popped into ‘the twisted spine’ in Brooklyn for some festive cheer #bookstore #books

sat in mulligans in nyc on my writer/bookseller hols. popped to the strand yesterday and today the drama book store. money spent. the vibe in the bar is warm. Will be doing an insta post soon of one of the things did linked to writing of sorts.

did like this quote from ChatGPT when comparing my writing to others: If Bukowski shouts from the bar, Fitzsimons talks to himself on the walk home.

so I’ve decided the best thing to do when ai is scraping everything we do creatively is to return to pen and paper deactivate ai on any apps or just avoid any apps that include it as an option stop posting any of my writing

3 days away from being on my hols and so now i get a cold

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This can only end well.

to say im not surprised is an under statement #writers #kidslit www.thenational.scot/news/2571333...

This is *hilarious*. I actually barked an angry, triumphant laugh.

so let’s talk writing goals as the year is nearly through did you achieve yours? i hope you’re like me and failed spectacularly let’s have a community hug for all those who didn’t achieve what they set out to do this year here’s my list: 1) complete fantasy-realism novel and send out

if you have young kids, please show patience this time of year they will be very tired and tetchy overexcited looking forward to their hols and so will the teachers

should mention i once wrote one or two children’s books despite the cover it is not really a christmas book, more a satirical look at fairy tale tropes and exploring what it feels like to not fit in when youre in a world of idiots

this story is why i only get lumps of coal at christmas

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i think now we a few days into december i can post this old chestnut #writing #story #shorts stephenfitzsimons.com/2023/05/15/p...

wrote too soon

i have a day off so i can do some writing. that is my intention. by stating my intention here i am contractually obliged to then write and will by no means get lost down a path of threads that lead back through the ether of time.

this is my James Bond sinister overlord pic. snapped after sending two under performing underlings to the shark tank and about to reveal my master plan complete with shaky laser and large models. we used to know how to do master plan reveals. with AI it just doesn’t have the same impact on a foe.

so it istwo. but then i worked on my day off but it is an important time of year for the bookshop. it could make or break us through january or february. i fell asleep on the sofa again. you could ease my worries by ordering books from the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk website can deliver direct to

to counteract this dark tale, here is a link to something wholesome: it is that time of year

i wrote a kids book once called ‘Bad Elf’ it is not a christmas book it is rather all about finding your place in society when all around you seem to be unthinking idiot born drones father christmas is a jolly owner of a sweat shop elves are part of a eggnog chugging cult its for kids

i think now we a few days into december i can post this old chestnut #writing #story #shorts stephenfitzsimons.com/2023/05/15/p...

i seem to be making the mistake of posting my best shit on bluesky when at work and getting engagement me as self = crickets its the bookshop they love, isn’t it?

you just know the kid on the front row has stolen the forbidden book from the library and unleashed the hordes of hell

Ah, @littlehikerbird.bsky.social knows…

my meat brain thinky hard

being committed to an idea is tiring. to fully commit takes sacrifice, time and energy. you need to believe in the thing deep down. deep down in the stomach, the very pit, and up to the heart. it needs to course through your veins and be in your every moment thought or breath. if not. you are doomed

i would like an edit function on #blusky. its just i type with two clumsy figures and would like to not seem an idiot sometimes.

i’ve been watching entries to Lift Off London film festival - new voices shorts. why? i’ve always had an interest in film especially new artists making or staring in film. i always enjoy the exciting new fresh look they bring to film. i want to see what they can do. they push the boundaries

so I came home. ate. then vedged on sofa. so tired i was unable to move or do anything fell asleep. now hanging with sick no. 2 son

whilst waiting for the beta readers feedback on novel I finished a couple of months ago after three years i got bored. I got inspired by some of the novels I’ve been reading. in fact the type of fiction that has interested and excited me for years. so I got a new notebook from by my bed and started

well this made depressing reading www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

when ideas are not enough stephenfitzsimons.com/2025/11/20/d...

I feel heard

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are you sitting comfortably? then i’ll begin the dentist wasn’t my usual dentist. through mishap. bad judgement. the pressures of day to day. working as a teacher. never getting time off as there is always something to be done. so it wasn’t my usual dentist. that dentist in its mistaken wisdom had

i would just like to say i would happily accept a patron of the arts like the wealthy characters of old black and white movies like the marx brothers who would happily lavish money on me and my writing with a belief in the arts without any insistence of profitiability but supporting art as it is

i’ve been in a bit of a creative slump of late. energies going elsewhere the grind of trying to make enough to live but it is never enough the ongoing rises of fuel and food and just existing day to day yet i love my job and the people i meet through it. but. the words haven’t been coming and ive

so at the bookshop the last two weeks we have been dealing with poor internet connection. so poor that we had to run all out systems of a phone’s mobile data. it was due to corrosion to the copper wiring outside the shop. yep. copper wiring. it’s our only option in the street apparently. i remember

i admit it. im at a lost. i dont get how this app works. i dont understand how you find out new people to follow. i click on the discover but its just the same voices amplified. what am i doing wrong? #bluesky

the social of social media really isn’t working anymore. it is now just a cesspool pit of push ads trying to sell us something that we didn’t ask about didnt want wouldn’t want if asked would never be anything we would consider and in the grand scheme of things taking the ad in account

today i had a filling done at a new dentist. the process was surprisingly good. and as i was there in the chair looking up mouth open staring at the ceiling that had been tastefully and thoughtfully decorated with windows and clouds. i thought. hasn’t dentistry gone a long way since it began when

whats the best tv series you’ve never seen the end of? mine: Breaking Bad i watched it when it first came out. season one. watched. told everyone about this great series i was into. season 2: watched half. never been back. it seems i have series commitment issues.

welcome to my philosophy class to we discuss an important question as i dont have any crisps when is a sandwich not a sandwich? can i have a bread sandwich? is that a thing? #sandwich

more good news about ai that dystopian future is getting closer by the day

latest read completed: A Man Asleep by Georges Perec The words just flow as you read. It is fairly short and can be read in one sitting. Now onto the world of hallucinatory junkies: The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs

another reason to hate AI www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

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today i discovered there is someone called Sophia Money Coutts no, i didn’t make it up yes, she is exactly like the character you’re thinking voted most likely to say ‘surely the homeless can just move to one of their other houses?’