managing editor @ellipsus_writes | former @soundcloud @dubsmash | he/him 🏳️🌈
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14/10 would apply for this if we weren't building something amazing ourselves. Once in a career opportunity to work with the indomitable @sarahdrinkwater
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@_CommonMagic (population: 1) is doubling in size
I'm hiring a London based operating partner to run the machine behind the fund, systems to events to network
Come join: buildthemachine.commonmagic.…
Bonus points if you find the microsite's easter egg
John retweeted
So many people have asked how I manage to have such an insane word count when active (as much as 20k words/day). It’s not hard, I just don’t edit while drafting. Editing comes later.
If you struggle with editing as you go, try this! You’ll be amazed at what you can do.
You unearthed our magic relic—Scribbles Font—and now you’re possessed, the words as though summoned from the depths…
In the spirit of sorcery, we’re keeping the incantations coming: enjoy EIGHT new free fonts, FOUR of which are ENTIRELY ILLEGIBLE… just the way you like them!
Sans. Unique. Serif. Monospaced. Flow circular. Libre barcode. Yardings 13. and… Scribble.
Try ‘em out
#scribblefont #redacted
ALT An Ellipsus doc in font Yardings 13
ALT An Ellipsus doc in font Flow Circular
ALT An Ellipsus doc in font Libre Barcode
ALT An Ellipsus doc in font Scribble
Thank you Sarah for all the support WE FEEL UNDERSTOOD
love how deeply @ellipsus_writes understand their community + online writing behaviours
scribble fonts; write fast without getting in your head (plus write 🌶️ at the coffee shop with privacy?).
20m words a day now - so many more billions to come
I've found that half of writing is figuring out ways to gaslight yourself to be yourself.
John retweeted
Saw someone said to use the scribble font to help with writing and I genuinely didn't believe it
but I am not about to knock it unless I try it and—WHAT KIND OF SORCERY WAS THAT OH MY GOD????? IT WORKS????? I'VE NEVER WRITTEN SO MUCH SO FAST????
John retweeted
recently found out about the scribble font in ellipsus and it’s great for sprinting/getting ideas out without making edits
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1) ‼️‼️ A TOOL FOR WRITERS WHO DON'T USE AI ‼️‼️ 👀
Show off your human writing progress and the work that went into drafting your book by turning your words into a graph: Ellipsus's brand new Emboss feature is here and it's now FREE for all writers around the world! 🥰🫶💕🧵⤵️
John retweeted
Let’s face it, being a writer these days can feel a little scary. AI slopification, ominous algos… the sense that creative work is being sucked into a vast netherverse and spat back out to feed the slop machine.
In this uncanny valley, how can human writers show the world that their work is their own, without leaving it up to black-box verifiers, or pure suspicion, to decide what counts as human?
This spooky season, one writer falls down the rabbit hole into a dark world, but soon stumbles upon a source of hope…
Introducing Ellipsus Emboss, a short film.
#writing #fanfiction #creativewriting #ao3 #antiai #Youtube
Two @ellipsus_writes team members went rogue (in the best way possible) and made these cute patches 😹
New off/onsite tradition in the works...
John retweeted
... Not to be all uhhh “promoting our Google Docs alternative writing tool” on main, but... Google has (again) decided that Trump’s geography fanfic is canon. blog.google/products-and-pla…
If it must be said: Ellipsus Would Not Do This. 💀
John retweeted
The world does not need an artificial intelligence that diminishes humanity; rather, it needs human intelligence enlightened by wisdom, political authority guided by conscience and technological innovation directed by charity. Only then will artificial intelligence become not a rival to humanity but a servant of the common good.
John retweeted
High time we shared some custom theme magic 🪄🪄
We’re launching the Ellipsus theme gallery so you can browse and download homemade themes that we’re writing on, (no, really!)
We’ll add new themes to the Gallery regularly. Free of charge! All you need to join the fun is a Plus subscription.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we do 😎
themes.ellipsus.com/?v=3bbc9…
John retweeted
Looking for some contract work. If you have anything going. I have to pay the bills as I work to get projects like @AutomicVault towards COSS status.
Creator of Homebrew and that!
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What the hell must I do?
Artists just want a place online where platforms don't feed their work to AI. So I built Cara. But people just won't leave us alone.
The laws don't help us, the governments don't help us. What are artists supposed to do exactly? 1/
John retweeted
A gentle reminder that Ellipsus will NEVER feed your writing to an LLM. We do not surveil your work and we will never introduce gen-AI into the tool.
AI has no place in human writing.
“The dev behind Klub Kofta Studio told Polygon that the character's name was only in a singular Google Doc file. ‘I'd like to clarify that the specific character name is not in the [game] files at all, and I have certainly never mentioned it to an AI before.’”
Google acting hella shady… what else is new?
Sketchy incidents like this have occurred one too many times.
Insisting on their privacy policy around won’t cut it: bringing in AI was the beginning of the end. It’s just not safe.
(But Google’s not worried, they’ll just pay the fine 🙄)
polygon.com/steam-developer-…
