Sera Maddox Drake

Do not post links on my wall defending plagiarist Mia Ballard ("author" of _Shy Girl_, a self-published horror novel that was entirely "written" with the help of AI, then humanized enough that Ballard thought she could escape AI detection). 
          
          When a new author's career is ruined because she got caught using AI, that is a GOOD thing. It is not a thing self-publishing indie authors like me should ever need to fear... not if we write rather than toast. As we all know, AI generation is not writing. Feeding a bot prompts is not writing. Having ProWritingAid or some other AI app "polish" your writing, then humanize the results enough that the "edited" work doesn't smell of burnt toast spread with slop jam, is not writing.
          
          Sympathy with Mia Ballard looks like a covert admission that one uses the same "writing" tactics that she does. That's not a good look. 
          
          I have removed the pro-Ballard spam from my profile and blocked the person who had the audacity to post it. It might have had something to do with the same person telling me in conversation that anyone who does poorly in contests such as the Ambys and the Shortys compared to authors who are canny enough to use ProWritingaid to polish their work, then humanize it so that it scans as human, just has sour grapes. 
          
          I remember comments like that. My grapes are very sour indeed. 
          
          My tolerance for AI in writing is zero.

Also, I thought I remembered you saying something about it being special edition but I’m not sure if that’s real or my brain. Do you mind clearing it up for me? Is it the special edition one?

Hi! I am your judge I’m on my alt acc I’ll be using this one to interact with your story so yk im reading. Just wanted to lyk I’ll be starting it 

An observation: Any time someone tells you "they were hoping to have a civil conversation about (insert hot button controversial current affairs topic of your choice here)," that's a belated red flag. Nobody hopes to have civil conversations about controversial topics. Not one person ever. People might want to identify cobelligerents with whom they are in total agreement and who are willing to provide validation and support for their identity and/or cause, or they might want to find enemy punching bags, but they do NOT want a civil conversation full of polite disagreement and interesting new angles. 
          
          And on a related tangent, do not presume to out-progressive me in an argument, or insult me on the grounds that I am ignorant of recent history that I survived as an adult while you were probably still in middle school. I collect virtue flags like I collect award stickers, although I don't make a habit of waving those flags. I am probably far more active in resistance than you are, even around being severely depressed and having no energy to spare for resisting anything. I probably know more about prejudice than you do, as well, including why my being white makes my experiences intersectional -  no, I will not explain that term to you, it is your homework assignment, go look it up - and I WILL block you before I have even had time enough to mutter "snotbrat" under my breath.

If I were still publishing poetry on Wattpad, I'd want to take part in Slam Dunk. Let's face it, Ravendipity's contests are always awesome (not to mention, she's one of a tiny handful of people who actually LIKES my poetry rather than considering it torture to read, so there's that).
          
          Poets of Wattpad, this one is for you.
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/407894975-the-slam-dunk-poetry-contest-open

Ancilla just got added to the Rainbow Fiction booklist on the Ambassadors profile. 
          
          Bi visibility! (Also, WOOT!)
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/list/1640715768

To whomever is reading my in-progress work (What Is Told: A Conglomeration of Confabulations, which is my matryoshka doll nest of a magical realism dream vision; The Adventures of the Hypotenuse, my kinky Sapphic romcom) I apologize for my super-slow updates. 
          
          I write at a pace somewhere between "forming stalactite" and "speeding banana slug" even under the best of circumstances, and when I am depressed, I'm even slower.

If there are still spaces left by the time I get to work, I'm going to enter this. 
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/409932739-%F0%9D%90%85%F0%9D%90%A5%F0%9D%90%A8%F0%9D%90%B0-%F0%9D%90%80%F0%9D%90%B0%F0%9D%90%9A%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%9D%F0%9D%90%AC-%F0%9D%90%8C%F0%9D%90%A2%F0%9D%90%9C%F0%9D%90%AB%F0%9D%90%A8

New one! The award is sponsored by @YUKIX_
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/409715209-the-spellcaster-awards-2026

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