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Jun1313 June 2024

You know you are a writer when your search history might worry the cops.

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You know you are a writer when you worry that your search history could make the cops suspicious. That counts twice if you write crime stories.

What dodgy things do you search for?

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    @lordmatt"The hero gets the girl""The heroes don't even try because they'll win anyway because the author wanted a happy ending"the…

  2. Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET on Writers, tell me about your WIP3 June 2026

    @lordmatt The story is in German, otherwise, I would have sent it to you 😅 But the one I'm currently…

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    Just a self-insert fan-fic about being a padawan in Luke's academy.

  4. Matthew Brown on Writers, tell me about your WIP3 June 2026

    If I can spot the trope and predict the ending too soon, I get bored or disappointed. I long for…

  5. Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET on Writers, tell me about your WIP23 May 2026

    @lordmatt Awesome! Not all of my readers appreciated this, when I did something similar 😅

  6. Matthew Brown on Writers, tell me about your WIP23 May 2026

    I do enjoy a story that goes somewhere I was not expecting.

  7. Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET on Writers, tell me about your WIP23 May 2026

    @jasonlatnar It starts off like an off-the-rack gay romance, but if one knows me, knows that I don't write romance…

  8. Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) on Share your epiphanies16 January 2026

    @jasonlatnar Any writing is better than no writing

  9. Matt on How much does your working vocabulary change between works?2 December 2025

    Does my working vocabulary change between works?@jasonlatnarThis is an interesting question to which I shall have to give more thought,…

  10. Acorn Boi on Writer Talk Carnival: Worldbuilding2 December 2025

    Oooh, this looks fun.

  11. Ryek Darkener on Do AI and book writing belong together?2 November 2025

    @lordmatt @jasonlatnar For research purposes LLMs can be of help, as they are capable of finding and extracting information from…

  12. Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) on Do AI and book writing belong together?2 November 2025

    @arjaybe @jasonlatnar I guess that is fair - let the AI writers and the AI readers hang out together.

  13. Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) on Do AI and book writing belong together?2 November 2025

    @_RyekDarkener_ @jasonlatnar I'm curious - on what does it depend?

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