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This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.

A less obvious part of writing is the logistics of which scenes happen in what order, and when in the book. Couple that with romance, and you're always trying to match action to the trajectory of a relationship. If Character A is about to have a public verbal altercation with a relative, ...

Sam Neill has died at 78. Everyone'll say Jurassic Park. We'll say Event Horizon, Possession, and that final laugh in In the Mouth of Madness. Horror's quiet master, gone. Our tribute: https://gnofhorror.com/sam-neill-obituary-1947-2026/

HEY TERFS ARE YOU PLEASED REMEMBER HOW WE SAID THAT EVERYONE'S LIBERATION IS BOUND UP TOGETHER BECAUSE EVERYONE'S SAFETY AND THRIVING IS ONE SINGLE THING AND NONE OF US ARE TRULY SEPARATE AND EVERYONE SHARES THE SAME ENEMY Do you remember that can you see it yet, like

Teeth is going to be set in winter, because - Tracks in the snow - Even the environment wants to kill you - Pretext to share body heat 🥰 - Dramatic action scene involving an icy lake - Thanks to climate change, real life is too hot; I suffer from hot flushes, and I just want to imagine the cold 😭

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The Odyssey is another great film in the genre of “let’s try to get Matt Damon Home”

the SPEED at which I ran to my drawing tablet-

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I ended up experimenting a lot with this one, pouring layers of ink washes over the watercolor and building up with pastels. I'm trying to get a look that is soft and textured but still has clear strong details in places. I haven't gotten it down yet quite the way I want, but this is a step closer!

This is just heartbreaking.

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I reject the belief that writing/editing has to involve pain, or it's somehow not "real", or good in quality. I do not think you need to enjoy writing/editing to be good at it. But neither do you need to be suffering to be a good writer. And I think it's the false belief that writing must always...

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Westmarch was the book where I decided to take the brakes off for sex scenes. Haven't looked back since. It works because what the characters do in bed comes from who they are, and how their relationship is going. If they hint at it, they'll do it. Not least because that lets me develop them fully.

esteemed colleague: the problem with contemporary academia is relativism Me: Holy shit! metaethical noncognitivism? EC: LOL no...no not those relativists Me: So....neocarnapian metametaphysics? EC: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? EC: Oh, you know the ones

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OMG! I just thought of a really good love scene for this character and his partner! 😲 Bear in mind my favourite sex scenes are when something goes wrong, then the characters talk things out. I know exactly what's going to go wrong! I know what that scene is going to let me do for the characters!

God, I'm going to harrow this one character so very, very much! 😭 He believes he may never see his friends and family again. He's isolated - hasn't talked to another person in 2.5 years - and like a prisoner in solitary confinement, he's been suffering mentally from the sheer loneliness.

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I've side-loaded Heist in EPUB onto a Kobo eReader, to make sure the formatting works on that device. I want to make sure it's OK on that, and Kindle. So far so good. I've reached the round of editing (my 6th pass over it in a row) where I'm putting commas in, then taking them out again. 😂

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

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OH MY FUCK THEY ACTUALLY DID THAT

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I think both main characters in Teeth need interiority. I originally thought I might be able to keep to one POV. But no. That'll make it longer. But I want to show how horrific it would be to be a vampire in the world of Teeth. We're not talking romantic, sexy vampirism. It's deeply traumatising.

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Fuck Netflix in particular.

i first met sam neill in the late 80's on the set of jeremy brett's sherlock holmes. i think it was manchester studios. he and jeremy were pals. i was moving a light wi'out gloves cause i'm a tosser. i burned my hand. yelled "FUCK!" jeremy came right over, sam (who was visiting) in tow. (1/4)

3. Call your reps over this absolutely insane speech. Yes, both Dems and Republicans. Get them to respond to you, script TK. 4. Check in on your AAPI friends. The last time this administration started targeting China, it led to an uptick in nationwide hate crimes. Literally, a UCSD study:

Like his conspiracy theories about Covid being engineered in a Chinese lab, this will no doubt gin up anti-Chinese racism. And since far right grifters in the UK like to copy the rhetorical garbage coming from their US counterparts, I forsee an uptick in anti-Chinese racism/xenophobia again. 🤷‍♀️

I told my therapist the plot and world-building for Teeth. She said it's relevant to the world today. That's everything I write in book form. 😂 Romance (much of it gay) + whatever gives me rage about the state of things. 🤣 I never run out of book ideas, because I never run out of rage. Or love.

As an FAQ to get the convo started, here's some of the myths/misconceptions I've heard from tradpub authors who resist even CONSIDERING selfpub as a business option: MYTH: It's going to be a lot more work. REALITY: Ehhh. Much like tradpub, it is as much work as you choose to make it.

It is absolutely atrocious to me that WHO IS IN OFFICE can dictate what books get pubbed, esp. after such a loud push for diversity/wider representation in the decade before that. We need queer books, we need Black books, we need Indigenous books. I'm here as a resource, I've seen both sides. 👋

There's a great thread here on going hybrid/self-pub from a trad pubbed background including a look at common misconceptions/myths about self-publishing. If you're a trad pubbed author, you owe it to yourself to look at various avenues for your books! ESPECIALLY if you write queer books.

Somewhat tempted to draft Teeth (the "humans are worse than vampires" gay romance) before Cemetery Club - although I have so many cylinders firing up for CC too! - because I have a lot of energy for Teeth's theme, about being a tokenised POC in a white institution. I could write the heck out of that

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Finished another editing pass over Heist. Round 6 starts tomorrow. 😂 But for now, I'm enjoying an Oxford Archaeology research seminar online, on The Horse in Prehistory. Because I like horses! 😭 So much so that I did this for fun, for the main characters of Westmarch:

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