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When there’s a fight raging in my comments section, I’m super grateful for the people blissfully unaware and commenting on a different video with something nice to say 😅

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“High concept” is, ironically, a confusing term for a concept that is so simple even the CEO who doesn’t read can understand it An aristocrat falls in love with a poor man, but they’re aboard the titanic What if Buffy went down the rabbit hole instead of Alice? Dinosaur theme park #writingtips

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Quick PSA: if you do not know or understand what the costume institute’s mission and purpose is, or that the Met allows free admission to millions (yes) of kids every year, you don’t get to make fun of the Gala tonight

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Looking for a writing group or beta readers? I opened up the question to my community of 4,000 Patreon followers. I bet there’s someone who can read your work and give feedback. (Free tier, no need to pay anything) www.patreon.com/posts/127178...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve edited dozens of descriptions of the Beverly Hills Hotel over my career, researched that setting so many times, that I have to remind myself I haven’t ever actually been there

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Once again I will ask: did you write a magic system or is it just polytheism?

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Don’t tag authors in reviews! Even if your review is nothing but love! 1-are you sure? Nothing you said could be misconstrued as criticism by a vulnerable artistic person? 2-you can’t control the comments section! Those mfers are mean 3-the author knows how to find reviews if they want to Don’t.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The number of genuinely vicious men in my replies today who have Star Wars in their bio is a really large number and not a thing I would have anticipated experiencing based on what I posted

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is an Eddie Murphy movie

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Readers will often skip prologues and ephemera (journal entries, song lyrics, footnotes) They’ll also sometimes skip epilogues, denouements, and scenes they think don’t matter (intimacy, fights, chases) And some just skip entire POVs and chapters Edit accordingly, I guess #writingtips

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

People who hit the space bar 5-9 times every times you start a new paragraph instead of letting the word processor’s auto settings handle it… Are you okay?

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I have been saying for years that Gen z kids are amazing but as they stop being kids and start saying things like “Cal [in Titanic] was the right choice” I am ready to take it all back Kids are great. The rest of us (i.e. adults generally) are a mess

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Someone on YouTube just said I convinced her to self publish because I said a publisher will design your dinkus for you and she wants full control of her dinkus This is why it’s important to make informed decisions, folks. #writingcommunity

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Let this be my legacy as a SFF editor.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I like Taylor Swift just fine as an artist. But I LOVE Taylor Swift as a rock/metal/punk songwriter. Every screaming, angry cover of her songs is a 100000% improvement on the original, which is very good to begin with. open.spotify.com/track/0N1vWu...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Real notes from recent editing passes: - fantasy fans go feral for a horny knife fight; make this one hornier - the only good reason to have a long speech in Act I is to foreshadow something awful - why have a palace and a Prince, if not to describe the beauty of both??? #writingcommunity

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Apparently I block people for making carrots look like hot dogs and saying it’s the same thing

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Authors ask what they can do to protect themselves from bad publishing contracts The answer is to have a literary agent You can spend years trying to learn how to read and negotiate a contract and you’d still not be ready for every curveball this industry throws at you But an agent is ready

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

I opened this app to see a stream of consciousness from @hankgreen.bsky.social and was like, “did Hank get high??” and then immediately was like “that’s not on brand really, why would he… oh. Yeah. Hank maybe did get high just for today.”

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

See also: CDs, buttons on phones, and physical newspapers.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re a YA/MG author, there’s a chance your audience does not know what a chalkboard is. Doesn’t matter if your story is set in the 80s/90s (when YOU went to school, btw, we see you). Your audience has likely never seen a chalkboard in real life.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“Just self publish” isn’t how this works. Self publishing is the right choice for a lot of people, but it is an endeavor. It’s a big investment of time, money or both (yes, more of both than trad pub authors). Go into it with eyes wide open and make the choice that’s right for you.

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