dalequark.bsky.social
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🤓💻 sounds fun!
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@nikitanamjoshi.bsky.social
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I’ll be there! But the link is a little confusing.
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Are you normally a pantser or a plotter?
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So cool! Congratulations!
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What I love most about Dissonance is its magic system rooted in Freudian and Jungian psychology—where suppression, gaslighting, projection, etc. manifest as literal, tangible phenomena.
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Well but think, the part of you that is so good at imagining the uncertain terror down there is also the part responsible for dreaming stories up!
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I never knew about this connection between publishing and the tariffs… very interesting! Thanks for writing :)
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Oh good, you’re watching in reverse so it gets better and better.
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I would love a thread on the most hackneyed openings 😍
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And me? I have a giant Roman water garden mural, some historical scientific prints, Renaissance art, a Bluetooth typewriter, an email reply from one of my favorite authors (thanks @levgrossman.bsky.social!) and, most critically, a black cat. 🐈⬛
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Brandon Sanderson had a fantasy writing lair built 30 feet underground in Utah.
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Thomas Edison slept in his glamorous multi-story-library-office so often that his wife had a cot brought in.
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Charles Dickens was an interior design enthusiast who once wrote a 6,000-word essay on wallpaper. When his pet raven died, he had it taxidermied and hung above his desk. So attached was he to his workspace that when he traveled, he brought his portable rosewood writing desk with him.
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Ray Bradbury wrote surrounded by toys, a canopy of masks, a six-foot Bullwinkle stuffed animal and a jar with a fake human head in it.
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Sigmund Freud cluttered his office was ancient artifacts, including over two thousand Greco-Roman statutes, busts, Neolithic tools, Sumerian seals, Egyptian mummy bandages and even a collection of penis amulets. He was so in love with his statues he even took some on holiday with him.
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Agreed, this was an incredible show!
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Congrats Ben!
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Recently loved Kelly Link’s short story collection, White Cat, Black Dog 🐕🦺
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Severance season 2 of course.
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Omg omg omg!
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The big mystery in my mind is how to keep the matcha suspended without pooling into sludge at the bottom.
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Would you ever look at query/first chapter before the entire book is written? Nice to get early feedback before you crank out 60k+ words!