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I am asked, with a frequency I have come to find wearying, whether the events of my novels "really happened...
by Leo Nakamura
There is a peculiar sickness that has crept into historical fiction...
by Leo Nakamura
Still trying to decide what to actually DO here.
by Kim
Chekhov's Gun
by Clive Wright
lost in the Horseshoe Casino/Hotel
by Kim
Adventures in Podcasting
by Rachel McCarron
Novels that have influenced my writing
by Clive Wright
dropping seeds all over the place
by Kim
Barbara
Barbara
Maybe ze algos didn't pick up ze bombs because of my Sviss accent. :D Zat might be ze vay round it.
Pamela Jo
Pamela Jo
Interesting. May be a generational change where they are considered the equivalent of B'ludy. So what has been penalised? Asking for a friend...
AgentPete
AgentPete
They never tell you. However, putting a few things together I’m reasonably sure my own (sur)name was flagged a year or so ago. I’ve had emails bounce back from certain organisations for that reason (“your email was not delivered since it contains obscene expressions”). Our lives are ruled by algos now.
Emily
Emily
Those bloody algorithms are infuriating. @Barbara, maybe we shall just splice your verbalising of all swearing into the narrations to confuse the 'bots ;)
Hannah Faoileán
Hannah Faoileán
Shall I try "poppycock" next time and see what happens?
Pamela Jo
Pamela Jo
I posted a picture of the Queen and some Scots guards solving the question of what is beneath a kilt. Luckily I queried it and it was passed. A case of the algorithm being right and the human err'ing. Almost thrown off the writing group.
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