Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026it's so sad to see, because audio text generation has come a long way and that's great for accessibility, but what's not great for accessibility is garbage captions that are unreadable. nothing can ever really replace careful work by people who understand and apply human context. 1100
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026it was a short stop for me long ago and idk anything more, but the people i knew who used to do these were insanely smart former court reporter ladies with impeccable reference sheets of athlete names from every country. they would be so sad about this. 111512
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/02/2026briefly during covid, i worked for the company who is contracted by NBC to do Olympic captions. used to be done by a curated team of 10 employees with full benefits. since bought by a shady VC company who has aggressively sold the dream of cutting costs through AI and firing everyone all the time. 114719
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025oh my god, where did you get those? the "Christmas present for wife" part of my brain is lighting up 110
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 20/10/2025all i know is that they shouldn't have given me anti-venom in arena i can't be trusted with anti-venom 010
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 23/09/2025me reading through my fingers, trying to avoid reading a post where someone's boyfriend makes them give away their lifelong pet 🫣 060
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025whenever i get too mad about grammar, i remember Arabic scholar Sībawayhi, who lost a grammatical debate about wasps in 796 AD and got so mad about it that he went home and died 271
Reposted by Ana Hansen 🌈 📚Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Fear of the New York City subway is a mark of low moral character. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...hamiltonnolan.comThe Subway Is Not ScaryFear of the subway is a mark of low moral character. 11949331044
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 15/06/2025clear up some mental hard drive space, get an editor 0978
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/05/2025flecks in their eyes? shit is about to go down 170
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/05/2025i can tell quickly in a draft if a character is about to get important to a story, because the author starts describing their eyes real sexy 140
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 10/05/2025the greatest editorial feeling in the world is when your suggestions cause an author to add the word "chittering" to a line that didn't have "chittering" in it before 290
Reposted by Ana Hansen 🌈 📚Hakim @hakimkasir.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I simply think beyond all the environmental and moral factors AI is just for losers 329694
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 24/04/2025your darlings went to a farm upstate and they really like it there there is sunshine and so much room for them to run around 030
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 22/04/2025trust? no. want to read their book? absolutely. 040
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 22/04/2025more if they split their forms and become multiples! like cell division 020
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025perhaps will o' the wisps or other follow traps? 000
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/04/2025why so many posts about how to find a good editor and never posts about how to find a dark and arcane editor, barely contained to the human form? 66812
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/04/2025if you imply that something might happen in your book, why not let it happen? should your characters almost get in a bar fight, or should they get in a bar fight? 1414
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 31/03/2025So easy to share kind words about such a beautiful, dynamic collection! 040
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 27/03/2025eSign and Dropbox both have options where you can create signing fields for clients, both free (eSign free up to 3 a month) Adobe Sign will let you do it for free but it will hassle you about it and pretend like it won't 010
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 16/03/2025try not to take critique to heart from author groups, betas, or early readers that are not your target audience or natural readers of your genre. any opinions can be valuable through the right lens, but you do not want to tailor your book to the tastes of people who do not want it or understand it. 030
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025depends on the story! also sometimes dragons are animals 000
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 09/03/2025the names of spaceships are always italicized pirate ships are italicized dragon mounts are not italicized, because dragons are people 2161
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 08/03/2025very passionate about creating tracked changes that do not leave a stray space or doubled punctuation it is my life's mission 030
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 07/03/2025happy birthday to my partner, who is a genius many times over and who loves me in a way that i think she invented. 0240
Reposted by Ana Hansen 🌈 📚Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025hannah and kelley of the wonderful Graveside Press put their energy into our community and invest their talents in writers all day, every day. if you can do anything to help them create a peaceful life, it would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-hanna...gofundme.comDonate to Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt, organized by Remy GravesUm. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am a queer, disabled nonbinary person. I suffer fro… Remy Graves needs your support for Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt 035
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025i do a lot of work as a sort of "early editor" preparing work for submission, and i think about this all the time 😂 hope they like an oxford comma 110
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 06/03/2025hannah and kelley of the wonderful Graveside Press put their energy into our community and invest their talents in writers all day, every day. if you can do anything to help them create a peaceful life, it would be so appreciated. www.gofundme.com/f/help-hanna...gofundme.comDonate to Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt, organized by Remy GravesUm. Hi. My name is Hannah. I am a queer, disabled nonbinary person. I suffer fro… Remy Graves needs your support for Help Hannah & Kelley Escape Crushing Debt 035
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025two ENTIRE revolutions of the earth around the sun 020
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025this is great information! at least that it's possible and works, even if the wheels of trad pub are slooooow 120
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025was encouraged by the way they spoke about diverse manuscripts here and how to specifically flag them! sounds they they want to make an effort at least 210
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 05/03/2025harlequin HERSELF is open for unagented submission 👀 they're specifically calling for submissions from underrepresented communities here as well harlequin.submittable.com/submitharlequin.submittable.comHarlequin Submission ManagerWrite for HarlequinHarlequin is always on the lookout for talented writers—from established authors to those just starting their writing careers. We publish a wide range of stories and welcome writers... 02219
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 01/03/2025manuscript feelings that i can help with: • pains • agonies • struggles • trials • troubles 040
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025getting very booked out for edits through the summer and fall here but still weirdly available in may. are you all going to something in may that you didn't invite me to? 150
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025have you written "the fact was" into your manuscript lately? try taking it out of that sentence and read the sentence again, i think you will like it so much. 051
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025and why won't the hiring managers for those jobs get out of my inbox 040
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025if AI editing is so great then why are there entire fields of work dedicated to removing errors introduced by AI editing 260
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 21/02/2025this is your sign to write that thing into your book that you think only you like either you will find out that you're wrong or you will convert people 060
Ana Hansen 🌈 📚 @sparkseditorial.bsky.social · 18/02/2025i am your partner in perfecting your novel. i am your ally. i am on your side. i am standing very still behind the tree in your front yard so that you cannot see me. i am making bird calls. 1100