walled to stop the bots: geryow.com/learned-writ... #writing #AmWriting
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What I learned from writing 57,000 words in 31 days
Writing 57,000 words of fiction in a month can be tough, but not always. Here's what Emily learned from doing just that.
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