Writing Club Tip #116

"Writing flash fiction based off trash prompts with 0 expectations can be great!"

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Easy tip because I've found that you tend to write like what you read. So if you want to write in a genre, read in that genre!

Writing Club Tip #78

"Read books in the genre you’re writing, steal your way to victory"

@carwrex.bsky.social

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started reading again, it's been a while

turns out if you wanna inspire yourself to write, engaging with the medium is a great first step!

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People die

History doesn't repeat itself, it doesn't even rhyme. But it gives you a pretty damn clear view of what happens when states fight.

We cede occupied Ukrainian territory now in exchange for a 'deal,' we legitimize land grabs as a viable form of foreign policy.

Welcome back multi-polar world. Can't wait for state competition to lead to multi-million+ casualty events on a regular basis.

Same day job app rejection. Sure, it's great to know that I'm not wanted for that position, but it also means someone today opened up my app, looked it over, and tossed it all within the span of a shift.

Yea, not a great feeling.

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

It's a simple tip, but a good one. The more you do anything, the better you get. Even if that more doing is incremental, you're still getting better.

Plus the idea of writing as practice is underappreciated. We're all hobbyists at heart, and hobbyists practice their craft!

Thanks! I've noticed that the work has changed the more drafts I've done. More analysis and tweaks, less just putting words on a page

In some ways that seems easier, but it also seems a little scary! Suddenly I have to step back and make this all work

Finished a reread of draft 2. Got some good notes.

Now that the easy part is done, time to make sense of them all and actually write draft 3 😭

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I find it's great for all pieces of writing, not just dialogue. You pick up on super weird sentences real fast if you're forced to say them aloud

note to recruiters out there, never never NEVER make me apply to a job through a chatbot

i cannot stress enough how much i don't want to do that

GIDEON THE NINTH x GODKILLER

DOWNDRAFT

Valandra is a legend - the only delver to reach the bottom of the Abyss and return. But few know the costs that came with it. Decades later, as new threats form in the shadows, she must retell her story or finally face the consequences.

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despite what you think, everyone else is usually right and you're usually wrong

all I want to do is smash-cut scene transition mid-chapter with NO break

Google earth imagery of NW Downtown Detroit

"Our cities are full"

Our cities:

The Anti-Social Century Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

And I wonder if that religious revivalism is in part informed by the social isolation outlined in this article?

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.

I feel like I've personally felt a slow and steady religious revivalism creeping into greater society, but I haven't see the scope of it captured well until this article #theatlantic

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Really looking forward to see how this develops!

Recently discovered @zen-browser.app recently, and as a longtime Firefox fan, I have to say, I'm in love

Most discourse around this (or other future projections) tends towards some sort of catastrophism.

Especially interesting is his framing:

"The problems this dynamic raises, however, are not necessarily tantamount to a catastrophe. Depopulation is not a grave sentence; rather, it is a difficult new context, one in which countries can still find ways to thrive."

The Age of Depopulation Surviving a world gone gray.

Listened to a podcast recently on @foreignaffairs.com with Nicholas Eberstadt, and I thought it worth a re-read of his fantastic article on depopulation.

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/age-de...

Done. Two fifteen minute sprints.

Sprints never feel like much, but they do add up over time. Significantly.

Ok, with the holidays grand slam over, it's time to get back to writing.

Luckily I'm in the process of reading my second draft, couldn't ask for an easier way to get back on the wagon.

Chapter 7 here we go!

It's small, it's efficient, and after a crash you can recycle the wreck into a cobbler

Bring back the small car!

It's a great one, I forgot about it but at the same time I really wanna give it a try

The idea behind this tip is that, ultimately, your friends are your most accessible audience. If other people like your writing, great! If not, at least you and your friends had a great time reading something that was designed entirely, and specifically, for them.