Here's a piece I wrote for the Guardian a few weeks back about why we should play for play's sake. If you look *very* closely at my writer photo you'll see I'm wearing a Pokémon shirt. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/o...

Ay yo if you like tabletop games my book The Game Changers is out in UK shops now. It's the story of how games changed the world, 'told,' according to sickly organ of British right-wing disgruntlement The Spectator, 'with compelling panache.' You MUST buy it; that is the law.

TFW you had a brilliant idea that will both close a plot hole and raise the stakes in one fell swoop, but the idea is genocide. Two of them, actually.

I need writers, readers, authors, editors, publishers, poets in my timeline! Let’s get this bubble started!

FINE. You won. I’m back here from Threads. (Pretty much dead on X. Keeping the account for now, for logistical reasons)

My Keychron K6 battery is dead after 4 years of daily use and it’s sold out. Any recs for a new mechanical keyboard? RGB, US layout, Mac layout, tenkeyless, 65%, both wireless and wired, gateron red switches, better if hot swappable but not necessarily, shipping from Europe.

Just upgraded my @novlr.bsky.social account to Pro 🎉🎉🎉 Writing fiction in Novlr gives me warm and fuzzy vibes. It’s so relaxing. The team is kind and helpful, and the official Discord is a banger ✌️

I just released a new chapter of “The Boy Who Didn’t”, my dystopian sci-fi novel where AI and Humankind come face to face with the sins of their past. Go read “Chapter 8: Broken” on williamghelfi.com and spread the word!

Chapter 8/15 of “The Boy Who Didn’t” is 99% done! 🎉

Sooo Loki season 2 is about RxJS then.

I hereby declare [repost and continue]

I just solved 3 plot points + introduced a mid-book twist with one fell swoop. I feel good right now 😎

Hey 👋 I’m building this account into a writing one! Any suggestions about who should I follow?

Just subscribed to this amazing newsletter from an awesome podcast theshitaboutwriting.substack.com?r=2wvui1&utm...

"Reports use of an exported name as the locally imported name of a default export." This wording should be a criminal offense.

Kids these days don’t fully realize how good they have it for living in a world where @freecodecamp.bsky.social exists and it’s free.

Normalize `yarn stare`

I’m sorry?

Chapter 7 is almost done. It’s been taking me a while, but I realized it’s because it’s central to the story 🤞

If you have kids, what are you doing with them better than what your parents did with you?

I’m sorry to inform you that you just lost at the game

Who called this “Hanger Organiser” and not “Hanger Games”? You had one job.

For my next trick, I’m going to demonstrate how to keep a neutral score on Hacker News

I present to you, my SECOND website. The first ever I coded by hand. web.tiscali.it/penguin_rules/

Virtual sticks are the bane of mobile gaming. Just stop. Make me tap to move.

Alright, so: best iPhone 15 Pro case? Bonus points if it comes in purple.

Woot woot chapter 6 is already the longest yet, at 3600 words, and I have still one or two scenes to write! I feel like I'm getting better as I go on (not necessarily because I write longer chapters). I'm going to have a lot of edits for the first chapters 😄

Every time I’m about to complete a new chapter of my novel, I remember how lost and overwhelmed I felt when I started it. And it blows my mind. Every time.

Ranking of Kings ✌️

In an impossibly cool move, Joe Murray, creator of Rocko's Modern Life, has noticed his book about creating animation is out of print and massively over-priced on the second hand market. So he's put it on his site for free. joemurraystudio.com/books-by-joe...

Boys just want to build Lego sets and write novels

Ok, let’s do this. Here’s “Chilling”, Chapter 1 of “The Boy Who Didn’t”, Book 1 of the “Consequo” series. See you at the end of the thread ✌️

Oh hi 👋 and thank you 🙏 new followers. Once the kid is asleep, I’m going to post the unedited draft of chapter 1 of “The Boy Who Didn’t”, my first novel. I’m finishing chapter 5. I planned for ~15 so far. Plus 2 more books to complete the story. Thanks for being here: I hope you’ll like it ✨

What if I told you this is now the account of dystopian scifi author.

Normalize personal astronomic unit of measures for everyday distances: My coworking is at 20 William-minutes from where I live.

Rate this palette. Only color I’m not sure about is the gray.

/art quote this post with some blue art

Did you know I'm working toward turning into a novelist? My first sci-fi novel is in progress and, since I'm a dumb Italian dreamer, it's book 1 of a trilogy and I'm writing it in English (which, despite my first name and debatable prowess, is not my native language).

ken susser tod

yeah i’m religious i believe in the holy trinity

I need names of plants with a good smell, that grow on hillsides in moist soil 🙏 (Moist = not desert, not rice)

Hey @timclare.bsky.social are you the one from the Couch to 80k Death From A Thousand Cuts etc etc podcast/course on Novlr?

i just signed up for Threads and now mark zuckerberg is just in my house and he won't leave, so i call the cops and they show up but they are both mark zuckerberg too, now there are three mark zuckerbergs in my house. hold on i gotta go check on my mom upstairs--oh no, oh god no

Take the sensorial memory from the last exercise, but make it a post-apocalyptic campfire story «As far as dumb decisions made by a 14yo go, this one didn’t seem in the top 5. At first.

A link to Google Translate that opens the browser app. Really?

24d later this is still on. I’m taking lessons, I’m re-learning how to be a writer in a foreign language (English), and I’m having a ball. If you’re interested in my progress, I post updates in my Instagram stories (@trumbitta), but I’m considering posting on here too. Wdyt?

I'm taking some free writing lessons from Novlr and I can already feel my writing brain stretching after 20 years of sleep. Here's in the next couple of posts in this thread the best from the latest exercise on descriptions. Unedited, naive. Can you spot the worst error?

The Astley Paradox. If you ask Rick Astley to lend you his copy of the Disney movie Up!, he is never going to give it to you. But in doing so, he’s going to let you down.

In retrospective, I should’ve taken one of those “before” pics back when I started my journey to a better body. Nobody at the beach is going to believe I used to have a big flaccid dad bod, when they’ll see my new bigger but tonic dad bod.

Serious question: I'm not a novelist. I've written a lot of poetry (even published a collection) and two short stories in Italian. I'm a native Italian speaker. I learned English in school and over the course of my career as a software engineer and... [1/2]