mikediamond.bsky.social
✍️ Writing YA Sci-Fi “Brilliance of Earth—Tangle and Tether” (sapphic and STEM)
📘 Nonfiction book on ethical phishing “Swim Like a Phish” (under consideration).
🤲 Excited to help build community! Especially in the arts 💖✨
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Dream invasion might just be the best version of barging past the secretary into the office 😂
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America’s favorite pastime…appealing to your base-ball
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When that news broke, I called bathroom visits “making cookies for the Kennedys” 🤷♀️
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Shoulders like all kinds of alcohol. Just remember, ethanol for the inside, isopropyl for the outside.
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1 (best scientifically, realistic,)
“The Impossible”: depicting the 2004 tsunami that hit Thailand after a 9+ oceanic earthquake.
All the warning signs of animals being agitated, the preceding sounds, the palm trees falling before the wave, how devastating it was to ground floor dwellings.
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My wife is watching fresh baked on the regular for the same reason 😅
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The author is anti-healthcare for everyone. Not sure anything else really needs to be said about why she doesn’t get to party here.
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I think it’s even better, we haunt this realm 👻
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Sweet! ✨
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Sorry you got shot 😳
Thanks for capturing the madness 🙏
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Fun teaser of danger play 😅
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👆🫶
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Writers on writing, I like it! Sometimes a good chance for a self insert 😅
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LA is in my thoughts, such a gross injustice. I live across the river from downtown Portland, we got whiffs of tear gas many evenings, had friends of friends abducted in vans. Same playbook, ordinary, people fighting thugs 😳
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Right? Trying to emulate the creative process, keep it organic, not drown it in too much description… Which I’m not sure I succeeded in doing 🤷♀️
I’m a sucker for that too 🤓
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Nicely captured moment
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Thanks! Brilliance hates her name, she intends to change it, she’s just too busy and it’s not that important to her. It was her mom‘s idea…🫤
I worked with someone whose last name was goodness, the colonel is definitely based on him, tough as nails, but underneath, a sweet boy
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I totally get the human impetus to cheat, but why escape the joy (and struggle) of creative writing?
I hope I’m challenged one day to prove I’m not a robot. I’ll get to share the mad scribbles, 10,000 pages of various versions in journals, drawing pads, and Google Docs across years 🤓🤪
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Thanks jangoeswriting.bsky.social
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Human readers policing human writers: Em dash?! You are AI!
AI: Note to “self,” use less em dashes.
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Creepy!
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And it’s dangerously close to the brash ’well, come in.’
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A fallen tree
Unseen in the brush
Moss and mushrooms
The Backlog grows
Mycelium network
Of Jira
Of Rally
But louder
My inbox demands daylight
Outlook
Lookout!
And Safe Agile
Is neither
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Even the bagel is saying “oo” ✨🥯
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… Or…
The aliens have something on both of them, together.
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… Or…
The aliens have something on both of them, together.
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Fair, and perfectly explained. I wrote for decades, practice wasn’t the problem. It was what I practiced. Only in the last few years have I seen real improvement. Blocks are real, but you have ability. I can only describe what worked for me. It was finding joy in replacing/redoing drafts.
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Now “posts” 😅
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😹
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No worries, I’ve tossed so much stuff on my WIP, probably 10 novels worth, to get at 7 chapters I can live with🤷♀️
Point? It’s hard to balance the 2 forces of art. Fraud (I’m no good at this) and god (only I am able to capture this).
Happy to read stuff and provide one person’s feedback?
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Those are far too positive and subtle. I wouldn’t even read those colors, I would just assume it was praise, and be angry to have it.
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Just read this, enjoyed it as someone who is finally proud of my own subtle writing of desires. What you captured was the essence, and it’s working. I have a desire line in my WIP that used to be a paragraph. I rewrote it 30+ times. My two early readers love it, went through hell to get there.
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Red is the most editorial color.
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Freedom is the REAL journey? 🤷♀️
This “strikes” me as very French.