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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Like studying how our brains work? Here's a post about how the cognitive mode of our brain might affect our productivity and ability to get things done. 🤔 jamigold.com/2026/09/cant... #writetip #writers

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Can't Focus? How to Help with Procrastination

It's time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we're learning new ideas to help with procrastination.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't miss my guest post at Angela & Becca's Writers Helping Writers site -- especially if you struggle with procrastination. 😬 I'm sharing tons of suggestions AND a unique way of thinking about how our brains work (or sometimes DON'T work): writershelpingwriters.net/2026/09/iden...

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Procrastinating? Identify Your Cognitive Mode

Ten quick strategies for overcoming procrastination plus ways to discover why you procrastinate that you may not have considered before.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

Authors who are members of the class in the Anthropic Settlement, please be aware that if you have a work in the settlement which has multiple authors but is self-published (or the rights have reverted), the settlement allocation is buggy. Explanation below

The Anthropic settlement allocation is buggy for self publishers with multiple authors

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/09/2026

The settlement administrators have written back and explained to me that indeed, if you select either "author" or "author loan-out company" as your entity when you first signed up, it will assume that there is a silent publisher, unless you say that you are the sole owner of the work.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This. I'll never understand why people keep trying to peddle genAI to authors (and often authors whose work was fed into the machine) because curiosity and creativity are part of the process for most of us. I love diving down rabbit holes researching for a single line of dialogue. I live for that.

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Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com · 11/06/2026

Calling all scientists and academics and researchers who want to raise money to fight voter suppression! Have you got a professional special interest? We have nerds willing to bid to pick your brain about it! form.romancingthevot...

Looking for experts! Donate a consultation for an author looking to research your specialty or nerds who are obsessed with what you do!

Donations are due by 6/28, Auction opens 7/1 at 9am CDT and ends 7/5 at 7pm CDT.

All auction proceeds go to Vote Riders and The Southern Coalition for Social Justice, two organizations experienced in fighting to make sure every person's vote counts.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

This thread illustrates the weird scam landscape authors are dealing with. Since AI was illegally trained on our stolen work, it's distinctly surreal to have elaborate scams use our plagiarized words against us...and it's getting more advanced at mimicking legitimacy.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/02/2026

New writers often get frustrated when agents or editors can't define "voice" sufficiently for them to understand. Voice is very "you know it when you see it" and seeing it often comes from having seen so much that you know when something feels distinct. LLMs produce the opposite of voice by design.

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Angela Ackerman @angelackerman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

We're getting down to the final hours to enter, writers! Hurry over as there are amazing feedback prizes from skilled editors and writing coaches: 48-Hour Mega-Contest on Now (21 Writing Prizes to Be Won!) writershelpingwriters.net/2026/01/mega...

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48-Hour Mega-Contest on Now (21 Writing Prizes to Be Won!)

Enter for the chance to win feedback from amazing guest editors that can help take your story from good to great.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Really interesting thread 🧵 on how a class structured their AI policies when given rein to make informed choices.

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! I know this can be a difficult time for many, so I hope everyone has the best day they can. ❤️🎄🎁 Here, have a virtual cookie! (We have a marathon baking session every year, and this year we made about 875 cookies. 😁)

A "take home" container filled with Christmas cookies, including: Russian Tea cookies; plain, nut, and peanut butter varieties of fudge; pecan pie bars; sea salt and nut varieties of chocolate bark; fudge oatmeal bars; and Pfeffernusse (German spice ball cookies).

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Everyone talks about improving our writing craft skills but what about our *storytelling* skills? Are we just stuck with our level of "talent", or can we improve those skills too? jamigold.com/2025/12/what...

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What Creates Great Storytelling?

It's time for another post as a Resident Writing Coach over at Writers Helping Writers, where we're exploring storytelling and how to improve our skills.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This whole thread, and what it means for real writing vs AI. 👇❤️

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

100% this. If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer. The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Halloween weather was perfect here, and it was a Friday night, so we got... *drum roll* 1500 kids -- not a typo 😆 We ran out of candy despite spending a lot. Only neighbor I saw that *didn't* run out had bought 17 Costco bags of candy. 17!

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Okay, the skeletons and I are ready for Halloween! 😁 ☠️ #Halloween #Skeletons

A skeleton lit up in green is standing with a shovel. A pile of bones is beside him, waiting to be buried. His arm is raised in shock, as his skeleton dog, lit up in purple, has absconded with a thigh bone. A tree draped in orange lights is behind them.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Just had to explain to our vet that "No, Sugar can't come in for teeth cleaning surgery next Friday because Halloween is her favorite holiday." 🤷‍♀️ Yes, our dog has a favorite holiday. This formerly abandoned dog loves all the pets and attention from the trick-or-treating kids (and their parents). 😍

Sugar is a mini white poodle and she is holding the stuffed animal of a brown and white dog

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Yay me! I got my Covid (and flu) shot today at Costco, and I rewarded myself with their new Chocolate Caramel Brownie sundae. 😆😋

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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Okay, I can agree with this.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/10/2025

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Submit a Claim

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2025

Important info on scams for authors here.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: pecan Best ice cream: chocolate moose tracks Best donut: chocolate creme-filled, chocolate frosted, yeast donut Best bar: 100Grand candy Best cake: Costco's old recipe for 7 pound All-American chocolate cake Best other: baklava Look, it's not *all* chocolate! 🤣

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/09/2025

Hello I have a late Monday (standing friend time) and so I am just getting around to reading about the Anthropic settlement. There have been no orders filed and the transcript isn’t available so I have to go by what the reporters said.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 08/09/2025

Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky. Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨

Screenshot of Post Interaction Settings with an arrow pointing to Reply Settings

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Even though I don't post much on any social media right now, I do lurk-read. And Bree is one of my favorite follows because she's never lost sight of the *social* aspect of social media. This thread summarizes what keeps me here even on my bad days. 👇😍

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Friends, if anyone on here sneers at em dashes being used in professional writing as a sign of AI, I'm just going to beg you to read anything from the BEFORE days. The reason AI overuses em dashes is that the people it stole from overuse em dashes. It was trained on 15 of my solely-em-dash books.

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 29/08/2025

Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/08/2025

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

1. The following LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class is CERTIFIED:
All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. "Book" refers to any work possessing an
ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication.
Excluded are the directors, officers and employees of Anthropic, personnel of federal agencies, and district court personnel.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

As a pantser, this truth applies to my drafting process as well. 😆 Alt Text for RT'd image: "Very few writers really know what they're doing until they've done it." - Anne Lamott

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Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Wendy is one of my most favorite authors, and her newest book is currently free! 😍

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This is me. I am bad, like *really* bad, about email, and I'm sorry. I try, but I also know myself well enough to know that any improvement I make is temporary. 🤷‍♀️

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Wow, this was a fascinating read. How LLM chatbots and psychic cons convince people that they're the real deal.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/07/2025

The best dev editors are not trying to make your book into something they, personally, would have enjoyed more. The best dev editors see what you were trying to do and tell you where you messed up, so you can make the best version of YOUR book. It is a rare skill and, as Courtney says, SOLID GOLD.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/07/2025

This is a great thread, but I want to add that you need to understand dev editing BETTER if you’re self-publishing, for a number of reasons. First, you’re hiring your editor, and you NEED to be able to understand if your editor is doing a good job.

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Jami Gold @jamigold.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Check out these great dialogue tips!

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