If you ever feel discouraged as a writer, think of the time I got a vaguely threatening, negative personal rejection from a transgressive lit magazine.

I've been off the scene for a minute now (resending my book to my agent this weekend tho, if all goes well), but always happy to chat

Would someone please just do it

LOL! I didn't even notice. That's grim

*it's on The Federalist or whatever it's called

Not sure if you've seen this

I guess I picked the right time to become offline

Tf is going on here

It's out and beautifully done <3.

Support your local dead billionaire.

Butlerian Jihad nesta merda toda

These people would use ChatGPT to write their wedding vows

I've been yapping about this for years. The whole rest of the world reads translated fiction on the regular. The Hugos *really* need this category.

Full post pre-deletion.

I've been lurking on an AI "writing" subreddit. Caught this gem yesterday.

This Queer Online Zine Can Only Be Read Via an Ancient Internet Protocol New Session publishes poetry via Telnet, rejecting the internet’s fast-paced enshittification.

💾 New from me: i interviewed @cara.city about the Telnet literary zine New Session, rejecting algorithms & AI brainrot, and the return of what i’m calling the Slow Internet 🐢 🖥️

reminded today of a story I wrote about hockey and the folks it eats up only to spit out later.

you can read "GOAT" over at Joyland
joylandmagazine.com/fiction/goat/

I was gluten intolerant before him

Squirrel! Why attention spans seem to be shrinking and what we can do about it Reducing stress and getting enough sleep helps people successfully deal with distractions, a psychology expert says.

Not just anecdotal observation (reels and TikToks becoming more popular than long-form videos, etc), but research seems to point out the same:

news.northeastern.edu/2024/01/23/d...

brainmindsociety.org/posts/are-at...

The cynic in me thinks people nowadays have shittier attention spans (me included), so a series with the scale of ASOIAF won't happen again anytime soon

I had no idea he had one. Been completely out of the loop while trying to finish my bitch novel. I'll check it out, cheers

(Semi-related, if you need a beta reader for yours, hmu. I have to read a friend's first but I should be free by the end of the month)

Helpmeet is one of my fav books from the last few years

Just caught this in the wild <3

american citizens will be so overjoyed with the ability to say slurs at work that they will no longer need to consume food nor purchase consumer goods

Who did this

Couple years ago I toyed with the idea of writing 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelettes'

Hmm maybe another Hugo or two will end the discourse once and for all

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