The first draft is supposed to be terrible. It's the time to throw things at the wall and see what sticks. Which inevitably creates a festive, near incoherent mess.
Then you edit, and make it a story.
Good morning! Reading Bruce Catton’s This Hallowed Ground at the moment and feeling surprised (though I shouldn’t be) at how good he is at conjuring a compelling narrative out of real historical events.
This is a viscerally satisfying story.
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BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
Can’t think of anything to do right now? Help pay a Minneapolis immigrant family’s rent!
Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .
How it feels doing literally any task right now.
High school students…
Practice essay: comfortably produce 250 words on the fall of the Roman Empire and how that affected the complex web of European and Mediterranean trade routes developed over centuries.
Final essay: I’ve literally never used English before today.
Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.
Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/
This is why you always want the window seat
Some thoughts about writing stuff, in no particular order (this might be a long-ish thread):
1. When Old Man's War came out (2005), lots of people read it and assumed I was conservative, because of its subject matter, and sub-genre, me being a white dude from Ohio, and other various factors.
The terrible thing about science in a democratic society is that, if you pay people enough, they can unsettle things that were settled for decades, by thousands of measurements, hundreds of ongoing examinations, hard statistical evidence.
All it takes is sufficiently immoral people.
If you are not impressed by the picture of a Black Hole, clearly you do not understand the gravity of the situation…
Q: What is Sinners about? A: America’s inability to discuss its complex racial history without bringing the Irish into things.
What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/
@exhaustdata 2 months ago Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentence @chillextremist 3 months ago When I'm in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
academy award contending tiktok
I mean, once the concept of a bug out bag has become a thing in one’s head, it has all kinds of uses.
A little surprised at myself actually, that I never really thought of them for natural disasters.
I live in South Korea.
Those are not for hurricanes here.
Though we get those, too, on occasion.
When a priest angrily told me it was not possible to be a good person if you did not believe in our church’s specific version of god. That was literally the only qualification for goodness in his mind, and man was BOMBASTIC about hammering that horrific point home.
"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
November 19, 2014
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
My wife told me that people not consuming a consistent diet of literature is why they struggle with empathy & putting themselves in the shoes of others & now I see it in everything.
Nothing surprising about this guy beating his chest & proudly proclaiming that he doesn’t read though.
No shit man.
Post a tree (or trees) you photographed
If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
tcpipeline.org
It is amazing how far back English remains largely comprehensible, and then how quickly it flips to something utterly opaque to modern eyes.
God help me, I love these awful things.
40.16 is worse than I expected, but also, apparently pretty good for humans?
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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