Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
yeah. saw that last guy saying "the story, characters, scenes, humour, structure and voice came from me" which sure sounded like an admission that the text did not
T. K. RexAll good points here and I would add that on the other end, it’s a huge fallacy to assume that sloppers can’t explain their creative choices. Explaining is all they’re doing. Writing a prompt is essentially formulating the explanation and often there’s a lot of research that goes into it.
some of you are going to be like "but this is my emotional support catastrophizing" but you can swap it out for climate change and it will be just as depressing!
Ann LeckieI know this isn't going to come across, like, at all, because it's writers I'm talking to, but for Mithras' sake, don't catastrophize! Don't spend all your time worrying about whether or not someone is going to like your work, whether editors are likely to buy it, whether it "sounds like AI"
just goes to show that at the seven-figure level no one actually reads the manuscript first
Lincoln Michel👀 Fascinated by the "withdrawn by its agents" detail. So the AI use was so blatant that the agents due a huge payday preemptively withdrew the contract?
the boozy nude beach version of the classic Le Guin schedule
Tansy Gardamobsessed with Ian Flemming's daily schedule - swim - brunch - write 1500 words no edits just freestyle - lobster hunting - pink gin - lunch - siesta - sit in garden - another swim - 500 more words - "a couple of powerful drinks" - dinner - scrabble with wife - sleep
like everybody else in the world I had odyssey thoughts vajra.me/2026/07/27/o...
Odsbodikinsnever tell me the odsvajra.meIn better news, the Polish translation of RAKESFALL is out in August from Czarna Owca polter.pl/ksiazki/Rake...
Rakesfall: twórca Świętego od papuzich drzwi powraca z nowym dziełem - Książki - POLTERGEISTPod koniec sierpnia nakładem wydawnictwa Czarna Owca ukaże się Rakesfall, powieść science fiction, której autorem jest Vajra Chandrasekera, znany z in...polter.plColombo folks, reminder: I'll be at Lakmahal this Friday evening!
Vajra Chandrasekerano longer on a beach; soon to be found in a library vajra.me/2026/07/15/i...
