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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 7h

Dang, I have almost the exact same story. I remember reading it in my hotel room when my family made the trip from Canada to Florida.

Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 8h

Donezo.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 12h

People come pre-grifted, paying for their grift subscriptions.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 16h

Trying to remember what it is I do and have been up to this year, and also the history of Middle-Earth, before Thanksgiving dinner, on the off chance somebody asks.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 20h

One of the biggest mistakes I see new authors make is assuming the reader remembers every detail of their story as well as they do.

Just because it was written on the page at some point in the story doesn't mean it was retained as being important.

#amediting #amwriting #writingcommunity

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

Tron Legacy wasn't a good movie, but it was a pretty dang good Daft Punk music video. I was interested in the same thing but for Trent Reznor, but every time I see Jared Leto's face a voice just says, "No."

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

A single-panel comic of three kids listening to a man in a suit talk around a campfire. The text reads: "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in Canada but get paid USD from (meager) book sales via PayPal on a couple of platforms. Then, when I find new music I enjoy and buy it from Bandcamp, it uses the USD option there, and thus I know it's the same money I made selling books that I use to buy music.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

Ocean's Edge is now booking both developmental and copy & line editing slots for mid-December & January.

I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.

Fourteen years editing Indies.

www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html

#amediting #editor #writingcommunity

Tag line for Ocean's Edge Editing, which reads Give me your double negatives, your comma splices, your run-on sentences, yearning to breathe free. Friendly inquiries encouraged.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

If Microsoft had been taken over by vampires, that might explain some of their decisions the past few years.

Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

Right? It's like Word is asking you to invite the errors in.

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 1d

If I had laser hair, I sure wouldn’t want it removed. I’d be so psyched.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, you gotta pay attention to MS Word's suggestions now. It's not just slightly wrong with its suggestions but playing jazz with them. I was just gonna select it to insert the hyphen...

#Writingcommunity #Amediting #books #NightBlooding

A Microsoft Word screenshot changing "night blooming" to "night-blooding."

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. I was listening to a single artist's playlist on Youtube, and right in the middle there's three HOUR-LONG sales pitches about cryptocurrency that's been inserted after the fact.

Dead Internet Theory jumping the shark.

#musicsky

Screenshot of a playlist, Pilotpriest - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, with a listing of the tracks. In the middle are two AI-generated scams that don't belong.

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 3d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

Cat tax for book promo. #HazelTheInternKitty about to break out of the Phantom Zone and come to planet Kitchen to rescue the humans from the evil allure of Bacon.

A very fuzzy torby kitty stretches on the other side of a glass door.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

I rode this chair on the Tilt-a-Whirl.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

Marketing is hard. #Book marketing is super hard. Getting reviews for those books is harder still. Here we have a #collection of #SFF books that seem to largely fall between the cracks of easily defined genres, deserving of some attention.

Maybe check 'em out.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

#sale 🧡🚀📚

Graphic for the "underrated book bundle" on Itch, depicting a number of books surrounding the text graphic. The text reads: "Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of."

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

That second wizard is about to squint into the noonday sun and tell you to reach for your staff, if you're feeling lucky.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 2d

Bad news: I've misplaced my wizard's ring and haven't been able to find it for several days

Good news: I found these two guys I drew ages ago while searching

Line art drawing of a cloaked and hooded wizard with his back to the viewer but he looks over his shoulder, his hands are held up in magical gestures

Line art of a a wizard in high collar cloak, buttoned jacket a peaked cap with a wide brim, he holds a crystal studded wand

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 2d

Morons get in power and take offense to the policies set in place to protect us from morons.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 3d

I kinda wondered if I could just edit as I go, but that'd be like painting a room and then ripping it up for renos.

Or like our local Works Dept. paving the road in front of our place and then coming back and ripping it up to install new water lines.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 3d

My most #Canadian opinion might be that I think there's genuinely genius episodes of Corner Gas, & I kinda find it comforting that if I want there's weird internet channels on my TV that I can flip through & find an all Corner Gas channel between an all Baywatch and an all "Millionaire" channel.

a woman says it is not arbitrary it 's just something i came up with ...

Alt: Lacy from Corner Gas says, "It is not arbitrary it 's just something i came up with ... and I'm sticking to, for no reason."

media.tenor.com

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 3d

*also as long as I never had to turn or park, as it looks like it has the turning radius of a cement truck.

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Lee Burton - Author | Editor @leeburton.bsky.social · 3d

a dog in a batman costume is driving a bentley

ALT: a dog in a batman costume is driving a bentley

media.tenor.com

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