"Words are Life."

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

OMG, I'm watching a video about this, and it's even weirder. That wasn't even a friend, it was a rando who saw her tiktok talking about the concept and randomly emails her this AI-generated book. That's even weirder.

And then when she says she doesn't like it, and several NYT BESTSELLING AUTHORS who all happen to be women all explain to him why he's in the wrong, he talks down to them and doubles and triples and quadruples down. But then the moment the woman's husband gets involved, he immediately apologizes to "him and his wife." Just breathtaking levels of misogyny.

He was talking about releasing the shit he generated with the idea he STOLE FROM HER for free if she continued not responding to him, and then acted like she was being insane when she clarified that she didn't respond on purpose 😭😭😭 What goes through these people's heads!!!!!!!!!

Something profoundly wrong with this dude and yet he's incapable of noticing.

I just watched a video from Susannah Friesen about this! Absolutely infuriating situation and I can’t believe it took the husband of the woman that originally posted the idea stepping in to get AI bro to apologize.

Oh. Oh, ok. I didn’t know I’d be tearing up because my heart broke today…..

Now this, is a fucking work of art. This is the closest I have ever seen to what I imagine Carl's face looking like. I love ALL the DCC fan art but this is what I hope for the live action.