Was on the other site deleting tweets and I happened to be in November 2020. This series of posts no longer exists over there, but I thought it worth noting here that soon after T's win back then, there was a lot of "Oh, he'd never do that" and "He didn't mean THAT" in the media and broader cultural conversation.
Not only did he do those things, and did he mean that, but people who'd been paying attention knew this.
#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 25. How long is the shortest story you've ever written? Can you link to it?
Less than 100 words. It's published in "What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers" (2nd edition, maybe 3rd too). By Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter (former writing prof of mine). Image below.
Sound advice (speaking as a journalist here).
Over on Facebook, the
#AI bots have gone completely over to evil.
#writingcommunity To all the discussion about
#AI and
#writing, I think there are clear uses for AI for writers that do not draw on stolen work. Basically, don't use it to automate writing. Use it for research, automating the tedious stuff (and math) that would otherwise take along time to do on your own. Like this (trust but verify):
No. 3 American Beauty. Jane, Lester's daughter, is visiting Ricky, the boy next door (and son of the retired marine colonel). They're quite possibly falling for each other. Ricky shows her one of his father's plates; she admires it, until he says, "turn it over." Suddenly a lot of cards start falling into place, both for the character and for the watcher.
4/11
No. 2. Pulp Fiction, the final scene (SPOILER) with Jules and Vinnie in the diner. They're talking philosophy (as is their wont), the scene is light, they're wrapping things up, and with one line of offscreen dialogue—"Garçon, more coffee!"—the scene transforms into a ticking time bomb of suspense. Chills all around. (Stuff like this is why Tarantino is a good writer.) Playing with the film's structure has led us to this moment, and boy is it a doozy. 3/11
No. 1: LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring. The fellowship rowing down Anduin, the Great River, passes the giant statutes at the Gates of Argonath. Aragorn says something like "long have I desired to look upon the kings of old." But the upshot is one of suddenly being confronted with *deep* history—this is a world where a *lot* has happened before our innocent hobbits went on an adventure. "More in heaven and earth" etc. (The books are full of these moments, although usually buried in prose). 2/11
#IrishCoffeeClub (with a glass o' whisky in hand)... First I'd make sure the eth and thorn were reintroduced before inventing a new one.
But if I did, let me propose the Thwip. It's to be used when you produce an unvoiced alveolabial stop, the sound of air being expelled quickly through a mostly closed sphincter.
Interesting bit of saying the quiet part out loud, courtesy of
@joshtpm.
The GOP isn't interested in solving the border issue. They want it in permanent crisis so they can use it for leverage.
