Mixed Metaphors

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Occasional writer of fiction when not dealing with a day job.

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Sat down, with #TheStingingFly, #TheMoth and #Tolka, to chat with Dr Conor Linnie for a MoLI digital exhibition, The Parish the Universe: Patrick Kavanagh & the World of the Literary Magazine.

https://exhibitions.moli.ie/patrick-kavanagh

Patrick Kavanagh Digital Exhibition

MoLI Exhibitions
@haikushack good morning!
I know a lot of writers feel like twitter was good for writing. And it was. But it was good for a particular kind of writer and writing. And I hope moving away from twitter changes the landscape of books. There are quiet folks who write brilliance. And don’t always have off the cuff hot takes.

We strongly recommend everyone read @jasonsanford's latest Genre Grapevine on Twitter. Lots of links explaining the situation. Lots of info about alternatives.

Really essential stuff, y'all!

https://www.patreon.com/posts/genre-grapevine-74825361

@rabia_elizabeth I find that the Dinosaur Comics alt-text tags are often virtuosic and lyrical, so maybe I should have said "expectedly" rather than "unexpectedly," but this one was especially good.
The alt-text on today's Dinosaur Comics (https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=3980) is an unexpectedly virtuosic and lyrical piece of #writing.
Dinosaur Comics!

the truck passes by safely, but uncomfortably close. t-rex has just lived literally a hundred lives in the space of a second, but since they were all various mixes of his own life, he has learned nothing, and it amounts to nothing. his soul is now old but his body is young, and in that, there is relief

@aelpress @wordswithnima To clarify: when I say "stumbled on it" I mean that I saw @wordswithnima toot about it and I take no credit in any way. This list was all their effort!

Hello @aelpress! I'm following you now and looking forward to checking out your catalog.

I stumbled on a really wonderful list curated by @wordswithnima. The list is available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VYnPZifyXwRVrzzTKU6qK6VXWUabcFJSwIlWna-e3ok/edit#gid=0

Let them know they have your permission to get added!

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@RookwoodEditing Donald Barthelme has an essay called "Snap Snap" which, if I remember it correctly, is several pages that are mostly just making fun of the use of "snapped" as a dialogue tag. After I read that many years ago it stuck in my head and it became nearly impossible for me to use any dialogue tag other than "said" ever again.

I can't find a copy of it online, unfortunately. It's in his collection "The Teachings of Don B.: Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories, and Plays"