A piece on what I like to call "cool bombs": little roll-yourself memes that can bring fiction alive (with references to what I'd consider to be examples of this by my friend @Mytholder). #writing https://jonnynexus.substack.com/p/cool-bombs
Jonny Nexus
@jonnynexus
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🤷🏻♂️He/him
🖋SF/F author
🇪🇺🇬🇧Pro-EU / British
⌛️Generation X
🌱Vegan
🌳Green Party member
🚗EV driver
🏏Follows cricket (Somerset and 🏴)
Look, the formula for #Eurovision is clear. Get yourself a bloke who looks like Jesus, sings like God, and has (co)written himself a cracking song. (If he’s also a great bloke and a vegan to boot, that probably won’t hurt).
Why are Spain doing nightmare fuel hands coming out of string walls? Why can’t they have a man in a hamster wheel? I liked the man in the hamster wheel. #Eurovision
Always mad to think that in an alternative universe where, instead of coming third from bottom, we won the 2016 #Eurovision Song Contest held a few weeks before the #brexit referendum (or even just did well), the vote would likely have gone 52%/48% the other way.
Sitting in a Starbucks next to a teenaged girl who's just been the victim of a drive-by mansplaining. She's laughing and telling her mate that she knows what she's going to do with her life. I'm resisting the temptation to say, you go girl!
This is the utterly brilliant tweet that I am referencing by the way: https://twitter.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538?lang=en
Have realised that I perhaps need to clarify that the "Nexus" in my pseudonym comes from my favourite comic book character, and not from Alex Blechman's fictional SF novel, "Don't Create The Torment Nexus".
It all seems a little dark now, which I realise is a curious thing to say about a character whose origin tag line is: "Nexus dreams of mass murderers, and when he wakes, he is compelled to seek them out and assassinate them."
Reading my friend @mytholder’s latest novel, The Sword Defiant. This bit is just *so* like something that would happen in a D&D game. 😀
Watching #eurovision semi-final 2. Mad, fabulous costumes. Why are we so boring? We weren't always like this! Back in 1973 we sent Cliff Richard out dressed as Austin Powers for God's sake!
A little #writing tip about how to construct a plot for your story by working backwards, starting with the effect, and then working out a cause.
https://jonnynexus.substack.com/p/on-how-plot-construction-reverses
https://jonnynexus.substack.com/p/on-how-plot-construction-reverses
