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Author, traveler, teacher, artist. Oh yeah - created a fully inclusive and adapted martial arts program. Writer of several currently unpublished novels. ADHD Jack-of-All-Etc. www.danielnick.com

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · Jan 26

I'm gonna say something. I strongly believe that - for me - allowing myself to be political on social media is profoundly damaging. That doesn't mean I'm not political. It means self care (1)

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 1h

How in the FUCK did I miss Dracula Untold until today?

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 20h

"Where are we?"
"We're still in Mexico City. This house used to belong to some rich white guy. "
"Used to?"
"The staff all converted to the new Mexica religion. They…introduced their employer to their God."
I felt a cold knot in my stomach. "Conversion?"
"Mmm…more like 'Eat the Rich'."

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 20h

I sighed. "How fucked up is it that the God of War and Mass Sacrifice is the reasonable one?"

- The Hands That Feed

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 21h

I wrote the same thing on another social deathscape and got a bunch of "AI means Artificial Intelligence and you can rail against it all you want, it's here to stay." To which I was like, "Did you read the post, or did you just wait for Chatgpt to plagiarize it (incorrectly)?"

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 1d

hey #booksky - hook a fella up with recommendations on where to get high quality Query letter advice and critiquing? Any and all suggestions welcome. It's an important aspect I need education on.

#queryletter #beprofessional #book #author

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 2d

I managed to waste my entire first day of my new Day Dweller work schedule online scrolling like a zombie. I have to go to bed in three hours in order to get up rested for my first day in the new schedule of 4:30AM to 3PM. Ugh. They call this unholy abomination the "Day Shift" for some reason.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 4d

Bumping this more visibly, as due to rescheduling I have extra spots open right now!

Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 13d

I have openings in my editing calendar. I do developmental edits of novellas and novels, and work with multiple genres. More information here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing and I'm always happy to answer questions.

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 3d

I decided to take a break from my series after the second book and write a fun novella sized retelling the Ulster Cycle myths of Cú Chulainn before I went onto the third novel in the series.
Turns out this is going to be a full novel length project...oops

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 8d

Noted. Thanks.

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 8d

I've completed two novels and am about 10k into the third, and almost all of it was written after midnight (It's 1:50AM right now). My shift changes next weekend and I will become a day dweller again. Honestly worried about my future productivity.

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 8d

I was out in Los Angeles. Building movie sets for a living. I wasn't in the union and I had no health insurance. Motorcycle accident. No job. Lost my apt. Lived in my truck (I borrowed $ to buy) 2 months. Without help from friends and fam, I wouldn't have made it back from that.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 8d

Sorry if I seem to be harping on things a bit much today. I spent a portion of my adult life DIRT FUCKING POOR. Once, while out of work for three weeks, a friend (a 19yr old waitress) bought me two weeks of groceries and kept me alive. I've never forgotten that kindness and aim to be more like her.

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 8d

I love a good BBQ as much as any Austinite, but my farmer friends remind me that the rich would go a lot farther as fertilizer. I'm not sold on that, personally. Im thinking a big picnic.

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Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 13d

Does anyone know if he has bought a fiddle yet?

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 16d

"Yes, Myrddin."
She looked confused, "Myr-what?"
"Myrddin. It is a title bestowed on the strongest human mage, is it not?"
"Is it?"
"Do you humans remember anything?"
I interrupted with the most ironic thing I've ever said in my entire ADHD life, "You all need to focus right now. What is your idea?"

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 18d

If you only get one night in Paris...well...you know...

#paris #travel #travellovers

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 20d

Godsdamn it. Is Pandora still a thing?

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 20d

More pics from August
Stop one : England
Yes...penguins in England

#travellovers #travel #20thanniversaytrip

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 20d

Pics from August.

Stop one: England #travel #thebard #20thanniversarytrip

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 21d

Your favorite book you will ever read isn't a best seller. It will be recommended to you while discussing a favorite best seller with friends.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 22d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 23d

Rewatching Supernatural and every once in a while, they have an episode that just makes me shake my head and say, "Why are you ruining all the good cryptids?"

Shoujo's are not girls from the well. #pedanticbastard #cryptids #legends #spirits

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 24d

I swear the entire Atlantic Seaboard watched Akira for the first time by borrowing one of two available crappy vhs tapes from each other. One was dubbed in English, and the other had subtitles.

Kung fu movies were occasionally on TV, but only on the channel that never came in clear.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 25d

Most of John Woo's and Jackie Chan's catalogue was available only at Asian video stores which duped the films from PAL to VHS for rental (which was legal at the time).

HEAVY METAL only occasionally showed up on late night paid cable and could only be watched on recordings of those showings.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 25d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 26d

My last 225k words have come in those same most productive hours. Must be totally normal and not weird at all?

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 27d

And when I say 200 yr old house, I mean the one that family has owned and lived in for 200 years.

Danielnick @danielnick.bsky.social · 27d

When we travel, the best moment is inevitably that unexpected inclusion into the world we're visiting. Shortly after these pics, my wife and I spent 5 hrs with my local friends and thier families drinking and eating in a 200yr old house and just enjoying the company. #travel #galicia #spain

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