Radar!

So apparently after editing you actually have to go through and make ALL the changes you identified…

We are here to help each other get through this thing...whatever it is. - Kurt Vonnegut

ALL HAIL KING TORG!

“Project Hail Mary” was good. And I hereby resolve that if I ever sell a book that becomes a hit movie I will learn to read the damn room or just keep my mouth shut

We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be daunsinge.

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Perfect

Went out to eat tonight & they had The Last Jedi on in the background. A weird choice. Sequels were such a tragedy: so much potential, so much goodwill & even some good characters, all wasted by really really crappy writing.

Editing: the process of swerving wildly between “hey, this part turned out pretty good!” and “dear Lord, I have wasted my life”

a man in a suit and tie is running down a street while saying `` i need answers ! '' ALT: a man in a suit and tie is running down a street while saying `` i need answers ! ''

What happened to the guys in the red velvet jumpsuits? Who was the girl in the bare midwife Little Swiss Miss costume that came off the mother ship?

Why beam things into people’s heads & then radio in the coordinates? Literally everything about the aliens was terrifying up until the very end so how did they know they were friendly? What happened to the super tall alien? He stepped out, did the Jesus Christ Superstar, then vanished.

Watched Close Encounters for the first time in 20 years & realized nothing about that movie makes any sense at all. Why were aliens kidnapping Americans for the last 100 years? Why kidnap Barry for a couple of days? Why was the UN involved in Mongolia but it’s just the US & France at the end?

As a semi-Pantser, I have to say editing is a great cure for writers block

My paternal grandfather was an ambulance driver in WW1 & later founded a construction company. My maternal grandfather was in the Navy during WW2 & then worked as a fireman.

Colorado judge blocks Durango detective from accessing bookstore records The right to keep book buys private was upheld in the squashing of an attorney’s 1998 subpoena to obtain Monica Lewinsky’s purchase history from Kramers bookstore in Washington, D.C.

A little good news

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so it was a major fail all around.

pick up the phone & call? Spending a couple of episodes building up Darem's bad relationship w/his parents only to have him never interact with them at all? A ludicrous system of government clearly intended solely as a plot device? I'm guessing this was supposed to be an homage to Amok Time but if

Latest episode of Starfleet Academy: the A plot, with Genesis & Caleb, was fairly entertaining. The B plot was just...ridiculous. An alien species that performs their most sacred rituals while looking like humans (clearly to spare the SFX expense)? A ritual kidnapping to explain why no one can just

A.I. is the most expensive set of jingling car keys ever made.

Write drunk, edit sober

Yep, I’m gonna have to print this puppy out to organize it #amwriting

I would really like to spend my days reading, writing & putting my little models together. Thank you for your attention to these matters.

Starfleet Academy continues to improve. Characters with complex backgrounds & motivations, great special effects that don’t smother the story. Clearly pitched at a YA audience but grognards can enjoy it too