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In case you aren’t aware I abhor “Generative AI”. I won’t get into a big, long rant here, but the short version is that when I first encountered it in the form of Midjourney I thought it was a super fun toy. But once I came to understand how these algorithms are trained and their environmental and psychological impacts my opinion changed. Now I hate them and I feel like any use of the current models is tantamount to endorsing theft.<\/p>\n
So.<\/p>\n
When I opened up to submissions for Fascination the guidelines included a long section about ‘Do not use LLMs like ChatGPT for anything submitted to me. Not to generated text, not to develop ideas. Not at all. Period.’<\/p>\n
Many people thanked me for taking that stance but one person said something to the effect of, ‘That is a really privileged position to take because not everyone has access to critique groups or can afford a freelance editors to improve our writing and so we use LLMs for that’.<\/p>\n
Now, while I would argue that LLMs are not a good way to learn how to improve your writing, she was right when she said freelance editors can be expensive and that cost can create a barrier to access for the very people who would benefit from them the most.<\/p>\n
I thought about that a lot.<\/p>\n
And I also thought about how much I enjoyed meeting with writers as a part of my tenure as the Edmonton Public Library’s Writer in Residence this year.<\/p>\n
And I decided to do something new in 2026.<\/p>\n
Two things, actually.<\/p>\n
First, I created a new tier on my Patreon — the Unicorns tier.<\/strong><\/p>\n That tier costs $45 Canadian a month and it gives members access to:<\/p>\n Last year I was charging $50 USD to edit a short story, so this is a discount even on that without even taking all the other perks into account. I think it’s a fantastic deal for anyone who might want that sort of feedback.<\/p>\n Patreon also makes it easy to adjust your membership levels, so it would be simple for someone to be a patron at the least expensive (Fae) level and then, when they have a short story they want feedback on, move up to the Unicorns level for a month to get that edit and meeting, and the next month shift back down to the less expensive (or even free) level.<\/p>\n I am currently only going to make three spots available at this tier, partly to test out the demand and also partly to make sure I don’t allow it to become my full time job.<\/p>\n You can check out all the various levels of support on my Patreon here:<\/p>\n Those levels include the Unicorn tier I am talking about above, as well as several other options that range up to be more expensive but also all the way down to Free.<\/p>\n It’s that last level–the free level–I want to talk about a little bit now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Because that Unicorns Patreon tier? It’s clearly not free. And the image at the top of this post says free edits, right?<\/p>\n And that is right, because the second thing I am going to do is give away edits<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I am going to set aside one day a month to edit people’s work for free.<\/p>\n The way it will work is that I will let subscribers to my newsletter<\/a> and members of my Patreon<\/a> (even free members) know what the date is a week in advance and provide instructions for how to email me work (up to a maximum of 3,000 words) to edit.<\/p>\n Then on Free Edits Day I will start editing what was sent to me when my workday begins and keep working through the end of the day getting as many edits done as I can.<\/p>\n Work will be edited based on a first come first served basis*.<\/p>\n Depending on the demand I may be able to get through everything sent to me, or I may not.<\/p>\n If I don’t manage to edit everything sent to me, I will email the authors whose work I missed to let them know I am sorry but I didn’t reach theirs in time and invite them to try again in the next month — I am not going to hold work over from month to month.<\/p>\n So it’s a little bit like a lottery, I guess, but one where the odds will largely depend on demand, which is not something I can control.<\/p>\n Those are the two new editing-related things I’m going to do in 2026.<\/p>\n I will try them out for the year and see how they go and then figure out what to do in 2027.<\/p>\n If someone wants to be guaranteed an edit their best bet is the Unicorns tier on the Patreon, but if they want a free edit the Free Edit Day (which I really need to come up with a better name for) will be the way to go.<\/p>\n Any suggestions for a cooler name than ‘Free Edit Day’? 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