Morris Wayts

@morriswayts.com

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Burned dirt person (coffee drinker), Xennial, he/him, proud kitchenwitch. Writing SFF/Horror mostly on Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/morris_wayts Linklist to all stories: https://www.morriswayts.com/publications Strive!

Expected Delivery of "Offerings for Ordinary Gods" on July 29th... that's too long, but worth the wait!
Sunset behind rainclouds, grey washing towards a molten pool of gold.
Kate Beckinsale absolutely obliterating a guy with a fucking chain.
artwork with the words Drunken Magic on it.
Conan meme, but: "Conan, what is best in life?" "To crush your wordgoals, see the plot driven by your characters and to hear the lamentations of your editor!"
The word coffee in coffee cup emojis.
Two loaves of sourdough bread on a tray cooling off
The Inigo Montoya meme, but the text reads: My name is Inigo Montoya. You insulted Mexican food. Prepare to die.
Cover of Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence
A bottle of Writer's Tears and a whiskey tumbler.
MDK sniper mode, targeting a streamrider
Evening sky over Austria, sun flaring bright rays through greyish clouds, tinting the horizon light bronze
The Tarsus from Privateer on a landing pad on New Constantinople
Three goldbrown baguettes and an array of rolls with sunflower seeds, cheese and black & white sesame on them. All baked to PERFECTION (you can't convince me otherwise).
Screenshot of a running submission, 108 days under review.
A punk blue yellow sunset over dark land.
a man in a red robe says " i go for a look which i call dead but delicious . "
The Book 1 of SideQuested on my desk! By Ale Presser & K.B. Spangler
screenshot of the emojis that are not there...wait... I mean... you know what I mean
The river Enns with trees on its banks and a bridge in the background. The water has all the colors of green glass.
IT'S WILD OUT THERE! written over dark clouds, their edges gilded by the sun, afore a blue evening sky with white clouds.
Preorder for SideQuested Book 1, delivery date shifted from 25th of March to 2nd of Oktober.
Snow on the not too far away Voralpen.
Pre-order confirmation for "Offerings for Ordinary Gods", estimated delivery date 29th of July
The Dune poster with the title "Dune In - Dance Off". I am sorry. So sorry. Not sorry enough, though.
Sources say 20th Television and Searchlight Television responded positively to the revised script. Internal discussions pointed toward an imminent pickup. Despite this, Erwich made the final decision to pass on the project. Some sources suggested the updated version was too expensive. Others indicated it still did not meet the standard set by the original series. Gellar stated, “No one saw this coming, including the head of Searchlight,” and described receiving the cancellation call just before appearing on stage at SXSW. She also said, “We had an executive on our show who was not only not a fan of the original, but was proud to constantly remind us that he had never seen the entirety of the series and how it wasn’t for him” (via PEOPLE). Sources identified the executive as Erwich. The timing of the decision drew criticism, with sources calling it “misguided” and “terrible,” while noting there was no deadline forcing a cancellation despite waiting for an outcome. Originally reported by Anubhav Chaudhry on ComingSoon.net.
Human Authored Logo Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated by AI, with the exception of minimal uses such as AI applications that check spelling and grammar or for brainstorming or research. In red marks the exception that breaks it for me - no AI research, no AI brainstorming. Spell Check and Grammar Check where used before GenAI.
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A comparison of what I preferred and what readers preferred, summary of the New York Times test. For me, it's 100% written by humans. For readers, 80% AI. Which terrifies me.
grumpy cat face with "If I have offended you... good! You needed it!"
Five MTG cards: Frost Trickster, Isolated Chapel, Healing Hands, Wasteland Viper, Zombie Master
Glitches in a picture of a woman in witchy clothes sitting on a stone step in front of a marble wall with a white door. They are marked with red rectangles. Heavily suspect GenAI generated material.
Steam page of Sprawl by MAETH - showing a discount of -65%, priced at 5,17€ now.
Boromir saying "One does not simply live a day without overthinking!"
Stolen from another poster: Woodcut of a skeleton with a femur and shield going toe to toe with a renaissance warrior with a great sword in a battle field with lots of dead bodies; also mountains in the background. The text above says "What are the four core character classes?" Below it says "Wrong Answers Only." The really wild thing in the illustration, though, is the warrior's codpiece, which is shaped/styled to look very much like female genitalia. Not sure if this was a joke--and we all know artists who would do that on a whim--or is representative of what some guys went into combat to protect their dangly bits.
5 Magic The Gathering Cards for a story prompt
Five random Magic the Gathering cards on a blue-ish dark background with white glowing stars. Engineered Explosives The Huntsman's Redemption Self-Reflection Predation Steward Hobgoblin Captain
Batman, snapping a shotgun in halves "This is the weapon of the Enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."
Five Magic The Gathering cards on a background of a dark blue starry sky.
Winter clouds at sunset over a darkening snow landscape
Meriam Webster defnition of twa 'Scottish variant of TWO'
Screenshot of Duck Duck go Search Settings (rider AI Features) with AI Features off and AI Images hidden from search results.
A snowy landscape, with a mostly cloudless sky tinted in shades of orange, purple and punk, tingles of blue, the first mountains af the Alps peeking in from the side. Ignore that lampposts and the walls in the front.
a sunlit evening cloud in a blue winter sky, captured out of a fast driving train, so please excuse the blurriness of things.
Notification from Buttondown about 2 new subscribers to "It's wild out there!"
A photo of Gideon the Ninth on my desk
A big cup of crude selfmade cappuccino with sugar and cocoa on top of the milk foam
The flowing dark green water of a river, lighted by the fading sun just enough to let you see the dark green colour in its ever churning patterns.
Unvemo held her at arm’s length to look into her face, but she tilted her head down, the drops impacting in the dust afore her bare feet. “Did I say something wrong? Did I make you cry, my love? I am so sorry!” She shook her head. “No, these are not tears. I don’t know what it is, but I am not crying.” “Then it’s rain that wasn’t brave enough to fall, and you showed it the way?” That made her laugh. “As if the rain would be afraid to fall and become a mighty, unstoppable river.” “Neither are you.” The words shook her to the core. He truly thought she wasn’t afraid. Even really believed it, with all his heart. What a wondrous, marvelous feeling that was. Shock and relief, joy and terror, and love abundant, all in one.
A dark river flowing under a light blue evening sky, through an Austrian city, street lanterns already on.
The Red Bull from The Last Unicorn, in all his red flaming fury and malice.
depiction of a church window arch, with multiple decorations and crude red lines where I would stretch the string between nails.
A tea glass half filled with several espresso shots
Typical Austrian landscape - a lake surrounded by woody mountains speckled with green meadows, beneath a blue summer sky under a very bright sun.
Grey clouds tinted light pink by the sunset afore a blue evening sky
Clouds in an evening sky above a green field, with woods in the background
A picture of a MISC Raptor, a space garbage collector vehicle in Star Citizen, with a very happy NPC driving it.
a wet polar bear resting awkwardly on the edge of their pool in a zoo, caption: "How is a bear supposed to wander the world without their coffee". And I ask you, how are they? How am I supposed to do anything without my coffee? I mean, I have coffe, but it doesn't have any effect yet, I need more coffee, and also, why am I bound by capitalism to this office chair when I should be writing stories, drink coffee and cook good meals in between? Huh? Why, I ask, and with me all the tired bears in the world. Why?
The sinking sun painting grey clouds in gold above a light blue sky.