Wonderful

Naked - The Future YouTube video by Juliet Salazar

Looking for dialogue inspiration. What are some of your favourite scenes in films, books, plays, etc.? Here's one of mine, from Mike Leigh's Naked www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7nD...

Tim Robbins joy at escape from wrongful conviction in prison, from the Shawshank Redemption

Hungary 🇭🇺

He hates when I practise baroque fugues

Would you realize if the book you were reading was AI? What if it was humanized to remove AI-speak?

We find that even without using stylistic cues (e.g., word choice or sentence structure) narrative choices alone give AI fiction away!

Happy annual family viewing of The Last Temptation of Christ

Creepy!

Me arriving to contribute absolutely nothing but vibes and HP. Thanks @ehjaredj.bsky.social! (Credit: @commacomrade.bsky.social)

When I want to complain about something on social media I instead add another weird little guy to my adventure game and get them to say it instead.

I call it the Frank Herbert method.

New trailer for "The Ghost In The Shell" anime series by Science Saru studio.
Coming on Prime Video in July 2026.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZn...

I outline and bullet point scenes as I imagine them in my head. When cool scenes show up in my dreams or when I am showering, I add them to my bullet points wherever in the outline it makes sense.

a bald man wearing sunglasses says " smoke 'em " while another man looks on ALT: a bald man wearing sunglasses says " smoke 'em " while another man looks on

Step one

i avoid that by breaking all the scenes down to a list of scenes and then documenting what's in the scenes and then sometimes starting on the bullet points i got down and THEN going back and writing the intro

Logitech

Wait until 48h before it’s due and then go berserk trying to hit the deadline

Alternately: drink a modest amount of Irish whiskey.

I just start typing random words until I get bored and suddenly I'm interested in writing. This works for design docs and prose whatever.

I will write a paragraph of absolute gibberish and then immediately delete it, kind of cleaning the cache before trying to start something new

Give me your favorite writing tips, I'll start: tell yourself you're starting your new draft to trigger the specific part of your brain that would rather do literally anything else and you'll end up with a really clean office.

Prayers for Jello Biafra

This is rad

Oh my god

Judith with the Head of Holofernes by Cristofano Allori, 1613

This is how great art is made

What is your favourite prose editing tip? Mine is to eat Quiznos until my bloodstream becomes 90% bread and the carbohydrate high overrides all writing anxieties

Brian

ok

Here are two Misery pieces I made

is this AI

Beginning my second draft of the short story

My building is undergoing a planned electricity outage. It's been one hour under candle light. I am now a victorian waif. I have typhoid