10 scenes left in this book. LET'S GOOOOOOOO.

I read about this shit and how Europa might have life in my fuckin Weekly Reader in FIFTH GRADE. So it is incredibly exciting that I could see this experiment carried out. *please be sea monsters please be sea monsters please be sea monsters*

be the bigolas dickolas you wish to see in the world.

voids sticker sheet🐈‍⬛ get it here: mcapriglione.art

I remember when I was a kid there was a Playstation game - I don't remember what it was, but you would put in another disc and it would randomly generate a new lil Pokemon-esque creature for you. Yo I grabbed every disc and CD in the damn house to see what popped out. That's basically prompting.

Alright. Accountability. I am the coffee shop after work so now I have a little over an hour to bash out some words. 13 scenes left. Let's try to knock that number lower. I'd love to hit 10 scenes left today.

nose down ass up that's the way we cyberstuck

I just think it would be neat if turkeys used the same technique to draw us

Give me an HD update to Diablo 1 with some quality of life improvements, all day. (I mean, or I'll play the Devilution mod).

Okay but for a second, as a follow up thought. If you want to fight the bourgeoisie, you fight the billionaires. Support UBI. Support your local community. Pay your fucking taxes and be active in how they're spent. Support your local library.

YAAAASSSS. It's like they literally drove themselves into one of those terrible brain teasers.

So much the people who are wanting to "democratize information", by for example, not supporting libraries, just show they don't want democratized information. They just want information free, for them.

I am tired. I have written a LOT today. The dayjob office is going to be VERY VERY busy tomorrow with many many people so I am DEFINITELY going to be just using my personal laptop to work on some python code. For sure.

Exclusive: I, a totally unbiased source, have projected that 220 million people will have bought my book by 2030 as I follow the author playbook.

Wait. SENIOR editors make, at the top end, 85k? I'm not trying to say that's nothing. Adjunct me would have fallen over at 85k. But I also wasn't SENIOR in my position. I guess reading the listing they want 3 years experience?

Legitimately I get overwhelmed when I open discord. I know, I know there's some WONDERFUL communities on there but I just can't even. I don't even have Bsky on my phone I don't want another app to chat and notifications and just aasdkajhsdloashdla

Put in another big chunk and will do another 45 minutes before I call it for the night. Trying to finish up these 3 scenes that form a chapter. So far, so good. Today has been nice, writing wise. Momentum feels good, actually. I've missed that feeling. (And I've flailed a LOT on this book).

Evergreen philosophy.

fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Last year I wrote and queried a little MG novel. It was about a little boy, abominable snow monsters, and Santa's Giant Robot. And Mr. Clause would go out and fight these abominable snow beasts in his mech. One of my favorite lines was "SANTA! USE THE MISSILE TOES!"

Accountability post: 16 scenes. This afternoon is a big push on this draft.

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

I'm still in awe that we live in a world where tech bros are heralding the NEXT REVOLUTION and the tech companies are pleading with us to PlEaSe UsE oUr Ai the economy WiLl CoLlApSe if you don't and in the same breath everywhere it's like "Also this might be wildly wrong double check it."

Did ChatGPT write this?

This is quality internet right here.

So a few years ago I remember a friend describing themselves as a horse girl growing up. I found this terminology terribly misleading when I saw someone squeeing about their cat and called them a cat girl. APPARENTLY (animal)-(gender) varies WILDLY in acceptability.

*spittake*

I have hit my minimum time target for the month (20 hours). I'm on pace to easily hit 25 hours. That's all good. I have 17 scenes left which is starting to stress me out. I know intellectually they are shorter scenes and most of them already have big chunks of text written that just need revised...

Hey what's that thing called where you take paper and hold it up to a gravestone and rub like a graphite stick or whatever on it to get an impression of the gravestone? @mostlybree.kitrocha.com ? @hillarymonahan.bsky.social ?

There's so much I love about this speech and I hope you read the full text when you can - it's worth it. But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination. It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.

It's so funny because for all the chants of democratize information that's. That's LITERALLY what libraries do and what they are for. It turns out, they don't want democratized information, they just want the information for free for them.

Okay, because I need to try and re-spark some writing community joy after… *gestures at everything* how about a revisit on a way you can absolutely support authors you love for zero dollars: by dropping a low-stress, three-sentence review somewhere.

I'd just like to point out, this is fucking TEXTBOOK great pitching right here. I literally smashed the button so fast on my keyboard to get to the page because that pitch is AWESOME. Also, @djangowexler.bsky.social is dope and his books are amazing.

And on that note, I will stop blurting here and go write. 18 scenes between me and the end of this book.

Okay brief marketing hat before I start writing - friends, if you are promoting your e-books here are two simple mistakes you can avoid. ONE: Don't lead with price. TWO: Don't bury information in links.

Midwest exorcist: Ope I bumped into ya - hold on. Why don't you just scoot out of there.

I live in the Midwest. Also, for years we 1) had unreliable cars, and 2) I had anxiety about car trouble. PERFECT COMBO. So when we had car trouble, again, after heart surgery (uh long story), I literally parked my car and said "fuck it I'm riding the bus."

Actually so let me tell you the story of how I GOT to knowing I have 18 scenes left because I assure you, that was FAR from certain for YEARS. Buckle up buttercup this book goes back to 2020, a TotallyNormalYear.

Update: 45 minutes of writing later we are down to 18 scenes left. And yes, it turns out I really REALLY do use my notebook a LOT. But I managed in the barbaric backwoods, notebookless at my local coffee shop.

Accountability post. At a coffee shop with @hebaha.bsky.social. Settling in to work. I have 19 scenes between me and the end of this book let's make it 18 before we head out. And spoiler - in the most first world of problems I LEFT MY NOTEBOOK ACROSS TOWN. I am challenged.

How did I choose my career? Hooboy that's complicated. Let me tell you the story. I went to college studying Russian because *checks notes* I wanted to learn Latin, and Latin has declensions, Russian has declensions, made sense. Totally. Anyway I ended up studying Math for funsies.

I LOVED this. I'm going to chew on it and try to articulate my thoughts about why I like it so much later.

NVIDIA earnings were a mirage. The market figured it out surprisingly fast. NVIDIA bump evaporated. I don’t know how this information can enter the system without exploding the bubble. But sometimes bezzles visible for months before crash. Waiting for the feds? open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

Accountability post: 19 scenes between me and the end of this book.

Yes. The Spencer books are FABULOUS. I looked up "Looking for Rachel Wallace" - I think - when I heard it referenced in his obituaries. And it was such a surprisingly thoughtful take on masculinity and what it means.

Today I walked in and my child informed me that she is "Queen Crayola" and was sitting on a throne. @babelglyph.bsky.social you will appreciate this.

It's that time of year

lmao

FFS