Karen Lord

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  Lack of transparency about AI use is damaging trust between writers and the institutions they work with.

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  I especially don’t like the fact that lack of transparency in AI use is jeopardising my established business relationships with trusted colleagues who, alas, cannot always trust the institutions they work for to do the right thing.

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  People should be paid and credited for the skill and time they put into their work, not have it taken.

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  I don’t like thieves (pay people for the skill and time they put into their work. Give proper acknowledgement to the creator).

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  If a press or prize does not want AI-written stories, writers should respect that.

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  I don’t like liars (if a press or prize doesn’t want an AI story, respect that).

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  A writer should explore and push boundaries rather than stay in one groove of style and genre.

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  But how I like to read is not how I like to write. I like to explore, push boundaries, find new paths and angles for telling a story.

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  Releasing a series one episode a week is better than dropping it all for a binge.

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  once-a-week drop instead of back-to-back binge lets me spend the week pondering the past ep and also the whole arc.

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  Unfamiliar story structures from writers outside US/UK culture are not wrong, only unfamiliar.

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  My story structure and style and choices may not be familiar to you. That doesn’t make them wrong. You can’t listen to a jazz band with a classical music mentality.

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  Discussing a poem with another earnest reader reveals layers you missed the first time.

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  I’ve found sometimes discussing a poem with another earnest reader is a great way to find symbols, layers, and meanings that you didn’t see the first time.

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  Till We Have Faces

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  Till We Have Faces follows the character’s arc and her relationships from when she is a young girl to when she becomes an old woman.

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  Flatland

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  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an old book that holds up incredibly well.

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  A Wrinkle in Time

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  A Wrinkle in Time is the first book of the Time Quintet, and it’s followed by A Wind in the Door, A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time.

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  Small Gods

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  What we have in Small Gods is a situation where the church has continued as an edifice, but doesn’t necessarily believe in the god around which it has structured itself.

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