Linfoot Writes

In Geistfall, the world doesn’t ask who you are. It asks what you can prove. Blood is the ink. Names are collateral. The House keeps receipts. I wrote a FREE dark fantasy prelude novella to open the gate. Want to know more? ⤵️

@hatfieldtweet Well said

This is my DNF shelf on Goodreads. It's empty. Why is that? Because I'm an adult who doesn't make trophies of books I didn't finish. The site is called Goodreads...not Gooddidn'treads.

@Syla_Fox @TiltAtGiants Oh I agree, but it seems to be weighted towards trad. We don’t get this many stories that some big name indie got cancelled. It is usually over book deals, etc

@Linfootwrites @TiltAtGiants I’m afraid nobody is safe from this mob mentality behavior. 😞

@TiltAtGiants @Syla_Fox This is why self pub is the way. Build your audience and leave trad alone

@KeithDavendonis Dang it, you’re right. I gotta add that to the list

@Linfootwrites I think you are missing a crucial one, something on the edge of Fantasy and Fantasy.

Here’s 5 rules to help you write better fantasy. • read Fantasy • read Fantasy • read Fantasy • read Fantasy • read Fantasy

@nealenrick That too

@Linfootwrites Also, having a sense of whimsy helps.

@TheOfficialJOTS That’s still works. At least you read

@Linfootwrites The most sci-fi and fantasy I've read was decades ago. I just abstract from life experiences now to tell whatever story I'm telling, tbh

Witch hunts. What is interesting that those of us who are creative won't say about this, is that nobody could tell if it was ai or not, or at least not definitively. The audience, if they are not told something is AI, basically just cares if they enjoyed it. Sure, if they absolutely love it they may become true fabatics and then want to know who the author is etc, but that just isn't how most people are. Many will also delude themselves if they do like something. For example, Sabrina Carpenter. Her songs are written by committee, this is well known. Yet, a lot of the audiebce tries to piece together some real life narrative of what inspired her or what must be going on in her interior life etc. Point is, creative people want to believe what they create is so much more and special to the audience than what it usually is, and we have yo acknowledge that most people, even our readers, likely will never care like we do. Which is ok. How many people actually watch all yhe movie credits? Does anyone ask for the name of the person who designed the tires of their car, thst literally keeps them on the road and prevents them from dying?

We are afraid and angry at the wrong things. Imagine if this happened to you. It could. It might. There’s literally no way to protect ourselves right now. We have no way of defending our work from inaccurate ai detectors or from service providers/editors who use ai on our manuscripts without our knowledge. It’s not the ai slop authors we should be worried about. It’s the people who lie to us and the ai detection that is so often wrong -those are our biggest threats. Oh, and each other. Because imagine this happening to you and the entire community turns on you without any proof, and you’re just done in a blink. We need to do better, fam.

ARE WE IN THIS TOGETHER, or are we, like, playing the Hunger Games of Indie Authors? Just wondering.

@KWBussard_ That is awesome. Have fun man!

Guthrie Oklahoma or bust....

@DavidAtkins75 Sounds like me. Always doing other work on the weekend

@Linfootwrites I wish. The weekend brings more work, catching up on chores, doing things you were too tired to do when you got home from work. But yeah, I’ll squeeze some of those things in before I have to go back. Hopefully.

It’s basically the weekend minus 8 hours or so. Which means we should all have ample free time to write, read, reset and just enjoy ourselves from a long week.

@paul_jkrause So far it’s been Armada by Ernest Cline. Was the first “video game becomes reality” I’ve ever read.

What is the best sci-fi novel you've read? There are many good ones. Great ones. Not just because he recently passed away, but Hyperion by Dan Simmons has to be up there for everyone who has read it...

@HariSel57511397 Armada by Ernest Cline was absolutely incredible

What’s the best sci-fi novel you’ve read (has to be published within the past five years cause I’m tired of all the same boring answers).

@writing_show I wrote a short 17k novelette over a weekend. Was my first ever book really to just see the whole process and test out how to use Amazon. It is not good 😂 but it’s done

What is the quickest time that you have written a novel?

@ElChandler He is the original god of hell

For writers: how evil is your villain?

I might actually have to make a flow chart for this third book plot

@KingAriPress I gotta pick a time and just stick with it

@Linfootwrites I get so bummed when it happens. Now it's a habit, and that helps. Same time each day.

I have missed my daily post. Algo gods please forgive me. I swear I love this app. I will spend more time on it. I swear I don’t have a life. I swear all that is digital and holy that your super awesome app, that works all the time, is way way more enjoyable than playing video games, going to work, reading LitRPG and doing regular writing and human things.

@KingAriPress I’ve done that before. I work nights so not a lot of energy in the day to post

@Linfootwrites Only because I am counting, day 79. One year, I did daily photos, and I missed a date because I was in another time zone. Ended up having 2 on one day.

@KingAriPress Dang, you go go get em! I’ll try not to miss another

@Linfootwrites I’m surprised I haven’t missed one of mine.

@SteffenJack84 I am a slave to the machine 😂

@Linfootwrites It's never enough. That's the point.