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Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

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been noticing this myself and it's starting to feel like there';s a whole host of writers out there forcing themselves to put down stories and narratives when what they really care about is developing magic systems and how they help at character builds

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ROD SERLING: [narrating] every summer, the boys were back in town. them cats were crazy. but this time would be different. now the town is back... for the boys. the drink will flow and the blood will spill... in the Twilight Zone

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Let’s go! Over the last year my work led to tens of thousands of takedowns, was cited in two Senate letters to Zuckerberg, and contributed widely-cited data to the coverage of BlueSky’s impersonation troubles. I’m so excited to level up by launching indicator.media with @craigsilverman.bsky.social

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Describe It: Love descriptionary.wordpress.com/2023/12/03/d...

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Determination is a powerful emotion that can tell your readers a lot about your characters. Write it effectively.

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NEW VIDEO How Capitalism Creates Depression, and What We Can Do About It. (if you like it, share it or leave a comment or something?) youtu.be/4IT9-zDJFBM

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16yo's opinion on Sinners upon second viewing is that there needs to be a prequel about the Choctaw vampire hunters I feel like this is entirely accurate and correct, 14/10 would watch 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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“Still punk as fuck” I whisper, chewing the last bite of a Costco hotdog, a giant vat of Ibruprofen under one arm and a tub of multivitamins under the other.

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"this is what separates us from the apes" - me presenting my new invention, the ape separator.

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I'm helping my friends at @awwlitmag.bsky.social, All World's Wayfarer Magazine, get their Bluesky account off the ground. They were the first to publish my fiction & are just all-around great people. Give them a follow if you can, and if they follow you well, that's probably me lol! Thanks all!

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There's nothing more optimistic than a seedy hotel room Bible

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I threw away a permanent marker the other day. Today it showed up on my desk again with the word "permanent" slightly bigger and underlined

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FREE COPY! "I love 'The Flesh Sutra'!" - Nancy Holder Free-standing novel with no cliffhanger. 49K words Preliminary ballot of 2014 Stokers. booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

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Free Review Copy from Booksprout! Free-standing novel with no cliffhanger. 110K words. Have a look and even if you don't finish it, I'd love to hear your opinion. booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

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also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think anybody could predict for where this ad goes

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George Lucas: So the Skywalkers are the most important family in the history of the galaxy because they're genetic Force users. How did they start? Uh some woman named... something. Who cares. Shmi. We'll call her Shmi. Can she use the Force? IDK. Who were her parents? Absolutely does not matter.

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GHOST OF ME: (watching my corpse get tossed atop a huge pile of bodies) let's fuckin goooo king of the pile

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A meme for May 4th

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R.I.P., Ruth Buzzi. A familiar face from throughout my youth as well as a regular Facebook presence for an extended period of time. She just liked to be liked, and she very much was.

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who is going to run with this plot bunny?

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watching THE DIRTY DOZEN for the first time in years and god does this movie rule.

submitted 24 days ago • 94 comments

the headless horseman is a nasty dude for sure but i would also place a lot of blame on that horse of his. that's really who's ultimately calling a lot of the shots

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if you want to quit Duolingo but aren't sure what to do next, here are some ideas. - Mango languages is available for free through most libraries. - LingQ is perfect for anyone reading focused - Language Reactor can help you understand TV + movies - Anki can help you remember everything

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In my WIP, the main character needs to burn down the lab behind the biggest skincare product 💀☣️🌿 this would be a huge transformation for her. To no longer put up with the norm just cuz everyone else does #horrorwriterschat

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Daniel and Delores from Latcher. Lost love and dark spells 🖤✨🖤✨ #horrorwriterschat

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#horrorwriterschat Thank you to @erynmcconnell.bsky.social for hosting! I would like to show you all my freshly published micro “Teeth”! www.flashphantoms.net/may-micro-fi...

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Hey hey! I'm Michael, I write queer horror. My queer cosmic horror novel CHILDREN OF SOLITUDE is out now! I was raised by evangelicals in an isolated Appalachian community. The supernatural was real, omnipresent, and hostile. Horror was the only handbook on how to survive. #HorrorWritersChat

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I poured FORTY-FIVE YEARS into this book. Jokes. Imagination. Odd characters. Outlandish Plots. Then pro spec-fic writers helped turn it into magic. This is my life's work. Click and read it for FREE. #fantasynovels #fantasy #booksky #scifi&fantasy #codexwriters booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

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I poured FORTY-FIVE YEARS into this book. Jokes. Imagination. Odd characters. Outlandish Plots. Then pro spec-fic writers helped turn it into magic. This is my life's work. Click and read it for FREE. #fantasynovels #fantasy #booksky #scifi&fantasy #codexwriters booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

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I poured FORTY-FIVE YEARS into this book. Jokes. Imagination. Odd characters. Outlandish Plots. Then pro spec-fic writers helped turn it into magic. This is my life's work. Click and read it for FREE. #fantasynovels #fantasy #booksky #scifi&fantasy #codexwriters booksprout.co/reviewer/rev...

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#HorrorWritersChat I can honestly visualize the puca fitting in nicely with the small town in my MG project. It would definitely cause mischief to the siblings and providing no help whatsoever.

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A lot of my stories are about rebirth (of the individual, of the society, of finding new meaning) so it'll be the Green Man. He would probably force change whenever a main character is dithering or taking a wrong path. And he wouldn't care who got hurt along the way #HorrorWritersChat

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