OBSESSED with the triple focus pull in this shot from #WakeUpDeadMan. Props to @steveyedlin.bsky.social and @rianjohnson.bsky.social. We'd love to know who was 1st AC on this!

The survey is open to non-members (I am not one) and to readers (who here is not &c.) so I encourage you to share your feelings on the matter. Don't assume that everyone already understands that AI is bad or why! I mean, people *should*, but you could say that about a lot of things.

So who gets @rianjohnson.bsky.social's copy of Ravenous? Is the next visitor to the closet going to claim it? Or did @criterion.bsky.social already remove it? Whoever gets it gets the First Gift of Christmas.

Next time y'all feel enticed to vote in the outsiders, just make sure they're also EXPERTS. They can be Washington outsiders without ALSO being outsiders to the field we're placing them in charge of.

I know I'm late to the party, but "Paul Dano was the worst part of There Will Be Blood" is an absolute dogshit take.

If life felt better in the 1990s, it might be because we just received photographic evidence that there was a kid in the Omelas hole.

This isn't an affordability crisis, it's a wage theft crisis.

Short Story Acceptance #10!! And this one is a special one! I can't wait to share this one! What a wonderful email to wake up to the day before Thanksgiving. #WritingJourney

Fellow writers, it's so unbelievably frustrating sitting down to write the same scene for what must be the fifth or sixth time. But it's so, so gratifying knowing without a doubt that it's also the last time the scene needs to be written. Final draft time, baby! #WritingProblems

SO SO thrilled that the story continues. After finishing "Bruised-Eye Dusk" from 2024's Best of SF&F, I was dying to follow Rugg on another adventure.

Thrilled that my ninth short story, "Water and Brimstone," has been published by the incredible @hello.darkharbormagazine.com.ap.brid.gy, now Macabre Magazine! Happy Anniversary, MM! Enjoy a little dark fantasy in time for spooky season. #WritingJourney macabremagazine.com/water-and-br...

Would love to ban elimination rounds from reality competition shows involving children.

Well worth a listen. Such a well-realized world, it almost comes across more as reporting on fact than sharing fiction. open.spotify.com/episode/4q89...

Acceptance #9! So excited to share this story with you. I've submitted it 12 places over the last year and five months. Friendly reminder to never stop. More soon! #WritingJourney

Using the Focus Friend app I can focus on writing instead of going down a rabbit hole of Hank Green videos on my phone

Holy crap. #FocusFriend really works. Not just for work, but for writing. I mean Labor Day Weekend also works for that. But the app has REALLY helped me make writing progress. I think it's the increments, in addition to all the other brain hacking going on. I swear up and down by my incrementalism.

Even at (ESPECIALLY at) innocuous levels, AI erodes our most fundamental hallmark of human autonomy, erasing the moment-to-moment inconvenience that stretches the muscles of our freedom: the ability to decide. Our most mundane and essential mental burden.

Tom Sturridge deserves all the praise he can get. This show carved out a massive challenge for itself, trying to stand in the wake of disgusting controversy. That doesn't change the fact that Tom Sturridge is doing things as Dream that no one else on TV right now can equal.

Based. youtu.be/rmASLb_Yn5Y?... #TEDtalk

2k words done today. Can't remember the last time that happened, let alone with my novel, let alone before 10:30 am. Hopefully a good omen now that we're finished moving into the new place. #WritingProgress

Space Unicorns! The Uncanny Magazine Year 12: Fly Forever, Space Unicorns! Kickstarter is 53% funded. When we reach $30K, we will give EVERY BACKER the Uncanny Magazine 2024 Highlights eBooks! KEEP IT ROLLING, SPACE UNICORNS! buff.ly/FTfV1GZ

CGI isn't getting worse. Resolution is getting better.

My new flash fiction, "Owning a Cat Is Like Having a Ghost," is now out in Issue 12 of the beautiful @livinapress.bsky.social ! You can find it on Amazon in multiple formats. Huge thank you to Laci F. Hector! a.co/d/cAiYttU

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Acceptance #8! This journey has required patience, but this is my second flash fiction acceptance in just over a month. More details to come. For now, I'm just grateful to have more chances to share these personal stories. This one's about cats 😸 #WritingJourney

That's how you write a sketch that plays to the host's strengths #snl #waltongoggins

Story #7 is here! Grateful to the beautiful Macrame Literary Journal for accepting this little story in their Spring 2025 issue. It's a privilege to be included! Thanks for reading. Enjoy. #WritingJourney macramelit.com/articles/a-l...

If you liked @sinnersmovie.bsky.social, then you will LOVE this book. These Bones www.goodreads.com/book/show/58...

When you open your browser to find that, after two years of religiously checking their website once a week, @tacobellquarterly.org has finally reopened to submissions . . .

Acceptance #7! And it was a piece I had previously retired and pulled out for one last go around. Just goes to show you that an acceptance might be right around the corner when you're about to throw in the towel. Stay tuned for some new flash fiction headed your way this season 😊 #WritingJourney

Charlie sells pianos. Annette is in the market. My new short story, Same New Song, is now available in the Spring 2025 Print Edition of @alliumjournal.bsky.social. Pick up your copy of this esteemed journal today: allium.colum.edu/purchase

Now Live: "I Drink the Core to Taste the Thunder" by Akis Linardos @linardos.bsky.social A gripping, beautifully written piece of short fiction. Don't miss this one! www.wallstrait.com/post/i-drink... #amreading #fiction

Heart-broken. I've never been more sad listening to a podcast episode. Can't wait to hear these three team up again. We'll miss you #TrialByContent open.spotify.com/episode/7Jcb...

I still don't know exactly how I feel about #TheBrutalist, but I do know that I want that library.

Maine Character Energy #GovernorMills

I submitted to the @unchartedmag.bsky.social Cinematic Short Story Contest! Publication + $2500! Judged by Rachel Harrison. Details here: www.unchartedmag.com

#WritingCommunity - what do you do when you run out of places to submit a story? Post it on your website? Put it in the junk drawer and hope an unexpected opportunity arises? Put it to rest and move on with your life?

My Tik Tok hot take: once you spit out the water, that should be the end of the video #brainrot

One thing I learned from cartoons is that men don't have eyelashes.

There are people in your life for whom your acceptance could mean their greatest liberation. Where is somewhere in your life you can give that gift?

Stop posting articles about "first cut of X movie was 4 hours long." Every film has a rough cut process. Doesn't mean there's an alternate universe where Wicked has a 240 minute runtime. Nobody writes articles about the page counts of books before they were edited.

"Details are the enemy of clicks" is incredibly insightful and efficient for something treated like a throwaway line. youtu.be/4fNSNsyhjmQ?...

Drake lost so freaking hard

donald trump doesn't care about black people

Love doing the @nycmidnight.bsky.social #shortstorychallenge every year, but I'm confused about why so many of the prizes include AI writing tools. So much joy of creative writing comes from the writing itself, and I just don't understand other writers who want to abridge that joy for themselves.

"your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing"

my battery is low and it's getting dark

people are about to completely rewrite history so always remember biden could have made this ceasefire agreement happen over a year ago and chose not to

Something I'm changing in the new year is fewer of my daily posts. My New Music Mondays and Fiction Fridays, etc. I will still share exciting media I encounter when I feel so moved, but the daily hashtag posts were mechanizing how I spend my free time, and I don't care for that.

Here's a recap on my writing journey in 2024, including 3 published short stories, my first non-fiction publications, and an acceptance that's forthcoming this year! Subscribe to my WordPress for updates! Big news in 2025! jmwilliamswrites.com/2025/01/01/2...