davidwrites1.bsky.social
Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
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Like just say that previous submissions aren’t being considered, or go into submittable and do a mass reject. I read submissions for a lit mag for years, so I understand the effort it takes. But opening up submissions when you already have a huge backlog is, in a word, bad.
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Solumbra has worked great for me, especially their “Adult Shade Cap with Crossover Drape.” Have found their stuff highly durable even under extreme desert conditions.
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Thanks for the guidance - much appreciated, will look into it.
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Today on social media is like one of those times on the school playground when a big crowd gathered around two kids who were maybe going to fight.
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That Machine Man comes out of the comic book adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey is pretty wild. Apparently an encounter with the monolith is part of Machine Man’s narrative.
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You guys can hash it out while you’re lounging by the pool in retired podcasters Valhalla.
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Yes, exactly! And I’m also curious about the photographer’s motivation in taking it. I can imagine them and pissing guy as rivals for Loren’s affections, thus the decision to photograph him in the act. Complete speculation on my part, but it does seem an odd thing to photograph.
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the latter often has the former available for purchase
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Feel like that photo could work as a writing prompt for everything from a literary short story to an indie feature. Good find, thanks for sharing!
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It’s a great journal, and comes out at a frequency and length that makes it easy to actually read it (unlike a certain New York-based weekly). Consider subscribing www.zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
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Correction: *A* Long Game. My apologies to all involved.
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I mean, it is called The Long Game 😀
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I mean, the blame here pretty much has to be assigned to the copyeditor’s mom and dad, right?
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Yeah, I had an iBook hard drive go bad on me. It made a horrendous sound and I knew it was not long for this world, but I was in Djibouti at the time so my options were limited.
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But zero to get the battery out! This has to be the easiest set of instructions on the entire ifixit website:
www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+...
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Yeah, like I said, it’s good dialogue. For a character who wants to sound knowledgeable but isn’t.
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Cool piece of dialogue in a good story but, fwiw, not true at all. Humans have always been highly social (it’s a primate thing) and the complexities of social relationships are what we need our big brain for. Plus the small decrease in average brain size (if real) has nothing to do with intelligence
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Yes, exactly, and it can also implicate the reader, which I like.
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Thanks Sasha! I really enjoyed your “Hijinks Ensue” — sometimes the second person bumps for me, but it worked great in your piece.
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My grandmother’s was quite similar: “It’s better to be late for dinner in this world than early for it in the next.”
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I happened to catch Bomani’s very first appearance on Around The Horn, which has lead to [number redacted] years of entertainment and enlightenment from listening to him. Grateful to all involved.
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I’m here for it!
Except don’t blame me if your “margin manipulation” subheading gets you followed by a bunch of finance bros. 😀
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This reminds me of Ethan Canin’s line about how it’s better to plot your way into ideas than to idea your way into a plot. (Paraphrasing.) Sometimes I read a story that gives me the distinct impression that it came about via the latter and I tend not to find those as compelling.
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The dark art of margin manipulation! I once muttered “goddamn this orphan” loud enough to be overheard and had some explaining to do to the other person (a non-writer) in the room.
In all seriousness, I find that trying to eliminate danglers (great term!) almost always leads to better writing.
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The layout of the sign leads me to believe that there are a legion of knock-off Wimpy Skippies you could try.
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Confession: I have made significant alterations to plot, setting, characters etc in order to allow me to get the white space to look right on a page (to my eye, as an amateur).
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But died the next day.
(Apologies to Alanis.)
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A book with that cover should come with a complementary pack of cigarettes.
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I initially misread this as “Fetterman and Scalia created an awesome show” and wow I went to some wild places trying to imagine that.
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Sorry you had to deal with that. I never let my dogs approach anyone uninvited, and am totally fine if people don’t like dogs (as long as they, you know, don’t also have a dog). I’ve gotten tripped by dogs several times while running - extension leashes are the worst. I blame the owners 100%.
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Fiat lux.
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A MLM LLM, LOL!
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Glad you liked it and thanks for the review! Amazing that you spent time in Eritea and even worked at the same hospital in Affabet - that’s wild. Oromay is one of the most famous Ethiopian novels, so I wonder if your traffic spike is from Ethiopians and their diaspora.
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Good point, and thanks for mentioning/reading Oromay!
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That sounds impossible. 😛
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I think I remember that one! Also, The Wizard of Oz scared the crap out of me as a little kid, especially those flying monkeys.
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Yes, but you gave us all an advance look specifically to check for any such mistakes, and then fixed it immediately! I have a high appreciation for any process that takes account of the human tendency to screw things up. 😀
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Nice change of pace with an urban structure, though it still has a similar deserted feel (to me) as your barns. Hope the shift was
not because you needed the services they offer.
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Chet Hanks be like …
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So if OpenAI, its investors, and Jony Ive all agree among themselves that OpenAI is “worth” 650 billion dollars, then OpenAi assigns 1% of its shares to Jony Ive’s company and voila, you have a “$6.5 billion transaction” with nary a single actual dollar changing hands.