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Getting ready to start our @twssfu.bsky.social TWSSFU sprints session this morning Sun. Aug 24th at 10:30am PST on Bluesky #TWSsprints. Open to all #writers everywhere, write for 15mins, break 5mins x 3 sprints. Do some morning pages before you start your day! #WritingCommunity #WritingLife #writers

The next #TWSsprints will be this Sunday, Aug 24 at 10:30am (PDT) online. All writers are welcome to join in on the sessions. It's a great space for TWS online students to write along with their cohort too. Everyone though from the local writing community is welcome to participate with us!

This is what I love about being a book critic. I read 2 books recently that were uncomfortable experiences. Digging into why I felt that way and what the author might be trying to do helped me come to a better understanding of each.

Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.

10 writers by whom I've read more than 5 books 1. Patricia Highsmith 2. Raymond Chandler 3. Dashiell Hammett 4. James Ellroy 5. Dorothy B. Hughes 6. Susan Sontag 7. Joan Didion 8. Stephen King 9. Anne Carson 10. Thomas Hardy

The next #TWSsprints will be in person at Waves Coffee House at Howe and Smithe on Sunday, July 27 at 10:30am (PDT). All writers are welcome to join in on the sessions. It's a great space for TWS online students to meet their cohort in person too. Everyone from the local writing community welcome!

what is wrong with me

‘Biography is on a march, always, to the final page. It is the thing wrong with 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 – that it casts her death back through her life, sows it through vivacity, makes it inevitable.’ @tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

He knows vm.tiktok.com/ZMSuE281F/

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" is the most distinctly American horror premise, "what if there were consequences for running a pedestrian over"

[creeping out of the sewer] oh it’s pride month already? did i hear two for one shots available for any gay that simply scrambled out of a liquid morass unimaginable to the human mind

This year, in the absence of any media outlet or corporation asking me to write about Pride, I challenged myself to write a Pride essay I’d actually want to read. This is what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/johnpaul...

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Tonight!

Go on, write your way into knowing yourself a little better. Happy first day of #1000wordsofsummer! 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/day-1-of-1...

“A law requiring contractors to pay for bricks, concrete, siding, and drywall will absolutely kill the building industry.” — Author of “How to Save Construction”

Ok. Then let it die. Because theft is theft. And even worse if you’re profiting from the crime.

Repost with the five shows you would be happy to rewatch over and over for the rest of your life, as your sole TV diet ER Dexter Killing Eve Murder she Wrote The L Word

Hate and discrimination have no place in BC and equality isn’t up for negotiation. Everyone deserves to live in safety, free to be who they are. And we will always defend these rights.

Introduce yourself with four video games.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 20/20 The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 19/20 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 18/20 The Official Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 17/20 Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 16 /20 The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 15 /20 The First Bad Man by Miranda July #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 14 /20 Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 13 /20 Usborne Guide to the Supernatural World: Vampires, Ghosts and Mysterious Powers #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 12 /20 Citizen by Claudia Rankine #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

ART IS NOT HERE TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE, YOU ARE THINKING OF A DUVET.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 11 /20 Four Past Midnight by Stephen King #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 10/20 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 9/20 Vulgar Favors: The Hunt For Andrew Cunanan, The Man Who Killed Gianni Versace by Maureen Orth #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 8/20 The Two Faces of January by Patricia Highsmith #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 7/20 Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 6/20 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 5/20 The Terror by Dan Simmons #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 4/20 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 3/20 Dark Money by Jane Mayer #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations; no reviews; just the covers. 2/20 Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith #20Books #BookSky #BookChallenge

When Clive Barker was working on the MUMMY remake for Universal in the early '90s, he had a trans character in the script, and when the studio vetoed it, he basically said "I really can't stress how much I don't need to fucking make THE MUMMY" and left.