Derek Dillon

Writing professor by day/writer by night. Looking to connect with other creatives. Enjoy gardening, art, music, food, craft beer, & DIY home projects.

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

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[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

"An MIT professor says AI writing isn't just plagiarism — it's students 'paying someone else to learn for them.' And students couldn't even quote back their own AI-written essays."

AI use "destroys the cognitive training writing is meant to provide."

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[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

What if the biggest threat to your novel isn't failure?
It may be endless preparation.
How to get started:

https://t.co/8VNQdVP7y0

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

AI can write for you, but it can't give you the growth that comes from writing and creating the work yourself:

https://t.co/RCrc0LPtSz

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

Writers on vacation...
@inkyelbows

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

Awesome teacher!

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

A moment those kids will never forget.

Third grade teacher promised her class hot chocolate if she made this shot.

[Jenny Mitchell @JennyMitchellGo]

I woke up to an acceptance for 2 poems I wrote a while ago. It's a very small thing in a huge world of challenges but that doesn't stop me being glad. 🦋

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

Congratulations, Bruce. Good luck!

[Bruce Buchanan @BBuchananWomble]

Got my first-ever book signing tonight! The nerves are giving way to excitement. I've practiced my short little talk & I am ready to do this!

[Dell Vans— Author 🌹 @HarrowingDell]

I had the strangest dream last night. Something about the light we perceive in the stars being akin to the neuroactovity in our brains. We perceive time as now, but what we’re living is already a memory to heaven. Like living on a delay. Anyway, in the dream, time caught up and heaven and matter became one in me. It was neat.

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

Agree.

[✨💜 King 💜✨ @king_reinhardt]

Hearing a teenager use the word "unalive" in the library this morning makes me wanna unalive myself. I know language evolves, but MY GOD THIS IS EMBARRASSING FOR EVERYONE IN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD

[Alison Lyle @AlisonLyleBooks]

Yup!

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

Love this.

[Alyssa 🥀 is drafting!! @amcknightwrites]

Hi consider this your friendly reminder to do physical things (ie: work in the garden, clean, go for a walk) when you’re feeling stuck with your WIP because, inevitably, ideas will come the second you stop actually *thinking* about it

[Morgan Wright 💎 @byMorganWright]

The struggle is real💀😭🤣

[Z.B. Steele @ZB_Steele]

Trying to sell some books! Wish me luck!

[Lynn Love @Lynn800XLove]

Any other #writers get physically excited at the thought of working on their book? I just had an idea for a scene, and I tell you my pulse is racing at the thought of creating it. It's like being in love. I'm literally having a love affair with my novel #superfreak #amwriting

[Kayla Hicks 📚 @klhicks912]

Are you scrolling social media to avoid small talk with the family at Easter?

[Derek Dillon @HeyDerekDillon]

I disagree. You?

[Jesse Rademacher - Author @jesrad]

Stephen King once said, "Plot is the good writer's last resort and the dullard's first choice." What do you think?