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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've had to push out my self-imposed deadline. I ran out of gas in a way that isn't easy to recharge. The words all blur together now. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I agree with her 100%. I am an indie writer with zero budget or writing income. I will only ever self-publish. I use AI (as well as human help) in my writing process for thousands of revisions, still going 18 months later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROp-... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Traditional Publishing Is Using the Same AI They’re Telling Authors Not to Use

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Being a writer is in about the same category as being a gardener. Everyone can do it - it's good for you. That some people's tomato vines grow a little taller or they have more of them is no reason not to plant your own. And whatever gets you there works. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This feels weird. Finished my months long revision pass. Huh. Hmmm...now the next one - reading aloud. Feels like I am getting...closer?? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The more I write, the less I write. I used to want beautiful prose, now I want simple and clear. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I make so many sensitivity mistakes. I read back over my work in revision and wonder - why did I write this? Was this really the best I could do? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I am reaching the conclusion that after I finish my current revision I may put the book on ice for 6 months to a year. I have gotten to close to it to see it clearly anymore. I need to reset my perspective. So not publishing this year, maybe next. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Writing for me is outlines, breaking a chapter up into sections, sketching out what this 200 word section needs to accomplish, researching details, then writing, re-writing, re-writing again, and then doing line by line revisions. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chapter 44 revisions were a fight. I'm not sure who won. Let's call it a draw. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I am pushing too hard, doing too much, and burning out. I need to figure out how to slow down and relax. Sometimes that is really hard for me. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Long ago, I visited the Hawkins Road Refugee Camp in Singapore. It was an experience which stayed with me.

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Once published, art no longer belongs to the artist. The artist may have more control over the work than others, but no one truly "owns" the work. It belongs to the public now. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, but it was never his. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My itty bitty two line restructure is really an entirely new chapter. Hey! I actually get to write! #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some chapters are a pleasant surprise. Barely anything to fix. Wonderful. Other chapters...egads. How am I the same person that wrote both? It wasn't even a long chapter and yet I found a way to screw up every sentence three times. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There is this trope of writers being socially awkward Melvin Udall types. Our entire business is reading people and understanding social situations and dynamics. I'm an introvert, sure, but to write good characters I must first understand how people work. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If I finish my book, then I will have to publish it and subject it to ...other people. Wait...I think I see a way out of that... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Oh yeah, that's a song lyric isn't it? Hmmm...copyright. I'll take that out just in case. And that is a real business...erhh....hmmm....better safe than sorry. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When other people watch or read fiction they see, it was okay. Kind of forced. I am sitting there cataloguing errors: Character agency, authorial arrangement, continuity, information accessibility, procedural realism, perspective shift, low ROI detail... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I use AI in polishing my work. I give it strict rules telling it what to find. Since I have been tracking it, AI has helped me find and resolve over 2,000 cases where I have broken my own rules. Writing makes no profit for me. It is only a passion. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I found myself drawn into some beautiful paintings until coming to realize they were AI. What makes art...art? The universe filtered through the accumulated lens of being. With no consciousness behind those decisions it comes to feel like staring into the void. #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I did a day of edits on the wrong version of my manuscript. At least it was just one day. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Imposter syndrome alarm going off. I've missed some obvious flaw. Anyone who knows what they are doing will see it immediately. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I understand Tomi Adeyemi and I do not. It's exciting to have your work adapted into a film, but then it's not yours anymore. If I wanted to make films, I would make films. Would I turn down a stack of money on principle? #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I personally witnessed a UFO move from a dead stop to the horizon in less than a second. #ufo #uap

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I highly recommend The Friendship by Mildred Taylor, an amazing author. #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

At this point, I don't even remember writing my novel. All I remember is the endless editing. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Huh. I just found a whole new category of error in my novel. That's a good thing? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Imagine having the best day of your life getting signed with a literary agency...and then that agency is Europa Content. #writingcommunity #nightmarefuel #aiwitchhunt

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I loved the writing part of writing my novel. Took me three months to write about 70,000 words. Was a joy to write, I knew exactly what needed to happen. Of course that was two years of revisions ago. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This character is very different from me. What do I know about being X? Insert: a woman, trans, Black, Asian, or another dimension I have no personal familiarity with. I am writing the real world. There is no world without human diversity. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The romantic in me would imagine myself as Diogenes the writer. Not really with living outdoors on purpose. Or desiring nothing. Or the rejection of society and material comforts. Or demonstrating belief through action. But all the other parts. Diogenes with Netflix. #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Writers have to go through the baby naming process...a lot. Keandra? Maybe Keedra? Kandra? Kanderly? The woman smiled. "Hi, I'm Kanderly." ...eh.... The woman smiled. "Hi, I'm Jane." #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just wrote a beautiful filler chapter. Has everything but tension. Can I just call it cozy? #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I hear people use the term "GenAI" and I think of everyone who will grow up with AI as an ordinary fact of life. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I once was browsing through a book store in Portland, Oregon when a group of White supremacists burst in marching and chanting, then left. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Gentle, positive, constructive criticism. Meanwhile me: That paragraph is ugly as sin. Ugh. Did I have to go to the bathroom when I was writing that? Okay, okay, got to pee...but one more sentence... #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I once read an unnamed book - a great book - with a sentence repeated. I almost cried. I felt so affirmed. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My novel keeps packing on weight like No Face with every chapter restructure. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Re-reading a not-all-the-way-there scene and feeling like I pooped in the yard. I'll just clean that up before anyone notices. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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Poncho Writer - Currently Editing a Novel @ponchowriter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am happy to say the chapter is out of surgery and in recovery. I will need to keep monitoring it, but the restructure appears to have been a success. #writing #writersky #writingcommunity #amediting

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