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wendypalmer

@wendypalmer@mastodon.au

I write fantasy ebooks & family-friendly puzzle walk trails while enjoying farm life with goats, alpacas & bees in the South West Boojarah region of Western Australia.

I follow & boost writing, reading, books, knitting, science, history, linguistics, environment, art & Stoicism.

She/her. Avatar AltText: silhouette of a woman in profile, with glasses & bobbed hair; header is my book covers (alt texts on website).

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wendypalmer, to random
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Dropbox kept telling me my account was full - I haven’t used it since 2018, but my partner used it to share coaching videos and they’d taken up all the storage space.

Finally logged in to sort it out and discovered five years (2013-2018) of forgotten photos from my first iPhone before I used iCloud - lots of my kid, a couple of overseas holidays, and so many recipes and craft projects from magazines (remember those?).

#PleasantSurprise

adriabailton, to random
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Third question:

How do you bring the internal conflict external in your writing? How do you make the external conflict affect your internal conflict?

#Writephant #WritersofMastodon #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

wendypalmer,
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@adriabailton it’s funny because I technically don’t like the miscommunication trope but I know I use it - I just think it needs to be justified. After all, it happens in real life all the time!

wendypalmer, to random
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I used to think everyone is creative in their own way.

Now, with some of the attitudes around LLMs, I can’t tell if some people are truly not creative and hate people who are, or if some people have suppressed their creative impulses too deeply to feel them, and hate people who haven’t.

#LLM #writing #chatBot #botBro #creativity

wendypalmer, to random
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I listened to a podcast with “three simple shifts for living a more sustainable life” and it was meant to be a “stay positive, small things can make a difference” hopeful episode and all it did was depress me because I’ve been doing those three simple things (and more) for years and I think we’re far beyond small individual changes making any sort of difference.

So please, #ClimateChange experts - please tell me three EFFECTIVE things an individual can do (in 2023, in rural Australia) that might help make their kid’s world even slightly better 20 years from now?

In the mood I’m in, I’m just hoping it’s not “start stockpiling tinned food and bottled water”.

(We do the sustainability basics, we’re on solar panels and electric car, we’re planting trees, we’ve reduced our meat consumption and food waste, we don’t do fast fashion, we vote with climate in mind, I used to write to my MPs before I gave up…but there must be more an individual can do)

#sustainability #climateCrisis #AlsoPersonalCrisis

wendypalmer,
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@arndell @arndell all right, I rather feared that was the next step (I am not, to say the least, a social person). Our little country town doesn’t have a climate group per se but it does have several sustainability groups so I’ll look into them to try to find the best fit. Thank you.

wendypalmer,
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@Trajecient thank you, those are two very practical and achievable suggestions

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    wendypalmer,
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    @Jakra there’s a pretty long-standing (legal and moral) differentiation between someone “interrogating” a copyrighted work and responding to it in a new way, and someone plagiarising a copyrighted work.

    The LLMs can’t be doing the first, not least because they have no understanding of the works they’ve scraped - they’re not ingesting them and using them as inspiration to produce a new creative work, they’re blindly regurgitating words based on statistics.

    I can’t see how it’s NOT plagiarism.

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    wendypalmer,
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    @davidtheeviloverlord @writers

    Of course…

    But what for - did they publish an anthology - or did they just run them in the newspaper for weeks?

    wendypalmer,
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    @davidtheeviloverlord @writers it looks like this year they’re at least paying a $200 honorarium if they publish any of the stories

    wendypalmer,
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    @davidtheeviloverlord @writers

    Oh yes of course (I don’t write ‘em, I don’t try to sell ‘em 😄 ) - they must have acted on feedback as they’re also “only” taking 12 months of rights this time.

    Sheril, to random
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    My children return to U.S. classrooms tomorrow. The anxiety I feel as a parent has nothing to do with books.

    wendypalmer,
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    @Sheril I admit, I often wonder how US parents live with that fear in the back of their minds.

    Statistically, I know it’s low odds, but, god, it can’t feel like low odds.

    🫂

    wendypalmer, to random
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    The Icelandic phrase “þetta reddast” is so frequently used, it has been described as the country’s motto. “Þetta reddast” can be translated to “it will all work out okay”.

    From: https://icelandmag.is/article/what-does-thetta-reddast-mean

    The Icelandic equivalent of the Australian “she’ll be right, mate”

    #language

    MiseryTrickery, to random

    "Here at Phallus Valley, we hand harvest each sustainably grown bag of dicks, with the most time-honored, artisanal care"

    wendypalmer,
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    @MiseryTrickery so I figured they just look like penises to our filthy modern eyes and spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the penis tree trying to work out what fruit they actually are until I decided, nope, those are definitely dicks.

    wendypalmer,
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    @MiseryTrickery ooh look, you can embroider it

    https://www.opusanglicanumembroidery.com/product/medieval-nun-penis-tree-embroidery-kit/22

    dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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    For a while I’ve started seeing a growing divide among readers in general. There are some who will ONLY read traditionally published books, mostly from the big 5. These readers won’t even attempt to read other books. On the other side there are those who ONLY read #indie and #selfpublished books, saying they’ll never go back to reading traditional published books. I don’t understand this way of thinking. I’d love to hear from you about what you think. @bookstodon #amreading

    wendypalmer,
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    @dickrubin716 @bookstodon

    I don’t pay attention to the publisher and read across the gamut, big 5, smaller publishers, tiny indie presses and self-pubbed, whatever catches my eye and fits my eclectic tastes.

    However I also find myself, more and more, giving up on books after the first few chapters, not because they’re bad, but because they’re bland. And I bet if I looked, I’d find a correlation between bland (safe) and big 5.

    I’ve even noticed that when my favourite self-pubbed authors finally earn their break and get published by mainstream publishers, that some of what I loved about them gets polished out too.

    liztai, to Malaysia
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    Back in my hometown of #Georgetown, #Penang. This is the nearly 130-year-old Chong Fatt Tze mansion - also called the "blue mansion".

    As with most Penangites, I am incorrigibly proud of my hometown 😁

    #Malaysia #TootSEA #MYToots #Travel

    The blue mansion

    wendypalmer,
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    @liztai when living in KL and visiting Penang, we gave ourselves the special treat of staying in the blue mansion - it was gorgeous!

    wendypalmer,
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    @liztai I think we out being tourists ourselves during tour time 😃 and had the evenings there to ourselves

    wendypalmer, to books
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    Hello! I'm a writer from Bridgetown, Western Australia, as well as a beekeeper and goat-wrangler.

    I also like reading, knitting, and tea-drinking and I'd do them all at the same time if I had the hand-eye coordination.

    #books #reading #writing #knitting #fiction
    #introduction

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