#writer work

so we write essays and writing forms for competitions and some of us put them out in ai grammar checkers or similar outlets for grammar checking, right?

most of the writing competitions these days have ai plagiarism detectors to check whether ai has written the work for the participants (us) or not.

so my question is: after we write the essays, after we put it through ai for checking, after we submit the essays, the ai plagiarism detector catches on the fact that ai is involved in our submitted work - because we fed ai our work for checking. so are we going to be immediately disqualified?

Did some admin things today. Primarily updated my website. My blog has a December update, which is frankly a miracle based on how badly I let that slide this year.

I also added a GenAI Statement on my website homepage, and in my FAQ, promising that no GenAI would ever, to my knowledge, be used in my writing, or in my covers or character art (hence the 'to my knowledge' part. I can vet artists, but no one's perfect and GenAI is getting better and better, sadly)

I want, and definitely aim to, restart up my monthly newsletter in the New Year, so I wanted to try and get on top of refreshing everything now, before I finish 'work' for the year on the 19th.

I've still got to go through my emails and delete anything I don't want or need, and then archive the stuff I do need to keep in the 2025 folder, but that's probably going to be a job for after Christmas to account for anything that comes in end-of-year.

On top of that, you will need how you can prevent them from getting it. Otherwise this character will appear rather one-note or boring.

The First Draft = This is the internal frame, metal beams and so on. This is what gives your story structure and represents the backbone of the book/novel/etc. you are working towards.

The Second Draft = this is when the overall outside frame starts to appear and the baseline shape begins to take shape here you generally see the outline of the structure. In a building, is when you start seeing floors being put up one by one and the shape starts to form as it goes up.

The Third Draft = here is where the walls start going up, room divisions take shape. Insulation is being put up and you still have some rooms that are not yet finished. You have not put a single item of furniture yet. The roof is either started or halfway done.

The Fourth Draft (and Probably beyond) = This is when you now see that all the drywall is done. Roof is finished and all you need to do is remove the drywall stickers. Here you also start moving to the final stages of improving the story. This process can take shape in many ways. It could include further edits, rewrites and more drafts.

The Final Draft = this is when you already have the house finished. Or the building is done. All you need to do now is furnish it. Maybe switch some rooms around. Polish the floors, sweep the carpets. Clean the windows. Throw out the trash. Make it look spiffy. Here all you do is move a few words. Go over final edits, mainly small things like punctuation that got missed, or changing a sentence here and there.

I would like to say that you don’t have to follow this to the letter. You may have rewritten your book/story twenty times and probably only reached Second Draft status. Or you rewrite it only twice and you’re already on Third Draft. Only you (and your editor, if you go that route) will be able to tell you how far along you are. Just because I put it up like that doesn’t mean is always like that.

This post is mostly made to tell you to not worry about your story being perfect the first go-around. It just needs to work and be out there. Once you get it out of your head, everything else starts to make sense.