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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 3d

I feel so factually sad. It is alive and everywhere as skin.

Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 4d

nothing could have prepared me for how unraveling postpartum depression would be. in birthing my daughter, did i also (re?)birth a girl I thought I wasn't anymore, a girl I left in Iowa?

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 17d

Bummed as I'm always bummed that they didn't get raptured.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · 17d

The thing I like about dark mode is its easier on the eyes when a fresh new horror appears

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy Silksong, y'all

a cartoon drawing of a butterfly flying around a stone pillar

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a butterfly flying around a stone pillar

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Aug 21

fucking annoying

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some really great examples of innovative chaptering, even something as simple as inverting a reader's expectations (starting with ch. 47 on p. 289 with the numbers counting down from there, as in Chuck Palahniuk’s SURVIVOR) can give us other pathways towards telling a story well.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Loved the latest substack from @mdbell79.bsky.social on putting title chapters to work: inspired me to mess around with the idea of including some clearly demarcated 3rd person passages in my novel so I can tell more stories of people in space...

mattbell.substack.com/p/54-putting...

#54: Putting Your Chapter Titles to Work

Karen Russell, Brian Evenson, Danya Kukafka, Chuck Palahniuk, Diane Williams

mattbell.substack.com

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Aug 19

I love this piece, Amy! I'm working with an unnamed narrator in my novel too, and I appreciate the question you're asking: "When the voice telling the story does not give you their own name, what else are they holding back?"

And yes—are there ways in which an unnamed "I" becomes a kind of "you"?

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Aug 19

me: (checking that I'm logged into my own account before liking something)

me: 😑

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · Aug 9

oh my gosh their arguments against this being a class action lawsuit are so goofy. its bad because "seven million claimants would kill the company" and "it would be difficult to figure out the rights and compensation for each of the 7 million" so whyd you steal from 7 million people??? dingus!

Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · Aug 8

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

arstechnica.com

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Jul 31

a shark! and yes, I wrote shortform recently and it felt like a luxurious bath: I could tinker to my heart's content :)

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Jul 30

So to ensure I'm not toying around with earlier chapters, I've got a list of "scenes to write" in a separate doc, and I'm just gonna tackle them one at a time.

Then I'll frankenstien and finesse as a treat.

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Jul 30

In undergrad, it was especially hard for me to move on in writing a story if each sentence, each word, wasn't *just* right.

A college professor told me to stop finessing and keep going, just sit down and don't get up until the story has an ending.

I think this is novel advice too.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · Jul 5

"When 8 men have more money than 4 billion people combined, folks relying on food stamps or Medicaid aren't the problem."

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Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Jul 7

"What if we widen our understanding of greatness?

Life is not narrow and vertical, it doesn’t just go up or down.

Life is horizontal, unfolding, sprawling, vast. We don’t build life like a skyscraper."

Melissa Goodrich @goodmel.bsky.social · Jul 7

"Why does the myth of upward movement persist so stubbornly? Why do we measure greatness by vertical gain?
...Somehow, we believe that ‘up there’ where it’s bright, that's where life is truly happening."

Really appreciate this perspective from Nadia Meli.

substack.com/@nadiameli/p...