#writer beware

[ariaste]

🚨WRITER BEWARE🚨

I've just gotten an email from a new "self-publishing platform" called Written (written.app), which is making suspiciously extravagant promises about the benefits they offer to authors. After further research, this is just "upload your book with us and we'll make it an NFT :)"

There is a "thesis" that you can read right on their website if you're interested in looking for yourself at the business model of their grift, but if you'd like to save yourself the trouble, I've pulled out some of the highlights of the receipts over on Bluesky. TLDR: I would not touch this platform with a ten-foot-pole. This is not a book-selling platform, this is a Coincidentally Book-Themed NFT Platform.

[awriterfaraway]

dears, remember that not every villain has to have a traumic painful background, an ulterior good motive, or the belief that they're are good people doing good things.

Some people just suck.

So, don't overwhelm yourself trying to twist them into a good misunderstood poor one when they're just bastards.

[novella-november]

For anyone who has finished their draft and is looking into publishing, I highly recommend subscribing/following Writer Beware, who posts great information about publishing scams, predatory practices, editor scam artists, class-action lawsuits, and more!

Writer Beware

Shining a small, bright light in a wilderness of writing scams

[soulbinder90]

DON'T DO IT!!!

I know you wanna. I know you're tempted.

But under no circumstances DON’T read your first draft while writing it.

It's cringe.

Nevermind how I know 🙄🙄

[brakerdabraskbeware]

Oh my DAYS we cannot catch a break from these cretins…Hi everyone, looks like Trentatronic is trying to come back, and this time it’s on DeviantArt! What a great place, definitely not infested with a bunch of creeps already…Please avoid:

Reblogs >>> Likes!

[novlr]

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[lilithsaintcrow]

"The initial fee demand is often just an opener, which is why scammers are so willing to reduce it: it tells the scammer whether the writer is willing to pay, and therefore may be willing to pay more."

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[thislovesposts]

Bubble pop

The cool champagnes of summer dancing.

The first love, Japanese girl.

The light ectopic of literature.

The sea blood of green earth in the tea hue of brown tilling silt of idea nun.

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The telling of tale, from the lord of sight, dance and anime.

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The memory of life

Sunidhi