they should invent a going out of your comfort zone that isn't soso scary

i want to play big walk so bad but is not the fact that my friends agreed to wait for me to get home from my trip abroad also part of playing big walk

thanks man, that's super helpful

while writing: i have to share this with someone or i'm going to go crazy, i need people to see what i've done here to make it feel real at the point where someone else can actually read it: what if i became a missing persons case

haven't seen the odyssey and don't want to see the odyssey but do think i could do 2000 words off the dome about referring to the bronze age collapse by name

the "open gdocs to write one paragraph of a review before you forget the point you wanted to make" to "accidentally type the whole thing in a fugue state" pipeline

something horrifying has come to me in a vision

born to write about video games

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Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site

it's so cool that when you finish a big project and let people see it for the first time instead of feeling any kind of accomplishment or pride you can just get the Depression

sometimes you think "surely the industry isn't THAT embarrassing," and yet

you know the good place meme where its like "have you got the file or have you got a cactus." well its me being like "I've definitely made something that explores different themes this time" and then you look inside and it's just this absolutely load bearing tumblr post

i read through the entire draft with an eye to pacing and character arcs and i....................didn't find any glaring issues...............................................

making notes on the character arcs in the book. i hope this will be relatable to many of you

i was working on something else about zero parades (still forthcoming) that had a note that was like 'i don't know what to do with the theme of sexuality here' so when BP reached out i decided to try to close read it by itself. fun exercise! there's a lot happening there!

Bullet Points@bpmonthly.bsky.social · last wk.

On the site this week, @jaymcastello.bsky.social writes about Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. "Portofiro struggles with perversion, Developed World variety." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/07/29/w...

it is genuinely embarrassing how much I want to be in a word processing program when im supposed to be resting. get a hobby!!!!

a little bit of personal lore: my culture writing career began with a cranky blog about spider-man. for Fansplaining, I imagine the end of that career, with another blog about spider-man fansplaining.com/what-spider-...

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anyway im supposed to be on holiday. here's some grass I've touched

i finished a year-long novel writing class lately where editing was basically treated as adversarial and it was genuinely the hugest bummer. in the last class i snapped and accidentally gave a huge speech about how i would be fucking nowhere without good editors lol

Maddy Myers 🏳️‍🌈@midimyers.com · last wk.

and that's also why i'm so grateful for the times in my life that i've had an editor highlight a sentence and be like "girl, what?" we all need that shit sometimes. and sometimes MANY sentences need to be highlighted. a good editor is a blessing.

i was working on something else about zero parades (still forthcoming) that had a note that was like 'i don't know what to do with the theme of sexuality here' so when BP reached out i decided to try to close read it by itself. fun exercise! there's a lot happening there!

Bullet Points@bpmonthly.bsky.social · last wk.

On the site this week, @jaymcastello.bsky.social writes about Zero Parades: For Dead Spies. "Portofiro struggles with perversion, Developed World variety." bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/07/29/w...

uh oh gang!!! all i wanna do is work on the novel that i promised to leave alone until at least the end of next week!!!

it's probably fine that everything I'm making right now is about the process of storytelling. that cant ever get recursive

gift to myself for finishing the novel draft: walking all over town and collecting 11 second hand books 😊

anyway in an attempt to rifill the creative well i will now be doing the thing i said i was going to do this year and Watching Some Movies

on one hand it's extremely nice to feel like i'm doing my best ever work after completely crashing out and believing i'd forgotten how to write this time last year. on the other hand, this does not give me huge confidence in estimating my own skill

immediately closing the gdoc and being like "now what" as if I haven't spent the last several weeks putting 10000 things off that are becoming dangerously delayed like "work" and "the dishes"

i finished draft 2 of the novel 😭

well if I have to be awake at 4am I guess its good I'm also seized by the urge to write

i respect lynch's "the movie is the talking" but unfortunately i have the deep desire to explain every single decision i'm making

My cover story at Unwinnable this month is about air shows, the men who fanned the flames of empire, and other stories of deadly infectious disease.

Unwinnable@unwinnable.com · 2w ago

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