Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. Art of Irony, nice to meet me.
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Artist of terms, sometimes a seller of sentences.
Stephen Colbert now has the opportunity to do the most hilarious thing in politics.
God@thegodshow.com · last mo.Lindsey Graham died the way he lived, as a minor distraction from Mitch McConnell
Well, my next #Writing project was going to be a Skeet-by-Skeet novel to amuse you all. But the idea I found was too good *not* to make money off of. I'll find a new one eventually.
Found my #Writing idea from way back. Tyrannical president has to complete a 60-days-or-less war against one country at a time to avoid seeking permission from Congress to try taking over the world. Glad to see the disapproval ratings--I clearly didn't miss out on any sales.
Asked: #Writing the "sloppy kiss". Forget anatomy. Write chaos. Think, two malfunctioning vacuum cleaners trying to devour the same spaghetti noodle while emotionally spiraling. Lips don't "meet", but collide like poorly parked shopping carts. Breath? No. Atmospheric collapse. Dignified = Failure.
My most cancellable #Writing opinion is that every manuscript should be legally required to survive being read aloud by a chainsmoking uncle in a collapsing Olive Garden. If it can't hold, its ashes must be buried at sea.
To improve your writing, buy books until your shelves achieve sentience and start critiquing your prose in the night. If you can still see the walls, you’re basically illiterate. Real writers don’t read books, they absorb literary talent through aggressive square footage.
#Writers play chess for every decision. Fight versus flight? Easy, white (or black) wins, you fight; otherwise, flight. Character who dies next? Name your pieces after your characters. Synonyms? Same as characters. If you're lucky, you might gets some actual writing in for the day.
Maybe it's that life saw us first, and waits for us to notice it breathing behind the walls. Or crawling out of our fingernails at 3:00 a.m., just to name our houseplants after our childhood fears. Alright, apart from finding life itself, maybe I had other bad habits.
Picking a genre is just a gussied-up way of telling. You really want to show your story so readers guess what genre it fits. #Writing #Writers #ShowDon'tTell
#Writing challenge of the day. Do not read posts. Do not understand them. Simply arrive, drop a comment like a confused raccoon knocking over a trash can, and sprint to the next.
Romans: These tablets are turning our kids' minds to mush. #Chiseling #Writing #Writers
It's absolutely disgusting that DOGE's deposition videos were banned on YouTube. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW HOW ENTIRELY DUMB LITTLE TYRANT MUSK AND HIS MINIONS WERE IN STEALING AND DESTROYING U.S. DATA AND PROGRAMS!! It's time for our Great American Internet to do what it does BEST!!!
The Goddess Bast@thegoddessbast.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe DOGE deposition videos have been banned on YouTube after the US government requested a judge intervene over grounds they may cause "reputational damage". Time for the Streisand effect www.threads.com/@theserftime...
Cats are such jerks that, when someone mentioned dogs and horses as two of the three big human companion animals, I couldn't for the life of me think of the third.
The next time you're thinking of hitting writer's block, ask whether you've simply closed your eyes, spun in a circle, and pointed at a random noun. Boom. Toaster. Divorce. Meteor. Lawn chair with a secret. The world is full of things that aren't blue-eyed war boyfriends. Release them.
If you really want to thinly veil your secret pleasure or unpopular opinion, write your self-insert without it and then give it to a different character.
Especially with writing, the answer may frequently be: You can't learn that from any explanation. Accept it. Try. Fail. Learn. (Repeat as necessary.)
Also, looking for more sixth person POV. For those unfamiliar, the narrator is an entity that does not exist yet but is already disappointed by the choices being made.
Remember all: letting your characters live is cliche for two more weeks. When the next flood of "everybody dies" books hits stores, you may resume happy endings.
When unsure of how to kill off a character, pick your favorite die. Based on the number of sides, list that number-minus-one (n-1) of your favorite execution methods. Make the last side (the one we set aside earlier) a "reroll" for dramatic effect. And from there, just roll.
The artist was not thinking about Luigi's neck when drawing his neck... 👀
Paul // Lost Scot 🏴🇨🇦@lost.scot · 11mo agoThe courtroom sketch artist doing Luigi this dirty is the real crime here.
Teaching fact-based classes with AI is easy to get right. Tell the students to generate an AI essay; they only get credit for correctly marking up what the AI got wrong/right. Fiction is tougher, unless they can't tell you the meaning of half of the words they used.
D.C., September 1, 2025, almost 3 years after Queen Elizabeth II dies, the White House admits on Labor Day that Trump's been dead for an entire weekend and they wanted to limit the celebration time before people went back to the office.
two older women are sitting at a table talking to each other and the words picture this are on the screen .
ALT: two older women are sitting at a table talking to each other and the words picture this are on the screen .
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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 12mo ago“could a dead man be blasting les miz???” is objectively funny, props to the WH for that one
Whereas, the former GOP is the sole Party of protecting guns while blaming all other "causes" of these tragedies, and wields all three branches of Government, I, the Omega and Future Inevitable 48th POTUS, approve, until further notice: "mass shooting" shall be called "Republican Endorsed Killings".
rusty54.bsky.social@rusty54.bsky.social · 12mo ago
Loving more authors = Deeper pool of ripping each other off = Impossibility of anyone claiming that you've ripped off any one person ("Spartacus Effect") "Good authors copy, great authors steal." -- Unknown (and suspected stolen by T.S. Eliot)
Never worry about originality. Nobody's had an original thought since at least 1948, maybe longer. That's why some people have such a strong existential crisis over "needing" to be original that "AI" becomes the scapegoat. Still, don't outright steal...
Samuel "Foghorn Leghorn" Clemens may have trolled and he may have done it very well for the 19th Century, but the OG American troll was Benjamin Franklin. You cannot read "A Letter to a Royal Academy: Fart Proudly" and tell me any different.
Reaching a reader's heart depends on character strength. If you're not using a strong enough character--and the movies ignore this when making chest holes--you may need a rib spreader.