Faulkner ...

FYI @craignewmark.bsky.social @vetsintech.bsky.social

#Veterans #SecondService

America Needs More Veteran Entrepreneurs Veterans built the postwar American economy. We need to do that again.

Special Research;

The number of veterans starting their own small business is now less than 5%.

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Salutes Patrick - Patrick Joseph
Cc: Captain Mark Kelly Pete Buttigieg

America Needs More Veteran Entrepreneurs Veterans built the postwar American economy. We need to do that again.

The number of veterans starting their own small business is now less than 5%.

open.substack.com/pub/patrickm...

Salutes Patrick - @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
@stephruhle.bsky.social

FYI #Veterans #SecondService

©2026, Jim_Writes.

Didion understood that the narrative is the survival mechanism. Not decoration. Not entertainment. Oxygen.

The Hemingway/Didion/le Carré method. A method I learned from then.

That nonfiction feeds the fiction hence, feeds the life.

Joan Didion's

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion (RIP)

Widely regarded as a summation of her views on how narratives create meaning in life.

Didion understood that the narrative is the survival mechanism. Not decoration. Not entertainment. Oxygen.

Joan Didion's

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion (RIP)

Widely regarded as a summation of her views on how narratives create meaning in life.

A spilled bottle of ink - dark, glossy, caught mid-fall or just after.

The ink itself - the protagonist.

The very instrument of the #writer's craft, upended

Grateful to have a cool USAF Veteran buddy as a book cover artist ... helps to clean-up my ink-spot-blots! Salutes Greg

Jim_Writes 2026.

Foreign Rights Licensing; #Writers #LitAgents;

Best term for what I'm doing is the "Hemingway/Didion/le Carré method."

The nonfiction chaos feeds the fiction-thriller, reality is always stranger, sharper, and more morally complex than anything one could invent, In any language. Qui2Si © jw

The foreign licensing target markets: Quebec and Louisiana Cajun readers share the cultural-linguistic DNA that makes FQ noir-land. Swiss/Belgium francophone market, often overlooked, voracious for literary crime fiction in that vein. Oui, Simenon's Maigret built a dynasty.#Writers #Oui #LitAgents ©

LET'S GO, VIRGINIA!!!

Yep a classic case of Sealioning & Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person") a logical fallacy where an argument is countered by LAWLER attacking the speaker's character, motive, or personal attributes rather than addressing the substance of their argument.

Katy Tur - wins

Katy Tur @msnowreports.bsky.social - Very WELL done re; M.L.

M.L.classic case of Sealioning & Ad homine - logical fallacy where an argument is countered by attacking the speaker's character, motive, or personal attributes rather than addressing the substance of their argument.

Katy Tur - wins,

Yep a classic case of "Sealioning " & Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person") is a logical fallacy where an argument is countered by attacking the speaker's character, motive, or personal attributes rather than addressing the substance of their argument.

Katy Tur - wins

"More Cowbell"

As a meme it's our universal shorthand for: whatever you're doing, do more of it. Louder. With less apology. - Jim_Writes Spilled Ink, April, 2026.

Present him with a pocket square.

SCOTUS Hit by Bombshell Leak of Secret ‘Shadow Docket’ Memos The origins of the Supreme Court’s secretive “shadow docket” have been revealed, providing a glimpse into how the justices began bypassing traditional procedures to issue rulings. A new bombshell repo...

SCOTUS Hit by Bombshell Leak of Secret ‘Shadow Docket’ Memos

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Aristotle wrote Sophistical Refutations because he believed that naming a manipulation was the first defense against it. As you're taking on the administration "Sealioning" behavior. Keep up the great work Molly.

Translated from my New Orleans Neo-Noir, French Quarter version to English.

"Excerpt - The Last Sauté Stars Det Vincent Ruffino and Helena Syracuse M.E.

"Laissez les bons temps, et la magie - rouler. "Magic was the first Chef to create the last sauté."

Jim_Writes. ©2026

"I'm a moderator, not a writer.

"I moderate relationships between people, ideas and worlds." - Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Nobel Laurate, literature.

Chapter: The Grandfather Clause -

In law it means an old rule that exempts you from the new one, Michael exists in that gap.

"All life's Choices Fine Themselves Caught Between the Cresendos." -Michael Ravel, the Piano Tuner. Trilogy Universe.

- Jim_Writes ©2026. Edits ongoing.

The Grandfather Clause.

"Cammina Piano: “Walk, work, play ... slowly.”

in the world of a complicated protagonist, The Piano Tuner, Michael, as the grandson of Murice Ravel in a modern world is challenged ...

Jim_Writes. ©2026

Navigation Lights Show: "White over White, there's a tugboat at night," what a safe and beautiful sight.

🎵"There's a tug-boat down by the river don't you know ..." 🎶

The first time I heard that song, it was played on a jukebox in the French Quarter. Thanks, @marcorasi.bsky.social ,

© 2026 - pending edits.

Got my book cover sample, Mock-Up - - yep it's got potential. Almost there.

Sade - Why Can't We Live Together (The Tube 1984) YouTube video by SadeVEVO

🎶"Tell Me Why We Can't Live Together/No More War, No More War/Umm, Just a Little Peace ... 🎶 - SADE, 2026 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Inductee.

youtu.be/LIgIgojL7Ns?...

Sidebar - Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, smooth, Triumph MC road ways,

Across the north and south to Key Largo ... Congrats, SADE ..

Hello, Oui - Montreal & Quebec, Paris, Cajun Louisiana, Belgium, Swiss French readers -Neo Noir Thriller Readers! They do enjoy thrillers. To writers considering translation services. Start with the outline drafts ... Jim_Writes, first draft, not final but a great first start. Oui! Coming along.

Thank you Lawrence, you were the first to present the study to viewers who read Non-fiction: "A Duty to Warn. Yale M.Ds and yes I got a copy on my book shelf back then. Which led me to another study. The author, a M.D., RIP. This was his definitive work and warning too. Gen Kelly knew and now we do

» Write Less to Write More: In Favor of Flash Narratives

Flash #fiction (& #nonfiction) are short enough to practice even on busy days. A 1,000-word story might take less than 30 minutes to #write.

Here's all the ways #flashfiction can help you as a #writer. ✨

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