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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 10h

"I'm sorry, I don't have the use of my arms."

"Would you like to leave me your home phone number?"

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 10h

Incredibly good. Features what must be the best eureka/cracking the case scene on film.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 13h

Speak not of the HP, abhor the Canon, reject the Epson with your heart and your soul. Do not sully the sacred paper with the heresies of inkjet.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 13h

Truly, a beautiful day when we may welcome another lost soul into our flock, from darkness and despair into hope and light*.

*(And also truly impressive reliability and low cost per page.)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 14h

Makes me think of 'Giovanni's Room' - written by a young, gay, black man, written in prose that an intelligent 12 year old would not find too taxing to understand, ferociously page turning in its pacing, and utterly, utterly brilliant.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 1d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 2d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Great work!

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 3d

One of the many things I loved about the recent Interview with the Vampire TV show, it had the modern equivalent of Dracula's castle as a Dubai skyscraper.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, the last decade or so of HE policy has basically been Tories saying "Run your university more like a business! Wait, not like that..."

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 7d

The main reason that the Twitter memes about epidemics of knife crime in Britain are so very tedious.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 7d

His crybullying would be ridiculous if it wasn't also so dangerous.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 7d

It really is superb, do watch it if you haven't already.

Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9d

Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. One of the best literary adaptations in the history of television, it takes all the source material's strengths and transmogrifies all its weaknesses, like The Terror. Cruel, disgusting, sexy as fuck. Plus: Eric Bogosian! Do not walk, RUN.

Sam Reid as Lestat and Jacob Anderson as Louis in Interview with the Vampire

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, interesting, I thought things had been relatively quiet over there. It's all fun and games until you actually get in power and realise what collapsing your economy will do to your political prospects, I suppose.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Lovely thread, this.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8d

Just before he died I got to chat to Brian Clemens as part of a press junket for a remaster of The Professionals.

After about 3 polite-but-bored answers I said:

"Okay would you mind if we spent the rest of this talking about 'Bugs'? That show BLEW ME AWAY as a teen."

And he was so happy he cried.

Rob Manuel @robmanuelyeah.bsky.social · 8d

This YouTube comment probably deserves more than three favs
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzL8...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8d

Anyway. Guess the moral here (like in the original post) is that WHATEVER you love a creator for from their work output, do tell them if you get a chance.

It's not always the big stuff they loved the most. And there's no high like being told something you loved making was loved by someone else.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

What's your personal favourite? Earthsea definitely a contender, though on pure aesthetic is hard to beat the OG Hobbit map, which is basic of me but I don't care (the calligraphy! the red and black! the elegance of the dragon! oh my!)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

"This will definitely make them like me more," she somehow thought to herself.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

That really would be the maximum banter outcome.

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 8d

Flirt with someone today, do it for Jilly Cooper x

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

a woman is crying with the words " but there are dreams that cannot be " next to her

ALT: a woman is crying with the words " but there are dreams that cannot be " next to her

media.tenor.com

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

(Though probably more likely that he does it anyway, blows up the economy, and runs away to America.)

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

There's a bleakly funny outcome where on day 1 he is presented with the figures and modelling of what would actually happen if he implemented his immigration policies, and we witness the most spectacular reverse ferret in political history.

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Basically this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsn...

FARGO Season 5 | So you want freedom?

YouTube video by regisatlas

www.youtube.com

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Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

(Still feels much healthier and more functional than British politics at the moment, but perhaps that's a grass is always greener kind of thing.)

Tim Leach @timleachwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Feel like French politics is like M Bison in the Street Fighter movie.

"For you, this would be an epoch defining constitutional crisis. But for me, it was Tuesday."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlhO...

Bison remembers Tuesday

YouTube video by Tastytoast225

www.youtube.com

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